Brussels, 7 July: ECRE and Irish Refugee Council hosting back-to-back events on legal assistance for unaccompanied children and asylum seekers

27th June 2014 | News

27 June 2014 The European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE) and Irish Refugee Council (IRC) are hosting two events focusing on legal assistance for asylum seekers and unaccompanied children on 7 July 2014 in Brussels. ECRE will host the final conference of the...

Vacancy: Media and Communications Internship at ECRE

26th June 2014 | Vacancies

ECRE is offering an 11-month Media & Communications internship, starting preferably at the beginning of September 2014. The purpose of this position is to provide essential support to ECRE’s Media & Communications Team. Among other tasks, the post holder will...

Malta has not yet taken steps required by ECtHR to improve detention system, updated AIDA report shows

20th June 2014 | News

20 June 2014 The updated AIDA Report, compiled by ECRE member organisations aditus foundation and Jesuit Refugee Service Malta (JRS), shows that Malta has not yet improved its detention system following the 2013 judgment in which the European Court of Human Rights...

ECRE hands over the Europe Act Now petition – Europe needs to take down the “Closed” sign and help Syria’s refugees

20th June 2014 | News

20 June 2014 Today, on World Refugee Day, ECRE has handed over the ‘Europe Act Now, #HelpSyriasRefugees’ petition to Anne Kemppainen, representative of the Office of the President of the European Council Herman Van Rompuy. Over 100 NGOs, Members of the European...

World Refugee Day: 100 NGOs and thousands of citizens petition European leaders to Act Now to help Syria’s refugees

20th June 2014 | News

Brussels, 20 June 2014. As UNHCR reveals that, in the space of 5 years, Syria has gone from being the world’s second largest refugee-hosting country to the country producing the second largest amount of refugees, 100 NGOs, Members of the European Parliament and 20,000...

Manual on monitoring immigration detention designed to ‘open up the closed world of custody’

20th June 2014 | News

20 June 2014 A new Practical Manual on Monitoring Immigration Detention by the Association for the Prevention of Torture (APT), the International Detention Coalition (IDC) and the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) sets out to provide a practical tool for building...

UNHCR Somalia update: asylum seekers fleeing areas affected by recent military action or outside State control are likely to meet criteria for refugee status

20th June 2014 | News

20 June 2014 UNHCR’s updated position on returns to Southern and Central Somalia recommends that Somali asylum seekers from areas currently or recently affected by military action and/or consequent displacement, or from areas under the control of non-State groups, are...

2013 saw the highest number of forcibly displaced people since the Second World War, UNHCR Global Trends report reveals

20th June 2014 | News

20 June 2014 A record-breaking 51.2 million individuals were forcibly displaced worldwide in 2013, UNHCR’s annual Global Trends, published today, shows. This represents an average of 32,200 persons per day – or one person every four seconds – forced to...

World Refugee Day in Belgium: Fair Play for Refugees

19th June 2014 | News

This Friday 20 June, is World Refugee Day. In over 100 countries around the globe, attention will be focused on the millions of people in the world who had to flee war, violence or persecution. With the World Cup in Brazil in full swing on this World Refugee Day, ECRE...

Germany to resettle 10,000 more refugees from Syria – Time for the rest of Europe to play its part

13th June 2014 | News

13 June 2014 Ministers of Interior of the German Länder (federated states) agreed this week to increase its resettlement commitment by 10,000 – bringing the number of refugees from Syria to be resettled in the country to 20,000. Welcoming this renewed pledge, ECRE has...