Tackling childhood statelessness in Ukraine

12th June 2015 | News

12 June 2015 Contributing to the European Network on Statelessness (ENS) conference on childhood statelessness in Europe, Khrystyna Kolesen presented her paper, ‘Tackling childhood statelessness in Ukraine’. She outlined the situation that currently exists in Ukraine,...

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...