In a newly released report on 17 October named Island of Despair: Australia’s ‘processing of refugees’, Amnesty International finds that Australia’s treatment of refugees on the island Nauru amounts to torture. The report argues that the Australian...
Vluchtelingenwerk Vlaanderen’s latest report ‘Ceci n’est pas un demandeur d’asile…’ investigates Belgium’s response to the refugee “crisis” over the course of the past year. The report shows that the Belgian government used the “crisis” to dissuade asylum seekers...
The Swiss Federal Council has published a report examining the application of the status of temporary admission. The report found that temporary admission negatively impacted beneficiaries’ access to rights and integration in practice. Temporary admission is a...
Following UK Home Secretary Amber Rudd announcement to transfer unaccompanied refugee children to the United Kingdom, 200 of 1290 children present in the camp have found protection in the UK at the time of its dismantling. Rudd’s announcement followed an agreement...
The briefing document Dadaab to Somalia: Pushed back into peril by Medicins Sans Frontieres as well as the position paper Dadaab’s broken promise by Norwegian Refugee Council published this month have criticised the process of returning refugees to Somalia residing in...
A plan to reform the Italian reception system was announced at the annual meeting of the Ministry of Interior and the National Association of Italian Municipalities (Anci) held on 14 October 2016 in Bari. As detailed in the AIDA report on Italy, the reception system...
Berlin, 14 October 2016. ECRE, an alliance of 90 organisations in 38 countries protecting refugee rights across Europe, expresses deep concerns about Europe’s growing emphasis on externalisation of migration control, which has now moved centre stage. The EU is...
A new report published by Aitima today documents developments in relation to detention of asylum seekers and irregular migrants in Greece. The report compiles findings of detention monitoring conducted by Aitima from September 2015 to September 2016. The report...
The Center for Legal Aid – Voice in Bulgaria finds in its latest report that asylum seekers and migrants in Bulgaria are routinely detained without an individual assessment. The report also highlights that unaccompanied children are currently being detained, in...
On 2 October, the majority of Hungarian voters refused to cast a valid ballot at the so-called ‘quota referendum’. The referendum that asked ‘Do you want the European Union to be able to mandate the obligatory settlement of non-Hungarian citizens into Hungary even...
