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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
27 June 2014 A roundtable on the Canadian model of private sponsorship of refugees was jointly organised by the Mission of Canada, ECRE and the UNHCR in Brussels on 19 June. The roundtable brought together representatives from Canada, EU Member States, NGOs and...
27 June 2014 As States gather today in Geneva to discuss resettlement and other forms of admission to ensure safe access for refugees fleeing the war in Syria, ECRE, CCME and ICMC have called for increased commitments to admit more refugees and recalled that NGOs...
27 June 2014 On 26 June 2014, the European Commission published a proposal to amend Article 8(4) of the Dublin III Regulation, which determines the Member State responsible for examining the asylum application of an unaccompanied child. Currently, Article 8(4)...
27 June 2014 A six-to-one majority of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has rejected a Libyan national’s complaint that his return from Sweden to Libya would expose him to a risk of persecution based on his homosexuality. The Swedish authorities refused the...
27 June 2014 The Parliamentary Committee of the Council of Europe (PACE) has adopted a report by Rapporteur Tineke Strik entitled “The ‘Left-to-die’ boat: actions and reactions”, which addresses the deaths of migrants in the Mediterranean Sea, such as the tragedy in...
