30 January 2015 ECRE is recruiting for two positions: a Senior Legal Officer and a coordinator of the Asylum Information Database (AIDA) Project. The Senior Legal Officer is part of ECRE’s Legal and Policy Team and takes the lead in strengthening ECRE’s activities...
23 January 2015 A report published by Women for Refugee Women has found that the UK government is detaining women who are survivors of rape, sexual violence and other forms of torture. Of the 34 women interviewed at Yarl’s Wood immigration removal centre, 19 women...
23 January 2015 On Wednesday 21 January, the newspaper Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger reported that the German Interior Minister, Thomas de Maiziere, has instructed Germany’s Office for Migration and Asylum (BAMF) not to return asylum seekers to Greece for a further...
23 January 2015 Following fresh fighting among rival tribal factions in Libya since the beginning of 2015, UNHCR estimates that almost 400,000 people are now internally displaced. Benghazi, Derna, and near the Gulf of Sidra in Ben Jawad and Ras Lanuf are the areas...
22 January 2014 Eight children and three women from Afghanistan died on 20 January 2014 when their vessel sank off the Greek island of Farmakonisi. Although, according to the survivors, a Greek coast guard vessel was towing the boat toward the Turkish coast at high...
22 January 2015 Asylum seekers and migrants living in destitution in Calais have told Human Rights Watch they have been abused by the French police. Migrants describe being beaten and attacked with pepper spray in the street or when they are found hidden in trucks in...
22 January 2015 Finland has announced it will resettle 750 refugees in 2015. In particular, Finland has committed to resettle 350 Syrians, 150 Congolese refugees from Southern Africa and 150 Afghan refugees, as well as 100 persons in in urgent need of resettlement due...
16 January 2015 Concluding a visit to Melilla and Madrid, Nils Muižnieks, the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, has called on the Spanish authorities to stop the pushbacks to Morocco of migrants entering the cities of Ceuta and Melilla and to...
16 January 2015 In line with recent judgments on removal to Uzbekistan, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled that the extradition of an Uzbek national from Russia to his country of origin on charges of alleged membership of a Muslim extremist movement...
16 January 2015 The Odysseus Academic Network is hosting the final conference of the project MADE REAL (Making Alternatives to Detention in Europe a Reality by Exchanges, Advocacy and Learning) on 6 February at the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels. The...
