22nd September 2017 | News
The sister organizations borderline-europe in Sicily and borderline Sicily Onus are observing and documenting the situation directly from the ground as well documenting practices of institutions and private actors involved in migration reception in Sicily. ECRE talked...
22nd September 2017 | News
With the establishment of a Regional Asylum Office of Crete in July 2017 the island emerged as key location in Greece’s reception of refugees and migrants. While UNHCR has successfully accommodated approximately 240 refugees, those arriving irregularly to the island...
22nd September 2017 | News
A report by the UN Security Council published this month raises strong concern over the situation for migrants in Libya where detainees in migration detention facilities are at high risk of torture and other ill-treatment, forced labour, sexual violence, exploitation...
22nd September 2017 | News
On 15 September 2017, the German Administrative Court of Wiesbaden ruled that the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) must comply with the 6-month timeframe for carrying out a Dublin transfer as set out in the Dublin III Regulation. The case concerned a...
22nd September 2017 | News
Last week, the first deportation from Germany to Afghanistan was carried out after the country temporarily suspended deportations of Afghans in May following an attack close to the German Embassy. The deportation concerned eight Afghan nationals. On the same day an...
15th September 2017 | News
When President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker delivered his State of the Union speech on September 13 he politely praised Italy for its “tireless and noble work,” in the area of migration and went on to conclude that “Italy is saving Europe’s...
15th September 2017 | News
The newly released joint UNICEF and IOM report “HARROWING JOURNEYS” reveals that 77% of the minors and young adults travelling along the Central Mediterranean route have suffered “direct experiences of abuse, exploitation, and practices which may amount to human...
15th September 2017 | News
Informal refugee camps in cities – a (new) European reality? Reports of informal refugee camps and mounting police violence against the people inhabiting them are coming from all over Europe at the moment: Brussels, Paris and Rome. In an interview on the situation in...
15th September 2017 | News
The latest Progress Report on the Partnership Framework with third countries under the European Agenda on Migration states that since the last progress report in June significant progress has been made and outlines the key actions taken since June. According to the...
15th September 2017 | News
The critique of the UK detention system is hardening as a result of problematic incidents during the first week of September. The death of a former detainee in a hospital, after an apparently failed suicide attempt in Harmondsworth Immigration Removal Centre (IRC) is...
