24 April 2015 The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) found that extraditing a Kyrgyz national of Uzbek ethnic origin from Russia to Kyrgyzstan would give rise to inhumane and degrading treatment prohibited by Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights...
23 April 2015 The new AIDA report on France comes amidst parliamentary debates on a draft law on asylum, transposing the recast Asylum Procedures Directive and the Reception Conditions Directive. The main reforms proposed aim to inter alia introduce suspensive effect...
23 April 2015. ECRE calls on the EU Heads of State gathering in Brussels today to show leadership and political courage and commit to measures that prioritise saving lives and ensure access to protection for refugees. Today, migrants and refugees often have to resort...
17 April 2015 A new AIDA report on Switzerland, written by the Swiss Refugee Council, examines “Testphase”, a Swiss accelerated procedure introduced in January 2014, which will be pilot tested in the federal reception centre of Zurich until 2016. Under this pilot...
17 April 2015 UNHCR has called on all countries to allow civilians fleeing Yemen access to their territories and to suspend forcible returns of nationals or habitual residents of Yemen to the country. UNHCR specifies that the suspension of returns is a minimum...
