20th November 2015 | News
20 November 2015 The International Rescue Committee (IRC) have released a briefing paper calling Europe’s response to the refugee crisis within its borders ‘shamefully inadequate’. With winter approaching, IRC says that as a matter of urgency the EU and its Member...
20th November 2015 | News
20 November 2015 On 10 November, the European Commission published the annual progress reports on Macedonia and Serbia. While refugees continue to transit along the Western Balkans route to seek international protection in the EU, asylum seekers have difficulty...
20th November 2015 | News
20 November 2015 According to a survey by the Belgrade Centre of Human Rights, released on 13 November, many refugees entering Serbia from Bulgaria, including unaccompanied minors, reported ill-treatment and abuses by the Bulgarian police. Of more than a hundred...
20th November 2015 | News
20 November 2015 The Directorate General for External Policies of the European Parliament has published the study ‘Migrants in the Mediterranean: Protecting Human Rights’, which highlights that, up to 16 October, 613,179 persons arrived in Europe via the Mediterranean...
18th November 2015 | News
Confusing #refugees w/ terrorists, morally& legally wrong.Our statement after #Paris #Beirut https://t.co/INcz9pjtJ1 pic.twitter.com/iG13qMKiFg — ECRE (@ecre) November 18, 2015 Brussels, 18 November 2015. ECRE expresses its shock and sorrow over the death of so...
13th November 2015 | News
13 November 2015 Following another extraordinary meeting of the Justice and Home Affairs Council on 9 November, EU interior ministers agreed on a number of measures to handle the refugee and migration crisis, including measures to overcome the potential lack of...
13th November 2015 | News
13 November 2015 ECRE’s Secretary General, Michael Diedring, will be leaving the organisation in early 2016 to begin his role as the new Director of the European Programme on Integration and Migration (EPIM). “To my colleagues at the secretariat, this has been a most...
13th November 2015 | News
13 November 2015 At the Valletta Summit on migration of 11 and 12 November 2015, 60 European and African Heads of State and governments agreed on a political declaration and Action Plan for cooperation in the area of migration, with sixteen priority initiatives to be...
13th November 2015 | News
13 November 2015 Refugees continue to cross the Western Balkans packed in overcrowded trains, as transportation is limited and insufficient, considering the large number of arrivals. Consequently, refugees wait for hours at border crossings or at reception centres,...
13th November 2015 | News
13 November 2015 Human Rights Watch released a report this week on the obstacles refugee children in Turkey face trying to access education. Although over 700,000 Syrian refugees living in Tukey are school-age children, during the last school year just over 200,000...
