The annual report on administrative detention in France, published today by six civil society organisations present in detention centres, details the systematic use of deprivation of liberty as a primary instrument of migration control. Last year, France detained...
Last week the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) granted interim measures under Rule 39 of the Rules of the Court to prevent the return of a rejected asylum seeker to Turkey under the EU-Turkey deal. The applicant, a national of Pakistan and member of the Ahmadi...
ECRE Member Pro-asyl and Refugee Support Aegean have published a legal note on the lack of access to adequate living conditions, social rights and integration perspectives for beneficiaries of international protection in Greece. The report highlights alarming living...
On 23 June 2017, the Uganda Solidarity Summit on Refugees took place in Kampala in an effort to mobilize support from the international community. Uganda has one of the most inclusive and welcoming asylum systems in the world but overpopulation and droughts have...
On 20 June 2017, Morocco agreed to take in thirteen Syrian families that had been stuck at the Moroccan-Algerian border for months under alarming conditions. The group of 28 people included ten children and several individuals in need of medical attention. Initially,...
In recent years, dubious and cynical policies at EU and national level have been presented as democratic in the sense that they were defended by referring to the views of European populations. It is as if push-backs, arbitrary detention, and the deportations of asylum...
Just over one year since the Commission presented its controversial package on the reform of the legal framework of the Common European Asylum System, the European Council has once more discussed the state of play on the legislative process with the aim of providing...
UNHCR’s Global Trends report for 2016 reveals a record number of 65.6 million people forcibly displaced. How does that affect Europe? First it is important to keep the proportions in perspective. The number of first time asylum applicants in Europe was 1.2 million...
On 14 June the Australian government and its contractors settled a class action suit run on behalf of 1,905 refugees and asylum seekers who were held at the Manus Island regional processing centre by offering them 70 million Australian dollars. This way the Australian...
The Commission report published last Tuesday congratulates the progress achieved within the first year of the EU Partnership Framework on Migration. Meanwhile, a number of human rights organizations have raised strong concern. The Commission states that cooperation in...
