According to UNHCR, 78,000 South Sudanese nationals have now fled to neighbouring countries since mid-December. More than half have headed for Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. 32,505 refugees have sought refuge in the Dzaipi transit centre in Uganda,...
17 January 2014 The International Detention Coalition (IDC) is now accepting applications for its upcoming Europe regional workshop in Brussels on 27 and 28 March 2014. The workshop is destined for civil society organizations that are actively seeking to reduce and...
17 January 2014 EU High Representative Catherine Ashton has condemned the approval by the Ukrainian Parliament yesterday of “several pieces of legislation restricting the Ukrainian citizens’ fundamental rights (…) hurriedly passed in an apparent disrespect of...
17 January 2014 ECRE together with the Flemish Refugee Action (Belgium), Detention Action (UK), France Terre d’Asile (France) and Menedék – Hungarian Association for Migrants (Hungary) published this week the report Point of No Return: The Futile Detention of...
17 January 2014 On 16 January, the Belgian Constitutional Court partially annulled Belgian asylum law, in the context of an appeal brought by an alliance of Belgian refugee and human rights organisations – among others the Flemish Refugee Action, Ligue des Droits de...
17 January 2014 EU High Representative Catherine Ashton has condemned the approval by the Ukrainian Parliament yesterday of “several pieces of legislation restricting the Ukrainian citizens’ fundamental rights (…) hurriedly passed in an apparent disrespect of...
17 January 2014 Applications are invited from applicants with an interest in pursuing a PhD in any area of Law in which the School is able to offer supervision. Applicants must have at a minimum either a very good upper-second-class or first-class undergraduate degree...
10 January 2014 This week, ECRE has joined UNHCR in urging EU countries not to send asylum seekers to Bulgaria under the Dublin Regulation. In its Observations on the Current Situation of Asylum in Bulgaria, UNHCR considers that asylum seekers in Bulgaria face a real...
10 January 2014 The European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) has published a new report which examines the effectiveness of EU Member States’ responses to counter racism, discrimination, intolerance and extremism, and identifies the barriers which may be...
10 January 2014 In an Update to its position on returns to Mali, UNHCR considers that the situation in southern Mali has normalised sufficiently for UNHCR to withdraw their call for suspension of forcible returns to this part of the country for persons who had their...
