19 June 2015 A new AIDA report on Turkey, the 18th AIDA country, contains detailed information on the country’s two protection systems: the Turkish asylum procedure established by the 2013 Law on Foreigners and International Protection (LFIP) and the temporary...
19 June 2015 The German federal government has asked state authorities to implement a simplified process for handling applications for family reunification from Syrians, as its embassies face increasingly long lines for visas. The local authorities are being asked to...
19 June 2015 A policy paper published by the European Alliance for Human Rights in North Korea (EAHRNK) stresses that North Korean asylum seekers escaping grave human rights abuses cannot always find protection in South Korea. Therefore, when assessing their need for...
19 June 2015 Within the framework of the ‘Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD) 2015’, ECRE member International Catholic Migration Commission (ICMC) is organising the GFMD Civil Society Days (CSD), which will take place between 12 and 14 October 2015 at...
19 June 2015 The European Asylum Support Office (EASO) has published a detailed report on the situation relating to Eritrea. It indicates that possibly there are difficulties in making decisions on applications by Eritreans, taking into account that, at the end of...
19 June 2015 On 12 June 2015, a High Court judge found that the Rules for appeals under the Detained Fast Track system in the UK were unlawful, following a challenge brought by the NGO, Detention Action. The Home Office allocates asylum cases to the Detained Fast...
19 June 2015 Austrian Interior Minister, Johanna Mikl-Leitner, has recently issued a document instructing civil servants dealing with asylum requests to stop processing new cases, including family reunification cases. New asylum claims will be registered, but no...
19 June 2015 The UNHCR Global Trends annual report, released this week, has revealed that worldwide displacement is at the highest level ever recorded since detailed record-keeping began. War, conflict, persecution, and human rights violations have forced people to...
12 June 2015 The Court of Justice of the EU has given a judgment which clarifies the ability of EU Member States to set integration requirements for non-EU long term residents. The case related to a complaint by two long-term residents in the Netherlands, who were...
12 June 2015 Contributing to the European Network on Statelessness (ENS) conference on childhood statelessness in Europe, Khrystyna Kolesen presented her paper, ‘Tackling childhood statelessness in Ukraine’. She outlined the situation that currently exists in Ukraine,...
