18 March 2016 Freezing temperatures, incessant rain, endless waiting, shortage of food, water and health care: this is the daily life of thousands of refugees blocked at the closed Greek-Macedonian border. Almost a month has passed since Austria decided to put a cap...
18 March 2016 The Odysseus Academic Network has started a fundraising campaign to allow refugees to participate in the upcoming 2016 Summer School on EU Immigration and Asylum Law and Policy in Brussels. The Summer School aims to provide participants with a deep...
18 March 2016 As the war in Syria enters its sixth year with no sign of abating, two reports recently released by Save the Children and UNICEF highlight the dreadful conditions faced by children in the country. At least 250,000 children are currently living under...
17 March 2016 Following a number of severely restrictive amendments to its asylum law in 2015, the Hungarian government is proposing to continue its assault on the rights of asylum seekers and refugees in new draft legislation that decimates integration support,...
17 March 2016 By Catherine Woollard (ECRE), Kenneth Roth (Human Rights Watch), Salil Shetty (Amnesty International) __________________________________________________________ “EU leaders hit a new low last week by proposing that Turkey accept fast-track mass...
11 March 2016 Strong criticism regarding the Lampedusa ‘hotspot’ has been raised by the report on the Identification and Expulsion Centres (CIE – Centro di identificazione ed espulsione) by the Human Rights Commission of the Italian Senate. The report assesses the...
11 March 2016 Early this year, the humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) was granted permission to build a camp near the makeshift settlement of Grande-Synthe, where thousands of people were living in appalling conditions. The camp, which has the...
11 March 2016 Last week, the UK Court of Appeal lifted the suspension on the deportation of asylum seekers whose claims were not accepted to certain provinces of Afghanistan, which had been in place since August last year. The case related to asylum seekers who sought...
11 March 2016 ECRE is extremely alarmed by the proliferation of restrictive national and EU-wide measures aimed at containing asylum seekers and refugees in Greece and countries neighbouring the EU, such as Turkey. ECRE fears that the current “crisis” situation is...
Donald Tusk, President European CouncilJean Claude Juncker, President European CommissionEU Heads of State or Government Brussels, 11 March 2016 Dear President Tusk, Dear President Juncker, On 17 and 18 March 2016 the European Council will meet once again to...
