13th November 2020 | News
Six people are missing and one child drowned after a shipwreck off Samos, the father of the child has been arrested on suspicion of endangering a life. Mare Liberum has collected information on hundreds of pushback operations in the Aegean Sea involving more than...
13th November 2020 | News
A constitutional case has been filed by 50 people over breach of rights by Maltese authorities in pushback operation to Libya in April. After a series of shipwrecks the death-toll rapidly climbs on the Med and returns to Libya continue. On 11 April the NGO hotline...
13th November 2020 | News
More than 2000 people arrived on 7-8 November on Gran Canaria increasing the pressure on the insufficient reception capacity. Human Rights Watch (HRW) urges Spanish authorities to “immediately alleviate overcrowded and unsanitary conditions on the Arguineguín pier”....
13th November 2020 | News
The European Ombudsman opened an inquiry into the European Commission’s possible failure in ensuring that Croatia’s EU-funded border management complies with fundamental rights. Latest statistics show discrepancies in Hungary’s asylum system compared to other EU...
13th November 2020 | News
Italy is considering patrols off Tunisian territorial waters to reduce sea arrivals. Human rights advocates, including Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Dunja Mijatović, condemn the use of quarantine ships as the approach would raise human rights...
13th November 2020 | News
In an alleged breach of a high court order the Home Office has failed to halt the eviction of asylum seekers during COVID-19 lockdown. The government is warned by trade unions that expiry of visas is forcing out migrant NHS workers amid the second wave of COVID....
13th November 2020 | News
The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) – a ECRE member organisation – has warned that authorities in Iraq have rapidly closed down camps for internally displaced persons (IDPs) across the country, leaving 100,000 people destitute in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic and...
10th November 2020 | News
The shocking images of migrants and asylum-seekers abused by Croatian authorities are part of the persistent and well-documented trend of human rights violations taking place at European borders. They are also a reflection of the widespread impunity of European Union...