14 March 2014 The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that Bulgarian authorities failed to properly investigate the potentially racist nature of an attack on a Sudanese national in Bulgaria’s capital, Sofia, in 2003. The victim alleged to police that, while he...
14 March 2014 The European Parliament yesterday approved the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund (AMIF) for 2014-2020, which replaces the European Refugee Fund, the European Integration Fund and the European Return Fund. The fund will support actions addressing all...
14 March 2014 As part of the Europe Act Now campaign, a coalition of over 100 NGOs from over 30 countries have today sent an open letter to EU institutions and agencies laying out the NGOs’ recommendations in order to enhance safe and legal ways to access protection...
07 March 2014 To commemorate International Women’s Day, UNHCR has released short films and an updated statistical overview of female genital mutilation (FGM) and asylum in the EU. Through these films, refugee women who have survived FGM explain their experiences...
7 March 2014 Registration is open for the Summer School “European Union Law and Policy on Immigration and Asylum”. The programme aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of the immigration and asylum policy of the European Union from a legal perspective. The...
7 March 2014 The Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants (PICUM) in cooperation with ECRE, Amnesty International, the European Network of Migrant Women, European Anti-Poverty Network, the European Network Against Racism and Médecins du Monde is...
07 March 2014 In light of recent unrest and violence in Ukraine in late 2013 and early 2014, UNHCR has this week called on States to remove Ukraine from their ‘safe country of origin’ lists. Applicants for international protection from a designated ‘safe country of...
07 March 2014 The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), in a Resolution entitled ‘Integration tests: helping or hindering integration?’, has recommended that States reappraise their approach to integration testing as part of citizenship, residence...
07 March 2014 “In spite of the size and proximity of this human tragedy, Turkey is the only member state of the Council of Europe to have opened its arms fully to Syrians in need, having received alone an estimated 1 million. This amounts to well over ten times the...
07March 2014 On 6 March 2014, ECRE, together with over 100 partners in 34 countries, launched ‘Europe Act Now’ (www.helpsyriasrefugees.eu), calling on European leaders to protect refugees fleeing the Syrian war. To date, just 81,000 Syrians have sought protection in...
