“Expulsion and Human Rights” is a brief guidance document intended primarily for judges on how to apply the prohibition of torture, inhuman and degrading treatment or punishment in expulsion and extradition cases (by Gábor Gyulai).
The Hungarian Helsinki Committee conducted a research on best practices of voluntary return and reintegration of failed asylum seekers or other groups of migrants.
The right to seek asylum and the obligation of protecting refugees is enshrined in numerous international human rights instruments and forms an integral part of European values. As an implementing partner of the United Nations High … Read more
The project primarily aims at the effective and harmonised application of human rights principles in decision-making related to the expulsion of foreigners.
The approximation of asylum policies is considered a key field of harmonisation within the European Union. As one of the EU’s most ambitious aims in this regard, member states have adopted in recent years a harmonised interpretation of refugee status and subsidiary protection.
The HHC’s five-step protection agenda for stateless persons is summarised in an article appeared in the Oxford-based Forced Migration Review in April 2009.
Access to protection at international airports.
Country information (COI) constitutes the main, and often the only available factual evidence in refugee status determination.
Having a nationality is like the air to breathe. One takes it for granted and only realises its importance when it is missing. Currently, there are at least 12 million stateless persons in the world, who lack not only a country to call home, but in many cases – without any official registration or documents – also a proper “legal existence”.
The Hungarian Helsinki Committee visited 9 new, temporary immigration jails in August 2010. The findings of these missions are summarized in a report.
The second tripartite report on the border monitoring project that is internationally considered as a best example for the cooperation between state authorities and non-state actors.
“Expulsion and Human Rights” is a short guidance document primarily for judges on how to apply the prohibition of torture, inhuman and degrading treatment or punishment in expulsion and extradition cases (by Gábor Gyulai).
Having a nationality is like the air to breathe. One takes it for granted and only realises its importance when it is missing. Currently, there are at least 12 million stateless persons in the world.
In the framework of its 2010 project entitled “Return in a lawful and humane manner” the Hungarian Helsinki Committee conducted a research on best practices of voluntary return and reintegration of failed asylum seekers or other groups of migrants.
The Hungarian Helsinki Committee, the Hungarian Red Cross and Menedék – the Hungarian Association for Migrants epxress their deepest concerns regarding the immigration detention of children.
The 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.
A series of articles on the phenomenon of statelessness (written by Noémi Ivicsics, intern at the Hungarian Helsinki Committee) has been published on the Hungarian world news and foreign policy website, Kitekintő.
Publisher: Hungarian Helsinki Committee, Budapest, 2008
ISBN: 978-963-87757-7-1
After five decades of neglect, Europe is urged to respect its international obligations and provide stateless persons with a meaningful protection status.