14th September 2023 | News
By, Reshad Jalali, Senior Policy Officer at the European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE) In 2016, the United Nations’ (UN) member states convened in New York and collectively recognised that addressing refugee issues should be a shared responsibility among all...
8th September 2023 | News
Charges were brought against crew members of a ferry owned by Attica Group, notorious for locking up migrants in dire conditions below deck, over the death of a passenger pushed into the sea. Ongoing crossings, deaths, pushbacks and delayed assistance at land and sea....
8th September 2023 | News
Belgium’s decision to temporarily suspend the provision of shelter to asylum-seeking single men has been met by criticism and legal challenges. The minister-president of Wallonia, Elio Di Rupo proposed to relax regulations on residence permits in in order to allow...
8th September 2023 | News
Southern Europe and North Africa have seen a wave of attacks and scapegoating of migrants, asylum seekers and refugees including in Tunisia and Greece as well as Italy and Cyprus. As the number of dead and missing people in the Mediterranean in 2023 surpasses the...
5th September 2023 | News
Ahead of EU Member States submitting their pledges for the EU resettlement scheme by 15 of September, we call on leaders to ambitiously expand safe pathways to international protection and better reflect Europe’s capacity to welcome. Resettlement and other...
1st September 2023 | News
The Saudi border forces conducting mass killings at the border with Yemen had received training from Germany and the US with the latter failing to react publicly to reports of the abuse and EU not backing independent investigation. Human Rights Watch (HRW) released on...
1st September 2023 | News
Home Office latest data on the UK asylum system shows that the vast majority of asylum applicants are granted protection and the backlog is reaching a new record level amid plans to tag new arrivals due to a lack of detention spaces. The government is planning to...
1st September 2023 | News
New deadly tragedies off the Aegean Islands and in the Evros region as far-right politicians and self-proclaimed ‘refugee hunters’ attack refugees and migrants over their alleged responsibility for raging forest fires. The loss of lives continues in Greece. On 28...
1st September 2023 | News
56 organisations released a joint statement calling for an end to the obstruction of civil search and rescue activities in the Mediterranean amid ongoing deaths and crossings. EU-funded so-called Libyan coastguard continues to tow migrants back to Libya where...
