26th November 2021 | News
A new report outlines excessive use of administrative detention under dire conditions by Greek authorities. The Greek government has retreated on an announcement that asylum registration would be restricted to island hotspots, as report reveals an average delay of 14...
26th November 2021 | News
Between 13-23 November, at least 29 people died on the Canary route. Spanish prosecutors have sentenced a man to 32 years imprisonment for driving a boat on which 16 lives were lost in October 2020. Moroccan forces continue to intercept people attempting to leave for...
26th November 2021 | News
After more than 30 lives were lost in the worst ever shipwreck in the Channel, NGOs on both sides have expressed their anger at government failings. UK activist group Channel Rescue is planning to take the Home Office to court over plans to intercept and return boats...
26th November 2021 | News
The EU’s Home Affairs commissioner considers that a de-escalation of the situation at the border with Belarus is underway. The European Commission is working on a proposal for provisional emergency asylum and return measures to help member states “manage irregular...
26th November 2021 | News
As European civil society and professional organisations working on asylum, migration, humanitarian assistance and human rights, we are shocked by the continuing humanitarian crisis at the borders between the EU and Belarus which causes immense suffering and has led...
19th November 2021 | News
Belarus calls on the EU to take in 2,000 asylum seekers amassed at the border, saying it will return 5,000 others to their countries. After visiting the border, the Council of Europe (CoE) commissioner for human rights condemns Polish pushbacks and calls for rights...
19th November 2021 | News
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) finds numerous violations of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) by Croatia over the deadly pushback and detention of an Afghan family. Border Violence Monitoring Network (BVMN) has documented pushbacks affecting...
19th November 2021 | News
On 10 November the Republic of Cyprus announced that it will request European Commission approval to suspend asylum procedures on the island for people entering the country “illegally”. According to Italian authorities, almost 60,000 people have disembarked in 2021 so...
19th November 2021 | News
On 16 November the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) confirmed that the so-called Stop Soros law from 2018 infringes EU law. The European Commission has announced that it will refer Hungary to the CJEU to impose fines over non-compliance with a CJEU ruling...
19th November 2021 | News
At the end of a 37-day hunger strike calling for a moratorium on evictions over the winter, mass clearances of makeshift camps in Calais continue. In response to ever-increasing pressure from the UK to take draconian measures to block Channel journeys, the French...
