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Italy plans to curtail appeals rights in asylum procedures

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...

European Court of Human Rights rules against the deportation of a family to Iraq

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...

Social Innovation for Refugee Inclusion Seminar

1st August 2016 | News

How can social innovation and social innovators contribute to the integration of refugees in European societies? ECRE is organising a seminar on the topic of “Social Innovation for Refugee Inclusion”, funded by the U.S. Mission to the European Union, and in...

Vacancy: ECRE is recruiting a Legal Assistant

29th July 2016 | Vacancies

ECRE is offering an 11-month legal internship. The purpose of this position is to assist ECRE’s Legal Support and Litigation Team with legal research on specific topics relating to international protection, contributing to ECRE’s AIDA and EDAL databases as well as...

ECRE Annual General Conference & UNHCR Consultation 2016

27th July 2016 | News

Each year, over 100 representatives from the refugee-assisting community in Europe gather for the ECRE AGC. It is a key moment for the ECRE network as it provides the Secretariat with their general direction for the coming year and allows members to guide ECRE’s...

European Commission new package of reforms of the Common European Asylum System

15th July 2016 | News

On 13 July 2016 the European Commission presented its second package to reform the Common European Asylum System (CEAS), containing proposals for a new Recast Reception Directive, a new Qualification Regulation and a new Asylum Procedures Regulation. The Commission...

Negative perceptions of refugees in Europe create climate of fear and violence

15th July 2016 | News

A survey carried out by the U.S. based “fact-tank” Pew Research Centre analysed perception of refugees, minorities and cultural diversity by citizens across 10 EU countries. The results paint a worrisome picture, with the majority of respondents in almost every...

ECRE publishes comments on Proposal for a European Union Agency for Asylum

15th July 2016 | News

Earlier this week ECRE published its comments on the Commission proposal for a Regulation on the European Union Agency for Asylum (EUAA), the proposed successor to the European Asylum Support Office. ECRE’s comments concentrate mainly on the new Agency’s competences...

European Court of Human Rights condemns France for the administrative detention of children

15th July 2016 | News

On 12 July 2016, the European Court of Human Rights ruled against France in the cases of A.B. and Others v France, R.M. and M.M. v France, A.M. and Others v France, R.K. v France. The cases concerned the issue of administrative detention of children who are...

ECRE raises strong concerns about the Eurodac recast regulation proposal

15th July 2016 | News

ECRE published comments this week on the European Commission’s proposal to recast the Eurodac Regulation, which governs the establishment and operation of a database containing fingerprints of asylum seekers and irregular migrants. The comments raise a number of...

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