20 June 2014 The updated AIDA Report, compiled by ECRE member organisations aditus foundation and Jesuit Refugee Service Malta (JRS), shows that Malta has not yet improved its detention system following the 2013 judgment in which the European Court of Human Rights...
20 June 2014 Today, on World Refugee Day, ECRE has handed over the ‘Europe Act Now, #HelpSyriasRefugees’ petition to Anne Kemppainen, representative of the Office of the President of the European Council Herman Van Rompuy. Over 100 NGOs, Members of the European...
Brussels, 20 June 2014. As UNHCR reveals that, in the space of 5 years, Syria has gone from being the world’s second largest refugee-hosting country to the country producing the second largest amount of refugees, 100 NGOs, Members of the European Parliament and 20,000...
20 June 2014 A new Practical Manual on Monitoring Immigration Detention by the Association for the Prevention of Torture (APT), the International Detention Coalition (IDC) and the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) sets out to provide a practical tool for building...
20 June 2014 UNHCR’s updated position on returns to Southern and Central Somalia recommends that Somali asylum seekers from areas currently or recently affected by military action and/or consequent displacement, or from areas under the control of non-State groups, are...
20 June 2014 A record-breaking 51.2 million individuals were forcibly displaced worldwide in 2013, UNHCR’s annual Global Trends, published today, shows. This represents an average of 32,200 persons per day – or one person every four seconds – forced to...
This Friday 20 June, is World Refugee Day. In over 100 countries around the globe, attention will be focused on the millions of people in the world who had to flee war, violence or persecution. With the World Cup in Brazil in full swing on this World Refugee Day, ECRE...
13 June 2014 Ministers of Interior of the German Länder (federated states) agreed this week to increase its resettlement commitment by 10,000 – bringing the number of refugees from Syria to be resettled in the country to 20,000. Welcoming this renewed pledge, ECRE has...
13 June 2014 ECRE has submitted a letter to the European Council in advance of their next meeting on 26-27 June, at which the EU Heads of State and Government will adopt strategic guidelines for further legislative and operational planning in the area of freedom,...
13 June 2014 UNHCR has published a new initiative, Global Strategy – Beyond Detention 2014-2019, aimed at supporting governments in stopping the detention of asylum seekers and refugees. The main objectives of the Global Strategy are: to eliminate the detention...
