Applications are now open for the International Summer School in Forced Migration at the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford. The Summer School fosters dialogue between academics, practitioners and policy makers working to improve the situation of refugees,...
Amnesty International presented this week a petition signed by 70,141 European citizens to the chair of the Civil Liberties Committee, Juan Fernando López Aguilar, who accepted it on behalf of the European Parliament. The petition calls on the European Parliament to...
Bail for Immigration Detainees (BID) has published a report, examining cases of parents who were separated from their children due to immigration detention in the UK. The study reveals that, during their parents’ detention, some children were placed in unstable...
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has found that Russia violated Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) – which prohibits torture and inhuman and degrading treatment – by illegally and secretly taking part in the kidnapping...
ECRE’s Russian Member, Memorial Centre for Human Rights, along with its sister organisation, the Committee for Civic Assistance, have come under increased pressure this week from government authorities following the draconian legislation on NGOs adopted last year. The...
26 April 2013 Five years of EU negotiations to try to improve and harmonise the treatment of refugees and asylum seekers across the EU are drawing to an end this week, as the European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties (LIBE) has endorsed the text of the recast...
Enforcement of a Russian law to monitor NGOs that engage in advocacy work and receive funding sources from outside Russia has resulted in raids on NGOs, including Amnesty International, ECRE member Memorial Human Rights Centre, its sister organisation Civic Assistance...
The European Human Rights Advocacy Centre (EHRAC) and Memorial Human Rights Centre, a member of ECRE, have lodged this week an application to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) to contest the recently adopted Russian law that establishes that any NGO engaging...
ECRE has initiated an awareness-raising web campaign to show support for the Russian NGOs whose work may be jeopardized by the “Foreign Agent” designation. This new law seriously compromises the ability of Russian human rights activists to carry out their essential...
The European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties (LIBE) gave the green light this week to an agreement to recast the Dublin Regulation and the Reception Conditions Directive. In ECRE’s view, the agreement reached on the recast of the Reception Conditions...
