The Hungarian authorities have given up the practice of denying food to asylum seekers whose claims are considered inadmissible. A statement from the ECRE member the Hungarian Helsinki Committee is welcoming the change of practice but underlines that without...
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By Dr. Mark Doidge is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Brighton. He is also Director for the Anti-Discrimination Division of Football Supporters Europe (FSE). He has conducted research projects called ‘Refugees Welcome’: Football fans and community in...
By Anikó Bakonyi, Advocacy and Project Officer, Hungarian Helsinki Committee Azim had been waiting in Serbia for nine months to enter Hungary and submit his asylum application. By the time he reached the metal revolving door at the Serbian-Hungarian border he had left...
By Claudia Bonamini, Policy & Advocacy Officer, Jesuit Refugee Service Europe “Nothing new under the sun” we were thinking, slightly concerned, at JRS Europe, when we started analysing the more than 100 interviews our partners conducted with forced migrants in six...