Italy: a worrying trend is developing in the ‘hotspots’

20th November 2015 | News

20 November 2015 Civil society organisations in Italy are expressing strong concerns over practices at the ‘hotspots’: return decisions being issued without a proper examination of the individual cases, chaotic and unprecise approaches to the identification of people,...

Italy must improve reception and protection for asylum seekers, particularly for children

30th October 2015 | News

30 October 2015 A report commissioned by the Italian government on reception conditions for refugees and migrants in Italy was published on 15 October. In the report, asylum and migration experts raise concerns over the fact that 70% of asylum seekers and refugees in...

Strasbourg Court rules that Italy violated human rights of migrants in Lampedusa

4th September 2015 | News

04 September 2015 On Tuesday the European Court of Human Rights ruled that Italy unlawfully detained Tunisian migrants in Lampedusa, in degrading conditions. The case related to three Tunisian men who arrived on Lampedusa by boat in September 2011, at a time where...

European Court of Human Rights: Switzerland may remove traumatised asylum seeker to Italy

3rd July 2015 | News

03 July 2015 The European Court of Human Rights ruled in a judgment on 30 June that a Syrian asylum seeker with post-traumatic stress disorder may be removed under the Dublin Regulation from Switzerland to Italy, as he would be able to receive appropriate care there....

Belgian Administrative Court suspends the return to Italy of two asylum seekers

30th April 2015 | News

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...