Difficulties in securing adequate reception for unaccompanied children seeking protection have persisted in Italy and Greece throughout 2017. 2,275 unaccompanied children applied for asylum in Greece in 2017, adding to 2,146 lone children who arrived the year before....
Four months after the expiry of the 2015 relocation scheme organising transfers of applicants for international protection from Italy and Greece to other Member States, Germany’s Interior Ministry announced that relocations from Greece are at the final stage as almost...
A series of new attacks in the capital, Kabul, illustrates the volatile situation in Afghanistan, a BBC report reveals that the Taliban controls or operates openly in 70% of the country and the European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations Factsheet...
ECRE is offering a position of Administrative Assistant (10 months – convention immersion professionnelle) with the ECRE UNHCR Strategic Partnership Unit starting in March 2018. The purpose of this position is to assist with all practical and logistical aspects...
The ECRE Board welcomes two new members: Sonja Tošković, incoming Executive Director at Belgrade Centre for Human Rights and new ECRE Southeast Europe Representative and Dorine Manson, Chair and Managing Director of the Dutch Council for Refugees and new ECRE Western...
The research paper ‘Follow the Money: Assessing the use of AMIF funding at the national level’ by ECRE and UNHCR, provides a thorough and critical analysis of the €3.1 billion Asylum, Migration & Integration Fund (AMIF) established by the EC for the period of...
Last Friday, French Defenseur des droits (similar to the function of Ombudsman) Jacques Toubon, made a recommendation to the French Prime Minister to revoke the Circular allowing the State to conduct administrative controls on all beneficiaries of emergency housing....
A ruling of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) on January 25 establishes that the use of psychological tests to determine sexual orientation “amounts to a disproportionate interference in the private life of the asylum seeker”. The Hungarian Helsinki...
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled that conditions in VIAL hotspot were not inhuman and that detention to inforce the EU-Turkey Statement was not arbitrary despite human rights concerns by organisations. On 25 January 2018, the ECtHR ruled in case J.R....
The Irish Department of Justice announced last week that it will grant asylum seekers access to the labour market through existing national employment legislation, a decision which experts warn will result in “exceptionally limited” opportunities. The proposals come...
