19 June 2015 Austrian Interior Minister, Johanna Mikl-Leitner, has recently issued a document instructing civil servants dealing with asylum requests to stop processing new cases, including family reunification cases. New asylum claims will be registered, but no...
19 June 2015 The UNHCR Global Trends annual report, released this week, has revealed that worldwide displacement is at the highest level ever recorded since detailed record-keeping began. War, conflict, persecution, and human rights violations have forced people to...
12 June 2015 The Court of Justice of the EU has given a judgment which clarifies the ability of EU Member States to set integration requirements for non-EU long term residents. The case related to a complaint by two long-term residents in the Netherlands, who were...
12 June 2015 Contributing to the European Network on Statelessness (ENS) conference on childhood statelessness in Europe, Khrystyna Kolesen presented her paper, ‘Tackling childhood statelessness in Ukraine’. She outlined the situation that currently exists in Ukraine,...
12 June 2015 In a recent report, the UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants, François Crépeau, stated that the EU’s approach to border control is not sustainable. The report stressed that sealing European borders is impossible, regardless of the huge...
