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UK: High Court rules Home Office’s work policy for asylum seekers as unlawful and against the best interest of the child

Date: 
Monday, October 4, 2021

On 4th October, the UK High Court gave its judgment in a case concerning a 24-year-old Honduran citizen who claimed asylum in the UK with his wife and then 21-month-old daughter in 2018.

CRC: Declares Switzerland did not consider the best interests of the child in a removal decision to Bulgaria

Date: 
Wednesday, October 6, 2021

On 6th October 2021, the Committee on the Rights of the Child gave their decision in the case of MKAH v Switzerland. This case was brought by the Centre Suisse pour la defense des droits des migrants (CDSM) with a joint third party intervention from the AIRE Centre, ECRE and the Dutch Council for Refugees. It concerned a stateless Palestinian boy who was born in a refugee camp in Damascus, Syria.

CRPD: Rules Sweden's decision to deport Afghan would deteriorate his mental health condition

Date: 
Monday, October 11, 2021

On the 11th October, the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities made its recommendations to Sweden concerning the case of ZH. This case involved an Afghan national who applied for asylum in Sweden in 2008.

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The Belgian Council of State ordered the suspension of the execution of an act from the Commissioner-General for Refugees and Stateless (CGRS) Persons that organised, on the short term, videoconference interviews with asylum applicants in open centers and provided for the modalities of such interviews.

The Belgian Council of State ordered the suspension of the execution of an act from the Commissioner-General for Refugees and Stateless (CGRS) Persons that organised, on the short term, videoconference interviews with asylum applicants in open centers and provided for the modalities of such interviews.

Pays d’origine du demandeur: France

Le Conseil constitutionnel se prononce en l’espèce sur les cas d’exemptions pénales en faveur des personnes mises en cause sur le fondement d’un délit d’aide au séjour irrégulier d’un étranger. Il conclue que l’alinéa 1 de l’article L. 622-4 du code de l’entrée et du séjour des étrangers et du droit d’asile (CESEDA) est inconstitutionnel en ce qu’il se doit d’inclure non seulement l’aide au séjour irrégulier mais aussi l’aide à la circulation de l’étranger en situation irrégulière. Le Conseil précise également que le 3° de l’article précité, bien que conforme à la Constitution, s’applique à tout acte d’aide au séjour apportée dans un but humanitaire. Le Conseil consacre ainsi la valeur constitutionnelle du principe de fraternité. 

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The European Database of Asylum Law (EDAL) is an online database managed by the European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE) and a compilation of summaries of refugee and asylum case law from the courts of 22 European states, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) and the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). The summaries are published in English and in the relevant state’s national language.

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