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Blick auf ein Aufnahmezentrum für Migrant:innen in Albanien.

How to Implement Human Rights Monitoring

09.10.2025 Displacement, Migration, Integration, Refugee Policy, Migration policy
EU border zones regularly see grave human rights violations. The new EU Independent Fundamental Rights Monitoring Mechanism could help.
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LKW-Ladung mit Mehlsäcken. Humanitäre Hilfe.

Public Acceptance Is Not Optional

25.09.2025 Displacement, Migration, Integration, Refugee Policy, Migration policy
In Libya and Tunisia, foreign aid organisations are facing growing scepticism and government surveillance. How do they deal with this?
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People from Syria wait at the border in Turkey to be allowed to enter Syria.

Undoing asylum: Syria after Assad and the collapse of refugee protections

24.07.2025 Displacement, Migration, Integration, Refugee Policy
The Global Forum on Migration and Development addresses the issue of regularised return options. The situation in Syria demonstrates that a rights-based return process must be truly safe and voluntary.
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A child writes and draws on a banner. It reads in Spanish "Migrants also have rights and opportunities."

Armed groups and forced migration of women

17.07.2025 Displacement, Migration, Integration, Refugee Policy, Migration policy
The Global Forum on Migration and Development places strong emphasis on international cooperation for safe migration, especially for the protection of women and children.
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A red sign with the demand "Stop morts. Stop disparues." (Stop the deaths. Stop the disappearances.) in front of the EU mission building in Tunis.

Europe places its own values in jeopardy

03.07.2025 Displacement, Migration, Integration, Refugee Policy
Tunisia’s recent designation as a “safe country of origin” marks a paradigm shift in European migration policy – a shift that will have serious consequences.
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Those affected protest against the restrictions on family reunification

A serious risk: The gradual undermining of the asylum system

19.06.2025 Displacement, Migration, Integration, Refugee Policy
The German government’s latest migration policy measures continue to chip away at the right to asylum. An analysis by Dr. Anne Koch on World Refugee Day.
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A demonstrator holds up a scarf reading 'Refugees welcome'.

The role of national identity in refugee admission

24.04.2025 Displacement, Migration, Integration, Refugee Policy, Migration policy
Daniel Drewski and Jürgen Gerhards about the differences between countries in terms of their willingness to admit refugees.
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Ein Mitarbeiter geht durch einen Gang im Landesamt für Flüchtlingsangelegenheiten. Gelbe Pfeile an den Wänden zeigen in Richtung des Flures.

The safe countries of origin lottery

09.04.2025 Displacement, Migration, Integration, Refugee Policy
Safe countries of origin are a central, albeit controversial, concept in migration policy in Europe. Changes are now on the horizon.
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An abandoned refugee boat is adrift at sea. It was previously cleared by the Libyan coast guard.

Libya’s Coast Guard: Europe’s Deadly Gatekeepers in the Mediterranean

10.12.2024 Displacement, Migration, Integration, Refugee Policy
Torture camps, hunger and the legitimation of authoritarian regimes. The EU has poured millions into Libya but what has this money actually achieved?
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Türöffner mit der Abbildung eines Rollstuhls und der Aufschrift "Press to open"

No real improvement for refugees with disabilities

03.12.2024 Interview, Displacement, Migration, Integration, Refugee Policy
Ten to fifteen percent of refugees in Germany are living with a disability. In an interview with Sophia Eckert, Policy Expert at Crossroads Handicap International Germany, we take a look at the life situation of this group of people.
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