The Border Violence Monitoring Network has published a report which includes updates and a summary of recent policy developments related to violence and practices of push-backs at the borders of Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Hungary, Slovenia and Serbia....
The Advanced ELENA Course on “International protection in Europe: persistent challenges and litigation opportunities” will take place on Friday 8 November and Saturday 9 November 2019. The Course will be held in Hotel Riana de Tibera in Seville, Spain. This year the...
In the first quarter of 2019, Germany recognised only 2 out of 147 cases of “church asylum”. MPs and inter-faith associations fear the disappearance of the humanitarian practice and attribute the stark decrease to stricter criteria of the Federal Office for Migration...
In 2019, the German Federal Office for Asylum and Migration (BAMF) rejected three quarters of requests for family reunification under the Dublin III regulation from Greece. The high rejection rate draws criticism from NGOs and MPs who say the BAMF imposes exceedingly...
France continues to use immigration detention routinely and broadly, according to the annual report published by six civil society organisations present in the country’s detention centres. According to statistics published by the organisations, 43,609 people were...
