Committee for the Prevention of Torture on Hungary: Persisting ill-treatment during ‘push-backs’

21st September 2018 | News

The CPT has published a report on its recent 2017 visit to Hungary, assessing the authorities’ implementation of the Committee’s previous recommendations, as well as in review of the practice relating to the recently amended aliens legislation. In its response to the...

EU Parliament to vote on sanctions on Hungary

7th September 2018 | News

A report by MEP Judith Sargentini Rapporteur for the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) which calls on the European Council to trigger Article 7 of the Treaty on European Union will be put to vote in the European Parliament on September 12....

Demonstrators protest against Belgium’s detention of children

24th August 2018 | News

Between 1200 and 2500 people gathered at the feet of the Manneken Pis last week to protest the holding of four children in a detention centre in Belgium. The crowd, led by the initiative #NotInMyName, decried the ‘inhumane’ policies of the Belgian authorities and...

Hungary: Immigration and Asylum Office seems to have given up its starvation tactic*

24th August 2018 | News

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...

ECRE Annual General Conference 2018

24th July 2018 | News

NB! Registration is now closed due to oversubscription. If you are an ECRE member or from UNHCR please contact Omar Al Tarsheh at oaltarsheh@ecre.org. Annual General Conference of the European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE) together with the UNHCR-NGO Europe...