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...
2nd September 2016 | News
In recent months, several aid organisations, such as Médecins Sans Frontières and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, have raised concerns on the increasing accounts of sexual assault on children at Greek refugee camps. According to...
2nd September 2016 | News
2016 is well on course to be yet another ‘deadliest year’, as arrivals to Europe slow down and deaths increase disproportionately. So far this year, 3,167 people have lost their lives attempting to reach Europe, while in 2015 a total of 3,771 people died at sea. The...
2nd September 2016 | News
The Italian Justice Minister has announced in a recent hearing the intention to abolish the second-instance judicial (“onward”) appeal before the Court of Appeal (Corte d’Appello) available to asylum seekers whose appeal against a negative asylum decision has...
2nd September 2016 | News
On 23 August 2016, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that returning an Iraqi family, who had sought asylum in Sweden, back to their country of origin could result in inhumane or degrading treatment, violating Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights...
