29 October 2015 ECRE/ELENA have published an information note which provides background to the Tarakhel judgment of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), which ECRE intervened in. In this judgment, the Court prevented the transfer of an asylum-seeking family...
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) held this week that returning the Tarakhel family from Switzerland to Italy without guarantees that they would benefit from appropriate conditions would violate their human rights as enshrined in the European Convention of...
09 May 2014 The detention pending removal of foreign nationals in ordinary prisons may only be justified either by an unforeseen and exceptionally large number of foreign nationals to be returned, or by exceptional circumstances of urgency and seriousness in an...
4 April 2014 According to an opinion published on 20 March by the Greek State Legal Council, the legal service of the Greek administration, migrants in Greece who refuse to cooperate regarding their deportation can be lawfully detained pending their removal for longer...
A public seminar organised by ECRE, the Italian Refugee Council (CIR) and the Danish Refugee Council (DRC) examined this week the impact and potential of ‘Regional Protection Programmes’ (RPPs). RPPs are designed to enhance the capacity of third countries in regions...
