The research paper ‘Follow the Money: Assessing the use of AMIF funding at the national level’ by ECRE and UNHCR, provides a thorough and critical analysis of the €3.1 billion Asylum, Migration & Integration Fund (AMIF) established by the EC for the period of...
Last Friday, French Defenseur des droits (similar to the function of Ombudsman) Jacques Toubon, made a recommendation to the French Prime Minister to revoke the Circular allowing the State to conduct administrative controls on all beneficiaries of emergency housing....
A ruling of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) on January 25 establishes that the use of psychological tests to determine sexual orientation “amounts to a disproportionate interference in the private life of the asylum seeker”. The Hungarian Helsinki...
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled that conditions in VIAL hotspot were not inhuman and that detention to inforce the EU-Turkey Statement was not arbitrary despite human rights concerns by organisations. On 25 January 2018, the ECtHR ruled in case J.R....
The Irish Department of Justice announced last week that it will grant asylum seekers access to the labour market through existing national employment legislation, a decision which experts warn will result in “exceptionally limited” opportunities. The proposals come...
On January 23 one day before scheduled to begin, Bangladeshi officials announced the postponement of a gradual repatriation aiming to return more than half a million Rohingya refugees from Bangladesh to Myanmar. The United Nations warns that necessary safeguards are...
The recent Belgian government crisis, the German coalition negotiations, the Italian election campaign, and Denmark’s government support agreement are all political situations in which the rights of asylum seekers and refugees are sacrificed in the interests of...
In its response to a request addressed to Prime Minister Andrej Plenković from Croatian MP Peđa Grbin to clarify investigative measures and results taken in relation to reports of abuse and push backs of refugees and migrants by Croatian police at the Serbian border,...
The Scottish Government is considering a change to its electoral system that could give refugees living in Scotland the right to vote. In a public consultation launched at the end of 2017, the government proposed extending the voting franchise for elections of the...
The Federal Administrative Court of Switzerland (FAC) has approved the right of asylum seekers to challenge the incorrect application of responsibility criteria under the Dublin Regulation. This marks a departure from from its previous case law and an alignment with...
