23rd September 2013 | News
“The risk of abuse is inherent to detention” Last week, a woman detained in Yarl’s Wood immigration removal centre in the UK alleged that women who were being held there were victims of abuse by security guards and other officers. “A lot of officers were taking...
23rd September 2013 | News
Italy and Bulgaria start taking measures to address their needs. Although Bulgaria has received only about 3,000 asylum applications this year, this is three times the yearly average of the past decade and the existing accommodation centres are overcrowded. According...
16th September 2013 | News
The Moroccan National Human Rights Council (CNDH), a public institution for the protection and defence of human rights and freedoms in Morocco, has released a thematic report on the situation of migrants and refugees. Without contesting the right of Moroccan...
16th September 2013 | News
A number of gaps persist regarding refugee protection in Italy, in particular with regards to the integration of refugees and the reception of asylum seekers, UNHCR argues in a new advocacy paper. One of the most problematic areas of the Italian asylum system...
16th September 2013 | News
The EASO Annual Report on the situation of asylum in Europe 2012 marks a significant improvement on the EASO Annual Report 2011, in that the current report provides a more complete overview of the situation of asylum in the EU, as the main trends, as defined by EASO,...
16th September 2013 | News
Based on the conclusion that it would not be in the best interests of the children to be returned to Ireland’s reception system for asylum seekers, the High Court of Northern Ireland decided in ALJ and A, B and C, Re Judicial Review that the UK should take...
16th September 2013 | News
The European Parliament adopted a resolution this week calling on the EU Commission to propose strategic guidelines in the form of common minimum standards for the protection of unaccompanied children arriving on EU territory until durable solutions have been found...
9th September 2013 | News
ECRE will be holding its Annual General Conference in Prague on 9-11 October. Members are invited to confirm their participationin this event by 16 September. When registering, it is possible to contribute to a Solidarity Fund, which aims at enabling the participation...
9th September 2013 | News
ECRE, Amnesty International and the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) have published a joint briefing on the European Commission proposal establishing rules for the surveillance of the external sea borders in the context of Frontex operations. ECRE, Amnesty...
9th September 2013 | News
Congolese refugee resettled in Sheffield “If I managed to go through life at the refugee camp, I can manage whatever the future will bring” Many people fondly remember being 18: thinking about the future, making choices about studies, getting to know interesting...
