19th February 2016 | News
19 February 2016 In the early hours of Wednesday 17 February, 217 asylum seekers were returned from Slovenia, through Croatia and finally to Serbia. The group, as stated by UNHCR Serbia, includes a significant number of refugees from Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria...
19th February 2016 | News
19 February 2016 EU heads of state and government agreed to ‘rapidly stem the flows’ of refugees and migrants, protect the EU’s external borders, reduce illegal [sic] migration and safeguard the integrity of the Schengen area, during their Council summit in Brussels...
19th February 2016 | News
19 February 2016 UNAMA, the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan in coordination with the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights released the 2015 Report on Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict, documenting an increase in the numbers of...
19th February 2016 | News
19 February 2016 ECRE Member, Refugee Rights Turkey, has published a paper on the barriers refugees in Turkey face accessing their right to an effective legal remedy, due to the complex arrangements for granting power of attorney. In Turkish law, a lawyer must obtain...
19th February 2016 | News
19 February 2016 The Commander of the EUNAVFOR MED – Sophia operation hopes to move into Libyan territorial waters ‘as soon as possible’, as stated in his recent six monthly report. He identifies some political and legal challenges that need to be solved, to prevent...
19th February 2016 | News
19 February 2016 On 15 February the leaders of Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and Czech Republic, gathered in Prague in the framework of the Visegrad Four, and called for an alternative plan to stop refugees crossing Greece’s borders with Bulgaria and the former...
19th February 2016 | News
19 February 2016 Amnesty International has issued a statement calling on the governments of the UK and France to cooperate to allow refugees and migrants currently living in squalid conditions in camps in northern France, who have family links to the UK, to be swiftly...
17th February 2016 | News
Brussels, 17 February 2016. The ECRE Board is delighted to announce that, after a search process that attracted many strong candidates, Catherine Woollard has been appointed as the alliance’s new Secretary General, starting from 16 February 2016. She takes over from...
12th February 2016 | News
12 February 2016 NATO will provide support to ‘assist with the refugee and migrant crisis’ by deploying three warships in the Aegean Sea to target people-smuggling operations. The announcement followed a request from Germany, Greece and Turkey at a defence...
12th February 2016 | News
12 February 2016 From Skala Sykamnias, a tiny, touristy, fishing village on the north shore of the Greek island of Lesvos, you can see the coast of Turkey 6km away. All over the opposite hillside refugees from Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq and all over the world camp out,...
