27th November 2015 | News
27 November 2015 The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that Malta breached the human rights of a Somali national, detained for over eight months for immigration purposes. Farhiyo Mahamed Jama arrived in Malta by boat in May 2012 and was detained at the Lyster...
27th November 2015 | News
27 November 2015 The highest administrative court in France dismissed an appeal by the French Ministry of Interior and commune of Calais, ordering them to take measures to end the inhuman and degrading conditions for inhabitants of the camp at Calais, known as ‘The...
27th November 2015 | News
27 November 2015 The updated Netherlands AIDA report details how the recast Asylum Procedures and Reception Conditions Directives have been implemented in the country. New developments include the introduction of a formal border procedure to assess asylum applications...
27th November 2015 | News
27 November 2015 The most recent updates on Germany’s asylum system, as documented by the updated AIDA report, consist of several legislative changes in view of the record numbers of asylum seekers this year. Albania, Kosovo and Montenegro have been classified as...
20th November 2015 | News
20 November 2015 A report from the European Network on Statelessness and ECRE member aditus Foundation, has outlined the pernicious effects that the widespread use of administrative detention has on stateless persons in Malta. With no statelessness procedures to...
20th November 2015 | News
20 November 2015 Civil society organisations in Italy are expressing strong concerns over practices at the ‘hotspots’: return decisions being issued without a proper examination of the individual cases, chaotic and unprecise approaches to the identification of people,...
20th November 2015 | News
20 November 2015 In November 2015, the European Commission published a study on smuggling of migrants, carried out by ECRE, in a consortium with Optimity Advisors and the International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD). The study gives an overview of...
20th November 2015 | News
20 November 2015 In a report released this week, Amnesty International analysed the European Union’s approach to the current refugee crisis: instead of focusing on granting access to the territory and giving protection to those qualifying for it, the EU has spent...
20th November 2015 | News
20 November 2015 At a conference organised by the International Labour Organisation in Brussels this week, representatives from international organisations, civil society, EU institutions and the private business sector came together to discuss the integration of...
20th November 2015 | News
20 November 2015 The International Rescue Committee (IRC) have released a briefing paper calling Europe’s response to the refugee crisis within its borders ‘shamefully inadequate’. With winter approaching, IRC says that as a matter of urgency the EU and its Member...