16 January 2015 The Odysseus Academic Network is hosting the final conference of the project MADE REAL (Making Alternatives to Detention in Europe a Reality by Exchanges, Advocacy and Learning) on 6 February at the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels. The...
16 January 2015 In two separate judgments, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) concluded that the proposed return to Sudan of two Sudanese nationals from Darfur would amount to ill-treatment given their ethnicity and their supposed affiliation with opposition...
16 January 2015 In its judgment in Mahammad and Others v Greece, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled yesterday (15 January) that 14 foreign nationals detained in the Greek centre of Fylakio were held in conditions amounting to inhuman and degrading...
15 January 2015 UNHCR has published a report on the situation of the more than half a million Syrian refugees in Jordan living outside of official camps. As the situation continues to deteriorate, two thirds of the population are already living below Jordan’s absolute...
15 January 2015 UNHCR has published recommendations in the area of asylum to the incoming Latvian EU Presidency. According to UNHCR, of particular urgency is the matter of strengthening rescue operations in the Mediterranean Sea, improving reception conditions and...