Position papers
Sharing Responsibility for Refugee Protection in Europe: Dublin Reconsidered
Date: 31-03-2008ECRE launches a new report entitled Sharing Responsibility for Refugee Protection in Europe: Dublin Reconsidered. This report highlights the inherent limitations and injustices of the Dublin system, which transfers asylum seekers between EU Member States, and outlines alternative proposals for a fairer and more efficient system.
Sharing Responsibility_Dublin ReconsideredFULL.pdf (573.14 KB)
Sharing Responsibility_Dublin ReconsideredEXSUM.pdf (242.56 KB)
ECRE 2008 Iraq Survey
Date: 18-03-2008A survey conducted by ECRE in February 2008 reveals continuing disparities in policies & practices of European governments towards Iraqi asylum seekers and refugees.
ECRE_Survey_Iraq_2008.pdf (49.36 KB)
Defending Refugees' Access to Protection in Europe
Date: 14-12-2007The vast range of migration controls undertaken by European governments at the EU's external borders and beyond are increasingly preventing persons fleeing persecution from reaching safety in Europe. These controls include visas, sanctions on transport companies, posting immigration officials abroad, intercepting and diverting boats at sea, preventing the departure of boats from neighbouring countries as well as the maltreatment and / or immediate return of people who reach the EU's borders.
In this paper ECRE examines the numerous border control measures of European countries and the European Border Management Agency (FRONTEX) to prevent irregular migration and makes proposals for how they should be adapted in order to ensure European countries do not push refugees back to life-endangering situations and that Europe remains a region where people's right to seek asylum is respected.
Access to Protection in Europe EXSUM.pdf (224.93 KB)
Access.pdf (776.77 KB)
ECRE/BRC joint response to House of Lords inquiry on Frontex
Date: 05-10-2007The Refugee Council and ECRE welcome this timely inquiry and the
opportunity to comment on the European Agency for the Management of
Operational Cooperation at the External Borders of the EU Member States,
Frontex. We share the view that the Agency's mandated powers are
expanding fast and consider that this is happening without due attention to
the establishment and/or clarification of the Agency's role and responsibilities
in relation to human rights. We are particularly concerned with the right to
seek asylum as enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and
the extent to which this may be violated as a result of Frontex activities.
ECRE_BRC Response to HoL Frontex Inquiry Sept07.pdf (170.54 KB)