On June 29 the Union of Medical Care and Relief Organizations, who have lost three staff members during the escalating violence in Syria, warned of the “fastest displacement in Syrian history,” as the number of displaced caused by a government offensive in the Deraa...
The European Council agreed to explore the idea of “regional disembarkation platforms” with the aim to “break the business model of smugglers” by safely disembarking people rescued at sea in relevant third countries to be processed to distinguish between irregular...
At the Summit on 28 June the EU’s Member States have managed to discuss and reach some agreements on migration without the whole of the EU blowing up. Although the first verdicts are that nothing much has been decided reading between the lines of the European Council...
By Syd Bolton & Catriona Jarvis, Co-Conveners, the Last Rights Project Migrants’ and refugees’ lives have become increasingly devalued through a political rhetoric and practices in ‘developed’ countries that classifies them as an unwanted problem – a threat...
Differences on approaches to migration policy between two of the German government’s coalition parties, the CSU and the CDU, remain at a stalemate, with another meeting on Wednesday ending without agreement. Meanwhile Austria conducted a border patrol training...
A report published by the Associated Press on Monday contains testimonies from individuals from sub-Saharan countries, who were expelled from Algeria to Niger. It describes how pregnant women and children were among those abandoned at the border, with others being...
The Lifeline rescue boat, carrying 230 people was granted permission on Wednesday to dock in Maltese shores, after spending six days at sea while European States debated its fate. Malta finally agreed to receive the boat following a commitment from Malta, France,...
UNHCR has recently published its “Projected Global Resettlement Needs in 2019”, which reveals a widening gap between the number of refugees in need of resettlement and the places made available by governments around the world. According to the report, 1.4 million...
Despite a flurry of last-minute initiatives it looks likely that there will be no significant agreement on migration at the June European Council. Indeed, at the COREPER meeting of EU Member State Ambassadors this week even agreements that appeared to have been...
On World Refugee Day, June 20 the Hungarian Parliament adopted bill T/333 a new version of the 2018 Anti-NGO package criminalizing lawyers and activists providing assistance for asylum seekers who could face years of imprisonment. In a statement the Hungarian Helsinki...
