7 February 2014 13 sub-Saharan migrants died on Thursday while trying to cross into the Spanish city of Ceuta on the North-African coast from a beach in neighbouring Morocco. Several migrants said Spanish Guardia Civil (Spanish policing authorities)shot rubber bullets...
7 February 2014 In response to a question from the Danish Parliamentary Committee on Immigration and Integration Affairs on 9 January 2014, the Justice Minister announced on 5 February that returns of asylum seekers under the Dublin Regulation to Bulgaria are...
7 February 2014 According to UK Home Office statistics, 1,902 women seeking asylum were detained in 2012 in the UK, which equates to roughly a third of women asylum applicants for this period. Of the 46 detained women interviewed for a new report by UK-based NGO Women...
7 February 2014 European Commissioner for Home Affairs Cecilia Malmström and several Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) have urged the Greek government to undertake an independent, thorough and transparent investigations into the tragedy that claimed the lives...
7 February 2014 The Danish Refugee Council (DRC), in its role of provider of free legal assistance to applicants in the Dublin procedure, has published this week a report on Malta’s asylum and reception systems, which criticises the practice of systematically...
7 February 2014 The European Parliament has adopted this week a non-legislative resolution on “Undocumented women migrants in the European Union”, calling on EU Member States to detach immigration policies from access to healthcare and education as well as from the...
7 February 2014 In response to a question from the Danish Parliamentary Committee on Immigration and Integration Affairs on 9 January 2014, the Justice Minister announced on 5 February that returns of asylum seekers under the Dublin Regulation to Bulgaria are...
7 February 2014 The Maltese Government should not return asylum seekers to Libya because their safety, lives and freedoms would be at risk, argues the Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) Malta in a new report entitled Beyond Imagination. In Libya, asylum seekers have no...
7 February 2014 A new study by Borderline Europe in cooperation with partner organisations KISA in Cyprus, Borderline Sicilia in Italy, and Mugak and Acoge in Spain reveals serious shortcomings concerning the implementation of the EU Return Directive in Spain, Italy...
31 January 2014 Asylum Aid published earlier this month a report on media coverage of asylum and refugee issues in the UK, entitled “Diving lines – Asylum, media and some reasons for (cautious) optimism”. The report looks back at ten years of media coverage and...
