13.06.2014 The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, in a decision issued on 5 June 2014, remains unconvinced that the Greek asylum system is fully compliant with the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). This decision to continue supervision of...
06 June 2014 NGOs have urged EU countries to open legal access routes for refugees and step up safe and rescue efforts to prevent deaths of people attempting to reach Europe. The message is directed at EU Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) Ministers, who met this week to...
6 June 2014 An administrative authority cannot extend the detention pending removal of a third country national solely on the basis of their lack of identity papers, the Court of Justice of the European (CJEU) ruled this week. Instead, the authority must reassess the...
6 June 2014 A report by the Regional Mixed Migration Secretariat (RMMS) and the Danish Refugee Council shows that the westward route from the Horn of Africa towards Libya and Europe is being increasingly used by migrants -and people smugglers- though exact numbers are...
06 June 2014 A draft bill, presented to both chambers of the German Parliament at the end of May, aims to give asylum seekers earlier access to the labour market. If the proposal is adopted, asylum seekers will be allowed to take up employment after three months of...
6 June 2014 Freedom from Torture has published a report entitled “Rape as torture in the DRC: Sexual violence beyond the conflict zone”, which documents the torture of women by state security forces in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), mainly in non-conflict...
06 June 2014 In the framework of the #HelpSyriasRefugees campaign, Forum réfugiés-Cosi is organising a conference entitled Syria: What responses from Europe to protect refugees? which will take place on June 13 at the Salon des Solidarités in Paris. Speakers from...
6 June 2014 The European Network on Statelessness (ENS), a group of NGOs, academics and experts committed to ending statelessness in Europe, launched a petition on 28 May 2014 calling for the ratification of the UN Statelessness Convention by European leaders. The...
6 June 2014 The UN Committee Against Torture has raised serious concerns regarding the detention of asylum seekers and undocumented migrants in Cyprus. Although according to Cypriot legislation, asylum seekers should only be detained in exceptional circumstances and...
6 June 2014 The updated AIDA Report, compiled by ECRE member organization Forum réfugiés-Cosi, shows that the number of available places in reception centres for asylum seekers in France is largely insufficient. As a consequence, many of these asylum seekers have no...
