26 June 2015 On Friday 19 June at a speech at the GLOBSEC Forum in Slovakia, UK Prime Minister David Cameron announced a ‘modest expansion’ to the national resettlement scheme for particularly vulnerable people fleeing Syria. The Vulnerable Person’s Relocation scheme...
26 June 2015 The UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women, Rashida Manjoo, calls for better protection for women seeking asylum in the UK, citing concerns about the adequacy of assessments about experiences of gender-based violence. Manjoo’s report was...
19 June 2015 On 12 June 2015, a High Court judge found that the Rules for appeals under the Detained Fast Track system in the UK were unlawful, following a challenge brought by the NGO, Detention Action. The Home Office allocates asylum cases to the Detained Fast...
12 June 2015 Contributing to the European Network on Statelessness (ENS) conference on childhood statelessness in Europe, Khrystyna Kolesen presented her paper, ‘Tackling childhood statelessness in Ukraine’. She outlined the situation that currently exists in Ukraine,...
20 March 2015 The new AIDA report on Poland, written by ECRE member the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, underlines that many Ukrainian citizens had their asylum applications rejected in Poland in 2014. In 2014, asylum applications from Ukrainian citizens reached...
