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AIDA report on Poland: asylum seekers can no longer be deported while they appeal a negative decision on their asylum application

4th July 2014 | News

4 July 2014 The updated AIDA report on Poland, compiled by ECRE member organisation Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, highlights that as of 1 May 2014, with the entry into force of the new Law on Foreigners, asylum seekers who receive a negative decision on their...

ECtHR: Asylum seeker’s return to Hungary under Dublin Regulation would not violate his fundamental rights

4th July 2014 | News

4 July 2014 The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled that the return of an Afghan asylum seeker from Austria to Hungary under the Dublin Regulation would not violate Article 3 (prohibition of inhuman or degrading treatment) of the European Convention on...

565 new places for Syrian refugees announced at High Level Meeting on Resettlement of Syrian Refugees

4th July 2014 | News

4 July 2014 At a meeting of 42 States on resettlement of Syrian refugees last Friday 27 June, Belgium, Ireland, Switzerland and Uruguay pledged 565 new resettlement or humanitarian admission places for Syrian refugees. Belgium announced that it will resettle 75...

Palestinians fleeing Syrian conflict denied safety in Lebanon, Amnesty International reports

4th July 2014 | News

4 July 2014 Many Palestinian refugees from Syria are being denied the possibility to seek safety in Lebanon due to new requirements for Palestinian refugees introduced last May by the Lebanese authorities, according to a new briefing by Amnesty...

Updated AIDA Report on Austria shows that detained asylum seekers no longer have the right to be represented in appeals or assisted at hearings

4th July 2014 | News

4 July 2014 The updated AIDA Report, compiled by ECRE member organisation Asylkoordination Osterreich, shows that as of January 2014, detained asylum seekers no longer have the right to be represented in appeals or assisted at hearings by their legal advisers....

“Dad, have we done something wrong?” – Report on families in immigration detention in the Netherlands

4th July 2014 | News

4 July 2014 “It was unbearable for my daughter. She was petrified. She kept asking me why we were there and even asked me: ‘Dad, have we done something wrong?’ She was also in physical pain. She kept complaining about her stomach ache, she still does. She was also...

Ukraine: 54,000 people internally displaced, with circa 14,000 seeking asylum elsewhere in Europe

4th July 2014 | News

4 July 2014 The security situation in Ukraine has, according to UNHCR’s updated guidance, continued to deteriorate, causing the internal displacement of some 54,400 people (42,200 from the Donetsk and Luhansk regions in Eastern Ukraine, and 12,200 from Crimea), mostly...

Transposition and implementation of asylum acquis prioritised for the next 5 years in European Council Strategic Guidelines on Home Affairs

4th July 2014 | News

4 July 2014 On 26-27 June 2014, during the European Council meeting, EU heads of state and government have defined the strategic guidelines for legislative and operational planning for the coming five years in the area of Freedom, Security and Justice. Regarding...

Save the Children: Syrian and Eritrean children risking their lives at sea to reach safety in Europe

27th June 2014 | News

27 June 2014 “There were 27 people from my town who I knew on the boat that sank off the Libyan coast on 11th October 2013. One of them was my neighbour. They are all dead. Despite this, I wasn’t afraid to get on a boat and face the same fate. Death by death, we’ve...

Human Rights Watch investigation reveals torture and other abuses in Libyan detention centres for migrants and refugees

27th June 2014 | News

26 June 2014 Human Rights Watch (HRW) has documented human rights abuses in Libyan detention centres and calls on the EU and Italy to immediately suspend all aid to the centres until it is demonstrated that abuses have ended. Preliminary findings from the...
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