ELENA publishes Information Note on Dublin Transfers post-Tarakhel

29 October 2015 ECRE/ELENA have published an information note which provides background to the Tarakhel judgment of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), which ECRE intervened in. In this judgment, the Court prevented the transfer of an asylum-seeking family...

ECRE members call for safe and legal channels to the EU for refugees

23 October 2015 The ECRE Annual General Conference (AGC) took place last week in The Hague, together with the UNHCR NGO Consultations. The AGC was an occasion for all ECRE member organisations to come together and discuss the most pressing issues, as well as to plan...

ECtHR rules against expulsion of asylum seekers from Russia to Syria

23 October 2015 In the first judgment on the issue of risk of danger to life or ill-treatment in the context of the Syrian conflict, the European Court of Human Rights unanimously found that the forced return of the three asylum applicants to Syria would violate their...