17 January 2014 On 16 January, the Belgian Constitutional Court partially annulled Belgian asylum law, in the context of an appeal brought by an alliance of Belgian refugee and human rights organisations – among others the Flemish Refugee Action, Ligue des Droits de...
17 January 2014 EU High Representative Catherine Ashton has condemned the approval by the Ukrainian Parliament yesterday of “several pieces of legislation restricting the Ukrainian citizens’ fundamental rights (…) hurriedly passed in an apparent disrespect of...
17 January 2014 Applications are invited from applicants with an interest in pursuing a PhD in any area of Law in which the School is able to offer supervision. Applicants must have at a minimum either a very good upper-second-class or first-class undergraduate degree...
10 January 2014 This week, ECRE has joined UNHCR in urging EU countries not to send asylum seekers to Bulgaria under the Dublin Regulation. In its Observations on the Current Situation of Asylum in Bulgaria, UNHCR considers that asylum seekers in Bulgaria face a real...
10 January 2014 The European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) has published a new report which examines the effectiveness of EU Member States’ responses to counter racism, discrimination, intolerance and extremism, and identifies the barriers which may be...
10 January 2014 In an Update to its position on returns to Mali, UNHCR considers that the situation in southern Mali has normalised sufficiently for UNHCR to withdraw their call for suspension of forcible returns to this part of the country for persons who had their...
10 January 2014 The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that the deportation from Switzerland of a political opponent of the Sudanese government to Sudan would expose him to a risk of ill-treatment contrary to Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights...
10 January 2014 UNHCR announced on 3 January 2014 that due to violence in Central African Republic (CAR) more than 935,000 persons, 60% of whom are children, have been forced to seek safety in another part of their country. According to UNHCR, at the close of 2013,...
10 January 2014 The Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund (AMIF), just backed by the European Parliament’s Civil Liberties committee, has a total budget of € 3.1 billion for 2014-2020. The bulk of the funds, €2.7 billion, are destined for national level programmes,...
10 January 2014 On 16 December 2013, France’s Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons (OFPRA) added Albania, Kosovo, and Georgia to the list of safe countries of origin. Applications submitted by asylum seekers from countries of origin included on...
