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Spain: Authorities Denounced for Indirect Returns to Mali

7th February 2020 | News

The Spanish Refugee Support Commission (CEAR) denounces the indirect return by Spanish authorities of people of Malian origin to the conflict-torn country via Mauretania, against UNHCR guidelines. In the last eight weeks the Spanish government conducted seven return...

OXFAM Report: Migration Control Objectives Threaten Development Cooperation

31st January 2020 | News

In Oxfam’s recent report entitled “The EU Trust Fund for Africa: Trapped between aid policy and migration politics” the NGO exposes a new and worrying trajectory for development aid that is more closely linked with donors’ migration policies and the implicit aim of...

Greece: Government Hit with Interim Measures and Introducing New List of Safe Country of Origin

10th January 2020 | News

The European Court of Human Rights recently granted interim measures to unaccompanied children living in reception and identification centres (RIC) in the “jungle” of Samos Island. The ruling comes amid a more restrictive approach to asylum seekers from...

EU – Africa Relations: New Commission, Same Toolbox

13th December 2019 | News

New President of the European Commission Ursula Von der Leyen and Commissioner for International Partnerships Jutta Urpilainen visited Ethiopia to strengthen the EU’s partnership with the major refugee hosting country in the horn of Africa. For North Africa, new...

Med: Mounting Death Toll while NGOs Struggle to Keep up with Rescues

29th November 2019 | News

Over the course of the last week at least 41 people have died in two separate shipwrecks, one off Lampedusa and one between Morocco and Spain. After disembarking a total of 353 people in Italian ports in the beginning of the week, NGO ships rescued another 213 people...