Syrian refugees in Greece request dignified living conditions and access to other EU countries

5th December 2014 | News

5 December 2014 “We escaped from death in Syria. We escaped from death in the Aegean. We want to live with dignity in Europe”, demand the more than 150 Syrian refugees who, since 19 November, have been staging a protest in front of the Greek Parliament in Athens. For...

CJEU prohibits intrusive questioning and tests to determine sexual orientation of asylum seekers

4th December 2014 | News

4 December 2014 The Court of Justice of the European Union has held that the Charter of Fundamental Rights places certain restrictions on national authorities when trying to establish the sexual orientation of asylum seekers who claim they fear persecution on account...

Norway, France, Belgium & Netherlands pledge to admit more refugees from Syria ahead of UNHCR Conference

27th November 2014 | News

27 November 2014 As the ministerial-level pledging conference on resettlement and other forms of admission for Syrian refugees, to be held in Geneva on 9 December, approaches, some European countries, Norway, France, Belgium and the Netherlands, have shown their...

Amnesty International and nearly 150 NGOs demand an end to repression of NGOs in Russia

27th November 2014 | News

27 November 2014 On 19 November, activists from Amnesty International in Russia handed over an open letter to Vladimir Putin at the building of the Presidential Administration. It was signed by 148 national and international NGOs from Russia, Germany, the UK, Poland,...

New Master’s Course in International Migration and Refugee Law at the University of Amsterdam

27th November 2014 | News

27 November 2014 The Vrije Universiteit (VU) Amsterdam is introducing a master in International Migration and Refugee Law as of September 2015. The master’s track will address international migration from the perspective of international, and European and domestic...

International community’s response to Syrian refugee crisis an abject failure, Amnesty International

27th November 2014 | News

27 November 2014 In a new report ‘Struggling to Survive: Refugees from Syria in Turkey’, Amnesty International (AI) severely criticises the international community’s response to the Syrian refugee crisis which has left “the hopes of safety and security for most...

Excessive red tape prevents refugees from reuniting with their family, ECRE and Red Cross EU report

26th November 2014 | News

 27 November 2014 ECRE and the Red Cross EU Office, along with several national organisations, have released a report, Disrupted Flight – The Realities of Separated Refugee Families in the EU, on practices in 12 EU Member States in relation to family...

Croatia: vulnerable persons are not adequately identified and assisted during asylum procedure

26th November 2014 | News

26 November 2014 The first AIDA Report on Croatia, compiled by ECRE member organisation Croatian Law Centre (HPC), shows that vulnerable asylum seekers are not properly identified and assisted throughout the procedure and that access to medical assistance is generally...

Brussels, 12 December: Conference on judicial control of immigration detention in the EU

26th November 2014 | News

26 November 2014 Within the framework of the Project CONTENTION (CONTrol of immigration detention),  the Migration Policy Centre and the Odysseus Academic Network examined the lawfulness of different detention practices of irregular migrants in 11 EU Member States:...

ECRE: System needed to allow positive decisions on asylum claims to be recognised across the EU

24th November 2014 | News

System needed to allow positive decisions on asylum to be recognised across EU – see ECRE’s new discussion paper here http://t.co/BKsNjseKJF — ECRE (@ecre) November 24, 2014 24 November 2014 A major challenge facing beneficiaries of international...