In a meeting organised by the Moroccan Human Rights Association (AMDH) and ECRE member CEAR, it was agreed that a network of Moroccan organisations will be created in order to protect the rights of sub-Saharan immigrants and refugees currently living in Morocco. Said...
Registration is now open for the Advanced Elena Course on Refugee Protection and the Dublin System: Can They Ever Be Compatible? The event will take place on 6 – 8 December 2013 in Dublin, Ireland. Please register by Monday 4 November 2013 to secure a place. The...
Member States of UNHCR’s Executive Committee (Excom) acknowledged this week the profound impact the Syrian crisis is having on refugee-hosting communities in Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, and Egypt. They called on the international community to support refugee...
In its Position on the Detention of Asylum-Seekers in Malta published this week, UNHCR states that the Maltese practice of detaining, for the purposes of removal, all asylum seekers, who arrive on the territory in an irregular manner, is unlawful and arbitrary in...
On 26 September 2013, the Council of Europe Committee of Ministers adopted an Interim Resolution in response to the failure of Russia to implement reforms required by a set of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). All of the cases concern attempts...
