19 May 2015 In a booklet titled ‘No Giving Up’, released by the Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) Malta on 15 May, the experiences of six asylum seeking women in Malta are recounted as part of a project that saw JRS Malta hold group sessions with Somali women in detention....
15 May 2015 On 13 May, the European Commission presented the new European Migration Agenda. With a shift welcomed by several NGOs, the Commission acknowledged that the “immediate imperative is the duty to protect those in need.” Among other measures, the Commission...
15 May 2015 The annual report issued by the EU Border Agency Frontex highlights that in 2014 more than 280,000 migrants crossed the EU external borders irregularly; most of them being asylum seekers. That is twice as many as the previous peak following the Arab Spring...
15 May 2015 Refugees, migrants and asylum seekers in Libya are subjected to ransoms, torture, ill-treatment, sexual violence and other human rights abuses, as described, and denounced by Amnesty International, in a report issued this week. Amnesty condemns systematic...
15 May 2015 The new AIDA report on Greece, among other issues, discusses the commitments made by the new Greek government, in February 2015, towards reducing the use of immigration detention, following four deaths of detainees, two of which were suicides, in the...
30 April 2015 ECRE would like to express our deepest appreciation to Ana Fontal, ECRE Senior Press and Public Information Officer, for her invaluable contribution to the ECRE Weekly Bulletin. Ana’s immense expertise, passion and inspiration have ensured that the ECRE...
30 April 2015 A report by the Belgrade Center for Human Rights (BCHR) shows that obstacles for asylum seekers to access international protection and the lack of integration prospects in Serbia are driving many refugees to travel irregularly, and further, to reach EU...
30 April 2015 In two separate decisions made by the Council of Aliens Law Litigation on the 27 and 28 April, an Iraqi and a Congolese national had their returns to Italy under the Dublin III Regulation suspended after the Court found that if returned they would be...
30 April 2015 In response to the recent migrant deaths in the Mediterranean, and to the European Council conclusions of 23 April 2015, the European Parliament (EP) has adopted a resolution calling on Member States to make full use of existing possibilities for issuing...
30 April 2015 The AIDA report on Italy provides detailed information on the decree passed last year implementing the EU Qualifications Directive and increasing Italy’s reception capacity to the current 20,000 places provided at the national reception centres (SPRAR)....
