Brussels, 24th of October 2016 To the Members of the European Parliament, The Afghanistan donor conference that took place on October 4 and 5, 2016 brought together representatives from 75 countries and 26 international organizations. €13.6 billion was pledged –...
Over 150 participants gathered in Berlin from 12 to 14 October for ECRE’s Annual General Conference 2016. The AGC was hosted by ECRE’s German members, Diakonie Deutschland, PRO ASYL, Red Cross Germany, Caritas Germany, AWO and Der Paritätische, with Diakonie taking...
The latest data released by the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) show that migrants are increasingly facing widespread abuse, trafficking and exploitation on their way to safety in Europe. The Central Mediterranean route proved to be more dangerous for...
Turkey plans to finish the construction of a border wall along its 900km-long border with Syria in the next five months. The first 200km stretch has already been completed after construction began in 2014, media reports. Ergün Turan, Head of the Housing Development...
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...
