16th September 2016 | News
A day after the European Commission released new statistics revealing a slow implementation of the relocation mechanism, UNHCR has called upon EU Member States to increase their pledges and pace of relocation. So far only 3 per cent of the pledge to relocate 160,000...
9th September 2016 | News
A report launched this week by the Asylum Information Database (AIDA), managed by ECRE, documents the limited and fragmented application of admissibility and safe country concepts in 20 European countries: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Germany, Spain, France,...
9th September 2016 | News
Over the past few weeks, discussions have taken place between French and UK politicians over the situation of the makeshift camp in Calais. With over 10,000 people living in squalid conditions that continue to deteriorate in an attempt to reach the UK, politicians on...
9th September 2016 | News
Last week marked the first anniversary of the tragic drowning of Alan Kurdi, whose lifeless body at a Turkish beach captured by a photo,caused an international outcry.One year after,many more continue to die at the external borders of the EU in their search for...
9th September 2016 | News
Asylum seeking children are facing harrowing conditions in Greek detention centres, a new report published by Human Rights Watch (HRW) documents. Children are enduring inadequate sanitation and hygiene conditions, ill-treatment by police offices, and little or no...
9th September 2016 | News
The number of children affected by violent conflict and other crisis is at a record high,says a recently published UNICEF report entitled Uprooted.Of the nearly 50 million “uprooted” children in the world, 28 million are forcibly displaced. These 28 million children...
7th September 2016 | News
In the implementation of their international obligations, European and EU states have devised sophisticated asylum systems based on complex procedural tools. In some cases, tools are designed and used for the purpose of avoiding responsibility for refugees, because...
2nd September 2016 | News
Switzerland is facing wide criticism for turning back thousands of people at the Swiss-Italian border. Between July and August, the Swiss authorities have pushed back 7,000 at the Como(Italy)-Chiasso(Switzerland) border. The Swiss Refugee Council (OSAR), the Italian...
2nd September 2016 | News
A protest by approximately 150 asylum seekers, mainly of Chechen origin, who are denied entry into Poland, was recently held near the Brest crossing point of the Polish-Belarussian border. Ongoing barriers to accessing the asylum procedure in Poland have been reported...
2nd September 2016 | News
The pre-registration of asylum seekers on mainland Greece was declared completed on 1 August in a joint press release by the Greek Asylum Service, UNHCR and the European Asylum Support Office (EASO). The large-scale operation launched on June 8, 2016, resulted in...
