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ISSN 2049-2650
Editorial Team: Nejla Sammakia, Christian Jorgensen, Cristina de Nicolás Izquierdo, Nicolas Parent, Taylor Brooks, Sirak Akalu Iyassu, Lucia Slot, Adam Severson, Nastassja White, Lena Becker, Muchengeti Hwacha, Saskia Llewellyn and Rosa da Costa.
Chief Editor: Fiona McKinnon
July 2021
In this issue:
Articles & Short Pieces
- Can refugee scholars hold the line? Why the theoretical line that separates forced migrants from other persons on the move may not be sustainable
- The UN’s refugee data shame
- Climate migrants: How German courts take the environment into account when considering non-refoulement
- Disasters, climate change and refugee law
- What does “credible fear” really mean?
- On the difference that Turkey’s geographical limitation to the 1951 Convention makes in the protection of non-European refugees
- Pushbacks from Cyprus to Lebanon lead to chain refoulement to Syria
- The peripheral role of the global refugee regime in Southern Africa: Protection challenges in urban spaces
- Refugee responsibility sharing or responsibility dumping?
- Resettling refugees in other countries is not reliable, nor is it fair. So, why is Australia doing it?
- Why do Tamil asylum seekers need protection – and why does the Australian government say they don’t?
- Australia’s Migration Amendment (Clarifying International Obligations for Removal) Act 2021: A case study in the importance of proper legislative process
- What is the difference between refugee status and humanitarian protection in the UK?
- The legacy caseload in Australia
- The “Biloela family” was released into community detention – what is it and how does it fit into Australia’s asylum system?
- Fact check: Is sea rescue a pull factor for refugees?
Detention and Deportation News
Case Notes
- India’s problematic stance on non-refoulement: The deportation of Rohingyas
- US Court of Appeals finds that immigration judges must affirmatively develop the record for certain asylum seekers
- UK Home Office accidentally discriminates against trafficking victims with kids
- US Board of Immigration Appeals finds mere continuation of an activity does not warrant new asylum claim
- US Attorney General Garland vacates decisions restricting access to asylum for domestic violence and gang-related claims
- English Channel crossings: Prosecutors drop charges against 11 migrants for steering small boats
- Lawyer calls for Iceland Justice Minister’s resignation, refugees denied return to former housing
- US Supreme Court united against “magic words” and judge-made rules on asylum seekers’ credibility
- Australian Federal Court awards AUD 350,000 to unlawfully detained asylum seeker, opening door to further claims
- Housing migrants at Napier Barracks unlawful, UK court rules
- Game-changer for Sri Lankan Tamil activists seeking asylum in the UK
Opinion/Editorial
- Europe should listen more to Africa on migration
- If you think Australia making an example of a sick three-year-old is an exception, think again. This is what we do.
- Asylum seekers in Australia: Locked up and let out without support
- New Zealand has one of the lowest numbers of refugees per capita in the world — there is room for many more
- US immigration detention has now been referred to as “torture” — the US government will surely have to pay reparations
- How to make the US asylum system efficient and fair
- The US is failing to protect pregnant asylum seekers
- Vietnamese refugees found a home in the US — Afghans deserve no less
- South Africa’s patchwork treatment of refugees and asylum seekers shows much to be done to ensure human rights for all
- South Africa aggravates the plight of refugees and asylum seekers for higher education funding
- Don’t turn away from these images and these crimes in Tigray
- Myanmar National Unity Government: Appoint an ethnic-Rohingya envoy to implement new policy
- The New Plan for Immigration: Blaming the wrong people leads to proposing the wrong solutions to the wrong problems
Announcements
June 2021
In this issue:
Articles & Short Pieces
- Shelter from the storm: Policy options to address climate induced displacement from the Northern Triangle
- Refugee camps can wreak enormous environmental damages. Should source countries be liable for them?
- Climate change and asylum law
- Time for a reset to address the principal cause of asylum
- Rethinking international protection: Rescue at sea as a model?
- Artificial Intelligence in migration: Its positive and negative implications
- European strategy on voluntary return and reintegration advances action within bloc, leaves more to discuss with countries of migrant origin
- Indian Supreme Court’s stance on the deportation of Rohingya refugees violates international law
- India is chipping away at its past generosity towards refugees
- A tale of legal violence and systematic oppression: Indian Supreme Court orders the deportation of Rohingyas
- Indefinite detention of refugees is unlawful under international law, but Australia has quietly made it legal
- Joint statement from refugee law organisations in response to the Australian Migration Amendment Bill 2021
- “New” and “old” refugees navigate emerging political economic realities in Lebanon’s Chatila camp
- The Jordan Compact: A model for burden-sharing in the refugee crisis
- Remarks by Kenneth Roth on the situation of Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslim minorities in Xinjiang
Comments and Critiques of the UK’s New Plan for Immigration:
- The UK Home Office’s New Plan for Immigration: Coherence with the UN Global Compacts on Migration and Refugees?
- Over-criminalization and digitalization in UK’s New Plan for Immigration: A securitized and disproportionate approach
- Response to the Home Office consultation on a New Plan for Immigration: Addressing “illegal immigration”
- The UK’s New Plan for Immigration’s “differentiated approach to asylum claims”: Denial of access to status determination and protection
- The UK’s New Plan for Immigration: A return to detained fast track of asylum seekers?
- “Testing the ‘well-founded fear of persecution’”: Changes proposed by the UK’s New Plan for Immigration incompatible with refugee law
- The overcriminalization of facilitation of illegal entry: The dangers of the symbolic application of criminal law to deter irregular migration in the New Plan for Immigration
- The UK’s New Plan for Immigration: “Protecting those fleeing persecution, oppression and tyranny”
- The UK’s New Plan for Immigration and the risks of extending temporary protection status
- The dangers of penalising irregular arrivals: Lessons from the Australian model of offshore processing
- Entrenching invisibility and creating vulnerability: The absence of disability in UK’s New Plan for Immigration
- Age assessment in UK’s New Plan for Immigration: Something old, something new, something borrowed… something blue?
Detention and Deportation News
Case Notes
- Australia’s cruelty to refugees: Which legal ‘straw’ might break the camel’s back?
- Canada taken to court over COVID policy that pushes asylum-seekers to US
- US Supreme Court considers the future for thousands of people with TPS
- Revocation of refugee status does not automatically allow deportation
- UK Home Office can make exceptions to rules stopping asylum seekers working
- UK Home Office can’t just ignore potential persecution even if there is no asylum claim
- How important are FGM Protection Orders in asylum claims?
- Greece accused of ‘shocking’ illegal pushback against refugees at sea
- Matteo Salvini to face trial over standoff with migrant rescue ship
- “Hand on the tiller” prosecution for assisting unlawful immigration fails
- Prosecutions for assisting unlawful immigration in small boats cases: The key to acquittal
- Communicated cases against France
- Communicated cases against Sweden
- Netherlands: Council of State rules assessment of Mongolia as a safe country of origin for LGBTI persons inadequate
- Croatia: Constitutional Court rules that Serbia cannot be deemed a safe third country
- Estonia: Supreme Court rules detention of international protection applicant unlawful
- Germany: Higher Administrative Court cancels return of beneficiary of international protection to Greece
- Germany: Administrative Court of Munich finds EU law precedes over any bilateral agreement between Germany and Greece
- France: Council of State rules detention conditions at French-Italian border police premises do not violate asylum applicants’ rights
Opinion/Editorial
- Climate change will force us to rethink migration and asylum
- It’s time for answers for Africa’s “climate refugees”
- Cities are at the front lines of climate and migration
- The Dominican Republic wants to build a border wall. It should learn from America’s mistakes.
- Denmark’s plans to send asylum-seekers to Rwanda “unconscionable and potentially unlawful”
- The EU efforts to repatriate Afghan asylum seekers are dangerous
- Europe is failing refugees and migrants. We have become too numb to the graveyard in the Mediterranean.
- Israel must not be allowed to continue its rampage against Palestinians
- Life at the edge of disaster: What it means to start over – again and again
- A lucrative border-industrial complex keeps the US border in constant “crisis”
- Biden must rebuild the US refugee resettlement program
- UK Home Office should seek to remove barriers faced by stateless children born in the UK rather than making it more difficult for them to acquire British citizenship
- Why the UK’s asylum plan won’t fix the Channel crossings “crisis”
Announcements
May 2021
In this issue:
Articles & Short Pieces
- Why Kenya is on thin ice in its justification for sending Somali refugees back home
- G7 Foreign Ministers’ Statement on the situation in Tigray, Ethiopia
- Thailand’s National Screening Mechanism, refugee protection, and the human rights crisis in Myanmar
- Private contractors at Australian onshore and offshore processing centres
- UNHCR calls on Myanmar’s neighbours to protect people fleeing violence
- Why must Central American asylum seekers risk their lives to reach the US? There is an alternative
- What does internal displacement mean? Opening the pandora’s box. Reflections from the Latin American Network on Internal Displacement
- Revisiting and going beyond the EU-Turkey migration agreement of 2016: an opportunity for Greece to overcome being just “Europe’s aspis”
- A step towards a fair asylum policy in Europe
- Denmark’s extraterritorial asylum vision
- Brexit, costs and Dublin III judicial reviews
- In light of the spread of COVID-19 in immigration detention centres, reconsider the detention approach to migration
- From structural vulnerability to resilience: A reflexive essay on refugee-led responses to COVID-19 in the UK
Case Notes
- UN Committee of the Rights of the Child report violations of CRC concerning medical age determination case in Spain
- K.I. v. France: ECtHR finds deportation of refugee after status revoked to be in violation of Article 3 ECHR
- M.T. v. the Netherlands: ECtHR deems complaint regarding Dublin transfer of single mother to Italy inadmissible
- US Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals denies petition of El Salvadoran woman fearing gang violence
- US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on feminist political opinion
- US Board of Immigration Appeals finds appeal of Russian claimant credible
- Federal court finds pact allowing Canada to return asylum claimants to US constitutional
- Afghan asylum seeker wins Australian High Court case against Immigration Minister
Opinion/Editorial
- The wrong answer to the right question: How to address the failure of protection for gender-based claims?
- US asylum law must protect women
- Restoring asylum: The challenges of “building back better” at the border
- Ethiopia: Sadism is the most shocking part of the war in Tigray
- Why sticking to the Refugee Convention still matters
- The film Toy Story shows us how Priti Patel’s new asylum proposals work
- An immigration agenda for Australia’s new Home Affairs minister
Announcements
- Migration Policy Institute, Robert Bosch Foundation launch initiative aimed at redesigning the humanitarian protection and resettlement infrastructure
- Refugees International launches task force on climate change and migration
- New CLINIC-United Stateless joint partnership to address statelessness
- Conferences, courses and workshops
- Vacancies
- Grants and scholarships
April 2021
In this issue:
Articles & Short Pieces
- Can regional refugee definitions help protect people displaced by climate change in Latin America?
- How does border externalization relate to the climate emergency?
- Recognition of climate refugees: What should be India’s stand?
- The hidden dangers of displacement: Landmines and other explosive ordinance
- Weaponising geography on the Greek-Turkish border
- Look both ways: Future and historical perspectives on the Refugee Convention at 70
- Naming what matters: Recognition of gender as a protected classification for refugee law
- Determining political opinion: Problems and solutions
- The problem with “credibility” as a concept in asylum cases
- What asylum seekers and their lawyers need from President Biden: Predictability
- Removing barriers to family unity for holders of Temporary Protected Status: An opportunity for Biden administration
- Biden administration is making quick progress on asylum, but a long, complicated road lies ahead
- This is what it’s like to be a lawyer working for stateless people in the UK
- Syria: Ten years of multiple hardships for Palestine refugees
- Somalis and Yemenis of mixed origin stranded and struggling in Jordan’s capital
- Easy prey for traffickers: Rohingya refugees’ vulnerability will only increase from now
- Does the UK’s policy of deterring asylum seekers actually work?
- Book Review: Amir’s Blue Elephant by Melissa Hekkers
Case Notes
- Judge warns medevac refugees’ detention by Australian government may be unlawful
- UK Supreme Court reiterates that a refugee cannot be removed until claim is assessed
- Witness to state murder gets second chance to argue for asylum in the UK
- European Court of Human Rights rules that asylum-seeking family’s rights were violated in Röszke transit zone at the border of Hungary and Serbia
- Putting migrants in COVID-ridden barracks in the UK constitutes a human rights breach rules European Court of Human Rights
- European Court of Human Rights communicates cases against Poland
- Kuala Lumpur High Court grants leave to proceed with judicial review of the Malaysian government’s decision to deport 1,200 Myanmar nationals
- US First Circuit Court of Appeals on removal proceedings based on changed country circumstances
- US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on the firm resettlement bar
- US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on particular social groups
Opinion/Editorial
- The human cost of war in Yemen and Ethiopia
- New refugee hosting models will bolster Kenya’s war on terrorism
- Scapegoating of refugees endangers not just them but Kenyans too
- Time for international re-engagement in Western Sahara
- Authorities must end arbitrary arrests and persecution of journalists in Puntland
- Malaysia’s forced deportations cannot be tolerated
- The rest of the world must acknowledge the impact of Rohingya refugees on Bangladesh
- Where were the protesters when the Rohingya were being murdered?
- India: Halt all forced returns to Myanmar
- Thailand: Stop border pushbacks, provide protection
- Why we cannot wait for a “European solution” to the Moria refugee camp
- The Guardian’s view on new UK asylum proposals: Incoherent, unworkable and inhumane
- The UK’s two-tier asylum plan treats refugees with cold indifference
- Why Priti Patel’s plans to overhaul the UK asylum system make no legal sense
- Ireland’s asylum system needs a complete overhaul. This plan does not go far enough.
- An overlooked detail in the border debate: The legal right to seek asylum in the US
- No amount of detention is safe for a child. Here are better solutions for migrant kids.
- One way Trump may have changed immigration forever
- How President Biden can make his commitment to refugees a reality
- Real needs, not fictitious crises account for the situation at US-Mexico border
- What comes next now that Colombia has taken a historic step on migration?
- Five years after Berta Cáceres was murdered, states are still failing to protect human rights defenders
Announcements
- The Unheard Project invites submissions from writers and artists with lived experience as refugees
- Conferences, courses and workshops
- Calls for papers
- Vacancies
March 2021
In this issue:
Articles & Short Pieces
- Why do we need further research on internal displacement?
- Humanitarian leadership: Developing social capital with affected populations
- Turning the narrative on disaster displacement in the Global South
- Global compacts on refugees and for migration and the future of climate change-induced displaced persons
- Starting early to address migration-related trauma
- Statement of UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi on the situation of Eritrean refugees in Ethiopia’s Tigray region
- Race against time to help thousands of Central African refugees
- Confronting the negative repercussions of COVID-19 on refugees and asylum seekers in Tunisia
- Nigeria must rethink responses to women displaced by Boko Haram
- Should Hong Kong emigrants be called refugees?
- How should Australia respond to asylum seekers arriving by sea during the COVID-19 pandemic?
- Ending PACR/HARP: An urgent step toward restoring humane asylum policy in the US
- US government misleadingly posts enjoined asylum regs as if they are presently in effect
- Cooperation on refugees in Latin America and the Caribbean: The “Cartagena process” and South-South approaches
- A welcome reception? Interdiction, detention and deportation in the Dutch Caribbean
- The Commission’s proposal for a new Independent Monitoring Mechanism at the external border of the EU: A necessary but limited mechanism
- Thirty-eight organisations denounce the ongoing harassment against KISA and call on the Cypriot authorities to reinstate their official registration as NGO
- Statement on the death of writer Mushtaq Ahmed in jail while detained under the Digital Security Act in Bangladesh
Detention and Deportation News
Case Notes
- US Supreme Court to assess when to treat asylum seekers’ testimony as credible
- US federal judge rips Trump last-ditch effort to deport asylum seekers
- US 5th Circuit Court of Appeals deepens split on TPS and green card eligibility
- US 8th Circuit Court of Appeals on “serious reason for believing”
- US Board of Immigration Appeals on particular social group, individuals who cooperate with law enforcement
- US Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals on particular social group, former gang membership, particularity
- Unpublished US Second Circuit Court of Appeals decision on unwilling/unable
- Syrian rights group calls for ICC probe into Greece migrant abuse
- CJEU decision on cessation of protection for Somali refugees
- CJEU AG Hogan interprets Article 40(2) of the Procedures Directive
- Opinion of CJEU AG Rantos on the possibility of a remedy based on circumstances subsequent to a Dublin-transfer decision
- Court ruling on detention of Iranian man in Australia may clear path for release of 130 refugees
- Australia: Home Affairs ordered to pay asylum seekers over data breach
- Alan Tudge fights back against Australian asylum court judgement
- EU takes legal action against Hungary over NGO law
- Right to enter Italy for those who have been unlawfully pushed back to Bosnia
- Human Rights Committee on failure of Italian authorities to respond promptly to distress calls from sinking vessel
- German courts correct asylum decisions after 2018 scandal
- German Higher Administrative Court cancels removal of international protection beneficiary to Greece
- UK Government unlawfully denied refugee status to Egyptian dissident on national security grounds
- Stansted deportation flight protesters have convictions quashed
- Netherlands: Council of State suspends return to Greece on the basis of CJEU’s Ibrahim case
- Netherlands violates nationality rights: UN Human Rights Committee
- ECtHR: Communicated case against Belgium concerning Aghan asylum seeker
Opinion/Editorial
- Cameroon’s ethno-political tensions and Facebook are a deadly mix
- Time is running out: Urgent action needed to address humanitarian crisis in Tigray
- The Africans in exile who live in fear of transnational repression
- Malaysia: Investigate the return of 1,086 Myanmar nationals
- Where do the Rohingya go after the coup in Myanmar?
- Joint call for a global arms embargo on Myanmar
- Australia could show real contrition by offering Afghan victims’ families a pathway to resettlement
- Australia in focus at the UN Human Rights Council: Despite its history of support for human rights, a formal review offers a serious reality check
- Australia’s prosecution of refugee rally organiser for incitement could a have chilling effect
- The pandemic is no excuse to shut the door on refugee resettlement
- Matter of Pact: Speculating on the fate of the Pact
- How Biden can restore humanitarian protection at the border
- Refugees need clean energy help now
- When will refugees get a COVID-19 vaccine?
- Is COVID-19 an opportunity to achieve the rights of refugees?
Letters to the Editors
- Facing the third lockdown: The stories of asylum seekers in Israel
- Launch and publication of Displaced Voices special issue “In Their Own Voices: Making Visible Lives of Refugee Women In Kuala Lumpur”
Announcements
February 2021
In this issue:
Articles & Short Pieces
- What they don’t teach you in school about refugee law
- Caught in the crossfire: Challenges to migrant protection in the Yemeni and Libyan conflicts
- First nation in Asia to legislate an independent refugee law urged for responsible implementation of the 1951 Refugee Convention
- New UK approach to refugees and safe third countries
- Salvaging US refugee law in 2021: The case for tackling the problem of discretionary asylum
- Effects of the court order blocking the US deportation moratorium
- The implementation of the EU Return Directive: The European Parliament aligns the EU expulsion policy with recommendations of UN human rights expert mechanisms
- Beyond the social contract: Why we have a duty to protect refugees
- Refugee settlement in the age of COVID-19: Embracing the challenges to futureproof support services
- Ten conflicts to watch in 2021
Detention and Deportation News
Case Notes
- Non-binary identity can form basis of asylum claim, UK Upper Tribunal finds
- German court repeals more the 5,600 Afghan asylum rejections
- Australia’s national interest must be weighed when deporting refugees, court tells government
- US federal court blocks wide-ranging asylum limits, finding DHS chief did not have authority to issue them
- US Supreme Court vacates Ninth Circuit decision on bond for detained asylum seekers
- US federal appeals court blocks Trump order on refugee resettlement
- USCIS updates intake policies and halts application of the rejection policy in response to Vangala v. USCIS
- Acting US Attorney General issues decision clarifying Matter of A-B-, a case involving persecution by non-state actors
- US Appeals Court remands US military contractor case to the BIA for reconsideration
- European Court of Justice determines it is Impermissible to put forced removal of minors “on hold” to sidestep safeguards
- European Court of Justice issues judgment on protection in countries of origin
- European Court of Justice rules Hungary’s asylum policies violated EU law
- European Court of Human Rights communicates case to the Netherlands
- European Court of Human Rights communicates another case to Poland
- England and Wales Court of Appeals rejects lowering threshold for denying refugee status to extremists
- England and Wales Court of Appeal issues important decision on expert evidence and credibility determinations
- England and Wales Court of Appeal denies suicidal refugee’s date of birth appeal
- Legal action launched against UK Home Office plan to house asylum seekers at Yarl’s Wood
- UK Home Office can make exceptions to rules stopping asylum seekers working
Opinion/Editorial
- Ethiopia’s leader must answer for the high cost of hidden war in Tigray
- Rethinking asylum on a warming planet
- A missed opportunity: How Europe can better protect migrants with disabilities and mental health problems
- UNHCR calls for the EU to ensure a new chapter for refugee protection
- The US should reverse its Huthi terror designation
- CGRS comment on US Attorney General Decision in Matter of A-B-
- UK Government’s “inhuman” approach to immigration will not work and will cost more, says former Home Office Minister
- Systemic racism in the UK asylum housing system
Announcements
January 2021
In this Issue
Articles & Short Pieces
- Refugees are at risk from dystopian “smart border” technology
- Disappearing states, rising statelessness: The twin crises just around the corner
- South Africa’s Gauteng province moves to bar non-citizens from economic participation
- COVID-19 and refugee management in the Great Lakes region
- Hong Kong’s regressive legislative amendments risk undermining protection for refugees and asylum seekers
- Bangladesh: Halt Rohingya relocations to remote island
- Malaysia must pursue alternatives to immigration detention for children immediately
- A world in which facts matter
- Facts, reason, and benefit of the doubt
- The new EU Pact on Migration and Asylum brings the risk of new mega receptions centers such as Moria
- New statement of changes to the UK’s immigration rules: HC 1043
Detention and Deportation News
Case Notes
- UK: Major Upper Tribunal judgment on draft evaders and Ukraine
- UK High Court finally calls time on asylum accommodation delays
- UK: Asylum right to work policy unlawfully overlooks trafficking victims
- Gay hairdressers can safely relocate in Algeria, UK Court of Appeal holds
- New UK Civil Procedure Rules on translating witness statements catch claimant out
- Irish Supreme Court rules family reunification provisions not unconstitutional
- Spain: Constitutional Court deems special regime at its Moroccan border constitutional
- Finland: Supreme Administrative Court confirms the cessation of subsidiary protection due to change in personal circumstances
- US: Ninth Circuit issues an order vacating the BIA decision in Matter of E-R-A-L-
Opinion/Editorial
- A 70th birthday wish from the UN refugee agency: “Make us redundant.”
- No country, no future: The bleak plight of stateless children in South Africa
- Home minister’s initiative on statelessness in Malaysia must be made effective
- “What Europe is experiencing today, is not a humanitarian crisis, but a crisis of humanity.”
- Offshore processing didn’t work and Australia’s mistakes shouldn’t be repeated elsewhere
- Unfair rules punish asylum seekers and foreign key workers in the UK – it’s time for an overhaul.
- A sense of belonging in a context of exclusion in Greece
- TPS can promote stability and recovery for Central American countries hit by recent hurricanes
Letters to the Editors
- Letter from Aid Organization for Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Israel (ASSAF)
- Changes coming to Refuge, Canada’s Journal on Refugees, in 2021
Announcements
December 2020
In this issue :
Articles & Short Pieces
- Refugee lawyers in Egypt
- When refugees become migrants: State “cherry-picking” for refugee protection
- UN warns of impact of smart borders on refugees: “Data collection isn’t apolitical”
- Voices in limbo: The plight of asylum seekers and refugees in Hong Kong in times of COVID-19
- Persecuted, refuged and misgendered: No legal recognition for persecuted trans refugees in Hungary
- Time to bring an end to the eviction of failed asylum seekers in the UK
- Trafficked adult males and their recognition as members of a particular social group in the UK’s Upper Tribunal
- European refugee policy: What’s gone wrong and how to make it better
- Rethinking returns in the Migration Pact: How the EU can avoid creating new IDPs
- Secondary movements in the EU: Overcoming the lack of trust among the Member States?
- The EU’s “New Pact on Migration and Asylum” is missing a true foundation
- Asylos at 10: Opening Remarks at the Anniversary Conference
- Uniform and fair asylum procedures at the EU borders have not been achieved
- Thailand’s changing of the guard: Negotiating the transition from UNHCR Refugee Status Determination to a national refugee screening mechanism
- Refugees, refoulement and remedies: The South Asian scenario
- Coalition of 60 organizations launch campaign, giving Australia government June 2021 deadline to resettle refugees
- Political persecution in Syria and Eritrea: The use of country knowledge by German courts
- Legal procedures for Syrian refugees in Jordan
- The US Asylum Cooperation Agreements: A human rights conundrum
- The US government wants immigrants to show up for court—but neglects to tell them how to attend their hearings
- Why Québec’s refugee sponsorship suspension is so misguided
Detention and Deportation News
Case Notes
- CJEU calls flight from Syrian military grounds for asylum
- Immigration groups file lawsuit challenging Trump administration efforts to bar more from asylum in the US
- Judge declares unlawful and vacates US government’s asylum seeker “credible fear” standards
- Procedures for asylum and bars to asylum eligibility in the US
- Shift in the applicability of the suspension clause in the US Department of Homeland Security v Thuraissigiam
- UK government can deport people who had successfully appealed against deportation
- UK High Court orders emergency fix to asylum screening interviews
- EU executive takes action against Hungary over new asylum procedures
- Spain’s Constitutional Court backs express deportations
- ECHR: Deporting gay asylum seeker a violation of Article 3
- French National Court of Asylum considers passage through Kabul and Panjsher safe enough to reach Province of Parwan
- Women and children in South Africa hit by refugee office closure, court hears
Opinion/Editorial
- International community: Condemn mass disenfranchisement and irregularities in Myanmar’s elections
- Malaysia: End abusive immigration detention
- Hundreds of people detained in solitary confinement as a substitute for medical care in immigration facilities in the US—they must go free
- US President-elect Joe Biden’s statement on World Refugee Day
- A misrepresentation wrapped in a misunderstanding about immigration adjudication.
- When Trump says immigrants do not show up for court hearings, he could not be more wrong.
- Now is no time to cut refugee numbers
- Trump did not build his border wall with steel. He built it out of paper.
- Trump’s asylum and immigration policies must be rolled back
- Why the US State Department must reverse new policy of withholding refugee data from the public
- Rohingya refugees are being ignored
- The refugee crisis in South America is heartbreaking—children should never have to give up on their future
Announcements
- Recommendations for CGRS Expert Witness Database
November 2020
In this issue
Articles & Short Pieces
- The value of pro bono legal services in immigration detention
- Expert reports in asylum cases
- International refugee sponsorship programs: The current state of play
- What is externalization and why is it a threat to refugees?
- Dispatch from a refugee camp during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Recognition beyond RSD: Civil and legal documentation for Syrian refugees in Jordan
- The weak case against refugee resettlement
- The war over work permits
- Asylum denial rates in the US continue to climb in 2020: Judge-by-judge details
- Asylum outsourced: Private firms to carry out asylum seeker interviews in the UK
- Immigration detention becomes the rule in the new Greek law
- Refugees and asylum seekers: Was Australia’s federal budget a missed opportunity?
- Cut to Australian resettlement robs refugees of hope at a time of global crisis
- Mobile phones in detention in Australia
- A human right to seek refuge at Europe’s external borders: The ECtHR adjusts its case law in M.K. vs Poland
- A “fresh start” or one more clunker? Dublin and solidarity in the New Pact
- European Realpolitik: Legislative uncertainties and operational pitfalls of the ‘new’ Pact on Migration and Asylum
- Human rights accountability of Common Foreign and Security Policy missions on migration
- Bangladesh: Remove fencing that confines Rohingya to refugee camps
- Rohingya refugees’ safety must be ensured amid violent clashes in Cox’s Bazaar
- Moratorium on US deportations to Cameroon and review of all cases of Cameroonians in ICE custody
- Preventing trafficking in persons in Uganda: Critical reflections on the 11th anniversary of the Prevention of Trafficking in Persons Act
Detention and Deportation News
Case Notes
- UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention of asylum seekers in Japan
- Restrictions on asylum seekers’ access to work to be eased in Ireland
- Appeal court quashes UK policy of removing migrants with little warning
- Court of Appeal backs judge who ordered asylum seeker brought back to the UK
- Twenty-nine former US immigration judges and members of the Board of Immigration Appeals as amici curiae in support of asylee respondent
- US Board of Immigration Appeals issues expert witness testimony decision in asylum case
- US Immigration and Customs Enforcement implements July 2019 expedited removal designation
- Federal Judge suspicious of Trump officials hiking immigration fees
- US Supreme Court to decide on Trump’s ‘Remain in Mexico’ asylum policy
- Detention of a beneficiary of international protection with a view of a transfer to a Member State that granted such protection is permissible in the Netherlands
- ECHR: Communicated case against the Netherlands
- Highest court in Germany rules in favor of Mauritanian asylum seeker
- Judge says Australia coalition minister engaged in ‘criminal’ conduct over detention of Afghan asylum seeker
- Habeas corpus grant may aid other detainees in Australia
- Protection visas can be refused on character grounds under section 501 of the Australian Migration Action
Opinion/Editorial
- Nigeria is murdering its citizens
- Is South Africa ready for the next wave of xenophobic violence?
- Anti-refugee prejudice in the Western Cape: Solutions for hardship and hatred in South Africa
- Disingenuous, dishonest and dangerous: The EU Pact on Migration and Asylum
- Europe’s migration “crisis” is not about numbers. It’s about prejudice.
- Greece must reform its failed asylum policies now
- The Guardian view on UK asylum policy: Nasty, brutish and wrong
- British plans to “offshore” asylum seekers have a long and grubby history
- Priti Patel is blaming lawyers for her own hideous failures over refugees
- The Irish Times view on direct provision for asylum seekers in Ireland: A new system takes shape
- Trump’s refugee ceiling is bad for everyone but bigots
- Who are we leaving behind?
- The legacy of the asylum seeker phone ban in Australia
- World Bank can prevent a COVID-19 refugee disaster
Announcements
October 2020
In this issue :
Articles & Short Pieces
- Machine-readable refugees
- Climate change, disasters and the Refugee Convention
- UNHCR at 70: An uncertain future for the international refugee regime
- Which connection between the Greek-Turkish border, the Western Balkans route and the ECtHR’s judgment in ND and NT?
- The end of the road? Rejected asylum seekers in the Global South
- The Rohingya refugee crisis, international justice, and rethinking solutions
- Afghanistan is not safe: The Joint Way Forward means two steps back
- Collaboration and refugee protection in Thailand
- Resettlement can’t wait!
- Policies should better support people trapped in long-term refugee situations
- Why Uganda has suspended hundreds of refugee aid agencies
- Five reasons why sharing responsibility for refugees is smarter than ever in the time of COVID-19
- Lost in transit: Refugees stranded in a legal vacuum in Indonesia
- A closer look at repatriating the Rohingya
- I stopped two unlawful removals last week. How does that make me an “activist lawyer”?
- Hungary de facto removes itself from the Common European Asylum System
- Judicial dialogue about the Return Directive: Which role for courts in an era of executive governance?
Detention and Deportation News
Case Notes
- Judge says “Poppycock!” to Trump program that let US border patrol screen asylum applicants
- Whistleblowers say CBP knowingly broke the law as it turned back asylum seekers from the US
- US Attorney General decision on Matter of A-C-A-A-
- El Salvador asylum seeker wins appeal against tribunal decision
- Iranian asylum seeker fails to challenge UK Home Office certification of unfounded claim
- When can refugee children be returned to their home country under the Hague Convention?
- UK Upper Tribunal says there is no general risk to Nuba in Sudan
- Iraqi military doctor wins refugee exclusion appeal in the UK
- Inner House ducks test case on judicial review time limits
- Italy’s Council of State rules aid to Libya legal
- B.G. and others v. France: General living conditions in tent camp on a carpark do not violate Article 3 ECHR
- CJEU: Article 46 of the Procedures Directive does not preclude short time-limits in the case of subsequent applications
- AG Opinion on access to the labour market for asylum seekers subject to a Dublin transfer
- Germany: Court rules that corona does not influence the six-month time limit in Article 29(1) Dublin III
- The Netherlands: Tribunal ruling Dublin ‘Chain Rule’ no longer exists under Dublin III
Opinion/Editorial
- A law to deprive immigration detainees of their only contact: Australia’s shame before the world
- With borders shut, this is the ideal time to overhaul Australia’s asylum seeker policies
- It’s time the EU ended the cynical stalling game endangering lives in the Mediterranean
- Don’t blame refugees for the Moria fires, blame EU policy
- New Pact on migration: An exacerbation of past failures in shiny new packaging
- It’s time the EU restarts and scales up refugee resettlement after COVID-19
- Brutality against migrants has become normal on the EU’s lawless borders
- EU Pact on Migration: A “fresh start” for human rights violations
- The Guardian view on EU migration policy: Past time it had one
- The Channel “crisis” and the politics of compassion
- Greece: Transfer refugees and asylum seekers to safety on the mainland
- The Pact, Moria and beyond: Five reasons why
- The new eastern Mediterranean crisis
- Canada could provide a safe haven for refugees suffering US abuses
- Trump’s policies on refugees are as simple as ABCs
- US-led wars have displaced 37 million people. America should accept responsibility.
- Justice and the Rohingya people are the losers in Asia’s new cold war
- Bangladesh: Reunify Rohingya refugee families
Announcements
September 2020
In this issue:
Articles & Short Pieces
- Wishful waiting: Four reasons to curb our impatience for the European Pact on Asylum and Migration
- Follow the bouncing ball: Persecution and the shifting burden of proof in the US
- Refugee eligibility: Challenging stereotypes and reviving the “benefit of the doubt”
- How Europe outsourced the Syrian refugee crisis to Lebanon
- Registration and Refugee Status Determination: A missing link
- The US Supreme Court’s attack on habeas corpus in DHS v. Thuraissigiam
- Diversity and inclusion: Blockchain technology and digital identity for stateless Rohingya refugees
- Fourteen principles of protection for migrants and displaced people during COVID-19
- Refugee-led organizations: The time is now
- Five “safe and legal” asylum alternatives to cut Channel crossings to the UK
- Age assessment and the protection of minor asylum seekers: Time for a harmonised approach in the EU
- What is the UK’s Adults at Risk policy?
- Complementary refugee pathways: Labour mobility schemes
- Crossfire and criminal cases: How Bangladesh’s counter-trafficking actions changed the game for migrants and refugees in Southeast Asia
Detention and Deportation News
Case Notes
- Protecting the formal rule of law in the EU’s asylum policy: The CJEU’s judgment on the asylum relocation mechanism
- Federal Court confirms that sending refugee claimants back to the US breaks Canadian law
- US Court of Appeals remands CAT case for LGBTIQ individual
- US Court of Appeals upholds injunction seeking to bar asylum-seekers at US-Mexico border
- US Court of Appeals on adverse credibility finding
- US Court of Appeals grants petition for review of BIA decision to remove CAT protection
- French Council of State finds the Ministry of the Interior responsible for violation of the right to seek asylum at the border
- Inhuman and degrading living conditions of homeless asylum-seekers in France violates ECHR Article 3
- UK’s Upper Tribunal ruling on discretion to reunite refugee families under Dublin III
- Landmark decision on “particular social group” in the UK
- Finland: Kurdish appellant would face real risk of suffering serious harm if returned to Turkey
- Switzerland: Procedural failings when processing an asylum request of an alleged unaccompanied minor
- UK Court of Appeal backs order to disclose refugee asylum records
- CJEU judgment on the consequences of a failure to conduct a personal interview prior to an inadmissibility decision
- Working Group on Arbitrary Detention: Holding asylum applicants in Hungarian transit zones amounts to arbitrary detention
- Italy’s Constitutional Court rules on the refusal to allow applicants of international protection to register their residence in local municipalities
- Italian residence permit provided on humanitarian grounds due to COVID-19 situation in country of origin
- ECHR communicated cases against Italy
- Poland improperly rejected Chechen asylum claims, European court rules
- Arrest and detention of asylum applicants by Ukrainian authorities amounted to violation of Article 5 ECHR
Opinion/Editorial
- Are most asylum seekers really not credible?
- Egyptian state security threats security-dominated judiciary will not discourage human rights defenders from protecting the rights of Egyptians
- The US hired me to protect refugees. Now it tells me to abandon them.
- There is a politics of death in asylum
- Greece has a deadly new migration policy — and all of Europe is to blame
- Hong Kong activists now face a choice: Stay silent, or flee the city. The world must give them a path to safety.
- Trump’s new asylum rules extinguish hope for LGBTQ asylum seekers in the US
- Inventing a “migrant invasion” is part of a toxic rhetorical ploy
- COVID-19 and the chance to reform US refugee policy
- How to elevate Rohingya women’s voices amid a crackdown on the Coronavirus
- The Rohingya genocide and the ICJ: The role of the international community
- Faith groups, businesses and activists in the UK unite to demand asylum rights
- Refugee resettlement is close to collapse in the US. That was Trump’s plan.
Announcements
- Launch of Centre for Asia Pacfic Refugee Studies
- Conferences, courses and workshops
- Calls for papers
- Vacancies
July 2020
In this issue:
Articles & Short Pieces
- On World Refugee Day we do not want to be celebrated. We want to go home.
- What Burundi teaches us about political crisis and displacement
- A look at global changes in refugee policies through the lens of Dadaab
- Self-reliance as a contemporary ‘durable solution’ to forced displacement
- Inactivity is perpetration–in Uganda and around the world
- Why Hong Kong’s untold history of protecting refugee rights matters now in its struggle with China
- Facing COVID in a state of rightlessness: Rohingyas at sea in South Asia
- COVID-19 and the end of asylum
- Pushbacks at land borders: Asady and Others v. Slovakia and N.D. and N.T. v. Spain. Is the principle of non-refoulement at risk?
- The invisible crisis: Refugees and COVID-19 in India
- Understanding citizenship and refugees’ status in India
- COVID-19 at the Brazil-Venezuela borders: The good, the bad and the ugly
- The Trump administration is taking a sledgehammer to asylum
- EOIR’s data release on asylum so deficient public should not rely on accuracy of court records
- The revolt of US immigration judges
- Fight back against Chevron deference in US asylum and withholding cases
- Obligations to accommodate irregular migrants in the Netherlands: Will the local bed-bath-bread facilities survive?
- Hungary passes new law on the lodging of asylum applications at embassies
Detention and Deportation News
Case Notes
- US federal court vacates Trump administration asylum restrictions
- No European Convention on Human Rights jurisdiction over humanitarian visa refusal
- A “formalistic” approach to jurisdiction in the European Court of Human Rights’ decision on humanitarian visas: Was another interpretation possible?
- When is a policy not a policy? Tribunal tackles UK law on disclosure
- M.S. v. Slovakia and Ukraine: Procedural shortcoming in applicant’s return to Afghanistan
- CJEU Attorney General Opinion on the interpretation of refusal to perform military service as grounds of persecution
- Cyprus: Refugee status must be granted due to inability for authorities to guarantee protection to applicant
- Worrying Strasbourg decision on sending asylum seekers back to Sudan
Opinion/Editorial
- Black lives should matter in the Mediterranean too
- Malaysia/Thailand: Allow Rohingya refugees ashore
- Thailand: Protect Rohingya refugees from forced return, indefinite detention
- Violence or the virus? Mindanao’s displaced forced to choose
- This World Refugee Day and Pride month we need to save LGBTQ asylum
- New Trump administration regulations would devastate refugee pathways
- The end of asylum, for now
- Migrant children are still confined and vulnerable. It’s a gratuitous act of cruelty.
- The UK government’s stance on Vietnamese trafficking victims is misconceived
- Boris Johnson must honour his promises to asylum seekers
- Coronavirus: A window of opportunity for action on migration?
Letters to the Editors
Announcements
Requests
- Al Otro Lado seeks US asylum attorneys to supervise law students
- Submit comments on proposed new US regulations affecting asylum seekers
June 2020
Articles & Short Pieces
- How South Africa is denying refugees their rights: What needs to change
- Samos and the anatomy of a maritime push-back
- The Trump Administration offers an indefensible legal defense of its asylum ban
- The challenges in COVID-19 times for refugee determination and accessing protection
- “Just one more thing…”: Why complete testimony is critical in asylum cases
- How Europe is using coronavirus to reinforce its hostile environment in the Mediterranean
- How COVID-19 halted NGO migrant rescues in the Mediterranean
- EU fundamental rights, human rights and free movement in times of COVID-19
- Time to review and remedy cooperation policies facilitating abuse of refugees and migrants in Libya
- Forcible return to Turkey of Syrian refugees in Cyprus must end
- In search of a more humane EU migration and asylum policy
- The confused construction of ‘non-refoulement’ in Australia’s Ministerial Directions for visa cancellations
- Coercive voluntary returns from Australia
- Syrian refugees in Jordan: How a focus on human rights can help secure economic livelihoods
- Indefinite suspension of protections for asylum seekers and unaccompanied children under 19 May 2020 order by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Malaysia must end violent threats and anti-Rohingya campaign
- UN rights experts to Malaysia: “Stop crackdown on migrants, journalists and civil society”
- A looming catastrophe: COVID-19, urban refugees, and the right to health in Thailand
- Human rights-based reflections on displacement and disease
- UNHCR: Beware long-term damage to human rights and refugee rights from the coronavirus pandemic
Detention and Deportation News
Case Notes
- South Korean Justice Ministry offers second chance to refugee applicants who were victims of false interview accounts
- On De Pena Paniagua v. Barr, gender per se
- US: BIA rules Haitian asylum applicant firmly resettled in Brazil
- US: Lawsuit over “Remain in Mexico” program secrecy
- US Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals decision on PSG in Juan Antonio v. Barr
- UK: Luxembourg set to undermine Home Office position on clan protection in Somalia
- UK: “Slip rule” can be used to allow an appeal dismissed by accident
- New Afghanistan Country Guidance provides a clear pathway for asylum seekers in the UK to win appeals
- Australian court guessed how gay men from conservative families would react after first having sex. It cost two men their refugee status.
- New Kabul guidance: Individualised assessment of relocation required
- France: Court of Auditors urges modernisation of migration and asylum system
- Migrants sue German state over mobile phone searches
- CJEU classifies accommodation of asylum seekers in Hungarian Transit Zone as detention
Opinion/Editorial
- COVID-19 Is no excuse to abandon basic principles protecting refugees and asylum seekers
- Refugees and COVID-19: More than a health issue
- Fund but disregard: The EU’s relationship to academic research on mobility
- Dublin on COVID-19 hold: Structural solutions are needed
- Now is not the time for the US to deport Venezuelans
- Greek lockdown should not discriminate against migrants, refugees
- A pact for an inclusive recovery?
- Statement in response to UK-Greece cooperation on migration
Announcements
May 2020
Articles & Short Pieces
- What COVID-19 means for climate displacement policy progress
- Remote hearings in the immigration tribunal: What could possibly go wrong?
- Urgent statement: End pushbacks of Rohingya refugees
- Joint letter re: Restrictions on communication, fencing, and COVID-19 in Cox’s Bazar District Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh
- By refugees, for refugees: Refugee leadership during COVID-19, and beyond
- There is no public health rationale for a categorical ban on asylum seekers
- Coronavirus border expulsions: The CDC’s assault on asylum seekers and unaccompanied minors in the US
- The COVID-19 excuse? How migration policies are hardening around the globe
- Could COVID-19 upend international asylum norms?
- How will the COVID-19 pandemic reshape refugee and migration governance?
- COVID-19 travel bans: The right to seek asylum when you cannot leave your homeland
- Refugee rights and health: The impact of COVID-19 on refugee camps
- From the UN Human Rights Committee to European Courts: Which protection for climate-induced displaced persons under European Law?
- What happens to freedom of movement during a pandemic?
- Coronavirus: Commission presents guidance on implementing EU rules on asylum and return procedures and on resettlement
- OHCHR, IOM, UNHCR and WHO joint press release: The rights and health of refugees, migrants and stateless must be protected in COVID-19 response
- CrisisWatch: Trends and updates on 80+ conflicts creating refugees
- The right technology can help refugees stay connected
Detention and Deportation News
Case Notes
- A hole of unclear dimensions: Reading ND and NT v. Spain
- US: Civil rights organizations seek emergency court ruling for immediate COVID-19 protections for people in immigration detention centers
- US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upholds block on Trump policy that arbitrarily jails asylum seekers
- Ten-minute asylum interview enough to meet ECHR obligations before removal
- UK Home Office evicted asylum seeker with COVID-19 symptoms
- US Board of Immigration Appeals: “Lock them up!”
- UK: Home Office can ignore human rights claims bolted on to normal immigration applications
- Explainer: What does Australia’s Federal Court decision on the Tamil asylum-seeker family mean?
- UK: Flawed Calais camp process did not breach human rights of children rejected
- CJEU: Joined cases C-715/17, C-718/17 and C-719/17 Commission v Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic
- Switzerland: Application for refugee status must be reconsidered in light of new evidence relating to applicant’s relatives
- Borders, procedures and rights at Röszke: Reflections on case C-924/19 (PPU)
Opinion/Editorial
- We have blood on our hands
- Surveillance won’t stop the Coronavirus
- Coronavirus restrictions on movement may jeopardize the lives of the most vulnerable
- Defend the right to protest – free the refugees
- Australians want to open their homes to locked-down refugees. The government should let them.
Letters to the Editors
- On the provision of legal services by telephone
- On the plight of refugee male survivors of conflict-related sexual violence
Announcements
April 2020
Articles and Short Pieces
- The asylum seekers’ guide to surviving coronavirus
- Building walls and deporting people to “safe” countries is not deterrence, it is defense.
- The future of refugee resettlement: Made in Europe?
- The Trump Administration is gagging America’s immigration judges
- Civil society groups send letter expressing urgent concern about DHS announced changes to US asylum processing at the border
- The US Refugee Act of 1980: A forlorn anniversary
- Amid global coronavirus outbreak, what about refugees?
- How coronavirus hits migrants and asylum seekers in Italy
- Joint statement on the situation at the Greek border: “Protect our laws and humanity!”
- Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights pushes for visionary pact on asylum and migration
- India and the Rohingya
- Refugee Studies without refugees: Some methodological reflections
- Migration: The bargaining power of transit states
- South African border bill another anti-migrant development
- How refugees succeed in visa reviews in Australia: New research reveals the factors that matter
Detention and Deportation News
Case Notes
- MA and others v. Bulgaria: Removal of applicants to China in violation of Articles 2 and 3 ECHR
- Hot returns remain contrary to the ECHR: N.D. and N.T. before the ECHR
- Removing Afghans Sikhs does not breach their Article 3 rights: ECHR
- Hungary requests a preliminary ruling on the obligation to remain in transit zones during asylum application procedures
- The gospel according to Iran: New country guidance case on Christian converts
- US: The Supreme Court will decide whether asylum seekers receive their day in court
- US Supreme Court keeps in place Remain-in-Mexico policy
- US 9th Circuit says third-country transit ban will not apply to certain “metered” asylum seekers
- Israeli High Court rules threat of female genital mutilation is a basis for granting asylum
Opinion/Editorial
- New IGAD pact paves way for innovative solutions to disaster and climate change displacement in eastern Africa
- The violence in Delhi is not a “riot”. It is targeted anti-Muslim brutality.
- India: Religious fueled violence must stop
- The new developments related to the Turkish/Greek border
- Colombia is dealing with a terrifying refugee crisis. Will wealthy nations step up to help?
- A new era for refugee protection in Thailand?
- Special measures needed to curb COVID-19 in refugee and migrant communities in Malaysia
- South Sudan needs to address cycles of intercommunal killings
- Rohingya refugees need a coronavirus lifeline, not an internet ban
Announcements
March 2020
Articles & Short Pieces
- The recent decision on climate displacement by the UN Human Rights Committee
- After the forum: New directions in global refugee policy
- South Africa takes fresh steps to restrict rights of refugees
- Spain: New proposal restricting rights of asylum seekers
- A restrictionist revolution? A counter-intuitive reading of the ECtHR N.D. & N.T. judgment on “hot expulsions”
- Indian refugee policy: From strategic ambiguity to exclusion?
- The status of EU immigration and asylum law after Brexit
- Assisted Voluntary Return from Mexico: Another opaque asylum restriction with a misleading name
- Economic crisis in Lebanon: What UNHCR is doing in the Bekaa, and what more is needed from the international community
- The end of protection? Cessation and the “return turn” in refugee law
- Deported to death: US sent 138 Salvadorans home to be killed
- US Senators send letter to US cabinet officials regarding deportations to the Northern Triangle and asylum cooperative agreements
Detention and Deportation News
Case Notes
- Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals blocks US policy of sending asylum seekers back to Mexico, then suspends its own order
- “Only the perverse logic of some politicians has transformed sea rescue into a potential crime”: Italian prosecutors ask court to dismiss charges brought against Mediterranea staff in connection with the rescue of 50 persons in the Mediterranean Sea in March 2019
- Australia offshore detention is unlawful, but does not warrant prosecution: ICC
- UK Upper Tribunal considers section 104 of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act (2002) regarding abandonment of appeals
- England and Wales High Court determines benefit of the doubt applies even to abbreviated age assessments
- US federal judge orders Customs and Border Protection to meet the basic needs of every migrant detained more than 48 hours
- Hot returns remain contrary to the ECHR: N.D. & N.T. before the ECtHR
Opinion/Editorial
- It is time to change the definition of refugee
- Change to the Refugee Act moves South Africa much closer to the America of Donald Trump
- Greek refugee plan is inhumane and doomed to fail. The EU must step in.
- Lesvos: Empower both islanders and asylum seekers to defuse tensions
- The persecuted Rohingya now have legal protection, but will it amount to anything?
- Border prisons are go. Or not.
Announcements
February 2020
Articles and Short Pieces
- The politics of exhaustion: Immigration control in the British-French border zone
- Rethinking refuge from gender-based violence: Persecution for which convention reason?
- Individual rights in EU migration and asylum law
- Rethinking refugee choices in the Dublin system
- The fight to save an innocent refugee from almost certain death
- Fears that Greek ‘safe countries’ list poses a threat to human rights
- Rethinking refugee registration
- Rethinking the Common European Asylum System: Protection or containment?
- Statement on ‘hot returns’ from the Chafarinas on 3 January: “A serious violation of human rights”
- Should India deport Rohingya refugees because its soldiers “are fighting on the borders”?
- Non-refoulement under the Trump Administration
- Does Frontex arrange illegal pushbacks?
- Border with Turkey: EU Commission wants to track down refugees with “foliage detection”
- What does “social cohesion” mean for refugees and hosts? A view from Kenya
Detention and Deportation News
Case Notes
- In landmark ruling, UN Human Rights Committee says climate refugees can’t be returned to countries where their lives might be threatened by the climate crisis
- UN Committee Against Torture: Expulsion to Chile amounts to violation of Article 3 of CAT
- No absolute confidentiality for asylum information in family cases in the UK
- US Board of Immigration Appeals holds that flawed Notice to Appear does not deprive immigration court of subject matter jurisdiction
- UK High Court finds delays in child asylum decisions are not the Home Office’s fault
- TRAC data analysis finds that US asylum decisions vary widely across judges and courts
- UK Upper Tribunal issues new country guidance case on Iraq
- Greek government hit with interim measures and introducing new list of safe countries of origin
- UK Upper Tribunal confirms that asylum seekers have the burden of proof on internal relocation
- UK Home Office launches legal battle to defend “unlawful and discriminatory” hostile environment policy
- US Second Circuit Court of Appeals on political opinion: Hernandez-Chacon v. Barr
- UK Upper Tribunal finds that adverse credibility findings can be made against vulnerable adults in the immigration tribunal without reference to their vulnerability
Opinion/Editorial
- New refugee laws undermine human rights of refugees in South Africa
- Refugee mental health: Normal reactions to abnormal situations
- Child refugees have become pawns in a rightwing culture war
- DNA collection at the border threatens the privacy of all Americans
- UK government blocks refugee children being reunited with parents
January 2020
Articles & Short Pieces
- Who’s your dance partner?
- Interpretation problems in immigration proceedings: How grave can they be?
- New US immigration court data released: Even more records missing despite assurances
- The Cartagena Declaration at 35 and refugee protection in Latin America
- LGBTQI+ asylum claimants face extreme social isolation in Germany
- Rohingya repatriation and the problem of consent
- Competing logics of security toward Syrian refugees in Turkey and Lebanon
- Why some EU countries are struggling to relocate migrants
- Toward a new European consensus on migration and asylum
- The Immigration Assessment Authority and the erosion of fairness in the Australian refugee framework
- Venezuela refugee crisis to become the largest and most underfunded in modern history
- South Africa fails in duty to offer refuge
- Remote control of asylum seekers: How states evade their protection obligation
- Climate change, refugees and other displaced persons
- India needs a proper refugee law, not a CAA suffused with discriminatory intent
- Crime and refugee protection
- Competing logics of security toward Syrian refugees in Turkey and Lebanon
- Where is the refugee sponsorship program for Australia?
- Ten conflicts to watch in 2020
Detention and Deportation News
Case Notes
- CLINIC lawsuit seeks to protect asylum seekers in the US who fear family-based harm
- Danish Appeal Board confirms rejection of protection for three Syrian nationals
- US Federal Court preliminary injunction restores asylum eligibility for asylum seekers turned back at ports of entry before 16 July 2019
- UK Home Office delay policy leaving trafficking victims in limbo found unlawful
- Avoiding the naughty step in Cart judicial review cases in the UK
- US immigration advocates file major lawsuit challenging weaponization of the nation’s immigration court system
- UK High Court hears challenge to systemic delays in child asylum claims
- US Third Circuit Court of Appeals finds that BIA applied the wrong legal standard for the likelihood of state aquiesence to torture by ignoring evidence related to a tattoo
- Upper Tribunal slams UK Home Office for inability to read dictionary
- When voluntary return is not voluntary at all
- UK Supreme Court unanimously rules detention of asylum seekers pending removal was unlawful
Opinion/Editorial
- Transformed stance toward refugees and asylum seekers in Indonesia
- Denying opportunities costs. What America could lose by curtailing refugee resettlement
- India citizenship law more sinister than it seems
- Making a positive impact: A functioning European asylum policy must start with… Europe
- A way forward on refugees for Australia
- Restore asylum for women fleeing abuse and death
- US should cease returning asylum seekers to Mexico
- Conferences and workshops
- Calls for papers
- Vacancies
November 2018
Articles
APRRN statement: Suspend policy to end refugee status of Chin refugees from Myanmar
News
Detention and Deportation News
Short pieces
ARRPN urgent statement: India forcibly returns persecuted Rohingya back to Myanmar
Three things that the European Union can do to support private sponsorship for refugees
Woman routinely beaten and raped for decades unlawfully detained by Home Office
Home Office policy on children firmly rejected by upper tribunal
Asylum reforms derailed as EU looks to North Africa
An update on recent events in relation to Western Sahara
Case notes
Newsletters
- APRRN Newsletter ( September 2018 Issue )
- Free Movement Newsletter ( September 2018 )
- Free Movement Newsletter ( October 2018)
- Global Detention Project Newsletter ( September 2018 Issue )
- Global Detention Project Newsletter ( October 2018 Issue )
- International Detention Coalition Newsletter ( October 2018 Issue )
- Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, Roundup October 15, 2018
- Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, Roundup September 24, 2018
- Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, Roundup September 17, 2018
- Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, Roundup September 3, 2018
- Refugee Research Digest, October 18, 2018
- Refugee Research Digest, October 3, 2018
- Refugee Research Digest, September 7, 2018
- RESPOND: Multilevel Governance of Mass Migration in Europe and Beyond, Newsletter Issue 2 ( September 2018 )
- Right to Remain – latest news
Announcements
Conferences, courses and workshops
July 2018
Articles
EC Migration Agreement: European Council conclusions, 28 June 2018
News
Detention and Deportation News
Statelessness
New academic research centre dedicated to statelessness
Statelessness, discrimination, and marginalisation of Roma in Albania
Short Pieces
Palestinian refugees and the right of return in international law
Why domestic abuse and anti-gay violence qualify as persecution in asylum law
Highlight: changing US asylum response
House bills would largely dismantle asylum system at U.S.-Mexico border
Trump Executive Order fails to end abuses at U.S. border
USCIS takes down 26 PDFs for training asylum officers from its website
US immigration court backlog jumps while case processing slows
The health of the refugees on strike in danger because of the punitive approach of the Minister
Access to asylum and detention at France’s borders: ECRE published mission report
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights press briefing note on Algeria and Libya
New CAP brief sheds light on why people continue to flee Latin America
France: Government continues to clear migrant camps in Paris
UNHCR and UNDP sign MoU with Myanmar to repatriate Rohingya refugees
The International Crisis Group releases its May 2018 overview
Transformative participation is essential for refugee children’s involvement in Uganda’s development
Turkey: Strengthening legal protection and access to justice
Niger sends Sudanese refugees back to Libya
Case Notes
How a legal challenge on Rohingya deportation could redefine the bounds of international justice
Opinion and Editorial
Asylum in Europe – Where do we go now?
Letters to the editors
Refugee children’s involvement in Uganda’s development
Newsletters
- Global Detention Project June 2018 Newsletter
- Global Detention Project May 2018 Newsletter
- Migrant Rights Network Weekly Newsletter – 14 June 2018
- Euromed Rights Recap – May 2018
Announcements
Conferences, courses, and workshops
June 2018
News
Detention and Deportation News
Short Pieces
Refugees International dismayed by U.S. Decision to end temporary protected status for Honduras
Report on illegal immigration and violations of the rights of Asylum Seekers in Sudan
Afghanistan remains unsuitable and unsafe for returning refugees
High Court remedy for woman embroiled in disputed citizenship claim
Joint Statement on the growing problem of homelessness among asylum-seekers in Cyprus
Effects of new Bosnian route being felt in Slovenia
Leaving Libya by boat: What happens after interception?
Ireland: New list of safe countries of origin adopted
Continuing conflicts that create refugees
Case Notes
Statement on US DOJ’s decision to halt Legal Orientation Program
France: Bill could undermine Asylum-Seekers’ rights
European Court of Human Rights: Ljatifi v. FYROM
Germany: Administrative Court of Dusseldorf quashes transfer of Syrian family to Romania
United States: Matter of L-M-P, 27 I&N Dec. 265 (BIA 2018)
Opinion and Editorial
Sexual orientation, gender identity and asylum in the UK: Is “discretion” ever a choice?
The European Union is responsible for the refugee crisis
Assorted other editorial and opinion pieces
Letters to the editors
Refugee and host community youth showcase acquired film making skills
Video messages for 3rd South-South Institute on Sexual Violence against Men and Boys
Newsletters
- Refugee Research Network – 18 May 2018
- Right to Remain – 16 May 2018
- Right to Remain – 4 May 2018
- Refugee Research Network – 3 May 2018
- Right to Remain – 20 April 2018
- International Detention Monitoring – April 2018
- Global Detention Project – April 2018
- Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion – April 2018
Announcements
Conferences, courses, and workshops
May 2018
Articles
Circumventing non-refoulement or fighting “illegal migration”?
News
Detention and Deportation News
Short Pieces
HIGHLIGHT: KIZIBA CAMP REFUGEE PROTEST
- Congolese community in Australia calls for urgent international action in response to violent attacks on Congolese refugees in Rwanda
- UNHCR calls for calm and restraint after Rwanda refugee camp protests
Female refugees denied the right to pass citizenship to children in Lebanon’s proposed law
Asylum Access legal team wins groundbreaking African Court ruling
Agreement for better access to legal aid for refugees In Malaysia
NGO rescue boat is held by Italian authorities after refusing to cooperate with Libyan coastguard
Supporting refugees in Greece: EUR 180 million in emergency support
Situation for asylum seekers in Paris remains critical despite promises
UK: Home Office has relapsed in treatment of refugee children, inspection finds
Case Notes
CJEU: Refugees who are minors can apply for families to join them in EU-Court, C550/16
UK: Zambino principle revisited by Court of Appeal
Opinion and Editorial
Collected opinion and editorial pieces
Letters to the editors
Monitoring Visit by Office of the Prime Minister to Adjumani, Refugee Law Project, Uganda
Newsletters
- Refugee Research Network – April 2018
- Refugee Research Network – March 2018
- The Detention Workshop – March 2018
- Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion – March 2018
- Global Detention Project – March 2018
- Andrew and Renata Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law – March 2018
- Migreurope – 1er Trimestre 2018 (French)
- International Detention Monitor – March 2018
- Right to Remain Newsletter – March 2018
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Request for contacts working with resettled Vietnamese in the US
April 2018
News
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Short Pieces
The power of civil mobilisation: How ordinary people stepped-in to help refugees in Northern Greece
Italy Shuts Down ‘Worrying’ Migrant Hotspot
Libyan coast guard vs NGO: Italy and the EU have chosen their allies
France: A sharp rise in rates of child detention is cause for concern
Αlmost two years after EU-Turkey statement, people are still trapped on the islands
Know your rights: A guide for migrants
Uganda: Giving hope to visually impaired woman in Palabek Refugee Settlement
Reawakening Awareness of Empowerment of Refugee Women and Girls in Uganda
Case Notes
M.K. v. Russia (application no. 35346/16) [Articles 2. 3 and 5 ECHR], 27 February 2018
CJEU: Request for a preliminary ruling, C-680/17 Vethanayagam
CJEU: Request for a preliminary ruling, C-635/17 E
USA: Matter of A-B-, 27 I&N Dec. 227 (A.G. 2018)
USA: Groups challenge Trump administration’s arbitrary detention of asylum seekers
USA: Order granting plaintiff’s motion for preliminary injunction (immigration detention)
USA: Nielsen v. Preap (focus: detention, criminal alien)
Opinion and Editorial
- Euromed comments on FRONTEX piece
- The French Asylum Bill – a deeply unbalanced proposal
- Why does the UK deport North Korean asylum seekers?
Letters to the editors
- Hotline for Refugees and Migrants Israel welcomes new Executive Director
- RLP Uganda engages Uganda People’s Defense Force to build refugee rights and protection capacity
- RLP Uganda: ‘Speak your Rights’ programme
Newsletters
- International Detention Monitor – March 2018
- Refugee Research Network – March 2018
- Right to Remain Newsletter – March 2018
- Statelessness and Inclusion Bulletin – February 2018
- European Asylum Support Office Newsletter – February 2018
Announcements
Conferences, courses, and workshops
Vacancies
- Center for Migration & Refugee Studies at the American University in Cairo seeking researcher
- Two postdoctoral fellowship opportunities mobility, politics and transformation in sub-Saharan Africa (South Africa)
- Immigrant Defense Project, New York
- Safe Passage Project, New York
- Migration Policy Centre at the European University Institute in Florence
- Oxford Department of International Development and the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford
Resource: new UNHCR updates on the situation in South Sudan
March 2018
Articles
Thoughts on the Deportation of De-Facto Citizens
Prison or deportation: The impossible choice for asylum seekers in Israel
News
Detention and Deportation News
Short Pieces
In solidarity with civil society in Hungary
Belgium: Returns to Sudan violated principles of non-refoulement
Thailand returns UNHCR recognised refugee to Cambodia despite overwhelming safety concerns
Despite global refugee crisis, Japan accepts only 20 refugees in 2017
Statement on Israel’s latest deportation scheme
Netherlands: Plans to curtail legal aid to asylum seekers
Mass arrests and detention of migrants again in Algeria
Israel appeals tribunal rules: Desertion from the Eritrean military is a valid claim for asylum
US Asylum Office implements major changes to asylum interview scheduling
Case Notes
Communicated cases against Italy, the Netherlands and Russia by the European Court of Human Rights
Italy: Court of Cassation clarifies the scope of the right to legal aid for “irregular migrants”
CJEU: Judgment in case C-360/16 Hasan, 25 January 2018
CJEU: Judgment in case C-473/16 F, 25 January 2018
CJEU: AG Opinion in cases C-175/17 X and C-180/17 X and Y, 24 January 2018
NYC’s Immigration Court erodes accommodations for children without attorneys
Deportation of foreign criminals: out of country appeals still lawful
Opinion and Editorial
Turkey is using Syrian refugees as bargaining chips as it moves against the Kurds
How to solve our broken refugee resettlement system?
Letters to the editors
Training the military to protect the rights of refugees
Newsletters
The SOGICA newsletter: Issue 5 (19 February 2018)
Adala UK: An update on recent events in relation to Western Sahara
Announcements
Conferences, courses, and workshops
February 2018
Articles
News
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Statelessness
Australia case exceeds eight years in detention
Short Pieces
UN refugee agency underscores the role of the judiciary in refugee protection
UNHCR appeals to Israel over forced relocations policy
Serbia extradites Kurdish activist to Turkey despite UN request to stall
Making Asylum Numbers Count – Gaps and Reform Needs in the Area of Asylum Statistics
Spain: Sea arrivals met with automatic detention and barriers to legal assistance
Scotland leads the way on refugee integration
Asylum statistics 2017: Shifting patterns, persisting disparities
Concern grows for women and children fleeing Cameroon
New Israeli government plans to deport Eritrean and Sudanese asylum seekers to Rwanda and Uganda
“I won’t fly refugees to their deaths”: The El Al pilots resisting deportation
Sweden: Current situation in asylum
Rescued and caught: the humanitarian-security nexus at Europe’s frontiers
The price of impact: reflections on academic outreach amid the “refugee crisis”
Case Notes
Maribel Trujillo Diaz v. Jefferson B Sessions, III, Attorney General
Hearing in Failed Deportation Flight Monday, January 8: Somalis injured in transit
Asylum victory in Hartford: Matter of R-G- (death threats from gangs in Honduras, El Salvador)
Challenge to legality of Dublin significant risk of absconding regulations 2017
Opinion and Editorial
Israel must reveal and reverse cruel policies on refugees
Amid US funding cuts, UNRWA appeals for health and dignity of Palestinian refugees
Israel’s plan to deport Eritreans and Sudanese to Rwanda is a wake-up call for Europeans
Cooperation with Morocco in the EU’s African Border: A laboratory of externalization
To the Bulgarian Presidency: EU global punch needs inner solidarity
Newsletters
Global Detention Project newsletter, January newsletter
Refugee Research Digest, 17 January 2018
Refugee Studies Centre monthly news update December 2017
Announcements
Conferences, courses, and workshops
Resource: Right to Remain launches new toolkit to help navigate UK immigration and asylum system
January 2018
Articles
The requirement of proportionality in the interpretation of the 1951 Convention exclusion provisions
News
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Statelessness
Short Pieces
USA: ICE abuses men and women on 48-hour deportation flight to Somalia
EASO preparing for transformation into EUAA
Humanitarian aid should be amped up for South Sudanese refugees in DRC
“I am only looking for my rights” – Legal employment still inaccessible to refugees in Turkey
UK: Dramatic decline in access to legal help for immigration detainees, reports charity
ECRE/ELENA legal note on access to legal aid in Europe
UK: Indefinite detention and the rule of law
Inside Britain’s asylum appeal system – what it’s like to challenge the Home Office
Human rights advocates from across Asia continue calls for refugee legislation in Taiwan
UNHCR welcomes launch of “Refugee Coalition for Europe”
UNHCR seeking 1,300 urgent resettlement places for vulnerable refugees in Libya
UNHCR welcomes Djibouti’s new refugee laws
UNHCR evacuates 74 vulnerable refugees from Libya to Niger
7th English for Adults Certificate Award Ceremony & 10 years of English for Adults at RLP, Uganda
Case Notes
UK Upper Tribunal rules on the benefit of the doubt in age assessment cases
S.F. and others v. Bulgaria (application no. 8138/16) [Article 3 ECHR], 7 December 2017
Communicated cases against France, Russia, Czech Republic and Hungary
Challenge to legality of Dublin significant risk of absconding regulations 2017
Opinion and Editorial
Externalizing brutality to Libya is not an answer to displacement
Letters to the Editors
What happens to refugees sent from Israel to Rwanda?
Newsletters
Global Detention Project newsletter, November 2017
Kaldor Centre biannual newsletter, December 2017
Refugee Studies Centre monthly news update, November 2017
Detention workshop update, 28 November 2017
Announcements
Conferences, courses, and workshops
Grants and awards: Nominations for UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award
December 2017
Articles
Why some E.U. States want hotspots in the Sahel
News
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Statelessness
Stateless persons forced to remain in ‘perpetual limbo’ in Malta
Africa: UNHCR report exposes the discrimination pervading the life of stateless minorities worldwide
Short Pieces
Rwanda: Exceptions to cessation under 1 C (5) of the 1951 Geneva Convention
Over a year after the demolition of the Calais “Jungle,” 400 minors remain stranded in France
Statement by Conference on Responsibility-Sharing for Refugees in the Euro-Mediterranean Space
Bangladesh resists greater UNHCR role in Rohingya crisis
Egypt: We need to talk about al-Sisi’s twisted take on human rights
Administrative Detention In Greece Remains Problematic
Case Notes
UK Court of Appeal on personal history of conversion as part of religious belief
The right to an effective remedy in the case of a delayed Dublin transfer
France: court decisions on Dublin detention contrast with government reform plans
Opinion and Editorial
US must not dismantle Population, Refugees and Migration bureau
More “safe” third country concept: Less safe world
Why Indonesia shows the IOM isn’t necessarily helping migrants
Progressively compromised: Left parties on refugee rights
UNHCR has failed to stand up for refugee rights during crucial EU-Turkey deal judgement
Letters to the Editors
‘They forced us onto trucks like animals’
Newsletters
Refugee Research Network (RRN) Research Digest
EuroMed Rights: MigrAction News
Odysseus Network, October 2017
Global Detention Project Newsletter, October 2017
The Refugee Brief: The UN Refugee Agency’s daily news digest
Announcements
Conferences, courses, and workshops
Grants and awards: Steinberg Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship
Request: 3rd country returns to Turkey
November 2017
Articles
Hassouna, the K2 case, and citizenship removal
The double edged sword of discretion in LGBT refugee cases in the UK
News
Detention and Deportation News
Short Pieces
India can’t mistreat refugees by not signing refugee convention
Algeria: Illegal arrests, detention and forced removal of hundreds of migrants
Factors influencing decision making by people fleeing Central America
Thousands of migrants caught up in intense fighting in Sabratha
One step forward and two steps back for unaccompanied minors from Calais
The scene is set for yet another predictable winter tragedy and continued blame game in Greece
MSF report discloses violence by EU border authorities along Balkan route
UK detention policy on victims of torture unlawful, High Court rules
Germany: conservative bloc introduces controversial cap on access for people in need of protection
A regional update from EuroMed Rights
Home is close, but so far away for Central African Republic refugees
New York Declaration on Refugees: A One-year report card
Australian firm Canstruct takes up toxic contract profiting from the abuse of refugees
NGO Statement on the Comprehensive Refugee Response Framework (CRRF) and Coordination
Case Notes
US Supreme Court rules in favour of government transparency against private prison corporations
Mother detained with baby for 72 hours is awarded R180 000 in damages by South African Court
CJEU: Opinion AG Wahl in Case C-473/16 F
CJEU: Request for a preliminary ruling from the French Cour de cassation, C-444/17 Arib
Greece: Council of State on Turkey as a safe third country and aspects of the Greek asylum procedure
Italy appeals lodged before the entry into force of new asylum law have automatic suspensive effect
Opinion and Editorial
Success of the European Agenda on Migration should not be judged by reduction of arrivals
Letters to the Editors
Announcements
Conferences, courses, and workshops
Grants and awards: Ockendon Prize for projects supporting refugees and internally displaced people
October 2017
Articles
Four years after cessation of status for former Rwandan refugees
News
Detention and Deportation News
Short Pieces
Barbara Harrell-Bond featured in Oxford Festival of the Arts’ Gratitude Project
Accountability needed for killings of Burundian exiles in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Central Mediterranean situation: UNHCR calls for an additional 40,000 resettlement places
Vulnerability in European asylum procedures: new AIDA comparative report
Neither here, nor there: Georgian refugees from Abkhazia
The Michigan Guidelines on Refugee Freedom of Movement, or: how explosive existing law can be
Preparing for the asylum interview – from those who have been there
LGBT Chechens covertly brought to Canada, granted asylum
Myanmar: End attacks in Rakhine State, protect civilians
Case Notes
Australian court approves AUD 70 million payout for Papua New Guinea detainees
European Court of Human Rights, Khaldarov v. Turkey (no. 23619/11), [Articles 3 and 5]
ECJ Case C-18/16 K on the validity of detention for asylum seekers while verifying nationality
Non-state actors and non-refoulement: The UK Supreme Court’s decision in Zain Taj Dean
Opinion and Editorial
- The US deportation system is verging on lawlessness
- Same old problems for Kenya’s newest refugee settlement
- The appalling mathematics of offshore detention
- Australia is bankrupting its standing with ‘deportation by destitution’ policy
- Australia’s long history of offshore detention
- Processing centres in North Africa are not the answer for EU refugees
- Welcoming refugees should be a settled question
- Why is Canada supporting Africa’s most ruthless dictator?
- Holding refugees hostage at Legal Aid Ontario
- Trudeau government must limit length of time unwanted migrants can be detained
- Japan can do more on refugee resettlement
Letters to the Editors
Refugee Law Project comments on male sexual violence in South Sudan
New Refugee Law Project blogpost on unaccompanied refugee children in Africa
Announcements
Conferences, courses, and workshops
Vacancies
September 2017
Articles
Palestinian Refugees and the (Mis-)interpretation of Article 1D of the 1951 Refugee Convention
News
Detention and Deportation News
Short Pieces
Cambodia: Open Letter regarding potential refoulement of Montagnard asylum seekers
The importance of refugee-led organisations to effective refugee responses
So, your country isn’t keen to resettle refugees. Are you?
Seven must-read stories this World Refugee Day
Canada: Legal challenge of Safe Third Country Agreement launched
UNHCR welcomes registration of a million undocumented Afghans in Pakistan
UNHCR Chief calls on Australia to end harmful practice of offshore processing
Kaldor Centre responds to UNHCR statement on Australia’s offshore processing
What does a genuine lesbian/gay relationship look like in the eyes of asylum decision makers?
Refugee status and British citizenship or requirements to obtain British citizenship
New refugee framework “dead in the water” without more international support
The war on migrants continues: NGOs harassed in the Mediterranean
Preparing an asylum application: Some thoughts regarding method
Book Review: Jason M. Pobjoy’s ‘The Child in International Refugee Law’
Book Review: Ruvi Ziegler’s ‘Voting Rights of Refugees’
Case Notes
USA: Challenging customs and border protection’s unlawful practice of turning away asylum seekers
Suspension clause habeas victory in Detroit: Hamama v. Adducci
US EOIR Immigration Judge Benchbook no longer in use
USA: Jeff Chase on Matter of N-A-I-
OpEd
The State Department should consider refugee agency assurances as bona fide relationships
World must seize the moment to support South Sudanese refugees
Letters to the editors
Northwest Immigrant Rights Project concerning their federal lawsuit NWIRP v. Sessions (USA)
Kaldor Center – Professor Jane McAdam Awarded Prestigious International Human Rights Prize
Announcements
Conferences, courses, and workshops
Request for assistance from UK legal professional
July 2017
Articles
NGO Statement on International Protection at ExCom Standing Committee 69th Session
Report: UNHCR RSD Retreat at 2017 Annual UNHCR-NGO Consultations
Understanding the importance of a national legislation for refugee protection in India
In support of religious minorities, rule of law, and Lakshan Dias
Relocation and its numbers – Which role for the courts?
News
Detention and Deportation News
Short Pieces
Refugees: The Trojan horse of terrorism?
Italy’s migrant reception system is breaking
Switzerland: Federal Administrative Court suspends a Dublin transfer to Hungary
European Commission launches infringement procedure against Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland
Potential expansion of Eurodac database scope raises data protection concerns
I don’t know, I don’t know, I don’t know
The Republic of Cyprus should proceed with the immediate implementation of CERD’s recommendations
Refugees International report details “hell” for refugees and migrants in Libya
Surging violence in Central African Republic forces 88,000 to flee
Update on rescue at sea operations in the Central Mediterranean
Canada: Legal aid for refugees is essential and must be adequately funded
UK: Grants of asylum year ending March 2017
Case Notes
USA: Full 9th Circuit recommends asylum for gay Mexican
USA: Matter of L-E-A-, 27 I&N Dec. 40 (BIA 2017)
Country Policy and Information Note – Ukraine: Prison Conditions
South Africa: Somali Association & 8 Others V Minister of Home Affairs & 4 Others Case no 99766/15
M.M. v. Bulgaria (no. 75832/13) [Article 5 § 4], 8 June 2017
Decision of the UK Immigration Commissioner’s Office: John O v. Home Office
Australia: Plaintiff M96A and the elusive limits of immigration detention
OpEd
How to really help refugees: TedTalk by Asylum Access Founder
Letters to the Editors
Aid Organization for Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Israel (ASSAF) releases annual report
Darfur refugees to be granted residency in Israel
International Association of Refugee Law Judges (IARLJ) World Conference
Announcements
Conferences, courses, and workshops
Request for assistance in accompanying child to refugee interview in Addis Ababa
June 2017
Articles
Special highlight: UNHCR-NGO consultations 2017
News
Detention and Deportation News
Short Pieces
Conditions in hotspots are chilling
Refugees stranded between Morocco and Algeria
Hungary leaves negotiations with EU Commission and prepares for legal battle
AIDA briefing: accelerated, prioritised and fast-track asylum procedures in Europe
UNHCR’s priorities for the next UK government
Refugee advocates are losing the war of ideas
Tribunal gives guidance on general principles in deprivation of citizenship appeals
American Bar Association International Refugee Law Committee Updates
Australia’s Forcible Deportations of Unwell Asylum Seekers: Legal Obligations
UN refugee chief Grandi in Libya: UNHCR ramping up its humanitarian response
Israel: the struggle against the “Deposit Law” continues
European Commission follows up on infringement procedure against Hungary concerning its asylum law
Budget 2017: Another missed opportunity for Australia and for refugees
Thousands of families excluded from benefit of increased age of dependent children
AIDA Briefing: Accelerated, prioritised and fast-track asylum procedures in Europe
Commission follows up on Hungary infringement procedure
Hungary: new legislation undermining asylum seekers’ rights enters into force
Proving continued danger of interpersonal violence: The realities of care responsibilities
Case Notes
OpEd
Letters to the Editors
Despite hiring, United States Immigration Court backlog and wait times climb
Israel’s “Deposit Law” for refugees
Announcements
Conferences, courses, and workshops
Request for assistance in research
May 2017
Articles
The emergence of the entry human rights principle: Looking beyond the X.X. case
News
Detention and Deportation News
Short Pieces
Non-governmental organisations (NGOs) deliver ten statements at UNHCR standing committee
Case Notes
Detention of Dublin Regulation asylum seekers held to be unlawful
Asylum Seekers’ Detention in Moscow Airport Unlawful, Inhuman and Degrading
Justice Collins asks UK SSHD to consider compassion before resorting to law
Opinion and Editorial Pieces
- The ungrateful refugee: “We have no debt to repay”
- How Australia can shape the Global Compact on Refugees
- The best way the US could help Syrians: open the borders
- Should Lebanon get more funds for hosting refugees?
- Time for honesty and humanity on the fate of Manus asylum seekers
- Can Uganda’s progressive refugee policies survive the influx of people fleeing South Sudan?
- Why denying refugees a right to work is a catastrophic error
- UN could step in where EU fails in child migrant protection
- Britain’s immigration policy is just as draconian as Donald Trump’s “Muslim ban”
- Office of Aung San Suu Kyi accuses Rohingya rape victims of fabricating stories
Announcements
Conferences, courses, and workshops
April 2017
Articles
Asylum visas as an obligation under European Union (EU) law: Case PPU C-638/16 X, X v État belge
South Africa’s refugee policy: New grounds to exclude refugees from refugee protection
News
Detention and Deportation News
Short Pieces
Misguided and harmful: new European Commission policy on returns
Asylum Information on Hungary: Detention of all asylum seekers
Asylum seekers protest against the problematic asylum procedures in Finland
ECtHR ruling in support of complaints from unaccompanied minors in Italy
AIDA reports on Italy, Malta and Spain – Southern borders a laboratory for deflection policies
ABA International Refugee Law Committee issues ‘hot topics’ list for end of March 2017
Signing of a memorandum for cooperation between NGOs and the Cyprus police
Manus deportation reports raise legal concerns
UK Home Office ends policy of automatic settlement for refugees after five years
Afghan refugees in Pakistan need safety and security
Exclusive: UK “voluntary” returns – refugee coercion and NGO complicity
Pakistan: Mass forced returns of Afghan refugees, UN Refugee Agency Complicit in government coercion
Case Notes
European Court of Human Rights rules in support of complaints from unaccompanied minors in Italy
Opinion and Editorial Pieces
- The EU-Turkey deal one year on
- Draft amendment to Poland’s law on the protection of foreigners: another step to seal Europe’s border
Letters to the Editor
- The Refugee Law Project builds capacity of police regarding refugee governance in Uganda
- CEAR shares recent updates from Spain
- The American University in Cairo’s Center for Migration and Refugee Studies draws attention to regionally focused degree and diploma programmes
- Asylos issues new report, ‘Challenges to researching COI for asylum claims’
- Refugee Law Project Uganda receives Ockenden International Prize
Announcements
Conferences, courses, and workshops
Request: Assistance obtaining Ethiopian identity documents
March 2017
Articles
South African parliament hears public comments on the Refugees Amendment Bill
The truth behind the so-called “success” of the Migration Partnership Framework
Trafficked Eritrean refugees demonstrate the need for legal and other assistance in transit
News
Detention and Deportation News
Short Pieces
Thai government resolution for protection of refugees
Presidential decree on treatment of refugees in Indonesia
Italy: Plans to expand immigration detention
Delegation to Sudan uncovers human rights cost of EU deals on migration
EU and Italy take steps towards cooperation in migration control with Libya, amid heavy criticism
EU border agency targeted “isolated or mistreated” individuals for questioning
Hungarian government submits new asylum bill on collective push-backs and automatic detention
Papua New Guinea must guarantee safety of Iranian refugee
Poland to follow Slovenia in closing borders for refugees
Case Notes
BS (Congo) v The Secretary of State for the Home Department [2017] EWCA Civ 53
Advocate General’s Opinion in Case C-638/16 PPUX and X v État Belge
Opinion and Editorial
Refugees are not “political resources”
Our moral obligations to refugees go beyond giving them refuge
Under Trump’s “extreme vetting,” should dictators vet the refugees they create?
Assessing Indonesia’s new decree on refugees
Letters to the Editor
- UKLGIG seeks referrals for participants in LGBT asylum study
- Refugee Law Project recommends Uganda post-deportation risks article
- APRRN highlights Asia-Pacific UPR schedule, calls for cooperation
- Help bring Dunkirk’s forgotten children to safety
- Asylos seeks to explain the importance of thorough, unbiased research for asylum claims
Announcements
Conferences, courses, and workshops
Calls for papers: Oxford Monitor of Forced Migration seeks submissions
Vacancy: Call for Volunteer Hosts and Support Workers, Oxford, UK
Resources: Announcing a new Forced Migration Forum
February 2017
Articles
Central African Republic waiting for peace: On the issues with Fiona Mangan and Igor Acko
News
Detention and Deportation News
Short Pieces
Barbaros Şansal deported to Turkey: Respect for human rights in northern Cyprus hits rock bottom
Migration trends to watch in 2017
A medical doctor reflects on the treatment and healing of torture survivors
Naturalisation refusal on failure to meet the good character requirement – Challenge dismissed
Germany: Suspension of Dublin procedures to Greece set to end on 15 March 2017
Italy: Security checks by Irish police blocks relocation of refugees
2016 developments and new year wishes from the Refugee Law Project in Uganda
Spain: Collective expulsions at the Moroccan border
Greece: Refugees with disabilities overlooked, underserved
Italy and Germany step up measures to deter asylum seekers
Taiwan urged to pass national refugee legislation and provide genuine protection to refugees
Senegal: Around 45,000 have fled political uncertainty in The Gambia
Myanmar: Kachin Christians feared “disappeared”
Canada: Refugee claimants entering from US need our protection
EUROMED: Migration and Asylum in the EuroMed region
China: Protect ethnic Kachin refugees fleeing war in northern Myanmar
US federal court grants nationwide class status in suit to protect asylum seekers
Case Notes
American Civil Liberties Union challenges US ban after refugees detained at airports
UK Supreme Court criticises complexity of immigration rules (but dismisses case anyway)
Blocking detainees’ access to legal advice websites probably breaches Article 10 ECHR
Victims of domestic violence can form particular social group according to UK Upper Tribunal
Opinion and Editorial
Letters to the Editor
- Seeking advice regarding tenant’s rights under unofficial rental systems in Kakuma refugee camp
- Updates from Hotline for Refugees and Migrants in Israel
- Seeking reports on the situation of Syrian refugees in Lebanon
- Promoting the international protocol on documentation and investigation of sexual violence in conflict in Uganda
- Appeal for donations to Miscarriages of Justice UK
Announcements
Conferences, courses, and workshops
January 2017
Articles
Building capacity for mental health professionals working with refugees
News
Detention and Deportation News
Short Pieces
Protection struggles: Australia’s approach to LGBTIQ asylum seekers and refugees
Asylum outcome in the US increasingly depends on judge assigned
US asylum denial rates rise to 57% in FY 2016, unrepresented increase
Refugees fall victim to people “ping pong” in the Balkans
Migration trends to watch in 2017
Detention of vulnerable persons in international protection proceedings in Poland
Case Notes
Refugee Council of Australia wins landmark case on citizenship for former refugees
Report on the ruling of Chiang Rai juvenile court in the case of Somali refugee child
USA: Matter of M-S-B-, Respondent
European Court of Human Rights: Paposhvili v. Belgium (no. 41738/10, GC)
Khlaifia v. Italy (no. 16483/12, GC)
Hotline for Refugees and Migrants secures refugee status for Darfuri in Israel
Penang Stop Human Trafficking Campaign seeks support to end atrocities in Myanmar
Letters to the Editor
- First publication of health data on the Rohingya, persecuted in Myanmar
- Justice Centre Hong Kong successful in combatting unjust asylum policies
Announcements
Conferences, courses, and workshops
Requests
- Request for assistance reaching refugees online for research purposes
- Canadian Council for Refugees seeks support to end immigration detention of children in Canada
- Request for information about emergency travel document requirements for deportation
- Request for pro bono aid for UK Case Management Review Hearings for deportees
December 2016
Articles
The politics of protection and the right to food in protracted refugee situations
Post-deportation risks in times of externalised border control
News
Detention and Deportation News
Book Review
William Maley’s “What is a Refugee”
Short Pieces
Will the UN become complicit in Pakistan’s illegal return of Afghan refugees?
What progress has been made following the Andaman Sea “crisis” in 2015?
UNHCR welcomes Kenya statement, urges flexibility on timeframes for Somali refugees
Canada goes tough on lawyer and judge for bias on Roma cases; Brexit might be rough on the Roma
What happens after deportation? Human stories behind the closed doors of Europe
International protection beneficiary from Mosul is detained under risk of deportation
Press statement by the Nigeria High Commission on returns from the United Kingdom
Ban on asylum seekers coming to Australia
Lawyers for Human Rights to challenge constitutionality of immigration detention laws
Rights of Central American migrants in Mexico
Greece in 2016: Vulnerable people left behind
Case Notes
Unpublished US asylum victory concerning the one-year filing deadline
Letters to the Editor
- Dunkirk Legal Support Team seeks advice regarding unaccompanied minors
- Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse publishes report on asylum decisions
- Closure of Uganda’s Makerere University and its impacts on Refugee Law Project’s work
Opinion and Editorial
Announcements
Conferences, courses, and workshops
Request for expertise on Emergency Travel Documents to remove people to Nigeria
November 2016
Articles
Arresting the mass detention of migrants: “Build trust, not walls”
Psychological first aid provision for urban refugees in Uganda: Opportunities and dilemmas
A personal account from Choucha, officially closed in 2013
Asylum Seekers File Class Action Lawsuit Against DHS Over One-Year Filing Deadline
Refugee Law in the Republic of Kazakhstan
News
Detention and Deportation News
Short Pieces
Danish suspension of resettlement – worst possible decision at the worst possible time
Fears for human rights as UK asylum appeal fees jump by 500%
Promoting and broadening the governance of forced migrants
No way home: time runs out for Bhutanese refugees in Nepal
UNHCR, African host countries agree on final steps to resolve Rwandan refugee situation
Switzerland sees decreasing need to protect asylum seekers with LTTE links
Stop killing innocent Rohingyas in Arakan
The EU and Tunisia start negotiations on visa facilitation and readmission
Humanitarian corridors: beyond political gesture
Chaos in Chios: legal questions regarding the administrative procedure in the Greek hotspots
What the appointment of Antonio Guterres as UN secretary-general means for the refugee crisis
Securing Europe’s external borders: launch of the European Border and Coast Guard Agency
A reinforced Frontex agency: EU turns a deaf ear to NGO’s warnings
Case Notes
Developments in the US with respect to the one-year deadline for filing asylum applications
Letters to the Editor
- HRW Refugee Rights Programme’s work on the rights of refugees, asylum seekers, and migrants
- Invitation for organisations to update information on the Global Modern Slavery Directory
- Rise in Roma deportations as a result of Brexit
Announcements
Conferences, courses, and workshops
October 2016
Articles
Kenya camp closure threat triggers involuntary refugee returns to Somalia
Australia’s two faces on violence against women
News
Detention and Deportation News
Short Pieces
UNHCR releases series of operational updates on crisis situations around the world
“The new terrible”: neglected displacement crisis worsens in Lake Chad region
Poland: worsening restrictions and refusals of entry at the Eastern border
Switzerland pushing back migrants to Italy
Unaccompanied children refugees in Bulgaria face illegal detention
6th Asia Pacific Consultation on Refugee Rights highlights risks to deported failed asylum seekers
Civil society from across the Asia Pacific meets for 6th Asia Pacific Consultation on Refugee Rights
Morocco’s Droit et Justice Association continues Legal Aid for Refugees programme
Case Notes
Letters to the Editor
Announcements
September 2016
Articles
EASO, EU law and life in the margins
Supporting aid: what non-lawyers can do to assist asylum seekers
After the boats: Refugee reception and the production of irregularity in Italy’s migration crisis
News
Detention and Deportation News
Short Pieces
The ramifications of Kenya’s decision to expel refugees from Dadaab camp
Hungary: Latest amendments legalise extrajudicial push-back of asylum-seekers
Central and North American states vow concerted action on refugees ahead of September UN summits
New Home Office API on gay asylum claims: Not fit for purpose
Establishing an EU Resettlement Framework: Frequently asked questions
Asylum: EU list of safe countries of origin to replace national lists in 3 years
Refugees and asylum seekers of sub-Saharan origin sit-in in front of UNHCR
Refugees: A small and relatively stable proportion of world migration
Sixty-five years on, 65 million people forcibly displaced
Open Letter to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Case Notes
US federal appeals court rules that class of immigrants are entitled to bond hearing
Letters to the Editor
- Hotline for Refugees and Migrants: The first Sudanese refugee has finally been recognised by Israel
- Post Deportation Monitoring featured in UNHCR/NGO Consultations report
- Open access article on access to justice in Canadian immigration detention
- Summaries of the situations of refugees in the EuroMed region by country
- Call to demand accountability for police violence against refugees, and boycott referendum on refugee quota system in Hungary
- Crowdfunding request for group providing practical support to Nigerians deported from the UK
- Open access special edition of Cosmopolitan Civil Societies features articles on asylum seekers in Australia and Indonesia
Announcements
Grants and awards
July 2016
Articles
Reintegrating deported citizens into national development: The Jamaican model
Production of vulnerability: African refugees in Jordan
News
Detention and Deportation News
Short Pieces
Statement regarding Sahrawi women held in Tindouf refugee camp
Vietnam: Drop charges against boat returnees
The EU and death at sea: the calculated and monitored dying in the Central Mediterranean
The Syrian refugee crisis: the end of the Common European Asylum System?
Refugees and asylum seekers of Sub-Saharan origin sit-In in front of UNHCR
Asylum – a right denied: no to the European Union’s lists of “safe countries”!
The UK Immigration Act 2016 in plain English
UNHCR Reforms (with some compromise): access to evidence, right to counsel, interpreters
Time to reform the way we protect refugees?
Prohibiting collective expulsion of aliens at the European Court of Human Rights
Tracking conflict worldwide: global overview of trends and outlook for May 2016
UN Human rights council moves the ball forward on refugee rights in Thailand, Tanzania
Case Notes
Zafar, R (on the application of) v Secretary of State for the UK Home Department CO/5197/2015
ECtHR rule detention violation of Article 8: J.N. v UK
US judge throws out Islamophobic Texas lawsuit against Syrian refugees
Letters to the Editor
- Asia Pacific Refugee Rights Network recommends video and interview on trauma in Australian detention centres
- Legal Aid of Cambodia seeking specialists
- Barbara Harrell-Bond: Appeal for Expert Witnesses on FGM
- Launch of Liverpool network of academics in refugee studies field, 4 July
- Rights in Exile CoI Experts are a great resource
- Invitation to join Washington DC rally to support refugees 28 August
- Limited-time discount on Refugee and Migration studies titles in honour of World Refugee Day
Book Reviews
- Making Ubumwe. Power, State and Camps in Rwanda’s Unity-Building Project. By Andrea Purdeková. New York: Berghahn. 2015. 292p.
- Refugee Tales. Manchester: Comma Press, 2016. 160 pp. ISBN: 9781910974230 £8.75
- Refugees’ Rebellion. Issah Hassan Tikumah. Balboa Press, 92 pages, ISBN 978-1-50434-536-1
Announcements
June 2016
Articles
Without adequate reflection, new refugee solutions risk failing
Recent Attacks on Foreigners in Zambia
News
Detention and Deportation News
Short Pieces
UNHCR appeals to Kenya over decision to end refugee hosting
Government of Kenya statement on the closure of refugee camps
NGOs urge government of Kenya to reconsider intended closure of refugee camps
Families under siege: The hidden costs of the refugee crisis
Words of praise, deadly deeds: Turkey’s treatment of refugees
European Commission letter to Greek asylum authorities: All is well in Turkey
Myanmar’s National League for Democracy government must protect Rohingya people
Updates on the asylum and migration situation in Hungary: 6-18 May
Dublin is dead! Long live Dublin! The 4 May 2016 proposal of the European Commission
Questioning the conventional narrative on African irregular migrants
Continuing conflicts that create refugees
Cardiff charity launches major fundraising drive: “Save Asylum Justice”
Reform of rules on refugees’ loss of status urgent following new court decision
Imprisonment and deportation of Iraqi refugees in Lebanon
Case Notes
UK legal aid residence test found unlawful and discriminatory
MS v Secretary of State for the Home Department, UTIAC, AA/07855/2013
Babajanov v. Turkey (no. 49867/08) – forced illegal deportation to Iran unlawful
J.N. v UK – European Court on Human Rights Rule Detention Violation of Article 8
Letters to the Editor
- Crowdsourcing effort to support refugee-run media in Kenyan camp
- Haringey Migrant Support Centre warns of fraudulent British immigration service organisation
- Time-limited free streaming of documentary on homophobia in Uganda
- Significant increase in fees for appealing Home Office decisions in the UK
- Request for information on basis of US legal disparities between asylees and refugees
Announcements
May 2016
Articles
How to pack for the “other refugee crisis”: My diary from Dilley
Humanitarian assistance and the politics of self-reliance: Uganda’s Nakivale refugee settlement
News
Detention and Deportation News
Short Pieces
“A humane and efficient asylum policy” – The European Commission proposals
The EU-Turkey deal in practice: Jeopardising the European asylum system
UNHCR: involve refugees & internally displaced in Colombia peace talks
The Syrian refugee crisis: The End of the Common European Asylum System?
What will happen to migrants returned Turkey?
UNHCR begins the relocation of Mozambican asylum-seekers to Luwani camp, Malawi
Western Sahara’s moment in the sun
UN member states should make strong recommendations to Sudan at upcoming human rights review
Action urgently needed as Central America asylum claims soar
Asylum in Canada is not for everyone (sorry about that)
- New Rights in Exile Refugee Assistance list-serv launched, replacing FRLAN list
- Refugee Law Project (Uganda) launches new blog
Announcements
April 2016
Articles
The impact of European Union law on family reunification in Greece
The EU hotspot approach at Lampedusa
News
Detention and Deportation News
Short Pieces
Rediscovering a winning formula for refugee protection
Protection and pragmatism: the EU-Turkey refugee deal in historical perspective
Thailand: Asylum seekers and refugees lack protection
UN Secretary General calls to end plight of Sahrawi refugees
Entering UK and claiming asylum
All roads lead to Dar es Salaam
The place for human rights in Europe and the world is shakier than ever
EP study calls for more inclusive and gender-specific integration policies
Conditions for refugees at the Greek-Macedonian border worsening by the day
Drastic change of policy on the “Balkan route” hinders access to protection
Netherlands: the expanding list of safe countries of origin
A global solution to a global refugee crisis
Case Notes
Detention of asylum-seekers: the first CJEU judgment
EU court rules Germany can require refugees to live in certain places
Letters to the editors
Announcements
Courses, conferences and workshops
Grants and awards: Funding for NGO programmes benefiting refugees in West Africa
March 2016
Articles
Refugee and Forced Migration Narratives: Reaching a wider audience with webinars
Deported Roma family is allowed to return to Canada in groundbreaking decision
News
Detention and Deportation News
Short Pieces
Mind the gap: why are unaccompanied children disappearing in their thousands?
Law allows detention of asylum seekers in Bulgaria
Fast-track returns from Norway to Russia put refugees at risk
Ensuring due process protections for Central American refugees
UK Home Office fails Eritrean asylum seekers using flawed Country of Origin Information
Germany reported to pay African states to accept deportees
African refugees in South Africa are often unable to access their rights
Pushbacks and abuse of asylum seekers at Bulgarian borders
Israel’s ‘Transparency Law’ risks silencing dissent, threatens NGOs
Asylum seekers in the UK face destitution, hunger and poor health
Safe, legal and dignified access to asylum is possible: the Brazilian example
Case Notes
United Kingdom: TD and AD (Trafficked women) CG [2016] UKUT 00092 (IAC)
Unpublished U.S. Board of Immigration Appeals victory for Cornell law students
Freedom, asylum seekers, and two lots of European human rights
Letters to the editors
Kakuma News Reflector (KANERE) back online
European Children’s Rights Unit seeks evidence for inquiry on unaccompanied children
Announcements
February 2016
Articles
Is a defensible decision by the UK immigration tribunals a thing of the past?
Refugees and asylum seekers: Barriers to accessing South Africa’s labour market
News
Detention and Deportation News
Short Pieces
The uncounted: Why can’t Europe count its migrant detainees?
Immigration raids target disabled refugees in the US
Continuing conflicts that create refugees
UNHCR observations on the proposed amendments to the Danish Aliens legislation
NGOs in France concerned over increasing detention of children
Special challenges Eritrean refugees face in Europe
Case Notes
UK Supreme Court grants permission in Appendix of Family Members cases
UK: Migrants’ Law Project reports Calais judgment handed down
UK: Right to Remain Toolkit revision soon online
Announcements
Forced Migration Online to cease updating
Courses, conferences and workshops
Vacancy: Mercy Corps International
January 2016
News
Detention and Deportation News
Focus: Southern Refugee Legal Aid Network Members
Request: Call to Southern Refugee Legal Aid Network (SRLAN) members
Focus: Rwanda Cessation Clause
Dr. Barbara Harrell-Bond: a very important update on Rwanda country conditions
Short Pieces
UK: Well-attended workshop on FGM as grounds for seeking asylum
Turkey: EU risks complicity in violations as refugees and asylum-seekers locked up and deported
Donors promise initial USD 687.2 million for UNHCR operations in 2016, the highest amount ever
Asylum betrayed: Recruitment of Burundian refugees in Rwanda
Tenth anniversary of Frontex: Ten measures which put fundamental rights at risk
Council of the European Union adopts conclusions on statelessness
Report: Asia Pacific Refugee Rights Network Trainings
Geoffrey Hoffman: US Executive Office for Immigration Review needs better immigration judges
South Korea: Act to save North Korean refugees
Continuing conflicts that create refugees
UK: the Immigration Bill is bad news for families
AIDA update Hungary: asylum reform restricts access to protection and contravenes EU rule s
Belgium restricts access to protection and leaves hundreds of asylum seekers without shelter
Case Notes
No human rights claims in EEA cases without Home Office approval, says UK Court of Appeal
Expert testimony in asylum cases: Matter of Y-S-L-C-, Respondent
Refusal of citizenship to wife and children of Islamist extremist declared unlawful
Canadian Supreme Court decision on humanitarian decisions welcomed
Letters to the editors
Ara Trust: India introduces domestic asylum bill
Forum for Protection of People’s Rights Nepal: update on refugee protests in Nepal
Announcements
Courses, conferences and workshops
December 2015
Articles
News
Detention and Deportation News
Focus: Southern Refugee Legal Aid Network Members
Short Pieces
Rwanda Cessation Clause
- Former Rwandan refugees object to Zambia’s plan to issue them with Rwandan passports
- Ministerial Meeting on the Comprehensive Solutions Strategy for Rwandan Refugees Joint Communiqué
- Memo on the criteria for Rwandan former refugees’ local integration
Nepal UNHCR representatives use police to beat refugees
Devastating flooding affects 25,000 Sahrawi refugees in Tindouf camps
European Court of Human Rights rejects “traditional roles” justification of sex discrimination
Conditional Permanent Residence: Failure in policy and practice
Parallel realities: Refugees seeking asylum in Europe and Hungary’s reaction
Case Notes
UK Court of Appeal gives judgment on the “demand first, appeal later” regime
US appeals court rules against Obama’s executive actions on immigration
Khaleseh v The Home Office [2015] EWHC 2995 (QB) (23 October 2015)
Turgunov v. Russia (no. 15590/14) – Violation of Article 3 if Extradited
UK Court of Appeals rules Home Office acted unlawfully by detaining Iranian child seeking asylum
Announcements
Courses, conferences and workshops
Vacancy: University of California
Request: IASFM working group for archiving and documentation of history of forced migration
November 2015
Articles
More Frontex is not the answer to the refugee crisis
Refugee freedom of movement restricted in Zambia
News
Detention and Deportation News
Short Pieces
Two pieces on FRONTEX:
- Seeing double? How the EU miscounts migrants arriving at its borders
- Clarification of Frontex data on persons detected at EU external borders – includes significant double counting
Prolonging detention under the return directive in Poland
Rwanda Cessation Clause:
- Memo on forced land deprivation of Rwandan former refugees living in Meheba Refugee Settlement
- UNHCR: Africa set to conclude one of its longest-standing refugee situations
- Ministerial Meeting on the Comprehensive Solutions Strategy for Rwandan Refugees Joint Communiqué
‘Hotspots’ for asylum applications: Some things we urgently need to know
ECRE Comments on the proposal for an EU common list of safe countries of origin
40 years a refugee, for the love of freedom
Case Notes
Belgian Council of Aliens Law Litigation annuls Dublin III transfer to Italy of single woman
UK Upper Tribunal Country Guidance on Iraq, Article 15c) QD, 2004/83/EC
Germany: Administrative Court of Dusseldorf suspends Dublin transfer to Hungary
Announcements
Courses, conferences and workshops
October 2015
Articles
Don’t blame the smugglers: The real migration industry
A billion a year: How welcoming migrants drives the Italian economy
The plight of African refugees in Israel
Syrians in Paris: rights, refuge, and reform
Where is the justice and the moral responsibility of the international community?
News
Detention and Deportation News
Short Pieces
Syria’s refugees: A failure to protect
Continuing conflicts that create refugees
Ten urgent steps to address the refugee crisis in Europe and beyond
UK: House of Commons debate on immigration detention
Alarming attacks against refugees in Germany
A policy of isolation, deterrence, and homelessness
Refugees being treated like criminals in Czech detention centres
Refugees without home and absent the global humanitarian role
Is it time to invoke the EU’s Temporary Protection Directive for Syrian refugees?
Legislating against government-sanctioned child abuse
ASEAN community should ensure human rights protection of people in migration
BIA asylum remand victory – Focus: Iraq, social group, immutability
NA and VA (protection: Article 7(2) Qualification Directive) India [2015] UKUT 432 (IAC)
The BIA’s tepid response to asylum fraud
Letters to the Editors
A letter from Gilberto Algar-Faria, CoI expert on Sri Lanka with the Rights in Exile Programme
Hotline for Refugees and Migrants appeals for support in Israel during European refugee influx
Update from Elisa Mason of the Forced Migration FAQ blog on recent changes
Announcements
Courses, conferences and workshops
Short course: Advocacy and refugee rights in Bangkok
September 2015
Articles
South Africa to recognise separated children as dependants of their primary caregivers
A humane approach can work: The effectiveness of alternatives to detention for asylum seekers
The state of freedom of movement for refugees in Tanzania: an overview
Cessation of Rwandan Refugee Status: Two Years On
No-man’s land: life on the Serbia-Hungary border, a briefing on the current crisis
Launch of a voluntary repatriation program of refugees from Kenya to Somalia
The impact of the legal aid reforms on refugees in the UK
Military service evasion as grounds for refugee status: the case of Syria
News
Detention and Deportation News
UK Home Office Appeal Against DFT Decision – Booted out of High Court
Officials deporting migrants by nationality “To fill charter flights”
Detainees in family detention file for USD 10M in damage claims
UK: Yarl’s Wood IRC – Not meeting the needs of vulnerable women
UK Appeals heard under Detained Fast-Track can be set aside and reheard
UK Parliamentary debate on detention, 10 September
United Kingdom: Immigration detention #UnlockTheDebate – Sept 2015
Dominican Republic defends its actions regarding the expulsion of Haitian-Dominicans
Gabon deports 500 people to Nigeria
Abuse of a Palestinian refugee detained for deportation
Short Pieces
Monitoring of the Italian externalisation policies on migration
UN condemns Canada’s arbitrary, indefinite detention of migrants
UNHCR warns of deepening refugee crisis in Greece and calls for urgent and bold action
Australia’s cruel treatment of gay asylum-seekers
UNHCR calls for comprehensive response to the Calais situation
116 Somali refugees from Kenya land in Mogadishu, spearheading new phase of voluntary repatriation
Stop the refoulement of Uyghurs from Thailand
Hungary: Building a legal fence
The Lord Chancellor v Detention Action: UK Court of Appeal agrees Detained Fast Track appeals unfair
UK Upper Tribunal finds asylum applicant should not change profession to avoid persecution
Comments on China’s family planning laws in relation to asylum claim
Yusif v. Lynch, Aug. 7, 2015: Asylum petition granted to Chaldean Christian from Iraq
Positive result in Cyprus for stateless Kurds from Syria
Letter to the Editors: Post Deportation Monitoring Network facebook group
Announcements
Courses, conferences and workshops
Events: Launch of online resource for migrants, Leeds, UK, 3 September 2015
Request: Contact from practitioners representing Sri Lankan victims of torture
July 2015
Articles
The case of the wandering Chadian
Australia and Europe: Failing the world’s refugees
APRRN Statement: Japan’s review of their refugee status determination system raises new concerns
News
Detention and Deportation News
Short Pieces
We are also responsible for the tragic deaths of refugees in the Mediterranean
USA: Torture ruling offers hope to Bay Area asylum seeker
The UN must intervene to end persecution and discrimination against Rohingya
Refugees face intolerable delays waiting for family reunification in Canada
Frontex expands its Joint Operation Triton
The future of refugees in Egypt
Thirty-two Eritreans at risk of forced return from Sudan
UNHCR deeply concerned about abduction of asylum-seekers in eastern Sudan
Israel: cease coercing refugees into leaving
Refugee versus migrant: Time for a new label?
Case Notes
Belgium: Council of Aliens Law Litigation suspends Dublin transfer to Spain
The Netherlands: Raad van State – unlawful detention of asylum seekers
UK: Dublin Regulation return to Malta lawful
ECtHR rules no violation of Article 3 in deportation of Iraqi family
Austria: detention of asylum seekers subject to a Dublin transfer illegal
Croatia introduces onward asylum appeal before the High Administrative Court
UK: “Detained Fast Track” procedures for appeals ruled unlawful but allowed to continue
ECtHR: Grand Chamber M.E. v Sweden and Grand Chamber W.H. v. Sweden
UK: Zermani, R (On the Application Of) v SSHD
Written submissions to ECtHR on asylum claim by Iranian based on sexual orientation
Refused Haitians face deportation following lifting of the moratorium in Canada
What if a refugee allegedly supports terrorism? The CJEU judgment in T
Budlakoti v. Canada: Definitions vs. consequences of statelessness
Ugandan lesbian who was subjected to ‘exorcism’ granted asylum in UK
AB and Others: (internet activity – state of evidence) Iran [2015] UKUT 257 (IAC)
Letter to the Editors
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Amsterdam seeking dialogue around European refugee distribution
APRRN announces country situation updates in the APRRN newsletter
South-South Institute on Sexual Violence against Men and Boys, Cambodia
Update on the latest activities from the Cairo Community Interpreter Project (CCIP)
Recommendation from Dr Barbara Harrell-Bond: Right to Remain
Announcements
Courses, conferences and workshops
Information link: Under the Same Sun
June 2015
Articles
Who’s in Charge in Tunisia – the Tunisian Government or UNHCR?
Brussels’ personae non gratae: EU failure to address crisis in the Mediterranean
News
Detention and Deportation News
Short Pieces
Serious violations of detainee’s rights in detention centre in Mennogeia
European agenda on migration missed opportunity to protect rights and save lives
Case Notes
Case Note: European Court of Human Rights: S.J v Belgium (Article 3)
Case Note: EU Court of Justice: Judgment Case C-38/14, 23 April 2015 (Returns Directive)
Australian High Court challenge to offshore detention
Case Watch: UK Supreme Court backs government rejection of statelessness claim
Court has no “superhero” jurisdiction says Home Office in unlawful detention case
Belgium FGM case: Unaccompanied minor given larger benefit of the doubt in refugee proceedings
Letter to the Editors
Announcements
Courses, conferences and workshops
Request: Information on persecution of Christian Copts in Sudan
Publications
May 2015
Articles
On the cusp of a crisis: Human trafficking in eastern Sudan
Migration Policy Reform in Morocco: Implications for Migrants, the Country, and the Region
News
Detention and Deportation News
Short Pieces
Australia’s treatment of asylum seekers: Reflections from a visit to Sri Lanka
Singh at 30: we’re still trying to go cheap on rights and justice!
Women seeking asylum: closing the protection gap
Rewarding repression: proposals to aid the Eritrean government
Migration Policy Reform in Morocco: Implications for Migrants, the Country, and the Region
EU’s approach to migrants: humanitarian rhetoric, inhumane treatment
Congolese “Refugees” and Freedom of Movement in the Kampala Urban Space
Refugee repatriation: The Sri Lankan case
When anonymous hearsay can get you deported
The international refugee system is broken, new measures are needed
Hong Kong’s Zero Recognition Rate: A Mystery in Numbers
Case Notes
Court of Justice of the European Union PRESS RELEASE No 34/15 Luxembourg, 19 March 2015
Letter to the Editors
‘Seeking Refuge: Central American Migration to Mexico, The US and Canada’
Courses, conferences and workshops
Call for papers: Annual Conference of Escapes panel, Milan, Italy, 11-12 June 2015
April 2015
Articles
Challenges to Rwandan former refugees’ integration in Zambia
A position paper on the vulnerability of Bajau Laut (Sama Dilaut) children in Sabah, Malaysia
News
Detention and Deportation News
Short Pieces
Letter from the Saharawi refugees, to the Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees
Benamar Benatta reaches settlement with Canadian government
ILPA Information Sheet – Legal Aid 21: Myth-busting
Stop the expansion of Campsfield House Immigration Removal Centre in Oxfordshire, UK
Supreme Court successes for Hotline for Refugees and Migrants in Israel
South African court to rule on refugee children’s right to documentation
Why Odora-Obote and the Rwandan regime attack ICTR defense lawyers
Update on detentions and deportations of Sub-Saharan migrants in Morocco
NGOs raise alarms over new plans to limit the number of migrants and refugees in Hungary
Afghan Minister for Refugees and Repatriation: ‘Stop deportation to Afghanistan’
Case Notes
Court of Appeal gives further guidance on Article 8 immigration cases
US Board of Immigration Appeals: Matter of L-A-C-, 26 I&N Dec. 516 (BIA 2015)
A.M.E. v the Netherlands (no. 51428/10) [Articles 1, 2, 3, 5, 6 and 13]
Swiss Federal Administrative Court, no. E-6629/2014
Letters to the Editors
Request: guidance on disability
March 2015
Articles
Rwandan Refugees in Congo in Search of Protection
Exporting human rights obligations: Israel’s “voluntary departures” put lives in danger
High Court Strikes Down Cap on the Number of Refugees in Kenya; Other Damaging Provisions Remain
Couple separated from child after immigration consultant provides bad advice
News
Detention and deportation news
Short Pieces
Rethinking migrant rescue: An idea that has already worked
CAMEROON: Pilot Refugee Rights Training for North West Lawyers
Country of asylum profile: Panama
Northwest Immigrant Rights Project reacts to Texas ruling delaying Obama immigration plan
As violence spreads beyond Nigeria, UNHCR calls for urgent access to the displaced
Attorney shares her side of the story after winning asylum for a woman who fled domestic abuse
Immigration: replace the migration security complex with an ‘integration industry’
Launch of FlüchtlingsforschungsBlog, a German language blog by Netzwerk Flüchtlingsforschung (Refugee Research Network)
Case Notes
Correct understanding of Article 3 requirements: BB, PP, W, U & Ors v SSHD
Norwegian Supreme Court: HR-2015-00206-A, (sak nr. 2014/1583), sivil sak, anke over dom
Belgium Council for Alien Law Litigation (CALL), 6 November 2014, No 132 866
Belgium Council for Alien Law Litigation (CALL), 23 October 2014, No 131 887
Letters to the editors
Refugee Contribution: Detention protest in Pontianak, West Kalimantan, Indonesia
Dr Barbara Harrell-Bond: Food for thought from a Rwandan refugee
Announcements
February 2015
ARTICLES
Boundaries of civility transgressed? Studying practices of humanitarian government, difference, and power in Kakuma Refugee Camp
Reflection on the Tripartite Agreement on Voluntary Repatriation of Somali Refugees
NEWS
Detention and Deportation News
SHORT PIECES
Montagnards seeking asylum in Cambodia
Tenth International Association of Refugee Law Judges (IARLJ) World Conference in Tunisia
KISA calls on the government of Cyprus not to abandon the rescued Syrian refugees to the hands of the smugglers
Spain: Legislation on immigration/asylum will breach human rights
Court of Justice of the European Union: Returns Directive bans removal of seriously ill people to places where treatment is not provided
Good character citizenship criteria quietly tightened up
UNHCR study shows rapid deterioration in living conditions of Syrian refugees in Jordan
CASE NOTES
European Court of Human Rights: Case of Fozil Nazarov versus Russia
Irish High Court provides judgement on Best Interests of Child
U.K. Upper Tribunal clarifies protection claims for non-Arab Darfuris in Sudan
Court of Appeal victory in Afghan interpreters’ case
Deportation to Sudan would breach Article 3
LETTERS TO THE EDITORS
Quickly search for UN documents online
Refugee Law Project at Makerere University resumes services
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Conferences, workshops, and courses
Request: Tunisian nationals to support feasibility study on refugee legal aid
CCIP Community Interpreting Training for Migrant and Refugee Settings
January 2015
ARTICLES
Defining statelessness: a Chinese case study
The secret urban refugees of Dar es Salaam
NEWS
Detention and deportation news
LETTERS TO THE EDITORS
Dr Barbara Harrell-Bond OBE: Working together across international borders to save refugees
SHORT PIECES
ECtHR: detention of unaccompanied child in Greece violates right to liberty
The International Refugee Rights Initiative calls for release of Sudanese Activist
System needed to allow positive decisions on asylum claims to be recognised across the EU
Croatia: vulnerable persons are not adequately identified and assisted during asylum procedure
Sit-in in Morocco to protest against unfulfilled promises to regularise migrants and refugees status
Eurosur extended: all participating states now connected to border surveillance system
Israeli government pushes new bill mandating prolonged detention for asylum seekers
UNHCR, OHCHR appeal to Cambodian authorities to allow access to Vietnamese Montagnards in hiding
Immigration clinic at Texas Law sues over detention of asylum-seeking mothers and children
Asia Pacific Refugee Rights Network conducts refugee legal aid training in Sri Lanka
Why is UNHCR doing RSD anyway? A UNHCR report identifies the hard questions
APRRN condemns Australia’s handover of Sri Lankan asylum seekers to Sri Lankan authorities
Assessing credibility of an asylum claim – benefit of doubt
Eritrea COI report controversy
CPT criticizes Cyprus for detaining unaccompanied asylum seeking children
CASE NOTES
U.S. Federal judge allows lawsuit by detained asylum seekers to proceed as a nationwide class action
Detention of asylum seekers not at risk of absconding unlawful
ANNOUNCEMENTS, PUBLICATIONS, RESOURCES, REQUESTS
Announcements: legal services at Zaatari camp; IRIN goes independent
Conferences, workshops, and courses
December 2014
Detention and deportation news
Announcements ; IRRI calls for freedom of movement for all refugees
Conferences, workshops & courses
SHORT PIECES AND CASE NOTES
Parliamentary question addresses mental health of UK asylum seekers
Eritreans file lawsuit against Canadian mining company for slave labour and crimes against humanity
Refugee status removed after a routine interview? UNHCR, please explain.
Jordanian legal aid NGO launches new campaign to publicise the dangers of undocumented migration
Open letter to the Director-General of the BBC concerning the documentary ‘Rwanda, the Untold Story’
Case note: As, R (on the Application of) v SSHD [2014] EWHC 3478 (Admin) (24 October 2014)
Supreme Court of Canada rules against refugee protection for those guilty of serious past crimes
Thousands of refugees in limbo following suspension of US in-country refugee processing in Iraq
Tarakhel v. Switzerland (Application No. 29217/12): Returns to Italy ruled as inhumane treatment
ARTICLES
Protected faster, or fewer protected? The peril of ‘safe’ countries
Immigration detention: A most un-British phenomenon
November 2014
Detention and deportation news
Grants and awards: PRM grants for Kenya and Ethiopia NGOs
Announcement: EUROMED and SRLAN members
CASE NOTES AND SHORT PIECES
Statelessness averted? Former Burundian refugees to receive Tanzanian citizenship
Case note: Hounga v Allen & Anor [2014] UKSC 47 (30 July 2014)
Refugees face curbs on rights in Western Sahara/Algeria
Australia-Cambodia resettlement deal disregards Refugee Convention obligations
Mind that data: The pitfalls of UNHCR RSD data
Continuing conflicts that create refugees
ARTICLES
Immigration detention in the media: anarchy and ambivalence
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October 2014
Detention and deportation news
CASE NOTES AND SHORT PIECES
An update on the Cessation Clause
A word from the Human Rights Watch Refugee Rights Programme
Where is the UNHCR RSD surge happening?
UNHCR statement on Australia-Cambodia agreement on refugee relocation
Commentary: Detention of undocumented families is wrong
The impact of detention on mental disorders: ‘a crisis of harm in immigration detention’
Ecuador advances the protection of refugees
The death of Abelhak Goradia: a worrying silence in France
Court stops Sri Lanka deporting refugees
EU pilot project on return policy
US Board of Immigration Appeals decision on Guatemalan women as a particular social group
Federal Court [Canada] rules that Refugee Appeal Division must do a full appeal based on merit
M.V. and M.T. v. France – Violation of Article 3 if deported to Russia
UNHCR urges Sri Lanka to stop deportations and provide protection to refugees and asylum-seekers
Eight Congolese refugees convicted in Zambia
ARTICLES
The blurred line: Preserving the asylum space in a context of increasing insecurity in Kenya
Anthropology can save lives: Lucy Mair medal acceptance speech
Beyond bare life: refugee agency through jurisdictional competition in Buduburam
Naath offers vulnerable South Sudanese communities support in Egypt
Language testing of asylum claimants: A flawed approach
September 2014
Detention and Deportation News
ANNOUNCEMENTS
CASE NOTES & SHORT PIECES
Post Deportation Monitoring Training in Estonia for police and immigration control
Portugal adopts new asylum legislation transposing EU asylum directives
Brazil will offer citizenship to stateless persons
‘Mental Health Matters’ on International Youth Day 2014
Report on intensive course on refugee law conducted at University of Sarajevo
UNHCR urges Sri Lanka to stop deporting asylum-seekers to Pakistan
Australia’s treatment of asylum seekers threatens refugee protection across Asia-Pacific
Statement on repatriation of refugees from the Thai–Myanmar border
UNHCR Briefing Notes: Thailand deports Laotian refugee; Rising death toll in the Mediterranean
Israeli authorities use unnecessary force to quash protest of detained asylum seekers
Continuing conflicts that create refugees
French family reunification procedure violates right to family life
Difference between UK domestic and EU law on deportation
The decision of the Federal Court on the appeal of refugees welcomed
Legal aid residence test found unlawful. Big time.
Cameroon: Pilot refugee rights training for North West lawyers
Japan: ‘I wish I had never come here’ mourning heard from refugee applicants in Japan
ARTICLES
Refugee protection in China: recent legal and policy developments
July 2014
The International Refugee Rights Initiative and the Fahamu Refugee Programme announce merger
Detention and Deportation News
Announcements
Conferences and workshops: The first Global Forum on Statelessness
Grants and awards: Clifford Chance Access to Justice Award
Request: Asylum Access Refugee Rights Toolkit editors
Call for papers: Common Bond Institute
CASE NOTES AND SHORT PIECES
Concerns over mass detention of refugees in Sri Lanka
- Sri Lankan authorities detain Pakistani refugees in mass sweep
- Increasing concerns over the detention of refugees and asylum seekers in Sri Lanka
- Pakistani Refugees: an open letter to the Sri Lankan embassy in London
Uganda’s Refugee Law Project Gender & Sexuality Programme update
Thousands of refugees stage ‘walk of freedom’ to protest detention at Holot, Israel
India: displaced persons and the right to vote
The development of the definition of prohibited treatment under Article 3 ECHR for asylum seekers
ECRE calls for legal access for refugees and alternatives to Dublin Regulation in Home Affairs strategic guidelines
Doubly vulnerable: The world’s refugees are fleeing persecution only to see their rights trampled
Reflections on refugee protection in Japan
ARTICLES
Refugee Studies: No atonement for the failure of politics
‘Don’t even talk to them’: Tunisia’s forgotten refugees
June 2014
Detention and Deportation News
Announcements
Letters to the editors: Refugee Law Project updates
CASE NOTES AND SHORT PIECES
Introducing ‘forced voluntary return’: new prospects for becoming irregular in Finland
Concern over the transfer of refugee journalists to designated areas: an open letter
APRRN calls for immediate review of Japan’s domestic refugee protection systems
Djibouti arbitrarily detaining and turning over Ogaden refugees in Djibouti to Ethiopian security
Testimony: detention in Lukavica-Bosnia and Deportation to Serbia
United Nations expert says there are ‘elements of genocide’ against Myanmar’s Rohingya
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) continues to block public access to enforcement data
A short testimony from the Liberian community in Israel
Human rights abuses getting worse in Rwanda: open letter to President Kagame
Case note: AC and Others v Spain, Application no. 6528/11
Case note: Australian High Court hears case on legality of offshore processing
ARTICLES
The Deficiencies of UNHCR’s RSD Procedure: the Case of Choucha Refugee Camp in Tunisia
Long-awaited victory for hundreds of Eritreans detained in Djibouti
May 2014
Detention and Deportation News
Event Announcements: Harvard Clinical Programme & UNHCR Annual Consultations
CASE NOTES AND SHORT PIECES
An open letter to UNHCR from the Kakuma News Reflector on the Kenyan internment of Somalis
FreeMovement: UNHCR’s Guidelines on Military Service
Western Sahara: MINURSO’s mandate should be extended to include human rights
MALTA: NGOs welcome Prime Minister’s pledge to stop detaining children
UNHCR recommends starting the cessation process for refugees from Croatia
Stop the arrest and detention of asylum seeking women accessing maternal health care
The Italian Refugee Council: Access to protection in Italy
- CASE NOTE: Refugee Action, R (On the Application Of) v SSHD [2014] EWHC 1033 (Admin) (09 April 2014)
UNHCR seeking access to detained asylum-seekers and refugees in Nairobi
COURT NOTES: High Court of Justice hearing regarding Israel’s Anti-Infiltration Law
Refugee Law Project’s position on the Anti-Homosexuality Bill
A short testament from Rwandans in Zambia
Transitioning from UNHCR to government RSD: An overdue assessment
Israeli Immigration Authority promises not to fine employers of asylum-seekers whose visas expired
ARTICLES
The new asylum regime in Kenya: a commentary from the Refugee Consortium of Kenya
Refugee Legal Aid in Morocco: Moroccan NGO launches lawyer training program in border city of Oujda
April 2014
STOP PRESS: Kenya again orders all refugees to be interned in camps
Announcement: Hong Kong refugee advice centre
CASE NOTES AND SHORT PIECES
Case note: Shahzad (Art 8: legitimate aim) Pakistan [2014] UKUT 85 (IAC)
Case note: QH (Christians – risk) (China) CG [2014] UKUT 86 (IAC) (14 March 2014)
Case note: RQ (Jordan) v SSHD [2014] EWHC 559 (Admin)
UK Supreme Court decides on third country returns
UNHCR issues new Guidelines on Temporary Protection: They need a rewrite
An overview of current situation for asylum-seekers in Israel
An interview with Barbara Harrell-Bond
ARTICLES
FGM and asylum: AF vs Secretary of State 31 January 2014
March 2014
Deportation and Detention News
OO Algeria [2013] UKUT 00063 (IAC)
Supreme Court decides on third country returns
Court of Justice: Judgment in Case C-285/12 Diakité, 30 January 2014
Court of Justice: Judgment in Case C-84/12 Koushkaki, 19 December 2013
USA: Board of Immigration Appeals delivers two judgments defining ‘particular social group’
After a long struggle, 221 migrant families to receive legal status in Israel
Press Release: Saudi Arabia should end summary deportations of Somalis and Yeminis
Charities welcome Court of Appeal judgement on immigrant mental health policy
The Tindouf refugee camps: A Moroccan’s reflections
Team of experts to Israeli Government: End detention of migrant children
Cyprus: Detention of Syrian asylum seekers and access to an effective remedy
Refugee Legal Aid in Morocco: Moroccan NGO launches lawyer training program in border city of Oujda
UNHCR guidelines on temporary protection or stay arrangements
February 2014
Death of Col. Karegeya: Unending hunt for Rwandan refugees
Press conference: Hunger strike for freedom and human rights
Stranded in Hamburg: Asylum-seekers claim they are here to stay
The use of psychological and medical evidence within RSD proceedings
The Invisible: Stateless persons in Poland, an executive summary
The right to seek asylum and protection
January 2014
Call for papers: CARFMS Graduate Student Essay Contest
Request: Cases required for research on Ugandan Refugees Act
Letter to the Editors from Bishop John Osmers, Zambia
Case Note: P (DRC), R (on the application of) V Secretary of State for the Home Department
Ending secret asylum files (if only we could take UNHCR to federal court…)
UK immigration court position on detainee hunger strikes
Self-harm in UK immigration detention: July-September 2013
US ruling establishes ‘cumulative’ credibility possibility in establishing past persecution
On the Israeli supreme court ruling
Spain recognises statelessness claims of two individuals from Western Sahara
December 2013
On Rwandan Government passports for Rwandan former refugees’ local integration in Zambia
Case Notes: C-4/11 Bundesrepublik Deutschland v Kaveh Puid (Dublin Returns)
Bodies in the Black Sea? Bulgaria steps up efforts to repel refugees
Rwandan generals accused of war crimes in UN employ
November 2013
Introducing the Western Balkans Legal Aid Network
Humanity vs. Israeli Parliament
Update on the nature and need of protection of Somali refugees in Kenya: In Kenya, UNHCR chief discusses solutions for Somali refugees ; Changing the face of refugee protection? The Kenyan High Court affirms the right to dignity and freedom of movement of refugees
Open letter of refugees and persons with international protection status
EU and Member State measures to tackle the flow of refugees as a result of the conflict in Syria:
S.S.L -v- Minister for Justice and Equality
EU must grant asylum to all Eritrean refugees
Lampedusa deaths: identification and the families’ right to know
A gentle reminder to UNHCR: Deciding refugee cases is not just about efficiency
An overview of transfers of asylum seekers from Germany to Italy under the Dublin II Regulation
Australia and South East Asia: Irregular migration and refugee protection
The Reach of the Exclusion clause to the Refugee Convention
UNHCR-NGO Annual Consultation Closing Remarks
October 2013
Rejected asylum seekers tortured in Sri Lanka
Facilitations for family reunification of Syrian refugees in Switzerland
Convention Against Torture victory won for Somali national
Illegal deportations from Italy – sending Egyptians back into a civil war
Case Watch: Kenya judge rules against ‘War on Terror’ renditions
Israel: Supreme Court overturns law to prevent infiltration
Legal aid for refugees in Morocco: Droit et Justice launch their programme
Moroccan monarch and government take on asylum reform at long last
Playing with people’s lives: The plight of Rwandan refugees in the Great Lakes region
Introduction to CA7 on Belarus, changed country conditions:
September 2013
Letter to the editors: ‘To achieve a solution or die’
SPECIAL FEATURE: The state of Rwandan refugee protection after the Cessation Clause
- June 30th Cessation deadline’s inconclusive
- Finding a home at last? Rwandan exiles in Zambia
- Memorandum of Rwandan refugees in Uganda to Kagame’s regime over its pressure for return of Rwandan refugees
The beginnings of refugee legal aid in India
Asia Pacific Refugee Rights Network statement on recent policy announcements in Australia
Canadian Council for Refugees welcomes Ezokola decision clarifying refugee exclusion
AH (Article 1F(b) – ‘Serious’) Algeria v. SSHD
R v Mateta & Ors, [2013] EWCA Crim 1372 30 July 2013
Excerpt: Opinion of Lord Eassie in the appeals
Harming asylum seekers’ chances through poor use of human rights treaties
Hungary’s asylum system under pressure
Why do we still have refugee camps?
July 2013
- STOP PRESS: Pakistan extends refugee status for Afghans
- STOP PRESS: UNHCR Africa Bureau announces only three states to implement Cessation Clause for Rwandan refugees
- STOP PRESS: Choucha closes
News on Countries of Origin and Asylum
Deportation and Detention News
UNHCR Africa Bureau announces only three states to implement Cessation Clause for Rwandan refugees
Revolution and international migration in Tunisia
Discrimination awaits Palestinians fleeing the Syrian conflict
Civil society organisations condemn the cruel and inhumane conduct by some Cypriot police officers
France: At least 62% of foreigners are deported without seeing a judge
CASE NOTE: R (JB) Jamaica v Secretary of State for the Home Department
Refusals of international protection in Bologna
Hungary passes legislation allowing widespread detention of asylum seekers
World Refugee Day 2013: EU-Turkey agreement puts refugee and migrant rights on the line
Refugees in Africa’s Great Lakes region: a perpetual state of exile
International Refugee Law: a selected survey of developments in 2012
June 2013
News on Countries of Origin and Asylum
SPECIAL FEATURE: Documenting the Rwanda Countdown: Our articles on the Cessation Clause 2010-2013
SPECIAL FEATURE: Rwandan refugees resisting repatriation, says Edgar Lungu
Statement on asylum trends and levels in 2012 in Japan
New ‘excision’ law does not relieve Australia of its responsibilities towards asylum-seekers
UK: Council wrongly classed asylum seeker children as adults
New legal challenge against detention of asylum seekers and the use of the Detained Fast Track.
Unprotected Congolese refugees In Gabon
SPECIAL FEATURE: Report on the rejected asylum seekers of Choucha refugee camp
SPECIAL FEATURE: Stuck at Choucha
Refugee status determination in Hong Kong: a new era for legal aid providers?
Psychosocial well-being within refugee education in Cairo
Sri Lanka: A contemporary case of paradoxes
A future without immigration detention?
May 2013
Country of origin and legal news
Notes from the field: one country of origin expert’s experience
Advocacy groups celebrate landmark step to protect stateless in UK
UNHCR Briefing Note: UK’s new determination procedure to end legal limbo for stateless
UNHCR speaks out concerning Europe’s efforts to add more roadblocks to asylum procedures
A milestone for refugee rights: Hong Kong court of final appeal rules in favour of C case appellants
On the run, alone and young: Congolese children flee to Uganda
A diverse scope of refugees living at the margins in Egypt
NGOs, UNHCR and the European Commission welcome Turkey’s new asylum law
Case note: France will not deport refused asylum seeker to Chad
Case note: Removal of Chechen man from Austria to Russia would expose him to risk of ill-treatment
Case note: Abdi v. the United Kingdom – violation of Article 5
SIS II to centralize data of people who are not allowed entry into the Schengen Area
Accession of the European Union to the European Convention on Human Rights
The European Commission adopts a proposal for regulation on the surveillance of external sea borders
Former Burundian refugees struggle to assert their new Tanzanian citizenship
SPECIAL FEATURE: Concerns over Rwanda Cessation
Organised crime and refugee policy in Honduras
Alarming prevalence of self harm in UK immigration detention during 2012
The first country of asylum principle in Tanzania: a national and East African perspective
Disability and forced migration
FRONTEX: human rights responsibilities
April 2013
News on Countries of Origin and Asylum
Conferences, Workshops & Courses
Short pieces and case notes
- Rwandan refugees in Côte d’Ivoire express concern
- Refugee Law Initiative hosts international conference on Latin American asylum policy
- Returning unaccompanied minors to Afghanistan: An update
- High Court orders last-minute reprieve from deportation of Tamils from the UK
- Israel: Detained asylum seekers pressured to leave
- High Court of Justice to State: Explain legality of anti-infiltration law
- Choucha: Forgotten in the Tunisian desert?
- UNHCR urged to expedite resettlement from Russia to protect refugees at risk of abduction
- UNHCR stands up for refugees in Israel
Articles
- The Rights in Exile Programme’sstatement on behalf of African NGOs before the 56th meeting of the Standing Committee at UNHCR in Geneva
- Agenda Item 3 (a) i
- Agenda Item 3 (a) ii
- Agenda Item (3) iii
- Agenda Item 3 (a) iv
- Agenda Item 3 (a) v
Implications of the Geopolitical and Economic Constraints for Providing Legal Aid to Refugees in Jordan New network monitors deportee abuses
- Refugee migration to Ukraine and the geopolitics of control at Europe’s eastern borders
- AMERA-Egypt, Flagship of the Refugee Legal Aid Movement, Struggles for Financial Survival
- Surviving Choucha
March 2013
STOP PRESS: Israel ‘secretly’ deports 1,000 Sudanese to Sudan, UNHCR rejects claim removal was ‘voluntary’
News on Countries of Origin and Asylum
Deportation News
Announcements
Conferences & workshops
Vacancies
Short pieces & case notes
- Governments of Denmark and Norway push to return asylum-seekers to Somalia
- Palestinians and Article 1D: automatic refugee status for Palestinian refugees
- Eritrean refugees face removal from Israel
- Rwandan refugees in South Africa advise their host government ahead of UNHCR’s recommended invocation of the Cessation Clause
- UNHCR’s Bangkok office defies the right to counsel
- The Asia Pacific Refugee Rights Network and International Detention Coalition statement on New Zealand’s announcement that it will take 150 refugees from Australia
- Between a rock and a hard place: Conflict in Kachin state
- Refugees in Kenya: A briefing on recent developments and implications for urban refugee policy
- End FGM Campaign: Asylum directives will provide better protection for victims of Female Genital Mutilation
- Little to celebrate on Dublin’s 10th anniversary: New research shows that the system continues to violate the rights of refugees
- UK asylum caselaw developments
- The residence rights of former durable partners of EEA nationals in domestic violence cases: Guidance on the applicable EU law
- Case note on Article 5 § 1 ‘right to liberty and security,’ Article 5 § 4 ‘right to have lawfulness of detention decided speedily by a court,’ and Article 8 ‘right to respect for private and family life’: Amie and Others v. Bulgaria
- Slovak Human Rights League declares that obstacles to legal assistance for foreigners imply breach of international obligations
- Understanding the new refugee determination system in Canada
- Canada declares Mexico and Israel ‘Designated Countries of Origin’
- G4S takeover has been a ‘disaster for asylum seekers’
- UK ministerial authorisation under Equality Act 2010 for Palestinian, Syrian and Kuwaiti language analysis
Articles
- International intervention in Mali and its impact on refugees
- Protection in practice: The situation of refugees in East Asia
- Article 3 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC): A tool for protecting migrant children?
- Protected or excluded? A case study of the interpretation and implementation of Article 1D with regard to Palestinian asylum seekers
Resources & publications
Requests for Articles
February 2013
News on countries of origin and asylum
Reader Response: UNHCR’s regional policy in Zambia
New film on Rwanda cessation released
Israeli Ministry of Interior prevents jailed asylum seekers from filing asylum requests
Canada court condemns anti-smuggling law
Ongoing challenges for displaced Rohingyas
Russian authorities launch anti-gay media campaign
Stranded at the border: Migrants and refugees trapped in a no man’s land
The endless suffering of those who fled Libya: Choucha camp
UNHCR’s Rwanda cessation: Flawed, but perhaps not entirely wrong
Kenya: Don’t force 55,000 refugees into camps
Detainees’ rights overrule absconding and rioting charges, courts rule
January 2013
Avaaz Community Petition to stop the invocation of the cessation clause for Rwandan refugees
News on Countries of Origin and Asylum
Reader Response: Rwanda, Zambia, Cessation
The purpose of RSDWatch, then and now
Kenya restricts refugees to camps, violating refugee rights
A Profile of a COI provider – a recommended organization
Mercosul countries sign commitment to common policies for refugees in the region
Regarding asylum policy, Norway is far from being the ‘first class’ in Europe
‘Vile liars and truth distorters’ – truth, trust and the asylum system
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Special focus: Canada
CANADA: The crisis in funding legal support for refugees
CANADA: New refugee system does not treat refugees fairly or protect those most at risk
Special focus: Article 1F(c)
UK Legal News Analysis: When is an act contrary to the purposes and principles of the UN?
Casenote on Article 1F(c) ‘acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the UN’
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ECRE/ELENA Legal Update: Recent European case law
Violating the rights of deportees: why some deportations to African states amount to refoulement
An introduction to Frontex: Human Rights
Tanzania’s Mtabila camp closed, refugees repatriated against their will
Refugee resettlement from Kenya: perspectives from Kakuma and Nairobi
To be or not to be: the ‘environmental refugee’?
December 2012
News on countries of origin and asylum
Dozens of organisations urge member states to accede to statelessness conventions
Asia Pacific Refugee Rights Network statement on changes to Australian policy
Xenophobic attacks on the rise in Greece: asylum seekers and refugees at increasing risk
EASO country of origin information report Afghanistan: A critical review
Human Rights Watch documents five serious cases challenging the principle of non-refoulement in 2012
Ghanaian detainees statement on the death of Prince Ofosu at Harmondsworth IRC
The top 10 neglected refugee crises
ECRE recounts important cases in Europe
Nuclear Family a ‘Social Group’
Hode & Abdi v. the United Kingdom
MN and others: Pakistan Pakistan v. the SSHD
Solitary confinement of homosexual found to be discriminatory: The Case of X v Turkey
Rwanda: Why UNHCR is wrong about Cessation
An introduction to Frontex: frequent criticism
Japan Announces that ‘0’ Refugees will be Resettled this Year
Regional cooperation: an impossible dream?
Call for papers and applications
November 2012
Country of Origin and Legal News
Court enjoins arrest of Sudanese asylum seekers until further decision is reached
- Unsolved issues in South Korea’s domestic refugee law
- Advocacy for refugees using the domestic refugee law in Korea
Remembering episodes of sexual violence: the impact of post-traumatic stress disorder on evidence
Treatment of returned failed asylum seekers to the Democratic Republic of Congo
Petition provides hope for the delay of the anti-infiltration law to asylum seekers in Israel
Conferences, workshops, and courses
October 2012
Country of Origin and legal news
Deportation and third country removal news
Reader response: Rwandans in Zambia subject the the Cessation Clause
Open letter to ExCom: The threat of invoking the Cessation Clause in particular reference to Rwanda
European Court issues freedom of religion judgment
Unlawful detention and refoulement of asylum seekers in South Africa
Croatia to join EU, drawing attention to refugee treatment
The Refugee Consortium of Kenya: code of conduct
Zimbabwe’s resettlement rumours
The right to asylum of unaccompanied minors in the European Union
Sources of persecution seldom spoken about: witchcraft accusations and asylum
Serbia: a worrying situation outside the centre for asylum seekers in Bogovada
Deportations of failed Ugandan asylum seekers
Announcing the European database of asylum law
Argentina introduces state-run refugee status determination (RSD) system
September 2012
Rwandan refugees in Zambia suggest they are stripped of education by the cessation process
Legal victory for refugee rights in Israel: the end of school segregation in Eilat
Security situation in Sinai: opportunity to liberate torture camps
Case note: court ruling granted freedom to two refugees detained in Egyptian prisons
Djibouti: An open letter from an Eritrean refugee
Bangladesh government shutting down NGOs working with refugees
End of detention of illegal immigrants in France
Notorious Spanish immigrant detention centre closed
Mozambique: a refugee sending country turned host
The withdrawal of citizenship from Jordanians of Palestinian Origin
Launching the post-deportation monitoring network
The Cessation Clause and Rwandans in Uganda: Is the Countdown Beginning?
Book Review: Trauma Stewardship, an everyday guide to caring for self while caring for others
Rights in Exile Programme announces new co-director
July 2012
Why I cannot return to Rwanda: testimonies of Rwandan refugees
Why is the government of Tanzania backtracking from its commitment to fully grant citizenship to Burundian refugees?
Refugee and migrant protection at sea: lessons from the Mediterranean
Special focus: ISRAEL
Refugees denied legal rights in Israel
Refugee related issues in Israel: an update
The end of temporary group protection for South Sudanese
Open letter to Israel: Eritreans are NOT economic refugees
June 2012
Palestinians who fall under the 1951 Convention: a Norwegian case
Legal aid profile: the Cambridge Pro Bono Project
Ruling: the state is obligated to provide adequate translation services in RSD interviews
Open letter to the Cyprus Bar Association
Conference panel: the need for competent counsel for refugees
Why immigration detention harms people and doesn’t work
South Africa: High Court refuses to grant leave to appeal closure of refugee reception office
Important judgement on the value of medical reports
May 2012
Pending questions: UNHCR Recommendations regarding the Cessation Clause for Rwandan refugees
Asylum victory on appeal: Immigration Judge placed ‘unreasonable expectations’ on applicant to demonstrate the motive behind violence against her
UK detaining Sudanese asylum seekers with an aim towards deportation
Understanding psychology can make asylum decisions fairer
EU resolution against human trafficking in the Sinai
Hungarian asylum process condemned by the UNHCR
Thai NGO collecting signatures to petition for a Refugee Act
The Moroccan Arab Spring: Protecting migrants rights in theory and practice
Campaign for access to detention centres in Europe
Refugees in Egypt: Between rights and responsibilities
April 2012
‘We are in hell’: Legal aid needed for detained asylum seekers in Romania
Legal aid battles in the Lords: a report from the United Kingdom
Country of Origin specialists: engaging at what cost?
‘Experts’ in the asylum process: are good intentions good enough?
Court injunction forbids Israel from deporting South Sudanese
Update: Syrian refugees in Turkey
Syrian men barred from leaving country without military approval
More resettlement places in Europe?
Court rules conditions in Dadaab to be ‘inhuman and degrading’
Canadian government to include Mexico on ‘Safe Country of Origin’ list
Mock trial for Europe aims to shed light on human rights
Petition: Support Refugee Action’s ‘Access to Justice’ initiative
Petition: Campaign to save North Korean refugees in China from refoulement
March 2012
How to apply for asylum in Brazil
Practice Advisory on Interim Memo regarding law students, graduates and other representatives appearing before United States Citizenship and Immigration Services
The importance of psychosocial support in the refugee status determination process
Asylum approval rate in Japan still shockingly low
Changes to refugee system in Canada further undermine refugees
Italy rebuked by European Court after deportations of Somali and Eritrean asylum seekers
Statement on Kenyan Government plan to relocate refugees back to Somalia
Syrian refugees in Europe: news from Belgium and Sweden
Syrians in Jordan: Guests, not refugees
Democratic Republic of Congo London embassy staff resign and claim asylum
Open letter from Eritrean refugees and asylum seekers in Djibouti
Letter from the Rwandan Refugee Community in Zambia to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon
Refugees in Brazil denounce ‘exploitation network’
February 2012
STOP PRESS: Fahamu Refugee Legal Aid website
United States practice advisory concerning asylum applications for long term residency or family reunification put on hold under the Tier III provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act
Somalis in Kenya suffer the consequences of Kenyan war in Somalia
Life in exile: challenges facing refugees and organisations working to support them in Cape Town
Arbitrariness regarding access to the asylum procedure in Bulgaria
Longing to repatriate or resettle? Bhutanese refugees in Nepal
How language testing used to authenticate asylum claims fails to recognise the reality and complexity of language
Death at the gates of Europe: refugees drown off the Moroccan coast trying to reach Spain
Language analysis in the UK Refugee Status Determination system
Updates on access to asylum in Switzerland
January 2012
Providing open access to legal literature
US required to consider testimony from asylum seeker
Refugees in Djibouti detention centre need help
Rights in Exile Programme seeks Director
Assessment of United Kingdom Border Agency’s Operational Guidance Notes
Organisational profile: against deportation from the UK
Court provides for exceptions to Dublin II, when Member State does not observe asylum rights
Report on meeting between UNHCR and Rwandan refugee organisations
News on Rwanda and the cessation clause
Testimonies of Rwandan refugees
STOP PRESS: Refugee Act passes in Korea
December 2011
The Bangkok Principles on the Status and Treatment of Refugees
Africa NGO resolution on the rights of refugees, asylum seekers, migrants and displaced persons
Asia Pacific model pledge towards upholding refugee rights worldwide
MIGREUROP explores readmission instruments
The situation of refugees in Israel
Question & answer: the Cessation Clause examined
The Cessation Clause: a primer
ECtHR allows extradition to Rwanda of alleged Hutu génocidaire with refugee status in Denmark; UNHCR does not intervene
‘Is this Caribbean idyll the worst place in the world to be a woman?’
WikiLeaks diplomatic cables: a tool for refugee legal aid workers?
In limbo in Latvia
Asia Pacific Regional Immigration Detention Working Group workshop
November 2011
Resettlement in exchange for local asylum?
UNHCR’s incentive salary policy
Human rights in Rwanda
International refugee law judges conference
Country of origin and legal news
Child custody rights and UNHCR resettlement
Resettlement, divorce and visita1on rights
Profile: Iraqi Refugee Assistance Project, Articulo en Español
October 2011
Remarks & letters on the Cessation Clause
New project: international law in domestic courts
Discussion of workshop on asylum‐seeking children
Asia Pacific regional refugee protecLon cooperation
Refugees in Egypt train in advocacy
The refugee situation in Korea
New Canadian AssociaLon of Refugee Lawyers
Asylum seekers in Estonia receive free legal assistance
Irish asylum system needs reform
Iraq’s mistreatment of Iranians in Camp Ashraf
How Asylum Access Thailand uses the FRLAN
Can a European gain asylum in another EU country?
Workshop: cultural expertise in English courts
September 2011
Sign to Protect Rwandan Refugees!
Australia’s “Malaysian Solution”
Rwandans in UK Face Danger
UNHCR‐Rwandan Refugee Meeting
LGBTI Rights in Sudan
Case Note: ECHR on Dadaab Camp
Asylum in Poland
Cyprus Police Attack Detainees
Case Note: Return from UK to Cyprus
Syrian Refugees in Turkey
UK Refugee Legal Aid Cuts
July/August 2011
Training Asylum Lawyers in the UK
Case Note:Asylum & Child Custody
Australia’s Troubling ‘Swap’ Plan
Egypt’s Invisible Palestinians
The UK’S Troubling Asylum Practices
Thai Refugee Freedom Fund
Syrians Flee to Turkey
Call: Continue Protecting Rwandans
Sinai Atrocities, Israel Detention
June 2011
Expert Advice in Legal Cases
Australia Plans Asylum ‘Swap’
Rwanda & the Cessation Clause
European Borders
UNHCR Urban Refugee Policy in Bulgaria
May 2011
Refugees in the Russian Federation
Kenyan Refugee in Transitional Justice
Events & Courses
Canada in Violation on Returns to USA
News: Australia, Cyprus, Namibia, Eritreans
April 2011
Looking for Legal Literature
The Cessation Clause, Uganda Style
Coalition for Rights of Iranian Refugees
Advocacy Action in Thailand: APRRN
Family Reunification in Finland
Refugee Crisis in Libya
March 2011
New Mexican Refugee Legislation
US Ruling on Fear of Future Persecution
Rights in Exile Programme: An Overview
February 2011
US Debate on Evidence Access in Immigration Cases
UNHCR’s Position on Returns to Côte d’Ivoire
Shutting ‘Gateway EU’: Greece’s Fence Plans
Persecution, Death of Uganda’s Sexual Minorities
Commentary on Human Rights in Uganda
News: Sudan, Ethiopia, Egypt
January 2011
UK Age Assessment: A New Approach
Arguments for Legal Asylum System in Jordan
Witchcraft Allegations & Refugee Protection
Egypt Sinai: Refugees Taken Hostage
Commentary: UNHCR’s Role in Israel-Sudan Returns
Transgendered Women Allowed to Remain in the US
South Africa to Return Zimbabweans in 2011
December 2010
Refugee protection in Israel: recent developments
Age disputed asylum seeking children in the United Kingdom
Publications and resources
India’s constitutional right to life – a hope for refugees?
Japanese judgement on Rohingya disregards international human rights and refugee law norms
Malaysia: Combating human trafficking must not be at the expense of human rights
South Africa: Refugees can again access bank accounts
November 2010
Egypt: first steps taken in creation of National Network of Refugee Lawyers
The law, policy and practice of refugee protection in India
Update from Japan: Asia’s only resettlement program continues
October 2010
Is the United States a safe third country? A commentary on Canadian Council for Refugees v. Her Majesty the Queen
Hard times for refugees in Northern Cyprus
Commentary: UNHCR’s deregistration of Iraqis in Syria
September 2010
From Refugee to citizen? Obstacles to the naturalization of refugees in Uganda
United Kingdom: the right to work during the asylum claim process
July 2010
Response to UNHCR’s new eligibility guidelines on asylumseekers from Sri Lanka
The United Kingdom’s reception of asylum seekers
June 2010
Iraqi Refugees detained in Lebanon issue public statement
ALERT: Using the European Court to stop deportation
Statement of the Joint Committee of the 8th Tripartite Commission Meeting, 13 May 2010
May 2010
Uganda & Malawi: Africa’s LGBTI Rights Under Attack
New UNHCR guidelines on Somali asylum claims
Call for Refugee Legal Aid in Nepal
April 2010
Using civil society networks to engage with intergovernmental processes: The Asia Pacific Refugee Rights Network
Australia’s partial suspension of asylum processing prompts protest
Dadaab refugees release open letter of grievances
March 2010
Refugee legal aid at Canadian embassies
Early warning of Cessation Clause?
UNHCR country of origin briefing papers available online
International Detention Monitor e-Newsletter and Toolkit
New refugee legislation in Chile
Asylum in Mexico
Assessing credibility in religious-based refugee claims: the case of Pentecostals in Egypt
Refugee law training held in Malaysia
February 2010
Refugees in Central African Republic fear return
Need for refugee legal aid in Cameroon
Hong Kong’s refugee law is changing
Budget increase for refugee resources in Egypt expected
Yemen sees rise in African migrant arrivals
Court case of Chechen limits detention to 18 months
Return pressure on refugees in Thailand
Cyprus detention victory
Malaysia to issue refugee identity cards
Japan to resettle Myanmar refugees