UNHCR has announced that its registration activities for applicants for international protection in Turkey will end on 10 September 2018, as part of the transition of refugee status determination responsibility to the Turkish Directorate General for Migration...
In an unprecedented move, the International Criminal Court (ICC) ruled last week that it has jurisdiction over the deportation of Rohingya from Myanmar to Bangladesh. They will be investigating whether the actions of the Myanmar military allegedly committed against...
New legislation (Law n. 2018-778) was published yesterday, outlining France’s latest asylum and immigration reforms. The law amends several articles of the French Code of Entry and the Stay of Foreigners and the Right to Asylum (Ceseda), and although not immediately,...
The duration of asylum procedures is significantly increasing in the Netherlands, despite steady numbers of asylum seekers arriving in the country. According to a brief submitted to the Parliament (Tweede Kamer) by the Dutch Council for Refugees, the waiting time for...
The UN has revealed plans to dispatch teams to Austria and Italy in order to assess the treatment of asylum seekers and migrants, after reports of rising discriminatory violence. Newly-appointed UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, voiced concern...
The Advanced ELENA Course on “Refugee law in practice: from recognition to denial of protection” will take place on Friday 7 December and Saturday 8 December 2018. The Course will be held in Sana Malhoa Hotel in Lisbon, Portugal. This year the Advanced ELENA Course...
Next year’s European Parliament elections have become the talk of the town with pre-campaign campaigning taking place. It deserves our attention because of the important role the current European Parliament has played in the defence of refugee rights during its term....
A Court from Cadiz has reopened for the second time the investigation into the death of 14 people who were had tried to cross the border fence at the beach of Tarajal, that separates Ceuta (Spain) and Morocco, in 2014. It has ruled that the judge from Ceuta –...
The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) has published its updated report on the situation of people trying to reach safety in Europe via the Mediterranean. The Desperate Journeys report finds that the crossing has become even more deadly; the total number of people arriving in...
By Dr Yasmin Ibrahim, PhD (LSE), FRSA, SFHEA, Reader in the School of Business and Management, Queen Mary, University of London. The child refugee, particularly the unaccompanied child, remains a dilemmatic figure in the landscape of forced migration in the EU...
