Hungary: Constitutional Court fails to give sufficient protection to people and organisations working to protect the rights of asylum seekers
On March 5 the Constitutional Court of Hungary ruled on a complaint from Amnesty International Hungary, the Hungarian Helsinki Committee and the Open Society Foundations on the constitutionality of the so called ‘Stop Soros’ package. According to the Hungarian...
Serbia: Report on the Right to Asylum in 2018
The Belgrade Centre for Human Rights (BCHR) has published the seventh annual report on the right to asylum in the Republic of Serbia, containing an overview and analysis of the protection of refugees in the country in 2018. The report is based on information the BCHR...AIDA 2018 Update: Slovenia*
The updated AIDA Country Report on Slovenia provides the latest developments in the country concerning the asylum procedure, reception conditions, detention and content of international protection. Asylum procedure In 2018 no legislative changes were made, however the...AIDA 2018 Update: Ireland*
The updated AIDA Country Report on Ireland tracks the latest developments and challenges faced by the Irish asylum system in the procedure and reception, months after the first-ever transposition of the recast Reception Conditions Directive into domestic law. Asylum...
Administrative Assistant internship
ECRE is offering a position of Administrative Assistant (6 months renewable – convention immersion professionnelle) with the ECRE UNHCR Strategic Partnership Unit starting as soon as possible. The purpose of this position is to assist with all practical and...
Op-ed: How to Design Fair and Efficient Asylum Procedures in Populist Times?
By Dr. Constantin Hruschka, Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy in Munich As of today, 1 March 2019, the new asylum procedure will be implemented in Switzerland. It offers independent, free legal aid for asylum seekers...
Op-ed: The Rights of Minors – UN Condemns Spain’s Push-Backs and Demands Legal Amendments
By Hanaa Hakiki and Vera Wriedt, European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights “Foreigners detected on the territorial border line of Ceuta and Melilla while trying to overcome the border elements to cross irregularly may be rejected in order to prevent their...
EU-ALS Summit Overshadowed by AU Document Thwarting EU Plans for ‘Disembarkation Platforms’
In a leaked African Union (AU) position paper, African States reinforce their unwillingness to host regional disembarkation platforms. The paper that was leaked during the European Union (EU) – Arab League of States (ALS) gathering in Egypt, where many of its...