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Costa Rica Struggles with over 60,000 Fleeing from Nicaragua

19th April 2019 | News

Around 62,000 people have fled from Nicaragua since the political and social crisis started a year ago, most of them sought asylum in Costa Rica. The Nicaraguan government says that it will implement a program to guarantee the safety of returnees. According to the...

UNHCR Urges States to Create Safe Passages – Less than 5 % of Resettlement Needs Met in 2018

22nd February 2019 | News

The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) has released data showing that only 4.7 percent of people in need of resettlement were actually resettled in 2018. Most resettlement needs arose from Lebanon and Turkey, to where people fled conflict in the Middle East. A...

RSC Report: Refugees as Providers of Protection and Assistance

30th November 2018 | News

Oxford University’s Refugee Studies Centre has published a report on the importance of refugee-led community organisations (RCOs) in low- and middle-income countries. By examining four cases of refugee-led social protection in Kenya (Nairobi and Kakuma) and Uganda...

EU Africa Relations: Tone Down the ‘Newness’ and Revisit History

26th October 2018 | News

A potentially positive outcome of the EU’s two recent Summits is the focus on Africa with increased political and financial commitment, primarily through investment. Sometimes branded as a “Marshall Plan” for Africa, the same ideas appeared in President Juncker’s...

Asylum and Migration at the Justice and Home Affairs Council, Foreign Affairs Council and European Council in October 2018

19th October 2018 | News

The last two weeks have seen EU Member States discuss matters related to asylum and migration in three Council configurations. At the Justice and Home Affairs Council (11/12 October) a report on the reform of the Common European Asylum System (CEAS) as represented by...