Newsletter - June 2019
Protection of refugee and migrant children, meeting on Statelessness Determination Procedures and RUDN Conference
On 27-28 May 2019, in Lisbon, the Office of the Special Representative on migration and refugees participated in a seminar in Portugal to discuss the “Effective Protection of Refugee and Migrant Children in Portugal”, organised by the Council of Europe and UNHCR (the United Nation’s refugee...
Failure to grant a residence permit in Sweden complied with the right to respect for family life
On 6 June 2019, in its decision in the case of Abokar v. Sweden (application no. 23270/16) notified in writing, concerning the Swedish authorities’ refusal to grant a Somali national a residence permit for family reunion purposes, the European Court of Human Rights has unanimously declared the...
Addressing family reunification, German bill on removals and publication of a report on Hungary
On 21 May 2019, the Commissioner for Human Rights, Dunja Mijatović, published a report on her visit to Hungary in February 2019. In the report, she pointed out that the government’s stance against immigration and asylum seekers has resulted in a legislative framework which undermines the...
Immigration detention: CPT publishes report on Georgia
On 10 May 2019, the Council of Europe’s Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) published the report on its most recent visit to Georgia from 10 to 21 September 2018, together with the interim response of the Georgian authorities. As part of...
Call for tenders: Effective alternatives to immigration detention and Seminar on protecting refugee and migrant children in Portugal
On 27-28 May 2019, in Lisbon, key stakeholders from the Council of Europe, UNHCR (the United Nation’s refugee agency) and national experts from Portugal gathered to discuss the “Effective Protection of Refugee and Migrant Children in Portugal”. The aim of the two-day event, organised jointly by...
Summer session, visit to Cyprus and end of Parliamentary Campaign to End Immigration Detention of Children
On 14 June 2019, a delegation from the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) will visit Cyprus and particularly the shelter for unaccompanied minors “Home for Hope.” The visit is organised by the Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons in the framework of the...
Ad hoc meeting on statelessness determination procedures
On 11-12 June 2019 in Strasbourg, the European Committee on Legal Co-operation (CDCJ) of the Council of Europe organised an Ad-hoc Meeting on Statelessness Determination Procedures. The meeting brought together national experts and European and international organisations working in this field,...
Addressing age-assessment and sexual exploitation of refugee and migrant children
On 6 June 2019, the Committee of the Parties to the Council of Europe Convention on the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse (“Lanzarote Committee”) adopted an evaluation report concluding that European states have only partially implemented recommendations of 2017...
Decision on Greece's treatment of unaccompanied migrant children
On 23 May 2019, the European Committee of Social Rights published the decision on admissibility and on immediate measures in the case International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) and European Council for Refugees and Exiles (ECRE) v. Greece, Complaint No. 173/2018. The ICJ and ECRE allege that...
- Border protection and the rights of young refugees and children in focus
- Spain did not breach the Convention when returning migrants to Morocco at Melilla border
- PACE to discuss violence and discrimination against religious minorities
- New study on gender-based asylum claims and non-refoulement
- Launch of toolkit on academic integration of refugees into higher education
- Taking young refugees seriously: key messages from the conference
- North-South Prize 2019 honours the efforts to support the integration of migrants