The Administrative Court of Appeal of Athens has accepted a request by the Greek Ministry of Migration Policy for a provisional order to suspend a decision of the Appeals Committee granting refugee status to a Turkish soldier, pending the outcome of judicial review...
Fortunately, it seems that the EU’s Member States have squarely rejected Council President Donald Tusk’s analysis on mandatory quotas. The chances of ending Europe’s political crisis on migration have improved as a consequence. In a note, which seems to have been both...
By Shani Bar-Tuvia, PhD student, Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program “Human Rights under Pressure: Ethics, Law and Politics”, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Three weeks ago the Israeli government revealed its plan to forcibly deport Eritreans and Sudanese to a “safe...
With Mona Reigstad Dabour, Norwegian Organisation for Asylum Seekers (NOAS) In a statement published earlier this month, NOAS comments a newly adopted bill suspending the forced return of specific groups of unaccompanied minors. What is the bill about? At the...
The European Asylum Support Office (EASO) has extended its portfolio of Country of Origin Information (COI) with the release of two reports on Afghanistan and one on the Gambia as part of the announced intention to develop reports on “important countries of origin”...