In our latest report, we analysed the functioning of the Serbian asylum system again, with special focus on the application of the “safe third country” concept in Hungary and the possible consequences of returning rejected asylum seekers to Serbia.
GENSEN is a project that primarily strives to enhance gender equality and provide additional safeguards for vulnerable asylum-seekers in asylum procedures conducted by European states.
The project aims to assess the legal situation of separated children seeking asylum in the EU.
The aim of this project to extend the knowledge of human rights regulations relating to return.
Mapping the national impact of the four initial asylum-related judgments of the EU Court of Justice.
The Refugee Law Reader is a comprehensive on-line model curriculum for the study of the complex and rapidly evolving field of international refugee law.
The Hungarian Government failed to provide adequate legislative response to the Venice Commission’s criticism on judicial reform
The notary of the village Rimóc (Northern Hungary) noticed that petty offence fines for lack of mandatory accessories for bicycles (ring, headlights, reflector prisms) are almost exclusively imposed on Roma people in the area, although … Read more
The Hungarian Helsinki Committee has updated and expanded its 2009 publication “Human rights and expulsion”.
The Hungarian Helsinki Committee together with UNHCR, Cordelia Foundation and the Police have published a training material for the Police Academy summarizing the human rights of migrants and asylum seekers under the return procedure.
We are pleased to announce today the launch of three updated and expanded editions of The Refugee Law Reader: the Sixth Edition in English, the Second Edition in French, and the First Edition in Russian.
Fact sheets prepared by the HHC, the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union and the Eötvös Károly Policy Institute on some of the cardinal changes related to the rule of law in Hungary
In recent years, Somali refugees and beneficiaries of subsidiary protection who have been granted protection in Hungary have faced insurmountable difficulties when trying to be reunited with their family members in Hungary.
The HHC, the HCLU and the Eötvös Károly Institute analysed the new laws on the court system and the Prosecution Service of Hungary.
Information note on the treatment of Dublin returnees in Hungary
The European Union has created the most complex legal regime for refugees in the world but the harmonisation process of this wide-reaching Community legislation has been arduously slow.
This report summarizes the experiences gathered in 2010 in the course of the project “Asylum Seekers’ Access to Territory and Asylum Procedure in the Republic of Hungary”.
Hungarian NGO’s send alternative answers to Viviane Reding, EU Fundamental Rights Commissioner
Country information (COI) is widely considered as determinant evidence in most asylum cases, but national courts’ practices relating to the access to COI and its judicial interpretation are also divergent.
Each year hundreds of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and intersex (LGBTI) asylum seekers arrive to Member States of the EU. European countries regularly reject the asylum applications of LGBTI asylum applicants on the basis of prejudices and stereotypes.