Publicatie datum: 27 maart 2026
The report provides an in‑depth overview of Belgium’s status for smuggling victims, highlighting its objectives, legal framework, and practical implementation. It examines how the status is applied, who benefits from it, and the operational challenges encountered. The publication also identifies gaps in data collection and coordination between agencies. Finally, it offers evidence‑based recommendations to strengthen victim protection and improve the overall effectiveness of the system.
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Hoofdthema: Smuggling & Trafficking
Publicatietype: Report
Trefwoorden: victim of smuggling, status, Belgium, victim protection
Publicatie datum: 04 maart 2026
The report compiles available figures for the period 2015–2024 and examines how data are recorded, shared and used. It provides a clearer statistical basis for understanding the situation of minors at risk of trafficking and aggravated forms of smuggling, while identifying structural gaps in current data systems.
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Hoofdthema: Vulnerable groups, Data & Statistics, Smuggling & Trafficking
Publicatietype: Report
Trefwoorden: victim of trafficking, victim of smuggling, minor, data collection, figures
Publicatie datum: 03 maart 2026
The Latest Asylum Trends 2025 provides an annual overview of asylum activity in EU+ countries, covering asylum applications (per capita), the main nationalities of applicants, the top receiving countries, recognition rates, pending cases and the number of beneficiaries of temporary protection following the war in Ukraine. It also reviews policy developments in the EU+ and provides a 2026 outlook, examining, inter alia, geopolitical uncertainty and latent displacement risks.
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Hoofdthema: International Protection, Temporary protection
Publicatietype: Report
Trefwoorden: Latest Asylum Trends, EUAA, asylum applications, recognition rate, pending cases, displaced person, Ukraine, New Pact on Migration and Asylum
Publicatie datum: 08 december 2025
Myria, the Federal Migration Centre and independent national rapporteur on trafficking in human beings, published its independent and public annual report “Victims: Seeing Them and Listening to Them” on 8 December 2025. The report draws attention to the psychological vulnerabilities of victims of human trafficking and calls, inter alia, for strengthened training and specialisation of professionals on the specific psychological vulnerabilities and needs of these victims.
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Hoofdthema: Smuggling & Trafficking
Publicatietype: Report
Trefwoorden: victim of trafficking, victim of smuggling, psychological vulnerability
Publicatie datum: 04 september 2025
The Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Michael O’Flaherty, warns that externalised asylum and migration policies must be carefully designed to avoid serious human rights risks. His report highlights how transferring asylum, return, and border control functions to other countries can expose migrants to torture, arbitrary detention, and collective expulsions. Particular risks arise in the external processing of asylum claims, return procedures including “return hubs,” and outsourcing of border control. The Commissioner calls on states to adopt precautionary approaches, safeguard vulnerable people, and ensure transparency and accountability.
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Hoofdthema: External Dimension
Publicatietype: Report
Trefwoorden: externalisation, return hub, border management, fundamental right, human rights
Publicatie datum: 01 september 2025
Each year, the Immigration Office publishes an activity report. This annual report presents the activities of the Immigration Office over 2024, providing figures inter alia on entry and stay, vulnerable groups, international protection, the fight against irregular migration, return, and misuse of procedures.
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Hoofdthema: Cross-sectional, Asylum, Migration
Publicatietype: Report
Trefwoorden: annual report, Immigration Office
Publicatie datum: 23 juli 2025
When countries outside the EU encourage or organise the movement of migrants to put pressure on the Union or its Member States, this is called the instrumentalisation of migration. This position paper from the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) explains what this means, why it matters, and how the EU can respond. It highlights the need to balance measures against political manipulation with the obligation to respect people’s fundamental rights. The paper warns that some responses risk undermining the right to asylum and other protections at the EU’s external borders.
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Hoofdthema: Cross-sectional, Asylum, Migration
Publicatietype: Report
Trefwoorden: instrumentalisation, migrant, refugee, fundamental right
Publicatie datum: 10 juni 2025
The Fundamental Rights Report 2025 provides an overview of the state of fundamental rights in the EU, highlighting key developments and trends observed in 2024. The report includes a dedicated section on ‘Migration and asylum at the EU’s external borders’, which addresses, among other issues, challenges related to search and rescue operations, incidents of ill-treatment and rights violations at borders, concerns about border procedures under the New Pact, and fundamental rights risks associated with proposed return policies.
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Hoofdthema: Cross-sectional, Asylum, Migration
Publicatietype: Report
Trefwoorden: fundamental rights, external border, rights violations, ill-treatment, New Pact on Migration and Asylum, border procedure, monitoring mechanism, return hub
Publicatie datum: 20 mei 2025
In het jaarverslag biedt het Commissariaat-generaal voor de Vluchtelingen en de Staatlozen (CGVS) een uitgebreid overzicht van de asielcijfers voor 2024, samen met belangrijke interne ontwikkelingen en initiatieven gericht op het verbeteren van efficiëntie en besluitvorming. Het rapport behandelt ook aankomende procedurele wijzigingen, internationale samenwerking, nieuwe bevoegdheden met betrekking tot staatloosheid en kwetsbare verzoekers, personeels- en organisatorische verbeteringen, en verduidelijkingen over operationele en budgettaire middelen.
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Hoofdthema: Internationale bescherming
Publicatietype: Rapport
Trefwoorden: CGVS, jaarrapport, asielcijfers, asielbeslissingen
Publicatie datum: 12 mei 2025
This JRC Science for Policy report provides a comprehensive understanding of migration narratives and their impact on public perception and policy. It seeks to equip policymakers and communication professionals with the insights and tools needed to navigate the complex landscape of migration narratives and promote a more nuanced and evidence-based understanding of migration in a political context often tainted by misinformation and divisive rhetoric.
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Hoofdthema: Migration
Publicatietype: Report
Trefwoorden: migration narrative, public perception, disinformation, evidence-based communication, polarisation
Publicatie datum: 01 mei 2025
The 2025 SIRIUS Migrant Education Policy Index introduces a novel framework for evaluating inclusive education policies across 15 EU Member States. Structured around seven key dimensions, the Index highlights existing disparities and effective practices in supporting migrant learners. It underscores the urgent need for systemic reforms to ensure equitable and high-quality education for all students, regardless of migration background. The report advocates for a learner-centred approach prioritising structural flexibility, cultural and linguistic inclusion, and coordinated policy interventions.
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Hoofdthema: Integration, Study § Training
Publicatietype: Report
Trefwoorden: education policy, Migrant education, migrant student, undocumented student
Publicatie datum: 01 maart 2025
Dit rapport biedt een diagnose van de sterke en zwakke punten van het Vlaamse kader voor het beheer van economische migratie en aanbevelingen voor mogelijke hervormingsgebieden. Het rapport presenteert ook enkele van de eerste empirische analyses en inzichten met betrekking tot het behoud en aantrekken van economische migranten in Vlaanderen.
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Hoofdthema: Integratie, Economische migratie
Publicatietype: Rapport
Trefwoorden: aantrekking van talent, behoud van talent, geschoolde werknemer, activeringsbeleid, gecombineerde vergunning, gedetacheerde werknemer, knelpuntberoep
Publicatie datum: 16 januari 2025
In this annual forecast, the International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD) outlines the 10 migration issues that can shape international migration in 2025. The search for "innovative solutions" to irregular migration and a European Union focusing on return are among the points of attention.
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Hoofdthema: Cross-sectional, Asylum, Migration
Publicatietype: Report
Trefwoorden: migration outlook, annual forecast, ICMPD
Publicatie datum: 18 december 2024
Myria, the Federal Migration Centre and independent national rapporteur on trafficking in human beings, published its independent and public annual report "Latin American Sex Work: A Risky Carousel" on 18 December 2024. Myria draws attention to the phenomenon of Latin American sex work and calls for adapting the fight against trafficking to the new realities linked to the digital world.
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Hoofdthema: Smuggling & Trafficking
Publicatietype: Report
Trefwoorden: sex worker, Latin America, criminal network, social network
Publicatie datum: 21 november 2024
This manual, aimed at both workplace inspection staff and trainers, intends to empower them to enforce the protective standards in EU law that safeguard the rights of third-country workers, including seasonal workers, migrant workers with temporary permits and migrants in an irregular situation.
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Hoofdthema: Smuggling & Trafficking
Publicatietype: Report
Trefwoorden: labour inspection, labour exploitation, migrant worker
Publicatie datum: 14 november 2024
The 2024 edition of International Migration Outlook analyses recent developments in migration movements and the labour market inclusion of immigrants in OECD countries. It also monitors recent policy changes in migration governance and integration in OECD countries. This 48th edition includes one special chapter on migrant entrepreneurship. The Outlook also includes country notes and a detailed statistical annex.
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Hoofdthema: Cross-sectional, Asylum, Migration
Publicatietype: Report
Trefwoorden: international migration trend, labour market integration
Publicatie datum: 01 november 2024
This country report for Belgium prepared in the frame of the POSTING.STAT 2.0 project, examines the characteristics, the scale, and the impact of intra-EU posting from and to Belgium as well as the characteristics and the scale of infringements which are related to it.
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Hoofdthema: Economic migration
Publicatietype: Report
Trefwoorden: labour mobility, posted worker, investigation, infringement
Publicatie datum: 25 juli 2024
This publication, entitled "Tackling threat, addressing challenges - Europol's response to migrant smuggling and trafficking in human beings in 2023 and onwards", looks into the latest developments and main threats in migrant smuggling and trafficking in human beings (THB) based on the most recent operations supported by Europol. It highlights the main challenges presented by the current criminal landscape and aims to help law enforcement step up the fight against criminal networks.
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Hoofdthema: Smuggling & Trafficking
Publicatietype: Report
Trefwoorden: Europol, migrant smuggling, cross-border crime, violence, digital technology
Publicatie datum: 05 juli 2024
Each year, the Immigration Office publishes an activity report. This annual report presents the activities of the Immigration Office over 2023, providing figures inter alia on entry and stay, vulnerable groups, international protection, the fight against irregular migration, return, and misuse of procedures.
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Publicatie datum: 21 juni 2024
In its 2023 Annual Report, Fedasil reviews the key events of the year and provides an overview of the reception network for international protection applicants, the resettlement of refugees, and voluntary returns. The report also presents key statistics that offer valuable insights into these areas, helping to illustrate both the challenges faced and the progress made.
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Hoofdthema: Reception
Publicatietype: Report
Trefwoorden: annual report, Fedasil, reception capacity, resettlement, voluntary return, reintegration assistance
Publicatie datum: 20 juni 2024
In its annual report 2023, Fairwork Belgium reports on requests for assistance received in 2023 and provides further details on the profiles of the people concerned and the phenomena and abuses of which they are victims. Specific attention is paid to inter alia the misuse of the single permit system, the exploitation of posted workers, the false self-employment of applicants for international protection, and the au-pair employment as domestic worker.
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Hoofdthema: Vulnerable groups
Publicatietype: Report
Trefwoorden: foreign workers, undocumented worker, exploitation, domestic worker, au-pair
Publicatie datum: 05 juni 2024
FRA’s Fundamental Rights Report 2024 analyses the year’s developments in fundamental rights. It focuses on the most pressing fundamental rights concerns facing Europe in 2023: the cost-of-living crisis, rights concerns at the EU’s external borders and migration, and threats to democracy.
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Publicatie datum: 29 april 2024
The general report 2023 of the Council of Europe's Group of Experts on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings (GRETA) includes a stocktaking of the third evaluation round of the Convention, which focused on trafficking victims’ access to justice and effective remedies. GRETA analyses trends emerging from its country reports, drawing attention to gaps in the implementation of the Convention, as well as promising practices.
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Hoofdthema: Smuggling & Trafficking
Publicatietype: Report
Trefwoorden: GRETA, access to justice, effective remedy, vulnerability, displaced person
Publicatie datum: 28 maart 2024
In this activity report, the Council for Alien Law Litigation looks back at the year 2023, and in particular the number of appeals lodged, judgments delivered, pending cases, and the cassation rate. It also highlights some key points of jurisprudence in 2023 and says more about the developments that marked the organization last year.
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Hoofdthema: Cross-sectional, Asylum, Migration
Publicatietype: Report
Trefwoorden: activity report, Council for Aliens Law litigation
Publicatie datum: 28 februari 2024
In its analysis of the Latest Asylum Trends for 2023, the European Union Agency for Asylum (EUAA) reports on the applications received in EU+ countries (i.e. the 27 European Union Member States, plus Norway and Switzerland) and the key nationalities that applied for international protection. The analysis also addresses new trends in pending cases as well as recognition rates across EU+ countries.