ECtHR ruling reflects harsh detention conditions for asylum seekers in Bulgaria

15th December 2017 | News

On 7 December 2017, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled that the detention of an Iraqi couple and their three children at the border police’s detention facility in Vidin, Bulgaria qualified as inhumane and degrading treatment violating Article 3 ECHR. In...

OPed: Let children be children – a moral obligation and an investment in our future

8th December 2017 | News

By Ana Fontal, Global Refugee Coordinator at SOS Children’s Villages International. A new  report by SOS Children’s Villages and Eurochild presents 16 case studies bringing lessons from the field on the protection and integration of refugee and migrant children in...

Interview: The Media Representation of Refugees and Migrants in Europe

1st December 2017 | News

Interview with Torsten Moritz, Churches Commission for Migrants in Europe (CCME) on the report CHANGING THE NARRATIVE: Media Representation of Refugees and Migrants in Europe, CCME & World Association for Christian Communication – Europe Region (WACC) Since...

Op-ed: Asylum seekers in Croatia in a human rights vacuum

24th November 2017 | News

By Tajana Tadić and Marijana Međugorac from the civil initiative ‘Are You Syrious’. From the arbitrary and unlawful practices of the Ministry of Interior (MOI) and the Security and Intelligence agency (SIA), to the violent pushbacks occurring from its...

Op-ed: Are Europeans turning against asylum seekers and refugees?

17th November 2017 | News

By James Dennison and Andrew Geddes, Observatory of Public Attitudes to Migration, European University Institute, Florence A common assumption amongst political commentators is that Europeans are becoming increasingly opposed to the admission of migrants, asylum...