Refou­le­ment at sea, sys­te­ma­tic maltre­at­ment and inhu­ma­ne detenti­on con­di­ti­ons – Repre­sen­ta­ti­ves of PRO ASYL and the Greek Group of Lawy­ers for the Rights of Refu­gees and Migrants exami­ned on two fact-fin­ding mis­si­ons in July/August and in Octo­ber 2007 the situa­ti­on of refu­gees at the EU exter­nal bor­der in the Aege­an. The fin­dings reve­al serious human rights violations. On

The Ger­man Bun­des­tag voted on June 14th, 2007 on amend­ments to the Immi­gra­ti­on Act. The Act came into force on August 28, 2007. PRO ASYL cri­ti­ci­zed the packa­ge of legis­la­ti­on as an „uncon­sti­tu­tio­nal and iso­la­tio­nist attempt to seal its­elf off from immi­grants and refu­gees.“ Among the most obvious flaws in the bill are: Refu­gee-fri­end­ly EU direc­ti­ves

Euro­pe con­ti­nues to shirk its responsibility Every day more than 100 civi­li­ans lose their life in Iraq. Accor­ding to the UN, one out of eight Iraqi is on the run by now. While the situa­ti­on of Iraqi refu­gees in the regi­on is beco­ming incre­asing­ly cri­ti­cal, almost all Euro­pean count­ries con­ti­nue to shirk their respon­si­bi­li­ty to

The Ita­li­an asyl­um sys­tem is stam­ped by arbi­trar­i­ne­ss, deni­al of rights and iso­la­ti­on – A jour­ney through sou­thern Ita­ly on the tracks of Afri­can refugees By Judith Gleit­ze, Ali­ce Schultz* Agned­du e sucu e fini­ci u vat­tiu – ‚Lamb and gra­vy, and the bap­tiz­in­g’s done‘. The Sici­li­an ada­ge means some­thing like the-devil-may-care. And tha­t’s how