24 January 2014 Human Rights Watch (HRW) has highlighted several concerns regarding the EU’s migration and asylum policies in its 2014 annual report, published this week which reviews key human rights issues in over 90 countries. HRW criticised the EU for its failure...
24 January 2014 On 17 January 2014, UNHCR released International Protection Considerations with Regard to people fleeing Southern and Central Somalia. The paper is an interim update, in light of recent developments in Somalia, to the 2010 Eligibility Guidelines on...
24 January 2014 On 21 January, ECRE submitted its recommendations on the future of EU asylum and migration policies in the context of a consultation on the EU’s Strategic Guidelines in the area of Home Affairs following the end of the Stockholm Programme in December...
24 January 2014 12 refugees, including several children, died this week when their vessel sank near a Greek island while being towed by the Greek Coast Guard. According to the survivors, the Greek coast guard vessel was towing the boat toward the Turkish coast at high...
17 January 2014 The Greek government responded on 10 January 2014 to a request from the Commissioner of Human Rights of the Council of Europe Nils Muiznieks to carry out effective investigations into all recorded incidents of collective expulsions from Greece to...
According to UNHCR, 78,000 South Sudanese nationals have now fled to neighbouring countries since mid-December. More than half have headed for Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. 32,505 refugees have sought refuge in the Dzaipi transit centre in Uganda,...
17 January 2014 The International Detention Coalition (IDC) is now accepting applications for its upcoming Europe regional workshop in Brussels on 27 and 28 March 2014. The workshop is destined for civil society organizations that are actively seeking to reduce and...
17 January 2014 EU High Representative Catherine Ashton has condemned the approval by the Ukrainian Parliament yesterday of “several pieces of legislation restricting the Ukrainian citizens’ fundamental rights (…) hurriedly passed in an apparent disrespect of...
17 January 2014 ECRE together with the Flemish Refugee Action (Belgium), Detention Action (UK), France Terre d’Asile (France) and Menedék – Hungarian Association for Migrants (Hungary) published this week the report Point of No Return: The Futile Detention of...
17 January 2014 On 16 January, the Belgian Constitutional Court partially annulled Belgian asylum law, in the context of an appeal brought by an alliance of Belgian refugee and human rights organisations – among others the Flemish Refugee Action, Ligue des Droits de...
