16 May 2014 There are 33.3 million internally displaced people (IDPs) in the world today, according to a report by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC), part of the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC). This figure signifies another record-breaking year and a...
16 May 2014 Amnesty International has called on the Chadian government to revise its decision to close the borders with Central African Republic (CAR) in order to guarantee a lifeline to refugees fleeing the worsening ethnically-motivated violence. On 11 May, the...
16 May 2014 The updated AIDA Report, compiled by ECRE member organization Hungarian Helsinki Committee (HHC), shows that the use of asylum detention is widespread in Hungary. This follows the introduction in July 2013 of asylum detention on grounds, among others, of...
16 May 2014 Last Sunday at least 40 people died and 50 others were rescued after their boat capsized of the Libyan coast. A day later, 17 people died while a boat carrying hundreds of migrants capsized off the coast of the Italian island Lampedusa. The European...
16 May 2014 A new report by Refugees International (RI) illustrates the increasing difficulties faced by Syrians living in Egypt due to the lack of funding to address the needs of refugees, and changes in policies and public perceptions following the establishment of...
9 May 2014 The Foreign Policy Centre has launched in the UK’s Houses of Parliament an online publication entitled “Shelter from the Storm”, which examines the asylum, refuge and extradition situation facing activists from the former Soviet Union in the Commonwealth of...
9 May 2014 The German Parliament called this week for an EU conference on resettlement of refugees from Syria. This conference would enable EU Member States to make concrete resettlement commitments to offer refugees fleeing Syria a safe haven in Europe. ECRE has...
09 May 2014 Lebanese authorities deported 41 Palestinians to Syria on 4 May 2014 following their arrest at Beirut airport for allegedly attempting to leave the country using fraudulent visas, according to Human Rights Watch (HRW). On the same day, HRW reports that...
9 May 2014 The closing conference of the ECRE-led project Right to Justice: Quality Legal Assistance for Unaccompanied Children will take place in Brussels on 7 July. The project’s findings will be presented as well as the comparative report on access to and...
09 May 2014 The detention pending removal of foreign nationals in ordinary prisons may only be justified either by an unforeseen and exceptionally large number of foreign nationals to be returned, or by exceptional circumstances of urgency and seriousness in an...
