26th September 2014 | News
The Group of Experts on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings (GRETA) of the Council of Europe has issued its first report on Italy showing that victims of human trafficking are being convicted for criminal offences, often linked to irregular migration. The GRETA...
19th September 2014 | News
Germany, France, Poland, Spain and the United Kingdom have requested the European Commission to submit a proposal for the implementation of a number of actions, which they consider should be a priority to respond to migration in the Mediterranean. The five Member...
19th September 2014 | News
Everyone was horrified this week to hear about yet another tragedy at sea. Yet, nobody was surprised. Even if this time we have not seen the same outcry from our politicians that followed the death of over 300 people off the coast of Lampedusa almost one year ago,...
19th September 2014 | News
ECRE’s Annual General Conference (AGC) and UNHCR NGO Consultations will be held in Brussels on 15 – 17 October. The conference gathers each year about 100 representatives from the refugee-assisting community in Europe. The AGC is a key moment for the ECRE...
19th September 2014 | News
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled in the case of M.V. and M.T. v. France that to send a couple back to their country of origin, the Russian Federation, would violate the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). In light of their family...
19th September 2014 | News
The SHARE network is inviting European civil society organisations to nominate resettled refugees who have an interest in becoming ‘Resettlement Ambassadors’ to promote their city’s resettlement achievements and advocate for more and better resettlement at the local,...
18th September 2014 | News
In two separate cases this summer, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) held that the living conditions in several detention centres across Greece amounted to degrading treatment, thus triggering a breach of Article 3 of the European Convention of Human Rights....
18th September 2014 | News
In 2013, almost 22 million people were displaced in at least 119 countries by natural disasters, almost three times as many as were displaced by conflict and violence, according to the report Global Estimates 2014: People displaced by disasters by the Norwegian...
12th September 2014 | News
On 9 September, ECRE launched the Second Asylum Information Database (AIDA) Annual Report: Mind the Gap: An NGO Perspective on Challenges to Accessing Protection in the Common European Asylum System. The research illustrates the persistent gaps between the theory of a...
12th September 2014 | News
In a new report, the Hungarian Helsinki Committee (HHC), UNHCR and the Hungarian National Police Headquarters summarized the experiences gathered in 2013 in the course of the border monitoring programme at the Hungarian-Serbian border. According to the report, in...
