AIDA: Italy increases reception places & improves treatment of subsidiary protection beneficiaries

30th April 2015 | News

30 April 2015 The AIDA report on Italy provides detailed information on the decree passed last year implementing the EU Qualifications Directive and increasing Italy’s reception capacity to the current 20,000 places provided at the national reception centres (SPRAR)....

UNHCR proposes to relocate Syrian refugees from Greece and Italy to other European countries

13th March 2015 | News

13 March 2015 This week UNHCR has proposed a pilot project for the relocation to different countries across Europe of Syrian refugees who were rescued at sea and disembarked in Greece and Italy. UNHCR proposes that the relocation of recognised refugees from Syria...

ECtHR rules against return of asylum-seeking family to Italy without reception guarantees

7th November 2014 | News

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) held this week that returning the Tarakhel family from Switzerland to Italy without guarantees that they would benefit from appropriate conditions would violate their human rights as enshrined in the European Convention of...

European Court prevents Switzerland from returning asylum-seeking family to Italy without reception guarantees

5th November 2014 | News

  November 5, 2014. The AIRE Centre (Advice on Individual Rights in Europe), ECRE  (European Council on Refugees and Exiles) and Amnesty International welcome the European Court of Human Rights’ judgment in the case of Tarakhel v Switzerland, in which the...

Stuck in poverty – Swiss Refugee Council finds destitute recognised refugees are unable to move residence within Italy

26th September 2014 | News

A report by the Swiss Refugee Council (OSAR) finds that beneficiaries of international protection in Italy are in practice unable to take up residence in a municipality other than that of their initial residence, even when the support provided in that particular...