By Dr. Mark Doidge is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Brighton. He is also Director for the Anti-Discrimination Division of Football Supporters Europe (FSE). He has conducted research projects called ‘Refugees Welcome’: Football fans and community in...
Lucy Frazer, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Justice, announced yesterday the decision to amend the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offender Act to reinstate legal aid for non-asylum immigration cases for unaccompanied and asylum separated children....
Horst Seehofer has managed to illustrate the inhumanity and futility of Europe’s return policy with a “joke” about the deportation of 69 people on his 69th birthday. The numbers no longer match: one of the group committed suicide after being returned to Afghanistan....
The latest AIDA Legal Briefing analyses European countries’ national legal frameworks and practice on the reduction and withdrawal of reception conditions of asylum seekers under the recast Reception Conditions Directive. It identifies circumstances in which the...
Last week the French Constitutional Council delivered a landmark decision which ruled the so-called “crime of solidarity” (délit de solidarité), which criminalises a person who facilitates the irregular entry, should not be charged for any act provided for...
On 6 July 2018, Ireland adopted the European Communities (Reception Conditions) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 231 of 2018) through it which transposed the recast Reception Conditions Directive into domestic law. The Regulations place reception conditions on statutory footing...
As EU member states interior ministers attended an informal meeting of Justice and Home Affairs Ministers to discuss migration and external border security, the situation on the Mediterranean continues to worsen with the death toll rising and two Italian vessels...
The UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Myanmar has warned that Rohingya refugees will be unable to return to Myanmar anytime in the near future, because of the Government’s intractability in reversing discriminatory policies. Speaking...
The Spanish Supreme Court condemned today the Spanish Government for partially failing to meet its obligation to relocate a total of 19,449 asylum seekers from Greece and Italy between 2015 and 2017. The Court recalled the mandatory nature of the Relocation...
A Circular issued by the Italian Ministry of Interior on 4 July 2018 has instructed Territorial Commissions for International Protection to restrict the granting of humanitarian protection statuses to asylum seekers. The Circular was sent to the Territorial...
