24 April 2015 The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) found that extraditing a Kyrgyz national of Uzbek ethnic origin from Russia to Kyrgyzstan would give rise to inhumane and degrading treatment prohibited by Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights...
23 April 2015 The new AIDA report on France comes amidst parliamentary debates on a draft law on asylum, transposing the recast Asylum Procedures Directive and the Reception Conditions Directive. The main reforms proposed aim to inter alia introduce suspensive effect...
23 April 2015. ECRE calls on the EU Heads of State gathering in Brussels today to show leadership and political courage and commit to measures that prioritise saving lives and ensure access to protection for refugees. Today, migrants and refugees often have to resort...
17 April 2015 A new AIDA report on Switzerland, written by the Swiss Refugee Council, examines “Testphase”, a Swiss accelerated procedure introduced in January 2014, which will be pilot tested in the federal reception centre of Zurich until 2016. Under this pilot...
17 April 2015 UNHCR has called on all countries to allow civilians fleeing Yemen access to their territories and to suspend forcible returns of nationals or habitual residents of Yemen to the country. UNHCR specifies that the suspension of returns is a minimum...
17 April 2015 A report by the Europe’s Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) documents excessive violence at the fence border in Melilla. The report follows the CPT visit in Spain in 2014. In Melilla, migrants interviewed by the CPT referred to excessive...
17 April 2015 Some 400 people are feared dead after their boat capsized on Monday in waters about 120 kilometres south of Italy’s Lampedusa Island, according to survivors of the latest shipwreck in the Mediterranean. If the reports are confirmed, this would...
16 April 2015 A new AIDA Belgium report expresses concern around the continuous reduction of reception places for asylum seekers in the country. Following a drop from 23,800 reception places in 2013 to 19,000 in 2014, Belgium’s capacity at the beginning of 2015 fell...
15 April 2015. The never-ending tragedy in the Mediterranean has claimed now the lives of about 400 people, according to Save the Children who talked in Calabria to the survivors of a boat carrying 550 people. Many of the victims are believed to be unaccompanied...
10 April 2015 France terre d’asile, along with 11 other French NGOs have denounced that since Thursday 31 March, the French authorities have forced more than a thousand migrants to move from makeshift camps around Calais to a new site in the proximity of the new day...
