The Kurdish activist Cevdet Ayaz was extradited from Serbia to Turkey despite the UN Committee Against Torture request to stall the transfer, reported the Belgrade Center for Human Rights (BCHR), his legal representation in Serbia. Ayaz had fled Turkey following a...
ECRE has published a Policy Note analysing gaps in the collection and provision of asylum statistics in the EU at a time when the Common European Asylum System (CEAS) is debated in an aura of “high politics”. Problems identified include an overly narrow set of...
Following a systematic EU policy of externalization , the overall number of refugees and migrants arriving in Europe decreased in 2017, with Italy and Greece recording the lowest number of arrivals in four years. At the same time Spain and Cyprus reported an increase...
The Administrative Court of Appeal of Athens has accepted a request by the Greek Ministry of Migration Policy for a provisional order to suspend a decision of the Appeals Committee granting refugee status to a Turkish soldier, pending the outcome of judicial review...
Fortunately, it seems that the EU’s Member States have squarely rejected Council President Donald Tusk’s analysis on mandatory quotas. The chances of ending Europe’s political crisis on migration have improved as a consequence. In a note, which seems to have been both...
By Shani Bar-Tuvia, PhD student, Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program “Human Rights under Pressure: Ethics, Law and Politics”, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Three weeks ago the Israeli government revealed its plan to forcibly deport Eritreans and Sudanese to a “safe...
With Mona Reigstad Dabour, Norwegian Organisation for Asylum Seekers (NOAS) In a statement published earlier this month, NOAS comments a newly adopted bill suspending the forced return of specific groups of unaccompanied minors. What is the bill about? At the...
The European Asylum Support Office (EASO) has extended its portfolio of Country of Origin Information (COI) with the release of two reports on Afghanistan and one on the Gambia as part of the announced intention to develop reports on “important countries of origin”...
On 7 December 2017, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled that the detention of an Iraqi couple and their three children at the border police’s detention facility in Vidin, Bulgaria qualified as inhumane and degrading treatment violating Article 3 ECHR. In...
Adding to the body of evidence about human rights violations of migrants and refugees in Libya, the recently released report by Amnesty International describes in detail the system of ‘migration management’ in Libya and the complicity of the European Union and Member...
