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...
A report by the Special Committee on Organised Crime, Corruption and Money Laundering of the European Parliament (CRIM), adopted this week, reveals that there are currently about one million human trafficking victims used as slave labourers across Europe generating an...
EU Heads of State and Government met today in Brussels to discuss migration and asylum policies in the aftermath of the latest tragedies in the Mediterranean that left at least 360 migrants dead. In its conclusions, the European Council underlined the importance of...
ECRE member Hungarian Helsinki Committee (HHC) has published a training manual on ‘Credibility Assessment in Asylum Procedures’ designed to meet the needs of asylum decision-makers and other asylum professionals. The manual aims at offering a creative and...
The European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) has published its fourth report on Malta. ECRI notes that since the publication of the last report in 2008, efforts have been made to improve the asylum determination procedure and that now subsidiary...
