A report by the Special Committee on Organised Crime, Corruption and Money Laundering of the European Parliament (CRIM), adopted this week, reveals that there are currently about one million human trafficking victims used as slave labourers across Europe generating an...
EU Heads of State and Government met today in Brussels to discuss migration and asylum policies in the aftermath of the latest tragedies in the Mediterranean that left at least 360 migrants dead. In its conclusions, the European Council underlined the importance of...
ECRE member Hungarian Helsinki Committee (HHC) has published a training manual on ‘Credibility Assessment in Asylum Procedures’ designed to meet the needs of asylum decision-makers and other asylum professionals. The manual aims at offering a creative and...
The European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) has published its fourth report on Malta. ECRI notes that since the publication of the last report in 2008, efforts have been made to improve the asylum determination procedure and that now subsidiary...
Following an agreement signed on 17 October, the European Asylum Support Office (EASO) will provide support to Bulgaria until September 2014 on a number of priority areas identified by both parties. The Operating Plan foresees the support and deployment of Joint...
The Swiss Refugee Council, Member of ECRE, has released a report, Italy: Reception Conditions – Current situation of asylum seekers and recognised refugees, in particular Dublin returnees (Italien: Aufnahmebedingungen – Aktuelle Situation von Asylsuchenden und...
The new Michigan Guidelines on the Exclusion of International Criminals, resulting from a colloquium held in March 2013 at the University of Michigan, attempt to define the circumstances in which an international criminal can be excluded from protection by the Refugee...
The European Network on Stateless (ENS,) a civil society alliance with 50 member organisations in over 30 countries has initiated a campaign to ensure protection for stateless people across Europe. The aims of the campaign are twofold: to ensure that all Member States...
The ECRE Annual General Conference took place in Prague on 9-11 October. Almost 100 representatives of refugee-focussed civil society organisations participated in the three-day event to discuss some of the most pressing issues in asylum, namely, Europe’s response to...
