Background information
Who gets detained? Increasing the transparency and accountability of Bulgaria’s detention practices of asylum seekers and migrants
Freedom of the person and the right to free movement are among the basic human rights recognized in a number of foundational acts at the international, regional and national levels. The limitation of these rights is permissible only in exceptional cases determined by law. There are two basic regimes for the limitation of these rights, which are essentially different in character: punitive and administrative. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English
Region(s): Osteuropa
Sommet de Bratislava : La crise des réfugiés toujours au coeur des débats
Au sommet de Brastislava, il sera question des réfugiés et de la route des Balkans. La Croatie flirte avec l’extrême droite européenne, la Slovénie suit les pas de l’Autriche... La Macédoine est un trou noir et la Serbie un cul-de-sac. read more
Language(s): Französisch / Français
Region(s): Osteuropa
Verurteilung wegen Einschleusung von Geflüchteten
Die Verurteilung Bernd Kellers zu 16 Jahren Gefängnis im Februar 2015 in Griechenland wegen des Transports von syrischen Geflüchteten von der Türkei nach Griechenland und die Zweifel an den zu Grunde liegenden Aussagen. read more
Language(s): Griechisch / ελληνικά
Region(s): Griechenland / Türkei
Regulation on the European Border and Coast Guard
REGULATION (EU) 2016/1624 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 14 September 2016 on the European Border and Coast Guard and amending Regulation (EU) 2016/399 of the European Parliament and of the Council and repealing Regulation (EC) No 863/2007 of the European Parliament and of the Council, Council Regulation (EC) No 2007/2004 and Council Decision 2005/267/EC. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English
Region(s): Europäische Union
Lesbos - ein Reisebericht
Zwei Mitarbeiter von borderline-europe, Harald Glöde und Stefan Schmidt, reisten vom 17.bis 24. August nach Lesbos, um sich über den Stand des laufenden Projektes „Proti Stassi“, des neuen Projektes „Mosaik“ und über die allgemeine Lage zu informieren. Lesen Sie/lest hier den Reisebericht! read more
Language(s): Deutsch / German
Region(s): Griechenland / Türkei
Frontières, migrants et réfugiés: Du bon usage des termes et des chiffres
Suite à diverses interventions du Comptoir des médias concernant la couverture médiatique de la
situation à la frontière tessinoise, le rédacteur en chef de l’ats a décidé de rédiger un document à
l’intention de ses collaborateurs, quant à l’usage des bons termes à utiliser pour couvrir les événements
à Côme/Chiasso. read more
Language(s): Französisch / Français
Region(s): Italien / Malta, Österreich / Schweiz
Missing migrants and managing dead bodies in the Mediterranean. A briefing note
The Mediterranean Missing research project stresses in its edition from June 2016 the problems with missing migrants. Causes for the vacuum of EU policy and recommendations improving the situation are highlighted. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English
Region(s): Europäische Union
Rapport annuel 2015 sur la migration et l'asile a Nador
Nador: Point noir dans le comportement des autorités marocaines avec les migrants et les réfugiés.
Pour les Africains: ratissages arrestations refoulments incendies et morts
Pour les Syriens: interdiction violences et commerce sur leur souffrances read more
Language(s): Französisch / Français
Region(s): Nordafrika
Perché l’Europa vuole ancora l’accordo con Erdoğan sui migranti
L’Unione europea e la Turchia sono tornate al lavoro sui negoziati per la liberalizzazione dei visti e su un piano comune per la gestione dei flussi migratori, dopo mesi di crisi diplomatica scoppiata in seguito al fallito colpo di stato del 15 luglio e alla successiva ondata di repressione. read more
Language(s): Italienisch / Italiano
Region(s): Griechenland / Türkei, Europäische Union
Out of sight, out of mind? Violence continues on the anniversary of the Hungarian-Serbian border closure
This is a Migszol update from 5 August to 5 September. The month has been characterized by increasingly ruthless violence at the Serbian-Hungarian border, ever-growing aggressive propaganda against migrants of all kinds now that the national referendum is drawing closer, and the heated international relations between European states because of the insecure EU-Turkey deal. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English
Refugees and vulnerable migrants in Europe
67. Humanitarian Exchange Magazine by Humanitarian Practice Network September 2016.
This edition of Humanitarian Exchange is dedicated to the humanitarian response to the influx of refugees and vulnerable migrants into Europe over the past year. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English
Push-backs at the Greek-Macedonian border violating human rights
On 14 March 2016, more than 1500 refugees were collectively and summarily pushed back from the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) to Greece – an operation violating the fundamental rights which signatories to the European Convention on Human Rights purport to guarantee. One family and several individuals have decided to act against the violations they suffered and to claim their rights in front of the European Court of Human Rights. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English
Region(s): Griechenland / Türkei
Sette giorni all'inferno: diario di un finto rifugiato nel ghetto di Stato
Dormitori stracolmi. Dove la legge non esiste. Fabrizio Gatti è entrato, clandestino, nel Cara di Foggia. Dove oltre mille esseri umani sono tenuti come bestie. E per ciascuno le coop prendono 22 euro al giorno. read more
Language(s): Italienisch / Italiano
Region(s): Italien / Malta
Help to vulnerable on Lesvos wins Efi Latsoudi 2016 Nansen Award
Efi Latsoudi doesn’t keep fresh milk at home. With so much time spent helping refugees, there’s never chance to use it. “It’s dried, I hope that’s okay,” she says, apologetically, stirring powder into coffee.
Efi Latsoudi named as one of two winners of the 2016 Nansen Refugee Award for her tireless work helping refugees on the Greek island of Lesvos.
Read it online also here: http://www.unhcr.org/news/stories/2016/9/57bafd3d4/help-vulnerable-lesvos-wins-efi-latsoudi-2016-nansen-award.html read more
Language(s): Englisch / English
Region(s): Griechenland / Türkei
Trafficking of Nigerian women into prostitution in Europe 'at crisis level'
The trafficking of Nigerian women from Libya to Italy by boat is reaching “crisis” levels, with traffickers using migrant reception centres as holding pens for women who are then collected and forced into prostitution across Europe.
UN says 80% of the Nigerian women who came to Italy by boat in the first half of 2016 will be trafficked into prostitution. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English
Region(s): Italien / Malta, Europa, Afrika
Is Egypt the new gateway to Europe?
Why have fewer Syrians and more Africans and Egyptians embarked into the sea from the north coast of Egypt? Well into the summer, journalists continue to report that a new route has formed within Egypt, that “smugglers have adapted” to create a “new gateway to Europe.” read more
Language(s): Englisch / English
Region(s): Nordafrika, Europa
Coast Guard Fired at Migrant Boats
European Border Agency documents show.
A collection of incident reports from Frontex, obtained by The Intercept, reveals a Greek and European tactic of using weapons to stop boats driven by suspected smugglers — and injuring or killing refugees in the process. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English
Die Lebenden und die Toten
Vor einem Jahr erstickten 71 Flüchtlinge in einem Kühllaster auf einer Autobahn
nach Österreich. Die Rekonstruktion eines europäischen Massenmords. read more
Language(s): Deutsch / German
Passeurs d’hospitalites – The Newsletter
Migrants in Calais and at the borders, July 19 to August 14 2016
Summer 2015 - summer 2016: the number of migrants has tripled in Calais; evictions
evacuations, squats and camps destructions follow each other on the coast and inland, in Paris,
at the Italian border; the device of "respite centers" become Centers of Reception and
Orientation, enters in duration and develops, as a means to disperse the people rather than solve
the problems where they arise; the walls multiply, also deaths. In silence: this summer, migrants
are not attractive anymore.
Language(s): Englisch / English
Trapped in transit
Refugees, migrants and asylum seekers locked up in Libya.
Since Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) launched search and rescue operations in the central Mediterranean Sea last year, its teams have rescued more than 25,000 people from boats in distress. Regardless of their country of origin or their reasons for trying to reach European shores, almost everyone rescued from this stretch of water passed through Libya.
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Language(s): Englisch / English