Over the past two years, with higher numbers of people arriving on the coasts of Italy and Greece, European media attention suddenly turned to the issue of refugees and migrants. We witnessed a spike in the number of articles, reportages and multimedia material...
Just over one year since the Commission presented its controversial package on the reform of the legal framework of the Common European Asylum System, the European Council has once more discussed the state of play on the legislative process with the aim of providing...
An AIDA legal briefing published today tracks the expansion of detention policies and practices across Europe. Despite the entry into force of common standards relating to detention such as those prescribed in the recast Reception Conditions Directive, the deprivation...
On 7 June 2017, the Administrative Tribunal of Nice rejected a petition from French NGOs calling for a “référé-liberté” ,an emergency procedure to protect the rights of asylum-seekers and close down the retention zone at the French-Italian border. According to Forum...
You recently published a report on Libya based on visits and interviews and entitled ‘Hell on Earth.’ Could you outline the main threats to migrants in the country and in particular people in need of protection? Refugees and migrants I met in Italy told me horror...
