Topic: Refugee and migrant rights

Reflections on the Current Application of the EU Asylum Acquis, European conference on asylum will be held in Dublin between 17 and 18 January 2014 at Hilton Charlemont Hotel.

Briefing paper of the Hungarian Helsinki Committee to the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (October 2013) Addititonal information of the Hungarian Helsinki Committee to the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention regarding the unlimited … Read more

ECRE Information Note on the Directive 2011/95/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 December 2011 on standards for the qualification of third-country nationals or stateless persons as beneficiaries of international protection

Asylum 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.

The strategy, which is in the making now, will cover the period between 2014-2020 related to the use of the EU’s new Refugee and Migration Fund.

On 13 February 2013 the HHC talked to foreigners about hate crime in Balassagyarmat.

The Hungarian Helsinki Committee has prepared an information note in order to provide a brief overview about the fundamental asylum-related legal amendments entering into force on 1 July 2013 in Hungary.

Border monitoring activities have been carried out at three extra-Schengen border sections in Hungary since 2006 under a tripartite cooperation agreement between the Hungarian Helsinki Committee, the UNHCR Regional Representation and the National Police Headquarters.

UNHCR report on EU state practices of credibility assessment in asylum claims (publication realised in the framework of the CREDO project)

Credibility Assessment in Asylum Procedures – a Multidisciplinary Training Manual
(A publication of the Hungarian Helsinki Committee as part of the CREDO project)

A comparative report came out analyzing the practice of 11 Member States in applying the Dublin Regulation.

As part of the CREDO project, the International Association of Refugee Law Judges published a pioneering guidance document designed for judges and all other relevant decision-makers active in the field of asylum.

Tourpikay Quadery fled Afghanistan as a young widow with four small children. She arrived here 20 years ago, she became a Hungarian citizen 12 years ago. Today she works as a school secretary in Csepel and also as an official interpreter. Her moving life story is a real Women’s Day gift for all of us.

New research shows that the system continues to violate the rights of refugees.

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

HHC is taking part in the promotion and pooling of best practices regarding the protection of vulnerable groups.

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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.

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