23rd December 2013 | News
20 December 2013 Last week Egypt’s Foreign Ministry announced the release of 171 of the 206 refugees from Syria detained in police stations across Egypt. Out of the 171, 94 are Palestinians and 77 are Syrians. According to Human Rights Watch, of the 1,500 people...
23rd December 2013 | News
Malta’s request to appeal two recent judgments of the European Court of Human Rights was rejected on 9 December 2013, thereby rendering the judgments final. The two judgments of 23 July held that Malta’s immigration detention conditions and lack of adequate review of...
23rd December 2013 | News
Footage filmed by a Syrian refugee in the Italian Island of Lampedusa has shown migrants queuing, being forced to strip and be sprayed in open air. People are being treated “like animals”, states the author of the footage. In the centre, that hosts many migrants who...
23rd December 2013 | News
After two years of negotiations, the EU and Turkey have signed this week a Readmission agreement in exchange for opening talks on visa liberalisation for Turkish citizens travelling to Europe. The European Commission has published an accompanying ‘A roadmap...
20th December 2013 | News
One of the world’s biggest refugee crises of recent times is unfolding on Europe’s doorstep, but most European governments have reacted with complete indifference. Close to 4 million people are internally displaced in Syria and almost 3 million have left...
20th December 2013 | News
ECRE has today published a statement in reaction to EU leaders’ endorsement at the European Council meeting of the outcome of the Task Force on the Mediterranean, created after the shipwreck off the Lampedusa coast a few months ago. The Task Force had been created to...
20th December 2013 | News
Tomorrow, 21 December, is the deadline for the transposition into national legislation of the recast Qualification Directive, which aims at introducing a uniform status and protection for refugees and persons eligible for subsidiary protection. Member States bound by...
16th December 2013 | News
The Irish Refugee Council (IRC) launched a report on alternatives to Ireland’s reception system for asylum seekers, known as ‘Direct Provision’. The report shows that there is an urgent need for an alternative reception system for asylum seekers that is both humane...
16th December 2013 | News
The European Network on Statelessness (ENS) has launched this week a guide on good practices in statelessness determination procedures. The guide is intended as a tool for countries considering the establishment or the improvement of such a procedure, and for civil...
