Coast Guard personnel in the southeastern Aegean Sea fired several gunshots to disable and stop an unusually high-powered speedboat carrying migrants – including 15 children – from Turkey to Rhodes.
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Coast Guard personnel in the southeastern Aegean Sea fired several gunshots to disable and stop an unusually high-powered speedboat carrying migrants – including 15 children – from Turkey to Rhodes.
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It's a shame for Europe: Germany, the Netherlands, Austria, Denmark and Greece are working together to build so-called facilities outside Europe to host irregular migrants who arrive in their territory, a sign of growing momentum for a contentious project.
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At least 14 migrants drowned on Monday after a boat carrying them collided with a coast guard boat off Turkiye’s Mediterranean coast during a chase
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Greece is working with four EU countries (Germany, Austria, Denmark, Netherlands) to establish "return hubs" in non-EU states for rejected asylum seekers, as the bloc moves ahead with stricter deportation rules under its new migration framework.
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More than 600 people have died trying to cross Mediterranean in 2026!
Deadliest start to a year in more than a decade, according to the International Organization for Migration
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Work begins on new Migrant Reception Centre (CATE) in the south of Tenerife. The centre will cover 4,000 square metres and has a planned construction period of 10 months. When completed, it will be able to accommodate 348 people arriving by small boat.
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Absurditäten aus dem Asylbereich: Bleiben ist Pflicht.Bleiben ist strafbar. Nach einer Polizeirazzia in einem Zürcher Rückkehrzentrum erhält ein Mann einen Strafbefehl wegen rechtswidrigen Aufenthalts – obwohl er das Land laut Dublin-Verordnung gar nicht verlassen darf.
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Geschichten von Angst, Isolation und Verschwundenen. Hinter Europas neuen Hochsicherheitslagern für Geflüchtete verbirgt sich mehr als nur Kontrolle und Technik. Ein Blick hinter die Zäune von Samos und Gjadër.
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Realitätsferne Asylentscheidungen zu Iran mit problematischen Argumentationsmustern – PRO ASYL legt Policy Paper vor
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Die Schweiz und die EU finanzieren in Griechenland gefängnisartige Asylzentren. Was passiert im Innern?
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A court in Turin has sentenced the director of a repatriation detention center (CPR) to a one-year suspended prison sentence. She had failed to address the psychological vulnerability of a migrant who later committed suicide.
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Sehr lesenswertes Interview mit Natassa, einer Rechtsanwältin bei der griechischen Menschenrechtsorganisation Refugee Support Aegean (RSA).
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Letzte Nacht sind mindestens 15 Menschen bei einem erneuten Bootsunglück in der Ägäis gestorben.
Europas Abschottung geht weiter: Heute hat das Europäische Parlament erneute Verschärfungen beim Flüchtlingsschutz beschlossen – auch mit Stimmen der extremen Rechten.
A Syrian teenager fled war and asked Bulgaria for safety, only to be told his asylum claim would not be examined at all. EU judges said Bulgaria went a step too far by rejecting his claim based on loose ties to Turkey.
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Richard Bennett, the UN special rapporteur on human rights in Afghanistan, warned in Lahore that deporting Afghan refugees exposes them to serious human rights risks.
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The Greek government has announced plans to build three new migration facilities on the island of Crete after record numbers of migrants arrived there in the summer of 2025.
A group of immigration officers accused of stealing from people that arrived in the UK on small boats have appeared in court. The six border officials are charged with money laundering and five are further accused of misconduct in public office and conspiracy to steal.
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Six members of Italy's police and coastguard go on trial over a 2023 shipwreck that killed at least 94 people, accused of failing to intervene on time. The charges relate to a search-and-rescue operation that never came, despite the boat having been tracked for hours.
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#Frauen in #Afghanistan werden unter den Taliban systematisch aus Bildung und Öffentlichkeit verdrängt und praktisch mundtot gemacht. Die Tessinerin Aresu Rabbani will ihnen mit ihrem Podcast «Ihre Stimme, unser Echo» ihre verlorene Stimme wieder zurückgeben.
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In Spanien gibt Regierungschef Sánchez 500.000 Personen ohne Papiere eine Aufenthaltsgenehmigung. Damit können diese Personen am sozialen Leben teilhaben und legal arbeiten.
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A contre-courant de ses homologues européens, le gouvernement de gauche espagnol s'apprête à adopter un plan de régularisation massif de sans-papiers qui pourrait bénéficier à 500'000 personnes, une mesure qui doit permettre de soutenir la croissance économique du pays.
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Hundreds of migrants feared dead in Mediterranean shipwrecks since start of 2026, UN says
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ECRE Report: Study visit to Sweden on good practices in upholding the rights of asylum-seeking and refugee women and girls
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Libyan authorities have freed over 220 migrants from what would appear to be a secret underground prison in the southeast of the country. The people were held in gravely inhuman conditions.
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Migrants using more distant, riskier departure points to Canaries after Mauritania crackdown, Red Cross finds
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The Portuguese government has decided it would be willing to pay 8.4 million euros to the European Commission in return for refusing to accept a contingent of 420 asylum seekers, which it would have been asked to accept under the new EU 'solidarity' mechanism.
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The conflict in Sudan between two rival military factions has raged for more than 1,000 days, triggering a staggering humanitarian crisis. Aid agencies warn that turning a blind eye to this crisis would be "a failure of our core humanity".
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ebenfalls zum Thema Rechtsschutz im Asyl- und Migrationsbereich:
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Gabriel Püntener vertritt seit bald vier Jahrzehnten Migrantinnen – und ärgert mit seinem konsequenten Vorgehen das Bundesverwaltungsgericht. Nun soll er diszipliniert und bestraft werden. Das ist rechtstaatlich bedenklich.
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