09 May 2014 A report by Médecins du Monde (MdM) and the Greek Council for Refugees (GCR) shows that many of the victims of racist violence in Greece who were at first willing to report the attacks to the authorities ended up withdrawing their case. Victims decided...
09 May 2014 ECRE’s deepest condolences go out to the family, friends and colleagues of Elena Ryabinina, the tireless Russian human rights defender, who died this week on 4 May, after a long illness. Elena had been working with refugees and migrants in Russia since...
30 April 2014 The new AIDA Report on the United Kingdom, compiled by the ECRE member organisation Asylum Aid, raises concerns about further cuts in legal aid for asylum seekers. These cuts are likely to impair asylum seeker’s ability to appeal negative decisions on...
30 April 2014 A report entitled “Greece: Frontier of hope and fear” published this week by Amnesty International contains new evidence of migrants and refugees being pushed back at the Greek-Turkish border. Amnesty International criticises Greece’s persistent denial...
30 April 2014 The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled that Spain violated the right to an effective remedy of 30 asylum seekers of Sahrawi origin who faced removal to Morocco before a thorough examination of their asylum application. It was only the...
30 April 2014 The Ministry of the Interior announced on 19 April that 1,000 refugees from Syria would be resettled to Austria, thereby bringing Austria’s resettlement commitment to 1,500 refugees. In August 2013, Austria pledged to accept 500 refugees from war-torn...
30 April 2014 ECRE’s member organisation Future Worlds Center and the Cyprus Office of UNHCR have expressed concern about amendments to Cyprus’ refugee legislation that exclude beneficiaries of subsidiary protection from protection against expulsion and the right to...
30 April 2014 A new report by Human Rights Watch concludes that since November 2013, the Bulgarian government has been systematically preventing migrants from crossing into Bulgaria to apply for asylum as part of their ‘Containment Plan’ to address arrivals of people...
30 April 2014 140 refugees and asylum seekers, including 68 children – most of whom are Syrian or Palestinians from Syria – are being unlawfully detained in Egypt. Three of the men are facing deportation to Syria by the Egyptian authorities if they don’t pay for their...
30 April 2014 Human Rights Watch has called on Kenyan authorities to stop arbitrary detentions, summary returns and other abuses against Somalis during security operations. On 9 April, the Kenyan authorities summarily deported 82 undocumented Somali nationals from...
