Red Cross: Offshore processing inadequate to solve ‘access crisis’

12th February 2016 | News

12 February 2016 The Red Cross EU office has recently published a study, Europe in Crisis: facilitating access to protection, (discarding) offshore processing and mapping alternatives to the way forward. The author of the report, Dr Moreno-Lax finds that there is an...

Massive public outcry after Australia rules on the legality of offshore detention centres

12th February 2016 | News

12 February 2016 Earlier this month, Australia’s High Court ruled that the offshore detention of asylum seekers is not in violation of the Australian constitution. The case was filed by a Bangladeshi woman, detained on Nauru and later brought to Australia because of...

Syrian donor conference raises over $10bn – still $3bn short of urgent needs

5th February 2016 | News

5 February 2016 On 4 February, a donor conference in London raised more than 10 billion US $ in international aid to support people caught up in the Syrian conflict. Co-hosted by the UK, Germany, Kuwait, Norway, and the United Nations, the ‘Supporting Syria and the...

EU Commission adopts: Greece ‘seriously neglected’ Schengen border controls

5th February 2016 | News

5 February 2016 On 2 February, the EU’s College of Commissioners adopted the Schengen Evaluation Report on Greece and a proposal for a Council Recommendation on ‘addressing the serious deficiencies identified in the evaluation report on the application of Schengen...

Europol estimates 10,000 underage refugee children have gone missing

5th February 2016 | News

5 February 2016 This week Europol released alarming figures concerning the number of missing unaccompanied asylum seeking children. Europol Chief of Staff Brian Donald told The Observer that since the start of the refugee crisis at least 5,000 unaccompanied children...

Hungary and Slovakia request the Court of Justice of the European Union to annul the relocation decision

5th February 2016 | News

5 February 2016 In December 2015, Slovakia and Hungary filed a legal action with the Court of Justice of the European Union against the September relocation decision, which refers to the relocation of an additional 120,000 asylum seekers from Greece, Italy and other...

Rescuing people in distress at sea is a duty placed on everyone

5th February 2016 | News

5 February 2016 A new incident made the headlines last week, when an Australian rescue worker allegedly let 31 people drown in the Aegean because their boat was still in Turkish waters and the rescuers themselves were in international waters. According to his...

MPI Europe: Getting the balance right: strengthening asylum reception capacity at national and EU levels

5th February 2016 | News

5 February 2016 MPI Europe has written a report on strengthening asylum reception capacity at national and EU level, investigating the tension between guaranteeing good conditions and meeting high levels of demand. It suggests that there are three key elements for a...

Human Rights Watch World Report 2016: European ‘Politics of fear’ has led to rollback of rights

5th February 2016 | News

5 February 2016 Human Rights Watch (HRW) has published its World Report 2016, which reviews the state of human rights in over 90 countries worldwide, covering events from the end of 2014 to November 2015. The introductory essay is written by HRWs executive director,...

ECRE staff and Board express gratitude to Michael Diedring

29th January 2016 | News

29 January 2016 On his last day as Secretary General, ECRE staff and Board expressed their gratitude to Michael Diedring and wished him good luck in his next endeavours. Michael has successfully navigated ECRE through one of Europe’s most turbulent times in the field...