The HHC's new Information Note summarizes the changes that took place since Fall 2015 in the field of asylum and shows how these changes have erected, step-by-step, a new wall around Hungary.
Continue ReadingAsylum seekers in Europe are often faced with EU rules that hinder their ability to seek asylum in an EU country where they would feel most protected. This is according to a new JRS Europe report, Protection Interrupted, based on interviews with 257 asylum seekers and migrants in nine EU countries.
Continue ReadingA comparative report came out analyzing the practice of 11 Member States in applying the Dublin Regulation.
Continue ReadingNew research shows that the system continues to violate the rights of refugees.
Continue ReadingThe Dublin system increases pressures on the border regions of the EU, where states are often least able to offer asylum seekers support and protection.
Continue ReadingInformation note on the treatment of Dublin returnees in Hungary
Continue ReadingThe Hungarian Helsinki Committee calls on the Hungarian government and the competent asylum authority, the Office of Immigration and Nationality to follow the example of Belgium, Iceland, the Netherlands, Germany, Norway, and the UK and stop Dublin transfers to Greece.
Continue ReadingThe results of the Dubliners project (link to the project) were presented at the final conference in Rome. Officials from Sweden, Hungary and Italy, and representatives of partner NGOs highlighted the difficulties in the application of the Dublin regulation.
Continue ReadingThe European Court of Human Rights requested the Hungarian government to suspend the return of an unaccompanied 16-yar old Afghan asylum seeker to Greece under the Dublin Regulation on Friday, 26 February.
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