6 November 2015 According to UNHCR, no asylum seeker or migrant should be returned to Libya, including people rescued at sea and those who are not eligible for international protection. Returns would expose migrants to widespread violations of human rights and...
6 November 2015 From Wednesday to Sunday last week, over 60 people died in the Aegean Sea in a series of dramatic shipwrecks during the crossing from Turkey to the Greek islands of Lesbos, Samos, Kalymnos and Rhodes. On Wednesday alone, five shipwrecks were reported,...
6 November 2015 A new Amnesty International report found that in May and June 2015, the Australian authorities paid smugglers to return asylum seekers to Indonesia, without examining whether they would have faced risks of persecutions or serious abuses in the country...
6 November 2015 A coalition of NGOs, including ELENA-France, filed a legal challenge last week, along with applicants from Eritrea, Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria, to the human rights conditions in the Calais slum. The judge found that the reports of the NGOs involved,...
6 November 2015 UNHCR has raised concerns over credible testimonies relating to the sexual abuse of refugee and migrant children, on the move, in Europe. Similarly, the Chief of Staff of Europol has warned of traffickers exploiting vulnerable refugees travelling...
6 November 2015 Between 24 and 30 October, media reports and accounts by humanitarian organizations active in Macedonia, Serbia and Croatia state that many refugees have not been adequately registered, due to insufficient registration capacities. Additional...
6 November 2015 The human rights organisation, The Elders, published an article by ECRE that questions the language the media and European leaders are using to describe the current increase in people fleeing conflict and persecution who are arriving in Europe having...
6 November 2015 The updated AIDA report on Bulgaria informs about worrying deteriorating trends in the Bulgarian asylum system: the duration of the asylum procedure has increased from an average of three months to six or more months and the National State Agency for...
30 October 2015 ECRE has published its fourth Asylum Information Database (AIDA) Legal Briefing on the legality of examining asylum claims in detention and its impact on human rights. While the refugee status determination procedure attracts certain guarantees for an...
30 October 2015 On the morning of 19 October the border between Serbia and Croatia at Berkasovo was closed. Refugees, prevented from entering Croatia, and having endured challenging weather conditions, were not offered any kind of assistance. Most refugees who reached...
