Last weekend, four Afghan youths were sentenced to ten years imprisonment in connection to the Moria fire last September in a two-day trial that was decried for not meeting legal standards. Greece’s decision to designate Turkey a safe third country has been widely...
The Un Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and the international Organization for Migration (IOM) condemn the return to Libya of 270 people rescued in international waters by the Merchant ship Vos Triton. Hundreds of people rescued in the Maltese SAR zone have been accepted by...
Thousands of lives have been lost on migration routes to Spain and more deaths are feared with nearly 500 people disappearing along the Atlantic Route within the past two weeks. In the Canary Islands, Ceuta and Melilla, the situation of children remains harrowing with...
More than 40 human rights organisations condemn a significant expansion of monitoring and surveillance measures for people on immigration bail by the Home Office – a step taken with no consultation process or parliamentary debate. Following growing protests the Home...
Last week, the UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants, Felipe González Morales, published his report to the Human Rights Council that is dedicated to addressing the human rights impact of pushbacks of migrants on land and at sea. The publication draws...
News broke this week of an unexpected success for the Portuguese Presidency. Making progress where the Germans failed, they have persuaded the southern Member States to allow elements of the asylum reform proposals to move forward. The so-called Mediterranean 5 (soon...
The ECRE Legal Note 9 examines judicial engagement in asylum law and policy in Greece and provides an assessment of opportunities for and obstacles to the use of legal challenges to support compliance with EU asylum law in Greece. The note is divided into three...
On 7 June 2021, the European Court of Auditors (ECA) published its Special Report entitled ‘Frontex’s support to external border management: not sufficiently effective.’ The performance audit focuses on four of Frontex’s primary activities: situation monitoring, risk...
Greece designates Turkey a ‘safe third country’ for nationals of five countries that compose more than two thirds of asylum applications in Greece. New pushback cases are recorded while UN Special Rapporteur on The Human Rights of Migrants publishes condemning report...
During a meeting with EU Home Affairs Commissioner, Ylva Johansson to discuss “illegal” immigration and human smuggling, Libyan Prime Minister, Abd Alhamid Aldabaiba confirmed that the so-called Libyan coast guard has intercepted more than 9,000 people in 2021....
