A new independent body, the European Union Agency for Asylum (EUAA), will safeguard those applying for protection in Europe against rights violations. It also aims to make asylum standards more consistent across the Member States.
When Spanish rescuers arrived to help a boat off the coast of the Canary Island Fuerteventura, they found a mother who had given birth to her baby in the rubber dinghy, alongside around 60 other migrants.
The government of Cyprus says that it has already received more than 700 applications for asylum so far this year. The island nation, which has seen a spike in irregular arrivals in recent years, says it is encountering a "migration1
The Italian Coalition for Freedoms and Civil Rights (CILD) has created a website called 'Buchi neri' (black holes) which focuses on the administrative detention of foreigners in Italy.
Greece's plans to collect more biometric information will likely increase racial profiling against migrants and refugees, Human Rights Watch and Homo Digitalis have argued.