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Spain: UN Experts Call for Accountability over Deadly Melilla Tragedy as Delegation of MPs is Confronted with New Details, Morocco Continue Crackdown on Migrants

11th November 2022 | News

NGOs and UN experts have called for investigations and accountability following new evidence revealed by BBC on the deadly tragedy at the Melilla border crossing separating Spain and Morocco. A delegation of Spanish MPs vising the area have been confronted with new...

AIDA 2020 Update: Switzerland

14th May 2021 | News

The updated AIDA Country Report on Switzerland provides a detailed overview on legislative and practice-related developments in asylum procedures, reception conditions, detention of asylum seekers and content of international protection in 2020. The Swiss asylum...

Med: Former Maltese Official Admits Push-Back while another 62 People are Left Stranded

30th April 2020 | News

The destiny of a group of 62 people in distress in the Maltese Search & Rescue zone since Tuesday remains unknown. In another case, Maltese official admits to having coordinated upon instructions from the office of the Prime Minister a push-back operation to Libya...

Spain: Inhuman Reception Conditions for Children in Melilla

13th March 2020 | News

On 10 March 2020, the Spanish newspaper El Pais published pictures of the reception centre La Purísima for unaccompanied minors, in the suburbs of Melilla, Spain, revealing a poor living conditions for the children hosted there. Pictures from the centre hosting 600...

Finnish Presidency Pushes For Widening Leverage on Returns

29th November 2019 | News

In a discussion paper for EU member states representatives published by Statewatch, the Finnish presidency of the Council proposed concrete options to enhance the leverage of the EU to bring third countries to cooperate on readmission of their nationals. The punitive...