Refugees attempting to cross the EU’s external borders with Turkey are systematically pushed back from Greek territorial waters, the Greek islands and from the land border. The accounts of 90 refugees who were illegally pushed back are detailed in a new report...
The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) has released a new guidance note entitled ‘International Protection Considerations with regard to people fleeing the Syrians Arab Republic, Update II’. UNHCR characterizes the flight of civilians from Syria as a refugee movement and...
According to a new report published today by Amnesty International, the Jordanian authorities are not keeping their borders open to all individuals fleeing the conflict in Syria. Amnesty’s research shows that Palestinian refugees from Syria, unaccompanied men who...
A new edition of the training manual ‘Researching Country of Origin Information’ has been published this week by the Austrian Centre for Country of Origin and Asylum Research and Documentation (ACCORD), a department of the Austrian Red Cross. The training manual...
The European Asylum Support Office (EASO) has published its second quarterly report for 2013. It shows that the total number of asylum applicants in the EU, Norway and Switzerland rose by 18% (112,030) compared to the first quarter of 2013 and highlights that...
The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) has released a new guidance note entitled ‘International Protection Considerations with regard to people fleeing the Syrians Arab Republic, Update II’. UNHCR characterizes the flight of civilians from Syria as a refugee movement and...
The Bulgarian Helsinki Committee (BHC), member of ECRE, has accused the Bulgarian Interior Ministry of providing the Syrian embassy with biometric information about Syrians, such as fingerprints. In an open letter to Interior Minister, Tsvetlin Yovchev, BHC stresses...
On Thursday 7 November 2013, ECRE Member Pro Asyl will publish a report entitled Pushed Back: Systematic Human Rights Violations against Refugees in the Aegean Sea and at the Greek-Turkish land border. The research contained in the report is based on interviews with...
The deadline for registrations for the Advanced Elena Course on Refugee Protection and the Dublin system: Can they ever be compatible? has been extended until Thursday 7 November. Interested participants should register as soon as possible to avail of the last few...
Violence in Northeast region of Nigeria has prompted the UN Agency for Refugees (UNHCR) to warn states against forcibly returning migrants. In recent months, approximately 10,000 Nigerians have crossed into neighbouring countries, Cameroon, Chad and Niger, with an...
