11 July 2014 “If Europeans are serious about preventing tragedies at sea, they should admit that the lack of legal ways is what is forcing people to travel illegally and lose their lives.” As the news of refugees fleeing war and oppression and arriving at European...
11 July 2014 A report published this week by UNHCR sheds light on the struggles of Syria’s refugee women who are taking care of their families alone, as their husbands were killed, captured or are still in Syria. According to the UN Agency, 145,000 Syrian refugee...
11 July 2014 What is statelessness? What are its causes and consequences? What is the legal framework and what can be done to address it? To answer these questions, UNHCR has just launched its first public online course on statelessness. At the end of the course,...
11 July 2014 A new report by Amnesty International entitled The Human Cost of Fortress Europe, highlights how EU policies and border control practices are preventing refugees from accessing asylum in the EU and putting their lives at risk. In order to prevent the...
11 July 2014 The European Asylum Support Office (EASO) has published this week its Annual Report on the Situation of Asylum in the European Union. In 2013, 435,760 people applied for international protection in the EU – an increase of 30% when compared to 2012. ...
11 July 2014 Following amendments to the draft bill, a new asylum law entered into forced last week in Portugal, in order to transpose the Qualifications Directive, Asylum Procedures Directive and the Reception Conditions Directive. A draft law backed by the...
11 July 2014 A new report shows that early quality legal advice for asylum seekers improves the quality of decisions and increases the confidence of all parties in the decision making process. The study by the Irish Refugee Council, Asylum Aid, the Estonian Human...
11 July 2014 The Norwegian Directorate of Immigration and Immigration Appeals Board announced last month a suspension of forced returns of migrants to eight of the 19 provinces of Iraq, in view of ‘the deteriorating and unpredictable security situation in Iraq’. Until...
11 July 2014 An amendment to the guidelines issued by the Norwegian Director of Public Prosecutions orders police to cease their practice of criminalising asylum seekers who do not ‘immediately’ admit they have used false identity papers. The revised guidelines...
11 July 2014 Although the Athens Administrative Court of First Instance ruled on 23 May that indefinite detention of migrants violates national, European and International Law, migrants in detention centres and police stations across the country, including in the...
