New AIDA report: Poland is refusing international protection to Ukrainian nationals

20th March 2015 | News

20 March 2015 The new AIDA report on Poland, written by ECRE member the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, underlines that many Ukrainian citizens had their asylum applications rejected in Poland in 2014. In 2014, asylum applications from Ukrainian citizens reached...

UK MPs: migrants & asylum seekers should be detained as a last resort and for a maximum of 28 days

6th March 2015 | News

6 March 2015 An inquiry by an all-party parliamentary group into the use of immigration detention in the UK has found that the detention system is “expensive, ineffective and unjust”. The inquiry highlights that too many people are detained and for disproportionate...

Detention of asylum seekers in the UK in focus in new AIDA Report

20th February 2015 | News

20 February 2015 The new AIDA report on asylum procedures, reception and detention in the United Kingdom underlines, among other developments, the judicial developments in the UK regarding the detained fast-track policy. The Court of Appeal held in December 2014 that...

UK Parliamentary Committee concerned about detention of women and girls who are victims of violence

19th February 2015 | News

19 February 2015 A parliamentary Committee on Human Rights has raised concerns that women and girls who are victims of violence are being detained in the UK through the fast-track process for asylum seekers. The Committee recommends an urgent review of the screening...

PACE calls for a full respect of rights of persons displaced by the armed conflict in Ukraine

30th January 2015 | News

30 January 2015 The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has adopted a resolution in its plenary session calling on Ukraine to fully implement the newly adopted legislation on the rights of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and further requests the...