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Balkan Route: Life-threatening Conditions for People trapped in Bosnia as Temperatures Fall

15th January 2021 | News

Heated tents have been set up at the burned-down Lipa camp in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), but the humanitarian situation remains highly alarming as many are still sleeping rough and temperatures dropping. Court ruling and intervention in pushback cases from Slovenia...

Greece: Deaths and Push-backs Continue, Racist Attack on Hosting Centre for Unaccompanied Children, Camp Conditions Deteriorating

8th January 2021 | News

Violent pushbacks continue with another incident in the Evros region on 29 December. Yet another life lost at the Aegean where a 26-year old woman drowned on 4 January. Four children were injured on 26 December when 12 armed people attacked an accommodation centre for...

The Impact of the Second Wave of Lockdowns on the Position of People on the Move

11th December 2020 | News

Following the update provided on 28 May 2020, ECRE has now published the Information Sheet: COVID-19 Measures and Updates Related to Asylum and Migration Across Europe, in light of the second round of lockdown procedures adopted throughout Europe. Earlier this week,...

Bosnia and Herzegovina: Snowfall Increases Hardships of People Stuck in Europe’s Borderlands

11th December 2020 | News

Heavy snowfalls and freezing temperatures in Bosnia and Herzegovina pose a serious threat to around 3,000 people who are forced to sleep rough in the northwest of the country and 1,600 people staying in a substandard tented camp. Further, people on the move continue...

Editorial: A COVID lockdown should not mean light is not shed on what is happening in Europe

30th October 2020 | News

Despite or because of the lockdown being re-imposed across Europe, including here in Belgium, ECRE will continue to publish its Weekly Bulletin. Unfortunately, the first wave of COVID19 and subsequent lockdown was used as an excuse by too many European countries to...

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