10th December 2021 | News
On 6 December Poland’s public broadcaster featured a concert in honour of the border guards “defending the border”. The controversial event follows renewed restrictions of access to the border with Belarus where a deadly humanitarian crisis is unfolding. The European...
19th November 2021 | News
Belarus calls on the EU to take in 2,000 asylum seekers amassed at the border, saying it will return 5,000 others to their countries. After visiting the border, the Council of Europe (CoE) commissioner for human rights condemns Polish pushbacks and calls for rights...
19th November 2021 | News
At the end of a 37-day hunger strike calling for a moratorium on evictions over the winter, mass clearances of makeshift camps in Calais continue. In response to ever-increasing pressure from the UK to take draconian measures to block Channel journeys, the French...
19th November 2021 | News
MEPs, UN experts and NGOs express support for 24 people facing severe charges and up to 25 years of imprisonment for their efforts to save lives while working and volunteering for the Emergency Response Centre International (ERCI). The number of asylum seekers...