Around 12.000 Roma and mem­bers of other mino­ri­ty groups are threa­ten­ed to be depor­ted to Koso­vo. Around 5.000 of them are child­ren and minors. A majo­ri­ty of them was born and rai­sed in Ger­ma­ny. They face social exclu­si­on and mas­si­ve dis­cri­mi­na­ti­on upon their arri­val in Kosovo. As shown by a recent­ly published UNICEF REPORT, 75%

On Wed­nes­day, Greek poli­ce repor­ted that 16 refu­gees drow­ned when try­ing to cross the river Evros that marks the bor­der bet­ween Tur­key and Greece. Bodies of six men and three women were found tues­day on the Greek side, while ano­ther five bodies were reco­ver­ed on the Tur­ki­sh shore. The corp­ses had been spot­tet on fri­day

The out­co­me of the so-cal­led „Dub­li­ners pro­ject“ was pre­sen­ted to the public this week in Rome. Ins­ti­ga­ted by the Ita­li­an Refu­gees Coun­cil (CIR) and in col­la­bo­ra­ti­on with the Ita­li­an Minis­try of Inter­nal Affairs and six part­ner orga­ni­sa­ti­ons, among­st them PRO ASYL, 75 refu­gees affec­ted by the Dub­lin II regu­la­ti­ons were inter­view­ed in order to high­light

Today, we expect the arri­val of around 180 Iraqi refu­gees from Syria who will be admit­ted by the Ger­man aut­ho­ri­ties on the basis of an admis­si­on pro­gram adopted in 2008. With this act of admis­si­on Ger­ma­ny com­pli­es with its quo­ta of appro­xi­m­ate­ly 2.500 admit­ted vul­nerable peo­p­le. The refu­gees are main­ly mem­bers of reli­gious mino­ri­ties, child­ren

Com­plaint sub­mit­ted to the Euro­pean Commission On Novem­ber 11, 2009, PRO ASYL, along with fel­low refu­gee orga­niza­ti­ons Dutch Coun­cil for Refu­gees, Fin­nish Refu­gee Advice Cen­ter, and Bri­tish Refu­gee and Migrant Jus­ti­ce, filed a com­plaint with the Euro­pean Com­mis­si­on against Greece. Twen­ty other Euro­pean refu­gee orga­niza­ti­ons sup­port the complaint. PRO ASYL demands that the Euro­pean Com­mis­si­on

On the 60th Anni­ver­sa­ry of the Uni­ver­sal Decla­ra­ti­on of Human Rights, PRO ASYL is pre­sen­ting a peti­ti­on to the Euro­pean Par­lia­ment which is addres­sing the dying of thou­sands at our outer borders. More than 1500 docu­men­ted cases of deaths at the doors of Euro­pe over the last 12 months illus­tra­te a serious human rights record.

„The situation in Greece is out of control“ Research into the situation of asylum seekers in Greece Car­ri­ed out by Karl Kopp, PRO ASYL­’s Direc­tor of Euro­pean Affairs, from Octo­ber 20th to 28th 2008 The rese­arch focu­sed on the situa­ti­on of asyl­um see­kers and indi­vi­du­als retur­ned to the Greek capi­tal on the basis of the Dub­lin

In search of a digni­fied life thou­sands of refu­gees and migrants die at the bor­ders of Euro­pe. The­se are peo­p­le who are dri­ven from their home­lands by war, per­se­cu­ti­on, vio­lence and mise­ra­ble living con­di­ti­ons. In order to escape they squeeze into tiny boats, hide in lor­ries, sleep in very basic camp­si­tes or in front of

On Febru­ary 21, 2008 PRO ASYL has filed a peti­ti­on with the Peti­ti­on Com­mit­tee of the Ger­man Fede­ral Par­lia­ment, reques­t­ing to stop all depor­ta­ti­ons of asyl­um-see­kers to Greece based on the EU Coun­cil Regu­la­ti­on known as Dub­lin II. The­re are gra­ve reasons to sus­pend all deportations: Curr­ent­ly, the Greek asyl­um sys­tem does not gua­ran­tee effec­ti­ve access

The EU’s Com­mon Asyl­um Policy One gets the impres­si­on that the aim of the EU’s com­mon asyl­um poli­cy is not to pro­tect refu­gees, but to pro­tect Euro­pe from refugees. Rather than reli­e­ving the bur­den on the poor regi­ons whe­re the refu­gees come from, the mem­ber sta­tes are in the pro­cess of shif­ting respon­si­bi­li­ty to them.