Topic: Refugee and migrant rights

A project supported by the International Rescue Committee (IRC)

The project „European Judicial Training on the rights of persons in need of international protection” was coordinated by the Greek Council for Refugees and co-funded by the European Union. The Hungarian Helsinki Committee participated in … Read more

Making Alternatives to Detention in Europe a Reality by Exchanges, Advocacy and Learning (September 2013 – February 2015)

The Hungarian Helsinki Committee (HHC) has launched the second volume of the multidisciplinary training manual “Credibility Assessment in Asylum Procedures”.

The overall goal of the “Building Credibility” project is to provide access for all stakeholders in the EU asylum sector to know-how on structured, objective and protection-oriented credibility assessment.

The new ECRE research – in partnership with the Hungarian Helsinki Committee – highlights the need for more reasoned assessments of Internal Protection Alternative and Actors of Protection.

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

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

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

The HHC ensures access to effective, free-of-charge legal counselling and representation at all places (reception centres, community shelters, alien policing jails) where persons in need of international protection are accommodated or detained in Hungary.

Ensuring access to the territory and to the asylum procedure for persons in need of international protection.

The Dublin system increases pressures on the border regions of the EU, where states are often least able to offer asylum seekers support and protection.

The overall goal of the CREDO project is to contribute to better structured, objective, high-quality and protection-oriented credibility assessment practices in asylum procedures conducted by EU Member States.

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 aim of the project is to raise awareness of the crucial influence of interpretation in the course of proceedings with foreigners.

Practical cooperation, exchanging good practices and dialogue on the assessment of country information (COI) as evidence in the judicial review of asylum decisions.

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 aim of this project (led by the Free University of Amsterdam) is to identify best practices regarding qualification for international protection and asylum procedures.

DEVAS: Project on the Detention of Vulnerable Asylum-Seekers in the European Union.

More and more countries get engaged in resettlement every year, accepting to provide asylum for a certain number of refugees resettled from a conflict zone or from a temporary host country where no effective protection can be offered to them in the long run.