29th September 2017 | News
CLEARIFICATION: ECRE misquoted Statewatch and the correct amount invested by the Spanish Government is 12 Million Euro. Statewatch reports that the Spanish Interior Minister Juan Iganacio Zoido announced a 12 million euro investment to improve the fence in the...
29th September 2017 | News
On 22 September 2017, the Hungarian Helsinki Committee published a new information note summarising the changes that took place in the field of asylum in Hungary since September 2015 and how it affected the rights of refugees and asylum seekers. The note presents a...
29th September 2017 | News
The Council of Europe has published a report mapping procedures, practices and methods for assessing the age of unaccompanied children in Europe. The report raises concern over inaccuracies in age assessment of migrants related to widely different and often inadequate...
29th September 2017 | News
In the New York Declaration adopted on 19 September last year, governments affirmed their commitment to the notion of responsibility sharing, they did not conclude a Global Compact for refugees but kicked off the process for consultation and a second summit to adopt...
29th September 2017 | News
The two highest courts in France narrow the scope for the use administrative detention under Article 28 of the Dublin III Regulation. In contrast the government plans a reform to widen it. On September 27 the Court of Cassation quashed an order of the Court of Appeal...
29th September 2017 | News
This week the European Commission published its review of the 2015 European Agenda on Migration and presented new initiatives in three key areas: EU resettlement, legal migration and return. In regard to relocation and resettlement, priority is given to the relocation...
29th September 2017 | News
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights classified the situation of Rohingya’s in Myanmar as likely to be a “textbook example of ethnic cleansings”. While Bangladesh is struggling but hosts 436.000 refugees Australia and Thailand have introduced measures to avoid...
22nd September 2017 | News
There is a new spirit of optimism in Brussels and in wider EU policy circles; political leaders should capitalise on this to steer towards a more rational migration policy. Since 2009/2010, when the financial crisis really began to bite, there has been at best a sense...
22nd September 2017 | News
The Belgian government faces widespread criticism by human rights groups and opposition parties over its invitation of a group of Sudanese officials to identify migrants from the country. According to media reports three Sudanese officials arrived in Brussels last...
22nd September 2017 | News
50 people are reported missing on the Central Mediterranean off the Libyan coast adding to the 14.500 dead or missing since IOM started documentation in 2014. A total of 22.500 migrants have lost their life’s worldwide in the same period according to the IOM report...
