18th November 2016 | News
The Bulgarian Helsinki Committee’s latest report maps detention practice in Bulgaria. It finds that the practices of immigration detention in most cases do not achieve the stated purpose of enforcing the return of persons detained in cases where a risk of absconding...
18th November 2016 | News
The Home Office made public its new guidelines which introduce eligibility criteria for refugee children from Calais who apply for relocation under the Dubs Amendment. The new guidelines limit the scope of the amendment. To be eligible, it must be the case that...
18th November 2016 | News
On 28 October 2016, the Norwegian Ministry of Justice and Public Security issued a new instruction to the immigration authorities allowing stateless children born in Norway to acquire Norwegian citizenship. Previously, stateless children born in Norway “without lawful...
18th November 2016 | News
In their latest report on the Brest-Terespol border crossing between Poland and Belarus the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights found that the rights of people intending to apply for international protection have been violated by the Polish Border Guards. The report...
18th November 2016 | News
ECRE has published its Comments on the Commission proposal for a Regulation establishing a common procedure for international protection in the EU. The proposal aims to transform the Asylum Procedures Directive into a Regulation. This means that rules laid down in the...
