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...
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...
