14th November 2014 | News
A real risk of persecution exists where a military personnel refuses to perform service on the basis of a conscientious belief that there is a direct link between his acts and the reasonable likelihood that war crimes will occur, concludes Advocate General Sharpston...
14th November 2014 | News
Two new reports by the European Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) reveal grave and widespread deficiencies in identifying persons in need of international protection and preventing violations of the absolute prohibition of non-refoulement at airport and land borders...
14th November 2014 | News
The European Committee of Social Rights has found that the Netherlands is violating the rights of irregular migrants under the European Social Charter. In particular, as the large majority of undocumented adult migrants without resources who have not been returned are...
14th November 2014 | News
The European Court of Human Rights found that the detention conditions endured by a Bangladeshi national, Mr Toiabali MD, at the aliens’ police department in Thessaloniki amounted to a violation of Article 3 of the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR), which...
14th November 2014 | News
A study commissioned by the Civil Liberties Committee (LIBE) of the European Parliament examines the need and potential for new approaches to ensure access to protection for asylum seekers, including joint processing and distribution of asylum applicants among EU...