Photo by: Irish Refugee Council On 30 May 2017, the Irish Supreme Court delivered a landmark decision in case N.V.H. v. Minister for Justice and Equality and declared the absolute prohibition on seeking of employment for asylum seekers unconstitutional. The case...
On 25 May 2017, the UK Court of Appeal ruled that the UK Home Secretary has unlawfully refused entry to the UK to a group of refugee families who have spent more than 18 years at a British military base on Cyprus. The refugees were rescued from a fishing boat in the...
In 2015 EU Member States committed to relocate 160,000 asylum seekers from Greece and Italy. The target was first lowered to 98,000 and approaching the September deadline the figure has been further reduced to 33,000. While this is justified by the Commission on the...
The asylum reform streak continues in Austria, as a new legislative proposal on an aliens law amendment (FrÄG 2017, Part II) has been tabled before the Austrian parliament. The bill presents restrictions on residence, detention and penalties for non-compliance with...
The Fundamental Rights Agency of the European Union (FRA) recently published a report on access to education for asylum-seeking children based on their monthly data collection on migration in Europe. This information is especially important considering that for the...
The Swiss Federal Court delivered a ruling on 16 May 2017 finding that an Afghan family had been unlawfully detained pending a transfer to Norway under the Dublin Regulation. In October 2016, the authorities of the Zug canton transported the family to the airport to...
On 15 May 2017, the Italian Council of State annulled the transfer to Hungary of an asylum seeker under the Dublin Regulation, confirming its previous position expressed in September 2016. The judgment reaffirmed the deteriorated situation of asylum seekers in Hungary...
Moroccan civil society organisations have called for the protection of group of Syrian refugees stranded at the Algerian-Moroccan since April 19. According to Human Rights Watch the group includes 55 people, 20 of them children and two pregnant women and is without...
Last week the German parliament passed a reform of the asylum law introducing far-reaching changes affecting data protection of asylum seekers, residence restrictions and prolongation of detention custody. The new legal changes introduce stricter obligations on asylum...
In the past week, both UNICEF and ECRE member, Hungarian Helsinki Committee have released reports on the plight of asylum seeking children confirming that the system is failing refugee and migrant children. Deprived, unprotected, and often alone, children on the move...
