9th September 2013 | News
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has decided that deporting a Somali asylum seeker, whose claim had been rejected, back to Somalia would not violate Articles 2 and 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights (right to life and prohibition of torture and...
9th September 2013 | News
The European Court of Human Rights(ECtHR) decided in I v Sweden that the deportation of a Chechen family to Russia would give rise to violation of Article 3 (prohibition of torture and of inhuman or degrading treatment) of the European Convention on Human Rights. The...
9th September 2013 | News
In the same week as the number of refugees from Syria reached a devastating record of 2 million people, Sweden announced it will grant a permanent residence permit to Syrians seeking asylum in Sweden. 12,000 refugees who are currently in Sweden can benefit from this...
9th September 2013 | News
There is still a long way to go in the establishment of a fair and efficient Common European Asylum System despite more than 12 years of harmonising national asylum policies and the adoption of the ‘asylum package’ in June 2013. Research published today by the...