The updated AIDA Country Report on Hungary provides a detailed overview of legislative and practice-related developments in asylum procedures, reception conditions, detention of asylum seekers and content of international protection in 2023. It also includes an annex...
The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), the International Organization for Migration and the Mixed Migration Centre have published a new joint report in which they highlight the extreme violence directed against people moving along land routes towards Africa’s...
Amnesty International has issued a statement in which it denounces the abuse of migration-related detention and conditions in detention centres that it claims deprive people of liberty and dignity. The NGO search and rescue ship the MV Louise Michel has been impounded...
The new prime minister, Sir Keir Starmer, has announced that the previous government’s scheme for sending people who arrive in the UK irregularly to Rwanda would be scrapped. Five people have died in two separate small boat incidents in the Channel in less than a...
Preliminary data from the European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex) has revealed a 148% increase in irregular crossings of the EU’s eastern borders between January and June 2024 despite an overall decrease of 30% for the EU as a whole. The Finnish Parliament...
Almost 100 NGOs have published a joint statement in which they have urged the EU and its member states to safeguard the right to territorial asylum in Europe. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk has warned UN member states about the scale of abuse...