Open Letter – Stand up with Hungary for a #WelcomingEurope!

Yesterday, Hungary’s Parliament passed a series of laws that criminalise individuals and NGOs that offer help to migrants in need. With this open letter, civil society organisations call European citizens to sign and mobilise behind the #WelcomingEurope European Citizens’ Initiative. Hungarian...

This could completely change the face of refugee aid

We live in a world with an estimated 22.5 million refugees, a global crisis that is only becoming more protracted and complex. With humanitarian funding deficits at $16.7 billion, it is essential that we find alternative funding solutions wherever we can. The practice of zakat, the Muslim duty...

Syria refugee stranded in airport for over 100 days applies to travel to Mars

A Syrian refugee stranded at the main airport in the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur for more than 100 days has applied to travel to Mars after being denied entry to several countries.

What is the current state of the migration crisis in Europe?

Three years since the peak of the crisis, here is how things stand as tensions rise again

The United Nations Global Compact on Migration is a Key Opportunity to Recognise Rights of Migrant Domestic and Care Workers

BRUSSELS, 15 JUNE 2018 – Across Europe, many individuals and families rely on support to carry out essential domestic and care work, to look after children, clean or care for an elderly relative.

EU migration row boils over as Italy and France trade insults

France and Italy have traded insults, rifts have widened in Germany’s ruling coalition and Austria has called for an “axis of the willing” to take action as a simmering row over how Europe should handle irregular migration finally boiled over.

Southern mayors defy Italian coalition to offer safe port to migrants

Palermo mayor offers to open port to rescue vessel but may need coastguard cooperation

Hungary moves to jail NGOs for helping migrants

Individuals or groups who help migrants not entitled to protection to submit requests for asylum or who help illegal migrants gain status to stay in Hungary will be liable to jail under legislation submitted to parliament on Tuesday (29 May).

Migrant hit by electricity in an attempt to enter Macedonia

Shaming the EU into leading on refugees

The chief of Refugees International says Europe is not living up to its promises on human rights. And if closing that gap means creating awkward moments, he's ready.

Emergency state to be extended due to migrants

Irregular migration exists and that is why it is necessary to extend the state of emergency at the northern and southern borders, CSOs representatives claim. The Government submitted a bill to the Parliament to extend the state of emergency until 31st of December 2018.

Bosnia Deploys Police to Border to Stop Migrants

Worried by a surge in illegal migration, Bosnia is to deploy more police to the border to prevent a growth in the migrant flow, the country's Prime Minister announced.

'We will decide who enters our countries!' Hungary and Poland REJECT EU refugee quotas

HUNGARY and Poland have dug in their heels over the European Union’s plans to settle refugees across the bloc and demanded member states have the final say over who enters their countries - not Brussels.

The EU’s refugee crisis: Effective handling or botched up policy?

Dealing with the refugee crisis has proved to be an insurmountable task for Europe, due to the apparent lack of a coherent immigration policy and political indecisiveness. Europe’s cohesion comes out shaken as a result, EURACTIV.gr reports.

Bosnian Authorities Mull Response to Sarajevo Migrant Camp

Migrants and refugees have set up camp in a Sarajevo park, highlighting a recent rise in people using Bosnia as a transit route as the authorities try to find a strategy to deal with them.