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...
06 June 2014 An amending law on appeal procedures in asylum cases entered into force in Belgium on 1 June, following a decision of the Constitutional Court of 16 January 2014 that annulled some provisions of the Belgian asylum law contained in the Aliens Act. The new...
06 June 2014 Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) Europe is seeking an Advocacy and Communications Coordinator. The post holder should have sound analytical skills and a creative mindset as well as significant work experience in both advocacy and communications that will...
30 May 2014 The European Commission has published an update regarding initiatives linked to the recommendations of the Task Force Mediterranean, established to identify measures to prevent migrant deaths at sea in response to the Lampedusa tragedy in October 2013,...
30 May 2014 Hundreds of migrants and refugees living in three improvised camp sites in Calais lost their homes on Wednesday morning. Chief of police Denis Robin had announced the operation last week, saying: “It is out of the question that we encourage the setting up...
