As temperatures drop the suffering increases for hundreds of people on the move in makeshift camps or sleeping rough in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). Human Rights Watch and MEPs demand immediate action by the European Council and Commission. Pushbacks continue across...
The Ocean Viking rescued 260 people off the Libyan coast. 48 people were pulled back to Libya and 43 travellers perished at sea. In the early morning hours of 22 January, about 140 people from two rubber boats in distress were rescued off the Libyan coast by the civil...
At least three boats arrived to Lesvos between 19 and 21 of January with one death reported. The situation in camps across Greece is further deteriorating as snow sets in and temperatures dropping close to zero. The Greek coast guard rescued 24 people, on 19 January...
Migrants and asylum seekers are being forced to travel long journeys to attend Home Office appointments as cases of COVID-19 soar. Outbreaks have been confirmed at a third immigration removal centre amid accusations of Home Office’s “callousness” for blaming asylum...
The Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) has loosened the rules for church asylum regarding the time frame for Dublin returns. In 2020, cases of family reunification for beneficiaries of subsidiary protection lacked far behind the agreed quota. The BAMF...
On 14 January 2021, the CJEU published its judgment in TQ v Staatssecretaris van Justitie en Veiligheid (State Secretary for Justice and Security) (C-441/19) concerning the interpretation of, inter alia, Article 6(1) and Article 8(1) of the Return Directive (Directive...
In the framework of the project ‘’Training Kit for Empowering Refugee-led Community Organisations’’, ECRE has released a report based on data from existing studies, interviews with Refugee-led Community Organisations (RCOs) and relevant research from other...
Heated tents have been set up at the burned-down Lipa camp in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), but the humanitarian situation remains highly alarming as many are still sleeping rough and temperatures dropping. Court ruling and intervention in pushback cases from Slovenia...
Arrivals to Greece have dropped significantly from almost 75,000 in 2019 to less than 16,000 in 2020. Conditions in the so-called Moria 2.0 camp on Lesvos continue to deteriorate. Local opposition to government camp policies while closure of alternative accommodation...
The Ocean Viking rescue ship is back in the central Mediterranean for the first time in six months. Salvini appears before court over blocking migrants at sea. Since the beginning of the year, at least 42 people went missing at sea and 18 deaths were recorded. On 11...
