Since the Tampere European Council in 1999, the heads of states and governments of the European Union have decided to implement the Common European Asylum System (CEAS). This will first lead to the adoption of common minimum standards, especially with respect to minimum reception conditions for asylum-seekers. The Reception directive was adopted in this context and aims to ensure dignified living standards to asylum-seekers, access to comparable living conditions in all Member states and to (…)

Attached call for mobilisation of boats 4 people, disseminate it widely!

Migrant Camps in Europe : Open the doors ! We the right to know!

The reality of administrative detention of foreigners, a familiar instrument of European migration policies, is hidden from civil society and to the media. Such secrecy makes abuses and attacks on human rights both more likely and harder to combat. European citizens have the right to know the consequences of the policies which are put in place in their names.
As part of the civil society campaign “Open Access: open the doors! We have the right to know!”, the networks of Migreurop and (…)

On 30 April 2012, after the Judge decided that there is a prima facie case for rioting, against Doros
Polycarpou, KISA’s Executive Director, following the tragic events that took place at the 2010 Rainbow Festival in Larnaca, Cyprus, proceedings go on.
The judge considered that at this stage, the court can only decide about whether the case should be dismissed or not. The conditions for such dismissal were not met, according to the Court. As a consequence, the court decided that the (…)

For the third time in 2012, a group flight of deportees left Düsseldorf on Tuesday the 17th of April, headed for Belgrade (in Serbia). Germany, with the assistance of FRONTEX (the European agency charged with the management of member-states’ external borders), has been carrying out a policy of systematic expulsion against the Roma community, at a sustained pace of one to two group flights each month, in the direction of Serbia or Kosovo.
Since 2006, FRONTEX has been coordinating the (…)