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...
16 January 2015 In two separate judgments, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) concluded that the proposed return to Sudan of two Sudanese nationals from Darfur would amount to ill-treatment given their ethnicity and their supposed affiliation with opposition...
16 January 2015 In its judgment in Mahammad and Others v Greece, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled yesterday (15 January) that 14 foreign nationals detained in the Greek centre of Fylakio were held in conditions amounting to inhuman and degrading...
15 January 2015 UNHCR has published a report on the situation of the more than half a million Syrian refugees in Jordan living outside of official camps. As the situation continues to deteriorate, two thirds of the population are already living below Jordan’s absolute...
15 January 2015 UNHCR has published recommendations in the area of asylum to the incoming Latvian EU Presidency. According to UNHCR, of particular urgency is the matter of strengthening rescue operations in the Mediterranean Sea, improving reception conditions and...
