While Somalia is spiralling into to a vicious self-feeding circle of violence, poverty, drought and displacement, European protection rates differs with almost 40 per cent for the first three quarters of 2017. On October 14 a truck bombing in Somalia killed more than...
by Efi Latsoudi (Lesvos) Natassa Strachini (Chios), staff members of Refugee Support Aegean (RSA). RSA is the implementing partner of the Foundation PRO ASYL in Greece. Despite repeated warnings from numerous organisations thousands of refugees are going to suffer in...
On 25 October 2017, the Court of Justice of the European Union ruled that the expiry of the six-month period to carry out transfers under the Dublin III Regulation automatically leaves the responsibility for the asylum application with the requesting Member State....
One year after the dismantlement of the Calais camp the French Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons (OFPRA) noted that nearly 15,000 persons transferred out of the Calais camp over the past two years have had their asylum applications examined,...
During last week’s European Council meeting Member States expressed strong support for Italian cooperation with Libyan authorities. The Council’s conclusion revealed little of the concerns that caused EU Commissioner for Human Rights Nils Muižnieks to request...
Following a recent ruling from Greek Council of State, two decisions by the Greek Appeals Committees further clarify requirements for establishing a sufficient connection between asylum seekers and a ‘safe third country.’ They found that transit through a country in...
A key issue in contemporary European politics is the response of progressive parties to the political crisis on migration. It is playing out now in the elections in Austria and the Czech Republic, both of which are more worrying than the elections of early this year,...
The Bar Human Rights Committee (BHRC), a human rights arm of the Bar of England and Wales, published a fact-finding report on the results of the dismantlement of the Calais camp known as the “Jungle” which took place one year ago. They found that over 4000...
UNHCR in September called for support for Greek camps in Lesvos, Chios, Samos and Leros. Last year substantial funding did little to address the fundamental structural problem of containing asylum seekers and refugees in limbo in overcrowded camps, and so will a...
In the recently published report ‘Games Of Violence – Unaccompanied Children And Young People Repeatedly Abused By EU Member State Border Authorities’ Doctors without borders (MSF) documents cases of abuse and unlawful conduct from EU border authorities along the...
