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...
Unaccompanied children continue to be detained with adults in Greece and irregular migrants are still held for prolonged periods in unacceptable conditions, including in overcrowded and severely unhygienic facilities. In a damning report, the European Committee for...
In a report out this week, the cross-party Public Accounts Committee of the British Parliament has criticised the UK Government for failing to resolve 29,000 asylum applications dating back to at least 2007, of which 11,000 have not even received an initial decision...
In a new position paper, UNHCR has urged States not to forcibly return persons arriving from Iraq until the security and human rights situation has tangibly improved. As the armed conflict persists, UNHCR affirms that international human rights and humanitarian law...
