Almost 100 NGOs have published a joint statement in which they have urged the EU and its member states to safeguard the right to territorial asylum in Europe. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk has warned UN member states about the scale of abuse...
Internal documents from the European Union Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex) indicate that Bulgaria pressured Frontex officers into ignoring migrants’ rights abuses in exchange for experiencing “how border guarding works” in practice. Hungary has declared that...
At least 89 migrants have died after their boat capsized off the coast of Mauritania. The spokesperson for Spain’s main opposition party has suggested that the Spanish government should use all the means at its disposal, including the deployment of military forces for...
ECRE and the Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants (PICUM) have published a joint study in which they have analysed the use of the Border Management and Visa Instrument (BMVI) by EU member states (MS). The study finds that EU funding for...
The updated AIDA Country Report on Croatia provides a detailed overview of legislative and practice-related developments in asylum procedures, reception conditions, detention of asylum seekers and content of international protection in 2023. It also includes an annex...
The updated AIDA Country Report on Portugal provides a detailed overview of legislative and practice-related developments in asylum procedures, reception conditions, detention of asylum seekers and content of international protection in 2023. It also includes an annex...
The updated AIDA Country Report on Switzerland provides a detailed overview of legislative and practice-related developments in asylum procedures, reception conditions, detention of asylum seekers and content of international protection in 2023. It also includes an...
The updated AIDA Country Report on Italy provides a detailed overview of legislative and practice-related developments in asylum procedures, reception conditions, detention of asylum seekers and content of international protection in 2023. It also includes an annex...
The International Organization for Migration, the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) have issued a joint statement in which they offered condolences for the victims of two recent migrant shipwrecks in the Ionian Sea....
The European Commissioner for Home Affairs has denied being aware of human rights abuses and so-called “desert dumps” carried out in the EU’s migration partner countries in North Africa. Human rights organisations have written to the European Commission President to...
