Journey in the Balkans to meet exiles and groups supporting them
Greece has extended to 18 months the maximum period of detention, and has launched with the financial support of the European Union in an extensive program to build new detention centers whose capacity should reach 30,000 people. The inhumane conditions...
On the new blog Exiles in the Balkans : http://exilesinthebalkans.wordpress.com/ Following a visit to Bulgaria in March, Amnesty International reported on the situation of asylum seekers. This report confirms the difficulties of access to the country...
The case dates back more than 10 years. From 1998 to 2002, Greece is implementing a program of protection and assistance to street children, the vast majority Albanians. In this context, 661 children are placed in the Agia Varvara foundation. Among them...
Tighter controls on the land border between Greece and Turkey, and above all the effects of the crisis in Greece lead the exiles to take other pathways in the European Union, when they do not choose to stay in Turkey whose economy is dynamic and where...
The exiles often carry large sums of money to pay the border crossing. A new lucrative business has grown in the north of Macedonia, attacking the exiles to rob. On July 15, one of these attacks went particularly wrong: the attackers fired on migrants...
As in Serbia, the coming winter brings in light the situation of asylum seekers in Bulgaria. The capacity of existing centers are saturated, especially since the arrival of some thousand Syrian refugees, some asylum seekers have been installed in tents...
A new protest against living conditions and confinement without known limits, exiles sew their mouths and began a hunger strike in the detention center of Corinth. An article (in French) freely available on Okeanews: http://www.okeanews.fr/20140221-grece-des-conditions-de-vie-desastreuses-dans-les-centres-de-detention-pour-migrants?utm_source=wysija&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Articlesdusamedi#axzz2uE2OkvAk...
The Greek government has published statistics on foreigners in 2013. There is a decrease of 46% in the number of foreigners arrested, significant drop in arrests at the land border with Turkey, up to the maritime boundary - which is the reinforcement...
Following the deterioration of the refugees reception conditions in Bulgaria, Amnesty International and the Council of Europe's Humans Rights Commissionner recommand to stop Dublin transfers to this country. More information on : http://www.asile.ch/...
Due to non-compliance with standards of reception of asylum seekers and procedural safeguards, ECRE (European Council on Refugees and Exiles) request, as the High Commissioner for Refugees of the United Nations, stopping Dublin transfers to Bulgaria,...
Due to the situation of asylum seekers and refugees in Bulgaria and to the risk of inhuman and degrading treatment, the UNHCR calls to temporary stop to transfer asylum seekers according to the Dublin regulation : http://www.unhcr-centraleurope.org/en/news/2014/unhcr-calls-for-temporary-halt-to-dublin-transfers-of-asylum-seekers-back-to-bulgaria.html...
Open initiative against detention centers : a coordination comity has been created. After a first initiative in front of Omonia's police station in Athens, it planned an initiative on December 18, the global migrants' action day. http://nodetention.blogspot.fr/2013/11/blog-post_29.html...
In a statement, Doctors Without Borders conditions for reception of refugees in Bulgaria: " Appalling conditions in reception centres following influx of Syrian refugees : Médecins Sans Frontières responds in the Bulgarian capital Brussels, 21 November...
When the report of the German Association Pro Asyl about the push-back of migrants at the Greek-Turkish border is published, the International Federation of Human Rights, the network Migreurop and the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network led a mission...
The increasing number of Syrian refugees in Bulgaria. Having called in vain for European solidarity, the Bulgarian government is moving repression. He plans to erect a fence along 170 km of the border with Turkey while it communicates information about...
The Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe calls out the Greek authorities about the refoulement of migrants at the border, among other Syrian refugees: Greece must end collective expulsions Letter to Greek Ministers Strasbourg 14/1/2014...
On the ECRE (European Council on Refugees and Exiles) website, an interview of Irena Zdravkova, from Mecedonian Young Lawyers Association, giving an overview about asylum in Macedonia : http://www.ecre.org/component/content/article/70-weekly-bulletin...
January 21 morning, the Greek coastguard intercepted a fishing boat carrying 28 exiles near the island of Farmakonisi in Greek territorial waters. They drive back to Turkish waters illegally. They pull too fast the fishing boat in rough seas, it capsises,...
Moria detention center on the island of Lesbos, a delegation of the ecologist party has discovered 8 minors detained for over 22 days and one for 16 days, in contradiction with international standards. This detention center is funded by the European Union....
The new posts on http://exilesinthebalkans.wordpress.com/ Une version en français existe à http://exilesdanslesbalkans.wordpress.com/ Based both on material reception conditions and dysfunctions of the application process, Amnesty International calls...
On the new blog Exiles in the Balkans : http://exilesinthebalkans.wordpress.com/ The European Council on Refugees and Exiles, the Greek Council for Refugees and the Greek Association Aitima challenge the Greek government about his recent decision to maintain...
On the new blog Exiles in the Balkans : http://exilesinthebalkans.wordpress.com/ On May 1, a boat which left from of Egypt with one hundred and forty seven exiles on bord is in trouble and sending out an SOS when it is between Malta and Greece. A tanker...
On the blog Exiles in the Balkans http://exilesinthebalkans.wordpress.com/ On the island of Lesvos, the shelter for unaccompanied foreign minors closed for lack of funds. By cons, a detention center, including a part for first reception and identification...
On the new blog Exiles in the Balkans http://exilesinthebalkans.wordpress.com/ Negotiations of the EU with neighboring countries are not on an equal footing, or in a spirit of cooperation around objectives commonly defined. Those with Turkey are no exception....
Recent posts on the new blog Exiles in the Balkans http://exilesinthebalkans.wordpress.com/ The Greek government has launched a tender to private companies to monitor three detention centers, for an amount of € 14 million. Several multinational security...
