The German Federal Office for Migration and Refugees has temporarily suspended the asylum procedure for Afghan nationals as German media reported this week. This step follows the temporary suspension of returns established after the terror attacks close to the German...
The Danish government is threatening to cut funding to the Danish branch of Save the Children in reaction to the Search and Rescue operations (SAR) in the Mediterranean carried out by Save the Children International. It is just the latest attempt to punish civil...
On 23 June 2017 the Belgian State Secretary for Asylum and Migration submitted a new legislative proposal amending the Aliens Act with the aim of transposing the recast Reception Conditions Directive and Asylum Procedures Directive. The law indicates a lowering of the...
Over the past two years, with higher numbers of people arriving on the coasts of Italy and Greece, European media attention suddenly turned to the issue of refugees and migrants. We witnessed a spike in the number of articles, reportages and multimedia material...
The Administrative Court of Lille ruled this Monday that conditions for migrants sleeping rough in Calais must be improved. However, the ruling that followed an action brought by eleven non-governmental organisations working in the area but finds no legal obligation...
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,...
