The dire conditions asylum seekers are facing at Napier barracks further deteriorate following a fire on 29 January. The High Court ruled that an asylum seeker must be urgently transferred out of the barracks, opening the door for more people to be rehoused. This...
By Chris Nash, Director, European Network on Statelessness This week the European Network on Statelessness is launching its detailed analysis of the EU Pact on Migration and Asylum. Our commentary focuses on the impact the proposals set out by the European Commission...
Despite not meeting requirements for registration, an unknown NGO has become a key partner for the Greek government, receiving millions of Euro of EU funds for housing refugees under the ESTIA II and ESTIA 2021 programmes. The Greek government admits lead...
Italy violated the right to life of hundreds of people who died at sea in 2013, the UN Human Rights Committee has found. A shipwreck off the Libyan coast claimed 17 lives, raising this year’s Mediterranean death toll to 105. Within one week, 452 people were returned...
The transfer of some 7,000 people stuck on the Canary Islands and currently hosted in hotels to six camps is delayed until mid-February amid growing tension in local communities. More than 1,700 cases of age-determination are pending as Canary Island government...
People at temporary refugee camps in the UK are being threatened that their asylum claims will be adversely affected if they ‘misbehave.’ Asylum seekers at Napier Barracks in Kent, plead for help as Covid sweeps through the camp. Fouad Kakaei, an Iranian refugee, was...
Detention under inhumane living conditions sparked protests among residents in locked-down Pournara camp near Nicosia. Syrians are banned from settling in a coastal village following a decree from the interior ministry. Last weekend, more than 1,000 asylum seekers...
In this policy note, ECRE in cooperation with Dutch Council for Refugees (DCR) presents its adapted recommendations for the EUAA based on research it carried out on the operations of EASO, and drawing on its Comments on the 2016 proposal and previous policy note on...
This working paper, by Dr Niovi Vavoula, provides us with an overview of subsequent amendments to the Eurodac Regulation, including the latest Amended proposal of the European Commission, one of the legislative files that accompanied the Pact on Asylum and Migration,...
Over the first weeks of 2021 more than 1,000 people have arrived to the Canary Islands. The death toll of close to 2,000 in 2020 continues and with latest incidents 11 people have lost their life trying to reach the islands so far this year. Hundreds of people are...
