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This Guidance Note supersedes UNHCR’s Eligibility Guidelines for Assessing the InternationalProtection Needs of Asylum-Seekers from Eritrea of April 2011.1

Abstract:  While the use of digital technologies has been associated with refugees’ successful integration, this perspective overlooks the digital divide growing on the existing structural inequalities. For Eritrean refugees living in the Netherlands, the digital divide cuts deep into their personal lives and endangers their relation to authorities. Based on two months of ethnographic research and […]

This briefing examines the phenomenon of people crossing the English Channel in small boats. It reviews what we know about the numbers, characteristics, and motivations of people making this journey readmore

Eritrea is the origin of a significant share of the mixed migration flows seen both in the Greater Horn of Africa and farther afield in North Africa and Europe. The limited data available suggest up to 5,000 people leave the country every month. At the end of 2015, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees […]

. This Guidance Note supersedes UNHCR’s Eligibility Guidelines for Assessing the International Protection Needs of Asylum-Seekers from Eritrea of April 2011.1  2. Since its independence in 1993, Eritrea has been governed by the People’s Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ), headed by President Isaias Afwerki, who serves as both Head of State and Head of Government.2 No […]

For a second year in a row, the number of applicationsfor international protection in EU+ countriesdecreased to a total of 0.8 million. This was the resultof a series of factors, including political developmentsin key countries of origin, like Syria, and Europeancooperation with partner countries which reducedmobility across migration routes to Europe. In parallel,EU+ countries continued […]

In the YE March 2026, 48,581 people were granted refugee protection or other leave at initial decision, an increase of 5% on the previous year. Although this is lower than the peak of 67,678 in the YE March 2024, it remains higher than at any point prior to 2023. The relatively high level of grants reflects the sustained increase […]

A high court judge has halted the removal of an Eritrean trafficking victim to France under the UK’s “one in, one out” scheme, after raising concerns that forcibly sending him back could cause him harm. The controversial deal, under which one asylum seeker who arrives in the UK on a small boat is forcibly returned to […]

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EUAALatest Asylum Trends: Monthly Overview The Latest Asylum Trends is produced by EUAA’s Situational Awareness Unit (SAU) based on monthly data exchanged under the Early warning and Preparedness System (EPS). The data shared with the EUAA by EU+ countries are provisional and unvalidated and, therefore, may differ from validated data submitted to Eurostat at a […]