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Blog symposium @ EJIL Talk!
Thrilled by the success and good spirit of our ESIL pre-conference Workshop in Manchester on the UN Global Compacts on Migration and Refugees, the Coordinating Committee is launching a blog symposium on this theme. The UN Global Compacts are at … Continue reading
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Publication – Fundamental Rights Considerations: NGO ships involved in search and rescue in the Mediterranean and criminal investigations
The European Union Fundamental Rights Agency has just published a brief note on the legal aspects of search and rescue in the Mediterranean accompanied by a very useful oversight (at the bottom of their webpage) of NGO activities at sea … Continue reading
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Blog by IG member: Kinshasa Flooding & the UN Development Goals: State & Corporate Responsibilities
by Tom Syring (Originally posted on the webpage of the American Society of International Law) March 22, 2017 marks the 24th annual World Water Day [1] – an appropriate occasion to reflect upon the connection between environmental pollution, general health … Continue reading
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Blog: Ill-Treatment of Migrants in Greek Law Enforcement – Are the Strasbourg Court Judgments the Tip of the Iceberg?
By Nikolaos Sitaropoulos This blog was originally posted on the Blog of Border Criminologies, Oxford University. A number of reports by international human rights organisations, like CPT and Amnesty International, have recorded numerous cases of ill-treatment, including torture, suffered by … Continue reading
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Blog: An African Protocol on Mass-Influx of Refugees
by Cristiano D’Orsi This blog was originally posted on the International Refugee Law Interest Group Blog (IRLIG) on the American Society of International Law (ASIL) website. According to a 2004 Conclusion (No. 100) adopted by the Executive Committee (ExCom) of the … Continue reading
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Blog: Why hasn’t the rise of new media transformed refugee status determination?
by Rosamary Byrne this blog was originately posted at Oxford University Press Blog Information now moves at a much greater speed than migrants. In earlier eras, the arrival of refugees in flight was often the first indication that grave human … Continue reading
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Tagged 1951 Convention, EASO, new media, refugee, RSD, status, UNHCR
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Registering Humanity: The EU’s Plan to Halt Citizen-led Response to the Migration Crisis
Reposted from Border Criminologies, University of Oxford (Faculty of Law) by Mariani Gkliati, member of the Interest Group Civil society has always been the first responder to humanitarian emergencies. For decades, fishermen, lawyers, and people living in the southern European … Continue reading
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Tagged EU, Frontex, humanitarian, IOM, migration, refugees, smuggling, Turkey
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Blogpost: an a State Refuse Migrant Family Allowances Due to Irregular Reunification?
Publication by a member of the Interest Group by Nikolaos Sitaropoulos In Osungu and Lokongo v. France (delivered on 8/9/2015), the European Court of Human Rights (“the Court”) rejected as “manifestly ill-founded” two applications submitted by Congolese regular migrants. The proceedings concerned the French authorities’ … Continue reading
New blog: on EU Immigration and Asylum Law and Policy
A new blog has been launched on the EU Immigration and Asylum Law and Policy. The mission of this blog is to provide a critical analysis of recent developments in the immigration and asylum law and policy of the European … Continue reading
Blog symposium by the IG on EJIL:Talk!
It is with great pleasure that the ESIL Interest Group on Migration and Refugee Law, in close cooperation with EJIL:Talk!, launches its first blog symposium, which will run on EJIL:Talk! this week. The blog symposium focuses on the idea that, despite the normalcy … Continue reading
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Tagged EJIL:Talk!, human rights, migration, protection, state sovereignty
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