30th September 2016 | News
Amnesty International and Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Nils Muiznieks have this week raised serious concerns about the situation for asylum seekers and refugees in Hungary. Unlawful detention, violation of the right to asylum, labyrinthine asylum...
30th September 2016 | News
It is widely acknowledged that the Mediterranean Sea is the world’s most dangerous flight route. Since the beginning of this year 3.501 people have died or are considered missing.[1] For those of us working to save people in distress at sea, last week’s sad news of...
30th September 2016 | News
Detention Action has published a report outlining opportunities for community-based alternatives to detention of migrants and asylum seekers in the UK. The report stresses that for alternatives to work, civil society, migrant communities and experts-by-experience need...
30th September 2016 | News
In an Opinion published last week, the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) has raised data protection concerns regarding the Commission proposals to reform the Dublin Regulation, the Eurodac Regulation and the establishment of an EU Agency for Asylum. The...
30th September 2016 | Vacancies
ECRE is recruiting a Senior Communications Coordinator with minimum five years of experience of communications work for an NGO and with good knowledge of refugee protection and the political context of ECRE’s work. The purpose of the position is to lead ECRE’s...
30th September 2016 | News
In a joint press release published on 22 September, 77 NGOs in Spain including ECRE member CEAR voiced their firm rejection of the practice of pushbacks at the southern border in Ceuta and Melilla and demanded that the Acting Home Affairs Minister Jorge Fernández...
30th September 2016 | News
Since 21 September 2016, the police station (Questura) in Rome is not accepting any new asylum claims. According to a number of organisations including ECRE members CIR – Italian Refugee Council and ASGI, police officers at the entrance of the police station are...
30th September 2016 | News
Poverty, lack of hygiene and overcrowding are only some of the issues faced by refugees in Lebanon, reports a delegation of MEPs who urge EU leaders to step up resettlement efforts. Seven members of the European Parliament’s Civil Liberties Committee (LIBE), headed...
23rd September 2016 | News
On 12 and 13 September, over 250 participants and speakers from all over Europe and beyond gathered in Brussels to discuss strategies of refugee inclusion and propose innovative and collaborative solutions at the Seminar on Social Innovation for Refugee Inclusion....
23rd September 2016 | News
This week’s UN Summit for Refugees and Migrants – which had been referred to as an “extraordinary opportunity” by UNHCR Chief Filippo Grandi – has instead been widely criticised by civil society organisations. The outcome of the Summit, the so-called New...
