The Public Prosecutor’s Office has opened investigations into the so-called “hot return” of children from Ceuta to Morocco as Spanish Ombudsman Francisco Fernández Marugán visits Ceuta and Melilla. Meanwhile, the situation of children in the Canary Islands continues...
ECRE has published a Policy Note which assesses the likely impact of using visa leverage to increase the number of people returned and deported from the EU and the risks attached to pursuing this strategy. As part of the revised Visa Code, the European Commission has...
The updated AIDA Country Report on Italy tracks recent developments in the area of asylum procedures, reception conditions, detention of asylum seekers and content of international protection in 2020. In 2020, 26,963 persons applied for asylum in Italy. This is a...
The updated AIDA Country Report on Turkey tracks recent developments in the area of asylum procedures, reception conditions, detention of asylum seekers and content of international protection in 2020. Turkey currently hosts both a population of over 3,5 million...
The updated AIDA Country Report on Croatia provides a detailed overview on legislative and practice-related developments in asylum procedures, reception conditions, detention of asylum seekers and content of international protection in 2020. It shows that Croatia...
Asylum applications have dropped by a forth within a year, newly published immigration statistics reveal. Meanwhile the backlog in asylum cases increased to a record high, leaving thousands of asylum seekers in limbo. A High Court ruling established that the Home...
200 unaccompanied children are about to be transferred to the mainland after an agreement was reached between the Ministry of Social Rights and autonomous regions but hundreds of unaccompanied children remain in cramped conditions in Ceuta. 7,500 of the people who...
On 22 May 400 people rescued by SEA-EYE 4 disembarked in Italy. However, more than 600 people are confirmed dead or missing on the central Mediterranean route and almost 10,000 have been returned to Libya, where the bodies of babies and toddlers washed up over the...
Concrete walls and surveillance drones are among the amplified security measures set to be introduced in camps across Greek mainland and islands largely funded by the EU. Front-LEX, Progress Lawyers Network, and the Greek Helsinki Monitor have submitted a legal action...
By Therese Lerchl, PRO ASYL. Therese is monitoring deportations to Afghanistan for PRO ASYL. As part of PRO ASYL’s legal counselling team, she is involved in individual cases. Two decades of NATO mission in Afghanistan and the “western allies” are still far from...
