22 May 2015 In 2014, 185,000 asylum seekers received international protection in the EU, according to the latest Eurostat report. Syrians were the largest group, with 68,400 people granted protection status (37% of the total number registered in 2014). Most of them...
24 April 2015 In a new report ‘Europe’s Sinking Shame. The Failure to Save Refugees and Migrants at Sea’, Amnesty International analyses the gap in search and rescue operations in the central Mediterranean following the end of Italy’s search and rescue operation Mare...
23 April 2015. ECRE calls on the EU Heads of State gathering in Brussels today to show leadership and political courage and commit to measures that prioritise saving lives and ensure access to protection for refugees. Today, migrants and refugees often have to resort...
17 April 2015 A new AIDA report on Switzerland, written by the Swiss Refugee Council, examines “Testphase”, a Swiss accelerated procedure introduced in January 2014, which will be pilot tested in the federal reception centre of Zurich until 2016. Under this pilot...
17 April 2015 Some 400 people are feared dead after their boat capsized on Monday in waters about 120 kilometres south of Italy’s Lampedusa Island, according to survivors of the latest shipwreck in the Mediterranean. If the reports are confirmed, this would...
