4 July 2014 On 26-27 June 2014, during the European Council meeting, EU heads of state and government have defined the strategic guidelines for legislative and operational planning for the coming five years in the area of Freedom, Security and Justice. Regarding...
27 June 2014 “There were 27 people from my town who I knew on the boat that sank off the Libyan coast on 11th October 2013. One of them was my neighbour. They are all dead. Despite this, I wasn’t afraid to get on a boat and face the same fate. Death by death, we’ve...
26 June 2014 Human Rights Watch (HRW) has documented human rights abuses in Libyan detention centres and calls on the EU and Italy to immediately suspend all aid to the centres until it is demonstrated that abuses have ended. Preliminary findings from the...
27 June 2014 The Parliamentary Committee of the Council of Europe (PACE) has adopted a report by Rapporteur Tineke Strik entitled “The ‘Left-to-die’ boat: actions and reactions”, which addresses the deaths of migrants in the Mediterranean Sea, such as the tragedy in...
27 June 2014 The European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE) and Irish Refugee Council (IRC) are hosting two events focusing on legal assistance for asylum seekers and unaccompanied children on 7 July 2014 in Brussels. ECRE will host the final conference of the...