In a new report, ‘Access to Protection: Bridges Not Walls’, the Italian Council for Refugees (CIR) analyses the impact of the case of Hirsi Jamaa and others v. Italy and argues that the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has established access to territory as a...
Mr. Dimitris Avramopoulos Commissioner for Migration and Home Affairs of the European Union November 6, 2014 Dear Commissioner, The undersigned organisations are writing to express their grave concern in relation to proposed changes to Spanish immigration law that...
Discussions on the responsibility to ensure search and rescue of migrants in the Mediterranean intensified this week as the UK announced that they will not support any future search and rescue operations to prevent migrants and refugees drowning in the Mediterranean,...
(Madrid, October 30, 2014) – The Spanish government should immediately drop its plans to provide a legal basis for summary returns from its enclaves in North Africa, 13 human rights groups said today. The Spanish and international organizations wrote to the United...
#MareNostrum saved 150000 people. And now? A European effort to #savelives is urgently needed! http://t.co/9VzG8PRuKp pic.twitter.com/DtTW13gKkx — ECRE (@ecre) October 28, 2014 ECRE and UNHCR have warned that ending Italy’s rescue operation Mare Nostrum without...
