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...
The Greek Minister for civil protection, Michalis Chrysohoidis, announced on Monday, 26 March 2012, the planned construction of 30 “closed hospitality centres” to house 30,000 undocumented migrants. The centres are going to be built using unoccupied military sites...
Last Friday 23 of March the Belgian government adopted a list of seven safe countries of origin, which included Albania and Kosovo. Asylum seekers from those countries will now have their applications examined in an accelerated procedure in a bid to counter “abuse of...
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has found in the case of Mo.M. v France that the deportation of the applicant to Chad, where he had previously been a victim of torture, would be a violation of the prohibition of torture and inhuman or degrading treatment...
Unaccompanied asylum seeking children and victims of torture and other serious forms of violence will not be exempt from accelerated and border asylum procedures, as established in the compromise text of the recast Asylum Procedures Directive agreed by the European...
From now on, asylum seekers awaiting a decision on their application in Greece might be detained for up to 18 months. The provisions governing the maximum length of time by-which asylum seekers’ detention can be extended has recently been changed. It used to be...
ProAsyl has published a report that compiles information on the human rights situation in Serbia showing that it does not meet the conditions to be considered a safe third country of origin. The research shows that the Roma, who make up for the highest number of...
