18th February 2015 | News
18 February 2015 The European Asylum Support Office (EASO) report on Afghanistan describes the security trends and armed confrontations, including the impact of the violence on the civilian population. The EASO Country of Information report notes a 24% increase in...
13th February 2015 | News
13 February 2015 The Council of Europe’s Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) has issued a report on the first monitoring mission of a Frontex Joint Return Operation by air. The charter flight between Rotterdam (Netherlands) and Lagos (Nigeria) was organised...
13th February 2015 | News
13 February 2015 Save the Children has warned that the best interest of the child must be a primary consideration when amending the Dublin III Regulation with regards to Member States responsible for examining asylum applications of those unaccompanied children with...
13th February 2015 | News
13 February 2015 Greece’s new Deputy Minister for Public Order, Giannis Panousis, announced that Greece is going to stop detaining migrants indefinitely. A year ago the Greek government introduced the policy of detaining irregular migrants subjected to return...
13th February 2015 | News
13 February 2015 A report by Amnesty International has highlighted a spike in attacks against asylum seekers and migrants as well as other minority groups in Bulgaria. The NGO says that Bulgaria’s failure to adequately investigate and prosecute such hate crimes is...
12th February 2015 | News
12 February 2015 Some 300 people are now confirmed missing and believed to have drowned in the Mediterranean according to reports gathered by UNHCR following the rescue of some 100 people by the Italian Coast Guard on Monday. Survivors said that four dinghies left...
11th February 2015 | News
11 February 2015 “We are appalled by the news of over 300 people feared dead in the Mediterranean.Sadly, our call has to be the same we voiced in 2013 when more than 300 people died off Lampedusa: People fleeing war and persecution are undertaking these...
