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Belgium: Unaccompanied minor given larger benefit of the doubt in refugee proceedings

Date: 
Monday, May 4, 2015

In a case heard before the Belgian Council of Aliens Law Litigation (CALL) on 21 April, an unaccompanied minor from Djibouti saw an earlier decision to not grant refugee status overturned despite grave doubts about the coherence, consistency and lack of detail used in substantiating the applicant’s claims that she had left her country due to a well-founded fear of persecution.

Belgium: Council for Aliens Law Litigation rules on FGM risk to Guinean child

Date: 
Friday, March 13, 2015

The case relates to an appeal against a decision taken by the Office of the Commissioner General for Refugees and Stateless Persons (CGRS) to not accord refugee status to a Guinean child on grounds that it was not credible she had been forced into a marriage nor that there was a risk of her undergoing a second circumcision if returned to Guinea.

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