11 April 2014 Human Rights Watch (HRW) has urged France to stop detaining children in transit zones at the borders and to grant them adequate protection. The new HRW research reveals that as many as 500 unaccompanied children are detained each year in transit zones at...
11 April 2014 In a statement published this week, ECRE reiterated its call on States not to send asylum seekers back to Bulgaria under the Dublin procedure until the conditions for asylum seekers in the country improve substantially and the Bulgarian authorities are...
11 April 2014 Bulgaria is currently hosting 7,600 asylum seekers and refugees. Over half of the people who applied for asylum in 2013 were fleeing the war in Syria. The ECRE Weekly Bulletin has spoken with Iliana Savova, director of the Refugee and Migrant Programme...
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...
4 April 2014 According to an opinion published on 20 March by the Greek State Legal Council, the legal service of the Greek administration, migrants in Greece who refuse to cooperate regarding their deportation can be lawfully detained pending their removal for longer...
4 April 2014 In a meeting of the European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) on Tuesday 1 April, the European Commission confirmed that it has launched infringement procedures against Bulgaria and Italy where the Commission has...
4 April 2014 Tobias Billström, Swedish Minister Migration and Asylum policy has called for solidarity with the refugees in the neighbourhood of Syria by the EU taking shared responsibility by resettling refugees. “If all EU Member States were to resettle as many...
4 April 2014 A new report by the European Network on Statelessness (ENS) shows that although most European countries have safeguards in place to ensure that children acquire a nationality in various circumstances where there is a risk of statelessness there are an...
4 April 2014 The European Migration Network (EMN) has published a report on the identification of victims of trafficking in human beings in international protection and forced return procedures in Europe. While acknowledging the potential of EU law in providing a...
4 April 2014 A report published by the EU’s Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA) recommends reforms to the way Member States treat migrants in an irregular situation and persons who assist them. According to FRA, the EU Facilitation Directive, which requires Member States...
