Last week the Minniti-Orlando immigration decree-law was approved by the Italian Senate and this week by the lower parliamentary chamber, despite criticism from civil society organisations and the Magistrates’ Association. The Italian Association for Legal Studies on...
The European Commission has published its eleventh report on the progress of the relocation and resettlement schemes, revealing downscaled ambitions on relocation. While the Commission identifies a “steady progress” on relocation, the total number remains modest. Only...
UNHCR urged states to suspend Dublin transfers to Hungary. The next day the German Ministry of Interior ordered that Dublin transfers can only be carried out if asylum seekers are guaranteed EU reception and asylum procedure standards. The German request for...
A newly released Oxfam report A Dangerous ‘Game’ based on 140 interviews with migrants and asylum seekers reveals wide-spread abuse and human rights violations committed by law enforcement officials along the West Balkan route. The abuse includes beatings,...
92 per cent of the Afghan asylum seekers and refugees interviewed in a report by Action on Armed Violence (AOAV) has been directly impacted by explosive violence. The grave statistics adds another layer of documentation to the unstable situation in the country where...
On 7 April 2017 the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) expressed alarm at the deteriorating security situation in the already famine-stricken South Sudan forcing thousands of people to flee for their lives. Ongoing fighting is reported near Pajok in Eastern Equatoria and in...
Commission must now transform words into action, say agencies 12 April 2017: The European Commission’s new policy guidelines launched today, which provide concrete actions to protect all migrant and refugee children arriving in Europe, have been broadly welcomed by...
With recent legal changes, the Hungarian government is making a mockery of EU asylum law, as ECRE has commented. But letting Hungary – again and again – get away with actions that contravene EU law and values makes a mockery of us all. The harsh measures and vile...
On the basis of the EU-Afghanistan agreement ‘Joint Way Forward’ five Member States have recently deported rejected Afghan asylum seekers to Afghanistan. Germany, Austria and Sweden have chartered flights last week, whereas Finland and the Netherlands scheduled...
On 30 March 2017, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled on Chowdury and Others v. Greece, establishing Greek negligence in a case concerning severe exploitation of 42 migrant workers and the shooting of 21 of them. In the extreme case concerning 42...
