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...
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...
