26 June 2015 “The smugglers lied to us; they said we would arrive in Italy in four hours. We stayed two days sitting and waiting for Italy, the sky was dark and a storm was approaching, and we kept asking ourselves “where are we?”.” This is one of the quotes featured...
26 June 2015 The UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women, Rashida Manjoo, calls for better protection for women seeking asylum in the UK, citing concerns about the adequacy of assessments about experiences of gender-based violence. Manjoo’s report was...
26 June 2015 Human Rights Watch’s recent report “The Mediterranean Migration Crisis: Why People Flee, What the EU Should Do” identifies severe human rights violations in asylum seekers’ countries of origin, forcing them to make perilous journeys...
26 June 2015 On 22 June, EU Foreign Affairs Ministers launched the EUNAVFOR Med, “to disrupt human smugglers and traffickers in the Mediterranean”. For an initial mandate of one year, Italy, Greece, Spain, France, Germany, the UK, Luxemburg, Belgium, the Netherlands,...
26 June 2015 In a new publication, “Mari e Muri”, Caritas Italiana examines the natural and artificial obstacles that migrants and refugees have to cross, as they risk their lives to seek protection and find a better, safer future. In particular, the paper...
26 June 2015 ECRE has published comments on the European Commission’s Staff Working Document “on Implementation of the Eurodac Regulation as regards the obligation to take fingerprints”, issued on 27 May 2015 as part of the first round of implementing measures...
19 June 2015 ECRE and the Italian Cultural Institute are pleased to invite you to the Opening Reception of the Photo Exhibition Siriani in transito – Syrians in Transit, on Wednesday 24 June at 17:30 at the Italian Cultural Institute in Brussels, located in Rue...
19 June 2015 The European Union should contribute more to sharing responsibility for refugees, including by increasing the number of places available for resettlement in its Member States, Amnesty International has said in a newly published report. The reaction of...
19 June 2015 A new AIDA report on Turkey, the 18th AIDA country, contains detailed information on the country’s two protection systems: the Turkish asylum procedure established by the 2013 Law on Foreigners and International Protection (LFIP) and the temporary...
19 June 2015 The German federal government has asked state authorities to implement a simplified process for handling applications for family reunification from Syrians, as its embassies face increasingly long lines for visas. The local authorities are being asked to...
