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Commissioner Malmström: “There are very serious allegations of pushbacks and ill treatment of migrants in Greece. We need to shed full light”

7th February 2014 | News

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...

Danish Refugee Council criticises Malta’s treatment of asylum seekers

7th February 2014 | News

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...

European Parliament: Migration policies should not prevent undocumented migrant women from accessing their fundamental rights

7th February 2014 | News

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...

Denmark suspends returns of asylum seekers to Bulgaria under the Dublin Regulation

7th February 2014 | News

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...

Returning migrants and asylum seekers to Libya would put their lives at risk, JRS Malta says

7th February 2014 | News

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...

Implementation of EU Return Directive in Spain, Italy and Cyprus raises human rights concerns

7th February 2014 | News

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...

Asylum Aid: there are reasons for (cautious) optimism regarding media coverage of asylum and refugee issues in the UK

3rd February 2014 | News

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...

New report captures voices of those who migrate due to climate change

3rd February 2014 | News

31 January 2014 The UK Climate Change and Migration Coalition has published a report focusing on the experiences of people who have to move because of environmental change. The report is based on testimonies from ten regions across the world that illustrate the...

Report recommends recognition and protection of stateless persons in Poland

3rd February 2014 | News

31 January 2014 ‘The Invisible: Stateless Persons in Poland’, a report published by the Halina Niec Legal Aid Center in December 2013, criticises the approach of Poland to persons who are not recognized as a citizen by any state. Poland is one of four EU countries...

CJEU rules that definition of ‘internal armed conflict’ must correspond to everyday language rather than international humanitarian law

3rd February 2014 | News

31 January 2014 According to the EU Qualification Directive, subsidiary protection shall be granted to persons who have substantial grounds for believing that, if returned to their country of origin, they will face ‘real risk of suffering serious harm’ by reason of...
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