ACCORD will publish a revised edition of the training manual “Researching Country of Origin Information”, updating the 2013 edition. Register for its online launch event on 14 March.
The "Blog Asyl" published an article by ACCORD on the role of country of origin information in international protection procedures.
UNHCR launched a revamped version of its law and policy database Refworld with new design and improved functionalities.
We published a new feeatured topic on Syria (in German language).
Human Rights Watch published its annual World Report, covering events in 2023.
We are pleased to introduce an improvement to the search form on ecoi.net, allowing you to speficy your search more easily.
In September 2023, we updated our country priorities. These priorities define which sources are covered on ecoi.net, i.e. which documents you can expect to find for a country. The update is based on Austrian, European and global asylum statistics and affects what sources we cover for what countries.
UNHCR released its annual Global Trends report, covering displacement that occurred during 2022. The report says the number of people forcibly displaced was 108.4 million at the end of 2022, leaving the population of forcibly displaced again at another record high.