The research paper ‘Follow the Money: Assessing the use of AMIF funding at the national level’ by ECRE and UNHCR, provides a thorough and critical analysis of the €3.1 billion Asylum, Migration & Integration Fund (AMIF) established by the EC for the period of...
Last Friday, French Defenseur des droits (similar to the function of Ombudsman) Jacques Toubon, made a recommendation to the French Prime Minister to revoke the Circular allowing the State to conduct administrative controls on all beneficiaries of emergency housing....
A ruling of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) on January 25 establishes that the use of psychological tests to determine sexual orientation “amounts to a disproportionate interference in the private life of the asylum seeker”. The Hungarian Helsinki...
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled that conditions in VIAL hotspot were not inhuman and that detention to inforce the EU-Turkey Statement was not arbitrary despite human rights concerns by organisations. On 25 January 2018, the ECtHR ruled in case J.R....
The Irish Department of Justice announced last week that it will grant asylum seekers access to the labour market through existing national employment legislation, a decision which experts warn will result in “exceptionally limited” opportunities. The proposals come...
