30 April 2015 In two separate decisions made by the Council of Aliens Law Litigation on the 27 and 28 April, an Iraqi and a Congolese national had their returns to Italy under the Dublin III Regulation suspended after the Court found that if returned they would be...
10 April 2015 A report by the Institute of Race Relations (IRR) has documented the death of 160 migrants and refugees in Europe between January 2010 and December 2014. Of them, 60 asylum seekers committed suicide, hours or days before a scheduled return to their...
23 January 2015 On Wednesday 21 January, the newspaper Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger reported that the German Interior Minister, Thomas de Maiziere, has instructed Germany’s Office for Migration and Asylum (BAMF) not to return asylum seekers to Greece for a further...
In a ruling which falls in line with many of the Court’s previous judgments concerning reception and detention conditions in Greece (notably M.S.S. v. Belgium and Greece and B.M. v. Greece) the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled again that detention...
11 July 2014 A UNHCR report published today explores Europe’s response to the plight of Syria’s refugees. While welcoming the expressions of solidarity beyond legal obligations by some European countries, UNHCR expresses concern about troubling border practices,...