Academics, UNICEF, UNHCR and the Danish Refugee Council participated in a workshop to discuss the European Return Platform for Unaccompanied Minors (ERPUM), which focuses on the return of unaccompanied children to Afghanistan and, to a lesser extent, Iraq. The...
A new report by the EU Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA) illustrates that Member States are dragging their feet in the implementation of some of the protective provisions of the Returns Directive such as the monitoring of returns and the need to provide alternatives to...
The European Commission published its 4th Annual Report on Immigration and Asylum providing a statistical and political overview of 2012. In 2012 there was a 10% increase in the number of asylum applications in the EU, with Syrians making up 7% of the total number of...