Category: Our reports and analyses

As of 1st January 2013 the latest modiciations of the Hungarian Asylum Act entered into force.

The Supreme Court of Hungary (Kúria) issued an official opinion on 10 December 2012 in order to promote a
harmonised practice at Hungarian courts regarding the application of the safe third country concept in asylum
cases.

A new study is available and can be downloaded.

HHC is taking part in the set-up of a Europe-wide, comprehensive database.

Report on the main shortcomings in national asylum systems regarding unaccompanied minors and on recommendations towards member states to better respect separated children’s right to asylum.

Bringing national and EU policies and practices in line with the obligations set out by the European instruments on human rights.

The Hungarian Helsinki Committee, the National Police Headquarters and the UNHCR Regional Representation in Central Europe present their annual report on border monitoring activities carried out in 2011.

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 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.

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.

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”.