Ireland adopted a new list of safe countries of origin on 16 April 2018, designating Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, FYROM, Kosovo, Montenegro, Serbia, Georgia and South Africa as safe countries of origin. Asylum seekers coming from safe countries of origin can have...
On 24 April 2018, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruled in case C-353/16 MP that a person who has in the past been tortured in his country of origin is eligible for subsidiary protection if he faces a real risk of being intentionally deprived, in...
A recent decree issued by the Syrian regime which could see people having to provide evidence of land or property ownership in areas of Syria raises serious concerns of the ramifications for internally displaced persons (IDPs) and refugees. The Syrian regime issued...
A delegation of UN Security Council officials have this week concluded a four-day visit to Myanmar and Bangladesh to witness first-hand the plight of the Rohingya refugees. Meeting with national authorities from both countries, the 15 Ambassadors to the Security...
The Council of Europe’s expert group on human trafficking have expressed concern at the lack of efforts being made to identify victims of trafficking amongst the asylum seekers and irregular migrants in Hungary. In a report released last week, the Council of Europe’s...
The international conference on support to Syria took place in Brussels this week, with the EU’s High Representative Federica Mogherini reiterating EU support for UN-led peace efforts and continuing its efforts to bring in more money to deal with the effects of the...
On April 22 a divided French National Assembly (lower house of the French Parliament) has approved a controversial Immigration law including doubling the maximum period of administrative detention and shortened deadlines for filing asylum claims and appealing...
Over a thousand people have crossed the Evros river, marking the land border between Turkey and Greece, since March this year. Last week over one hundred people arrived each day and 340 people arrived on Tuesday alone. This has led to concerns from authorities and...
According to German Minister of Development, Gerd Müller, German and Iraqi authorities have agreed to work closely on the repatriation of rejected asylum seekers. The aim is to repatriate 10,000 of the 12,000 rejected asylum seekers in Germany. Germany has pledged 1.3...
On Monday, Italy’s Supreme Court rejected an appeal against the seizure of the Iuventa, a rescue ship operated by the German NGO Jugend Ruttet (‘Youth Rescue’). The vessel was seized last summer after an investigation by the Italian authorities into the operation of...
