22nd November 2013 | News
Melissa Phillips at a detention centre for migrants, Libya ©Danish Refugee Council “There needs to be some resettlement opportunities for refugees in Libya, because until such time they will continue to get on boats, as their only chance of finding permanent...
22nd November 2013 | News
Spanish newspaper El País has shown this week that the Spanish Guardia Civil (Spanish policing authorities) continues to push back migrants to Morocco from Melilla, the Spanish city on the northern coast of Morocco. These renewed revelations were made through the...
22nd November 2013 | News
On 13 November, the Bulgarian government adopted a draft bill, amending Bulgaria’s Asylum Law to introduce systematic detention of asylum seekers arriving irregularly on Bulgarian territory. The draft bill, that will become law if approved by the Parliament, renders...
15th November 2013 | News
When a Member State is prohibited from returning an asylum seeker under the Dublin II Regulation to a country where the applicant would be at risk of being ill-treated, the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) held yesterday that the Member State is not obliged to assume...
15th November 2013 | News
A new report released this week by the International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims (IRCT) revealed that many developed countries still do not have the proper policies in place to ensure that victims of torture are not re-traumatised by the asylum process...
15th November 2013 | News
UNHCR Greece has this week demanded clarification from Greek authorities regarding the whereabouts of 150 Syrian refugees, among them many families with children. The refugees were being held in police custody but were later taken by the authorities to an unknown...
15th November 2013 | News
The Governments of Kenya and Somalia and UNHCR have signed a tripartite agreement earlier this week which intends to provide for a legal framework for the voluntary repatriation of Somali refugees from Kenya and their reintegration in Somalia. According to UNHCR,...
12th November 2013 | News
Speaking at the conference “Shifting EU borders and the access to international protection”, Member of the European Parliament (MEP) Cecilia Wikström regretted that “[t]he EU asylum system is only accessible for those who manage to reach the European Union...
12th November 2013 | News
“The EU externalisation of border control policies has a deleterious effect on human rights, in particular the right to leave a country, which is a prerequisite to the enjoyment of other rights – most importantly, the right to seek asylum”, Commissioner for...
12th November 2013 | News
The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) declined in its ruling in X, Y and Z that the criminalisation of consensual same-sex activity, as such, constitutes ‘persecution’ for the purposes of EU asylum law. In its judgment, the CJEU ruled that asylum seekers...
