Topic: Refugee and migrant rights

This short handbook aims at providing refugees and beneficiaries of subsidiary protection with necessary information in 5 languages.

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.

Blog on ECHR judgment Mohammadi v. Austria addression the issue of asylum detention in Hungary

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 2013.

Summary of HHC main human rights concerns

The HHC within the framework of the project ‘Access to Protection’ coordinated by the Italian Council of Refugees (CIR) has published its national report.

The HHC within the framework of the project ‘Access to Protection’ coordinated by the Italian Council of Refugees (CIR) has published a mapping paper on human rights trainings to border guards.

The Hungarian Helsinki Committee with the support of the Global Learning Centre of UNHCR has published a guide on establishing a Refugee Law Clinic.

HHC REPORT REVEALS SIGNIFICANT GAPS IN THE HUNGARIAN FRAMEWORK FOR THE PREVENTION OF STATELESSNESS AT BIRTH

The Detention of Asylum Seekers in Hungary: Exploring the Impact of Three Judgments of the European Court of Human Rights

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.

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.