The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) held this week that returning the Tarakhel family from Switzerland to Italy without guarantees that they would benefit from appropriate conditions would violate their human rights as enshrined in the European Convention of...
In its report, “Undocumented” Justice for Migrants in Italy, on the possibilities of challenging expulsion and detention decisions issued to undocumented migrants in Italy, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) highlights the shortcomings of the Italian system...
In a new report, ‘Access to Protection: Bridges Not Walls’, the Italian Council for Refugees (CIR) analyses the impact of the case of Hirsi Jamaa and others v. Italy and argues that the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has established access to territory as a...
ECRE, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and Rights International Spain, have written to the EU Commissioner for Migration and Home Affairs Dimitris Avramopoulos to intervene with the Spanish government regarding proposed changes to Spanish immigration law that...
The UNHCR representative in Lebanon Ninette Kelley informed last week that the number of Syrian refugees registered by UNHCR offices in Lebanon had drastically decreased in the last few weeks. According to Kelley, this phenomenon is the result of the restrictions...
On the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the 1954 UN Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons, UNHCR launched this week the “I Belong” campaign aimed at ending statelessness within 10 years. Statelessness is a limbo for more than 10 million people...
Mr. Dimitris Avramopoulos Commissioner for Migration and Home Affairs of the European Union November 6, 2014 Dear Commissioner, The undersigned organisations are writing to express their grave concern in relation to proposed changes to Spanish immigration law that...
November 5, 2014. The AIRE Centre (Advice on Individual Rights in Europe), ECRE (European Council on Refugees and Exiles) and Amnesty International welcome the European Court of Human Rights’ judgment in the case of Tarakhel v Switzerland, in which the...
Discussions on the responsibility to ensure search and rescue of migrants in the Mediterranean intensified this week as the UK announced that they will not support any future search and rescue operations to prevent migrants and refugees drowning in the Mediterranean,...
The EU Commissioner for Home Affairs Cecilia Malmström, a coalition of 13 NGOs – including Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International and ECRE – and the UN Refugee Agency have expressed their concern this week regarding Spain’s attempt to give legal cover...
