Op-ed: Safety-net torn apart

Op-ed: Safety-net torn apart

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...
Op-Ed: Forgotten at the gates of Europe

Op-Ed: Forgotten at the gates of Europe

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...
Your Day Your Voice: 68 quotes from people in refuge across Europe

Your Day Your Voice: 68 quotes from people in refuge across Europe

On World Refugee Day June 20, 2018 the Global Trends report from UNHCR reveals that 68.5 million people are forcibly displaced across the globe. 25.4 million are refugees and 85% of them are hosted in developing regions. For the small percentage that have reached...