Austria plans to scrap asylum seeker apprenticeships

Austria plans to scrap asylum seeker apprenticeships

The Austrian government tabled a bill on Monday to remove the possibility for young asylum seekers to take up apprenticeships. Since 2012, persons below the age of 25 who are awaiting a decision on their asylum claim can obtain a work permit for an apprenticeship in...
116 expulsions in 24 hours by the new Spanish Socialist Government

116 expulsions in 24 hours by the new Spanish Socialist Government

The situation is tightening for persons crossing the Southern border of Spain (Frontera Sur) from Morocco. This week the police have arrested 10 migrants who crossed the Spanish border fence in July while last week the new Spanish Government expelled 116 persons...
UNHCR: 4 million refugee children without access to school

UNHCR: 4 million refugee children without access to school

The study Turn the Tide: Refugee Education in Crisis released by the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) on August 29 reveals that within the last year alone there has been an alarming increase of half a million refugee children that are without access to school, bringing the...
Greece arrests three people for allegedly assisting migrant entry

Greece arrests three people for allegedly assisting migrant entry

Three nationals of Syria, Germany and Greece, have been arrested in Lesvos, after an investigation by the Greek authorities implicating 30 people in all in a criminal case of facilitating entry of third-country nationals. The three are associated with the organisation...
Home Office Deportations putting Children at Risk of Trafficking

Home Office Deportations putting Children at Risk of Trafficking

Findings obtained by the Thomson Reuters Foundation have proved that the UK Home Office is increasingly denying protection to victims of child slavery. Between 2015 and 2017, the government rejected asylum claims made by 183 people- almost double the figure for the...
Cyprus: Legislative reforms bring changes to asylum procedure

Cyprus: Legislative reforms bring changes to asylum procedure

Last month, Cyprus adopted Law No 73(I)/2018 establishing an International Protection Administrative Court (IPAC), which will examine appeals relating to provisions of the Refugee Law. This includes appeals against negative decisions on asylum applications, Dublin...