Libya: migrants and refugees out by plane and in by boat

2nd March 2018 | News

The joint European Union (EU), African Union (AU) and United Nations (UN) Task Force visited Tripoli last week welcoming progress made evacuating and returning migrants and refugees out of Libya. EU has announced three new programmes, for protecting migrants and...

Greek government disregards UNHCR reports of sexual violence in Greek island camps

23rd February 2018 | News

Earlier this month, UNHCR released a statement citing the heightened risk of sexual and gender-based violence to which refugee women and children are exposed, due to inadequate security and overcrowded conditions. The Greek government criticizes the methodology and...

Solidarity among Member States – a numbers game

2nd February 2018 | News

Four months after the expiry of the 2015 relocation scheme organising transfers of applicants for international protection from Italy and Greece to other Member States, Germany’s Interior Ministry announced that relocations from Greece are at the final stage as almost...

OPed: Cooperation with Morocco in the EU’s African Border – a laboratory of externalization

12th January 2018 | News

By Jon Sebastian Rodriguez Forrest, Confederal Group of the European United Left – Nordic Green Left, who visited Melilla and Nador with a parliamentary delegation at the end of 2017 The fences encircling the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla are the only...

OPed: Israel’s plan to deport Eritreans and Sudanese to Rwanda is a wake-up call for Europeans

15th December 2017 | News

By Shani Bar-Tuvia, PhD student, Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program “Human Rights under Pressure: Ethics, Law and Politics”, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Three weeks ago the Israeli government revealed its plan to forcibly deport Eritreans and Sudanese to a “safe...