Help Refugee Action send #2000Flowers to commemorate 2,000 people who died in the Mediterranean in 2015

4th September 2015 | News

4 September 2015 Refugee Action have launched a campaign to call upon Europe’s leaders to do more to protect people fleeing wars, conflict and persecution before more lives are lost. The lack of safe and legal routes for refugees to reach safety has led to a large...

Greek refugee crisis: ECRE calls for solidarity

4th September 2015 | News

04 September 2015 ECRE has released an urgent call to the EU and its Member States for greater solidarity in light of the deepening refugee crisis in Greece, accompanied by an op-ed by ECRE Secretary-General, Michael Diedring, reinforcing his call for responsibility...

A call for responsibility and solidarity

28th August 2015 | News

By Michael Diedring, ECRE Secretary General Without exception, the refugees I met in Lesvos were from Syria or Afghanistan. I wonder how many of them were teargassed or clubbed on the Greek-Macedonian border this past Friday and Saturday.   Two weeks ago, I stood in...

ECRE urgently calls on the EU and Member States for more robust solidarity as the refugee crisis in Greece deepens

27th August 2015 | News

27 August 2015 The current exceptional situation in Greece requires additional measures by the European Union and EU Member States to further support the initiatives taken by the Greek authorities and civil society organisations to address the increasing numbers of...

AIDA Legal Briefing: Challenges to asylum data provision

26th August 2015 | News

ECRE has published its second AIDA Legal Briefing, discussing key problems in the collection and provision of asylum statistics in the European Union (EU). The briefing draws on EU sources of data such as Eurostat and the European Asylum Support Office (EASO), as well...

Greece: Border monitoring reports by the Greek Council for Refugees

12th August 2015 | News

12 August 2015 Two mission reports on the situation on the island of Kos and Eidomeni, near the Greek-FYROM border, were published by ECRE member Greek Council for Refugees (GCR). In its report on Kos, compiled following a visit in June 2015, GCR notes the complete...

Greece: ECRE members respond to asylum crisis on the islands

17th July 2015 | News

17 July 2015 As UNHCR highlighted, Greece is facing an unprecedented refugee emergency, with 1,000 people arriving on the Greek islands daily over the latest weeks. Deutsche Welle and other media reported that during the first week of July alone 9,000 refugees and...

Registrations open for ELENA Network’s 30th Anniversary course

17th July 2015 | News

17 July 2015 ELENA’s 30th anniversary advanced course on legal avenues for strengthening international protection in Europe will take place on Friday 30 October and Saturday 31 October 2015 in the Royal Hotel Carlton in Bologna, Italy. Interested participants should...

Libya: appalling detention conditions and political instability force many more people crossing the Mediterranean

17th July 2015 | News

17 July 2015 A recent report by the North Africa Mixed Migration Task Force shows that the appalling detention conditions faced by migrants and refugees in Libya have forced more people to try cross the Mediterranean Sea to reach Europe. Although severe abuses in...

British Red Cross: legal aid cuts for refugee family reunification is endangering lives

17th July 2015 | News

17 July 2015 The right to family life is firmly established in international law, and refugee family reunification is recognised in UK law. However, a new report by ECRE’s member the British Red Cross has found that the withdrawal of legal aid for family reunion...