UNHCR released statistics on the number of asylum applications in 2011 in industrialized countries. The report covers 44 countries in Europe, North America, Australasia and north-east Asia.
The Hungarian Helsinki Committee launched updated editions of The Refugee Law Reader. It is a comprehensive online model curriculum for the study of the complex and rapidly evolving field of international refugee law.
RSF has published the annual “Enemies of the Internet” report. And we updated the featured topics on Afghanistan and Syria.
The featured topics on Afghanistan and Syria have been updated.
Two new featured topics are available: an overview on events related to the armed group Al-Shabaab in Somalia since October 2011 and an overview on sectarian violence in Pakistan since September 2011.
The featured topic on Dagestan has been updated and the Afghanistan NGO Safety Office launched its new website, making available the ANSO reports.
Human Rights Watch published its annual World Report, covering events in 2011. The introductory essay examines the Arab Spring.
As a result of the ERF-funded project “COI in Judicial Practice”, in which the Austrian Red Cross/ACCORD participated, the Hungarian Helsinki Committee has published a new study on how quality standards of Country of Origin Information (COI) appear in the form of authoritative legal requirements within the present system, either as binding legal provisions or guiding judicial practice. As such, the study intends to provide a tool and a set of concrete examples for policy- and law-makers, advocates, judges and trainers active in this field.
A new featured topic on the security situation in Dagestan (Russian Federation) is available.
As a result of the ERF-funded project “COI in Judicial Practice”, in which the Austrian Red Cross/ACCORD participated, the Hungarian Helsinki Committee has published a study on structural differences between European courts dealing with asylum and their access to Country of Origin Information (COI).