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News - https://dopomoha.ro is a platform created by Code for Romania, in partnership with the Department for Emergency Situations of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Romania, International Organisation for Migration and Romanian National Council for Refugees, where civilians who…
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News - Integration is the exception
The European Union has repeatedly criticized the Greek government for the obstacles to the social integration of refugees and migrants and has urged it to provide more opportunities.
According to the narrative of a young man…
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News - In the past months almost 16,650 people are living in Greek migrants and refugee camps, some of them are asylum seekers, recognized refugees or they have a denied asylum application. According to a policy implemented in October 2021, the cash assistance from now and then is…
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News - According to UNHCR, legislative changes in Greece and a relocation programme have already helped hundreds of unaccompanied refugee children to find a home. Via the example of a children who left his parents and siblings in Iran when he was just 11 old, we can learn how these…
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Online library - The SEREDA project (Sexual and Gender Based Violence against Refugees from Displacement to Arrival - SEREDA) is a research initiative led by the University of Birmingham's Professor Jenny Phillimore and the past three years it has been focused on…
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News - The Washington Post reports about the European Court of Human Rights' ruling against Croatia, in a case from 2017 where 6-year-old migrant Madina Hussiny, was killed by a train on the border with Serbia.
The court said that Croatian police violated the child and her family’…
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Learning - This certificate course introduces its participants to main concepts, theoretical issues and current discussions in the field of migration and asylum.
The course aims to present an overview of contemporary migrations and refugee movements…
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Multimedia - The main aim of this tool kit is to help migrants discover their talents and build a future in the Netherlands or in their country of origin. Solid Road Foundation does this through vocational training, coaching, and guidance. One of their new resources is developed a…
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Multimedia - Vulnerability in humanitarian assistance is a concept deriving from the principle of impartiality; i.e. for aid actors to be impartial, they must give priority to urgent cases by assessing beneficiaries’ vulnerability. Moreover, in the EU, states perform…
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News - IOM, UNHCR, and UNICEF stand supportive toward the European systematic relocation process and since the start of the EU-funded Initiative, they relocated more than 4,000 individuals from Greece, especially the vulnerable people to the European countries. There…
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News - In an interview with Exit, Ylva Johansson, the European Commissioner for Home Affairs, speaks about migration, trafficking, and other issues in Albania.
Johansson answered several question. Please find some highlights below:
Fighting smuggling is one of the…
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Learning - With increasingly more multi-cultural and multi-ethnic societies due to new migration routes, migrant and refugee integration can be a challenge both for host communities as well as for migrant and refugees themselves. Lack of proper integration can lead to the violation…
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News - The European Commission has announced to grant 3.5 million euros to help vulnerable refugees and immigrants in Bosnia and Herzegovina. At least 1700 immigrants and refugees including children are living without the proper shelter even during the harsh winter.…
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Multimedia - Together with partner organizations, Missing Europe Children have developed the Mobile Application `Miniila`, specifically designed for unaccompanied children on the move.
The main purpose of the App is to inform children about their rights and to explain in a…
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News - SIRIUS is co-organising a panel at the 2021 International Social Innovation Conference to be held at Catholic University of Milan on September 8th-10th 2021 and is inviting contributors to submit abstracts by 28th February 2021.
The event aims to gather contributions…
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News - The report provides information on the catastrophic psychological and physical situation of the refugees who have taken up residence in the new refugee camp, on the Greek island of Lesbos, following a fire.
According to reports by specialists and various organizations (…
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[Greece] Greek islands: Concerning rise in severe mental health distress in both adults and children
News - After the fire in the camp Moria on the Greek island of Lesbos MSF has observed a rise in mental distress both in adults and children. This finding is no suprise as 3500 people live in Samos in unhumane conditions, mainly in self-made tents…
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News - According to Human Rights Watch report, thousands of asylum-seekers (7,517), aid workers, United Nations, and Greek and European Union employees are at risk of lead poisoning (heavy metal that is highly toxic) in Mavrovouni -a temporary camp set up by the…
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News - A Spanish project called Ödos is helping women from Africa seeking shelter in Europe.
Due to increased forced marriages, gender-based violence or female genital mutilation, women from African countries, mostly Sub-Saharan are fleeing to Europe in search of better…
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News - The written submission to the Committee on the Rights of the Child deals with how Germany complies with the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Especially the submission focused on the problems and recommendations in the…
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News - During the COVID -19 pandemic, Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) and the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Serbia found several ways to serve the three most vulnerable groups in society, such as homeless…
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News - Within last years, from 2010 to September 2019, nearly 193,000 Albanian citizens applied for asylum in EU countries. The phenomenon reached its highest points in 2015 when 67,000 Albanians applied for asylum that year alone. Acceptance rates are low, but still, a great…
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News - Little Amal, 3.5 metre-tall puppet modelled after a young Syrian girl, will travel almost 8,000 kilometres from the Turkey-Syria border to the UK in 2021 to accentuate the experiences faced by refugee children.
Amal is part of a travelling art festival called The Walk, which…
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Online library - The No Gaps Handbook & Toolbox for Professionals in Integral Intervention With Young Female Asylum Seekers and Refugees is tailored for professionals involved in counselling migrant/refugee women who aim at improving their services dedicated to integrative…
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News - Community Care reported that in Kent, unaccompanied asylum-seeking children are being held at short-term centres for 17 hours on average and often overnight with no sleeping facilities, without talking to any social workers. As Kent council cannot accept any more…
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News - The Guardian recently published an article on how the loss of right to family reunification will impact unaccompanied asylum seekers, who are waiting at the UK borders. The article coincided with the parliament vote on Lord Dub's, a former child refugee,…
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News - Children's Commissioner reported that the current situation (COVID-19 lockdowns and restrictions, evictions and dismantling of camps, etc.) made child refugee’s life in Calais even more desperate and full of obstacles: for this reason, many children decided to cross the…
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News - Unaccompanied minors from Calais are now forced to stay in accommodation centres with other adult refugees, found out the Independent as part of their Supporter Porgramme investigation. There are still hundreds of children in and around Calais, who are sleeping rough, are…
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News - The High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi expressed his concerns on the issue of refugees around the world. He made this statement at the meeting of the Executive Committee in Geneva, Switzerland. He said that the pandemic of Covid-19 is adding vulnerability to…
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News - More than 210,000 unaccompanied minors, who applied for asylum in Europe, have been living in disastrous conditions in refugee camps in the past 5 years. In Moria camp, which was recently destroyed in a fire, around 70% of the inhabitants were…
