Between 1200 and 2500 people gathered at the feet of the Manneken Pis last week to protest the holding of four children in a detention centre in Belgium. The crowd, led by the initiative #NotInMyName, decried the ‘inhumane’ policies of the Belgian authorities and...
Labour and Coalition MP’s have passed a new Migration Bill which will retrospectively make lawful the 2002 excision of Ashmore Reef from Australia’s migration zone, in contradiction of a Federal Court ruling from July. The Ashmore reef was declared an ‘offshore...
An 18-year-old homosexual asylum seeker from Afghanistan was denied asylum in a decision based on physical traits and general social behaviour in clear conflict with UNHCR Guidelines and the line taken by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU). The young...
Interview with Jordanna Bailkin, Jere L. Bacharach Endowed Professor in International Studies in the Department of History at the University of Washington. She is the author of three books: most recently, Unsettled: Refugee Camps and the Making of Multicultural...
The Hungarian authorities have given up the practice of denying food to asylum seekers whose claims are considered inadmissible. A statement from the ECRE member the Hungarian Helsinki Committee is welcoming the change of practice but underlines that without...
NB! Registration is now closed due to oversubscription. If you are an ECRE member or from UNHCR please contact Omar Al Tarsheh at oaltarsheh@ecre.org. Annual General Conference of the European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE) together with the UNHCR-NGO Europe...
By Dr. Mark Doidge is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Brighton. He is also Director for the Anti-Discrimination Division of Football Supporters Europe (FSE). He has conducted research projects called ‘Refugees Welcome’: Football fans and community in...
Lucy Frazer, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Justice, announced yesterday the decision to amend the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offender Act to reinstate legal aid for non-asylum immigration cases for unaccompanied and asylum separated children....
Horst Seehofer has managed to illustrate the inhumanity and futility of Europe’s return policy with a “joke” about the deportation of 69 people on his 69th birthday. The numbers no longer match: one of the group committed suicide after being returned to Afghanistan....
The latest AIDA Legal Briefing analyses European countries’ national legal frameworks and practice on the reduction and withdrawal of reception conditions of asylum seekers under the recast Reception Conditions Directive. It identifies circumstances in which the...
