May 2013 Issue of the Fahamu Refugee Legal Aid newsletter

In this issue:

Country of origin and legal news

Deportation news

Announcements

Notes from the field: one country of origin expert’s experience

Advocacy groups celebrate landmark step to protect stateless in UK

UNHCR Briefing Note: UK’s new determination procedure to end legal limbo for stateless

UNHCR speaks out concerning Europe’s efforts to add more roadblocks to asylum procedures

A milestone for refugee rights: Hong Kong court of final appeal rules in favour of C case appellants

On the run, alone and young: Congolese children flee to Uganda

A diverse scope of refugees living at the margins in Egypt

Court of Justice of the European Union and European Court of Human Rights: recent judgments of interest

NGOs, UNHCR and the European Commission welcome Turkey’s new asylum law

Case note: France will not deport refused asylum seeker to Chad

Case note: Removal of Chechen man from Austria to Russia would expose him to risk of ill-treatment

Case note: Abdi v. the United Kingdom – violation of Article 5

SIS II to centralize data of people who are not allowed entry into the Schengen Area

Accession of the European Union to the European Convention on Human Rights

The European Commission adopts a proposal for regulation on the surveillance of external sea borders

Former Burundian refugees struggle to assert their new Tanzanian citizenship

The situation of Congolese refugees in Gabon

Unaccompanied children and victims of torture will not be excluded from accelerated and border asylum procedures in revised asylum procedures directive

SPECIAL FEATURE: Concerns over Rwanda Cessation

ABA section of international law spring meeting panel highlights concerns over the cessation of status for Rwandan refugees

Recommendations of the International Conference on Rwandan Refugees, held in Brussels, Belgium, on 19 and 20 April, 2013

South African Minister of Home Affairs addresses ceased circumstances cessation clauses for Rwandan refugees

Organised crime and refugee policy in Honduras

Alarming prevalence of self harm in UK immigration detention during 2012

The first country of asylum principle in Tanzania: a national and East African perspective

Disability and forced migration

FRONTEX: human rights responsibilities

Resources and publications

Information links