“People will die, people will be (gang) raped, and 8 year olds will be beaten up in attempted robberies with today’s asylum/integration politics”

“The idiotically naïve intake of happiness seekers like you guys, who are on benefits as soon as you get in, must stop”

This is how asylum seekers are talked about online.

The project ‘A face to the story: the issue of unreturnable migrants in detention’ has gathered the experiences of unreturnable migrants in detention in Belgium, France, Hungary and the United Kingdom, and has recently launched the report ‘Point of no return: The futile detention of unreturnable migrants’.

The European Council on Refugees an Exiles (ECRE) has recently published two interviews reporting on the Syrian refugee crisis.

The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and independent rights organisations report human rights abuses on Syrian refugees at the border between Turkey and Greece. The refugees are either forced back to Turkey or detained without access to necessary humanitarian and legal aid.

The Italian writer and freelance reporter Fabrizio Gatti has initiated an international campaign for signatures, asking that next year's Nobel Peace Prize goes to the Italian island Lampedusa.

The European Council on Refugees and Exiles, ECRE, is of the opinion that the Common European Asylum System (CEAS) does not secure a just and fair treatment of asylum seekers.

Two court rulings in the European Court of Human Rights  (ECHR) has on the 23 July judged Malta for violating articles 3 and 5 of the European Convention on Human Rights. 

the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has judged Hellas for violating article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights, for inhuman treatment of an asylum seeker from Sudan.

Human Rights House (HRH) Norway run an internet project aimed at making practical information and material on health and human rights more easily accessible to health workers in the field. The project is initiated by the International Society for Health and Human Rights (ISHHR).