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...
4 July 2014 The EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) and the European Commission released a handbook this week aimed at improving national guardianship systems for children deprived of parental care in Europe. The handbook specifically addresses the particular needs...
4 July 2014 In its latest report on the state of asylum in Serbia, the Belgrade Centre for Human Rights (BCHR) raises concerns regarding asylum seekers’ access to Serbian territory and asylum procedures. BCHR stresses that in 2013, Belgrade airport officers recognised...
4 July 2014 An 18 month programme for the work of the Council of the European Union has been prepared by the Italian, Latvian and Luxembourg governments. In the field of asylum, the current Italian Presidency of the Council, along with the future terms of Latvia and...
4 July 2014 The updated AIDA report on Poland, compiled by ECRE member organisation Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, highlights that as of 1 May 2014, with the entry into force of the new Law on Foreigners, asylum seekers who receive a negative decision on their...
4 July 2014 The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled that the return of an Afghan asylum seeker from Austria to Hungary under the Dublin Regulation would not violate Article 3 (prohibition of inhuman or degrading treatment) of the European Convention on...
4 July 2014 At a meeting of 42 States on resettlement of Syrian refugees last Friday 27 June, Belgium, Ireland, Switzerland and Uruguay pledged 565 new resettlement or humanitarian admission places for Syrian refugees. Belgium announced that it will resettle 75...
