28th February 2014 | News
28 February 2014 A report published on 21 February on the implementation of the Global Approach to Migration and Mobility (GAMM), adopted by the European Commission, shows that in the period 2012-2013 more than 90 migration-related projects have been supported with...
28th February 2014 | News
28 February 2014 A new report by the EU border agency Frontex shows that most persons detected crossing irregularly into the EU between July and September 2013 were Syrians. Syrians also submitted more applications for asylum than any other nationality. According to...
28th February 2014 | News
28 February 2014 The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) declared on 27 February that, if a Member State chooses to provide material reception to asylum seekers in the form of a financial allowance rather than direct public services, the allowance must be...
28th February 2014 | News
28 February 2014 UNHCR has urged countries to offer resettlement places or other forms of admission, such as humanitarian admission or individual sponsorship, for an additional 100,000 Syrian refugees in 2015 and 2016. The UN Agency anticipates that in the upcoming...
21st February 2014 | News
21 February 2014 Members of the European Parliament (MEPs), Frank Engel, EPP-LU and Sylvie Guillaume, S&D-FR, have this week presented their report on the visit of a delegation of MEPs to Bulgaria earlier this month, which focuses on the situation of asylum...
21st February 2014 | News
14 February 2014 Asylum seekers who appeal against their removal to another Member State under the Dublin Regulation do not need to prove ‘systemic deficiencies’ in the asylum system of the destination State in order to successfully prevent removal, the UK Supreme...
21st February 2014 | News
14 February 2014 Political and ethnic conflict in the world’s youngest nation has led UNHCR to call for a suspension of forcible returns to South Sudan until the security situation has improved. In a position note dated 11 February 2014, UNHCR also advises that many...
21st February 2014 | News
21 February 2014 A new study by the Norwegian Organisation for Asylum Seekers has revealed that asylum seekers arriving in Norway today are more likely than ever before to end up in detention instead of receiving proper support and care, following policy changes...
21st February 2014 | News
21 February 2014 Somali refugees in Kenya are denied basic rights, discriminated against by the police and see their freedom of movement restricted by being confined to certain areas, according to the report “No place like home” published by Amnesty International...
21st February 2014 | News
21 February 2014 The Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) on 20 February 2014 voted overwhelmingly in support of the compromise text on a Regulation for Frontex-coordinated surveillance of external sea borders. Operations not co-ordinated by...
