Posts tagged with “ACCORD”
New ACCORD training manual on “Researching Country of Origin Information” (2013 edition)
ACCORD has published a revised edition of the training manual “Researching Country of Origin Information”, updating the 2004 edition.
It is available for download and in print now.
The October 2013 issue of The Researcher
The Researcher is published two times a year by the Refugee Documentation Centre (RDC) in Ireland. It is a publication which combines academic papers, summaries of caselaw, guides to new legislation, reports of conferences, articles on RDC services and items of country of origin information.
New ACCORD report on Pakistan; Freedom House publishes Nations in Transit 2013
A new 242 pages COI report on Pakistan has been published by ACCORD. Freedom House published its annual Nations in Transit report.
Freedom House publishes Freedom of the Press 2013, and our featured topics on Afghanistan, Dagestan, Nigeria and Somalia were updated
Freedom House publishes its annual report Freedom of the Press. The country reports will be added to ecoi.net as soon as they become available. Our featured topics on Afghanistan (security situation in Kabul), Dagestan (security situation), Nigeria (Boko Haram) and on Somalia (events related to al-Shabaab) were updated.
Featured topics on Afghanistan, Dagestan, Nigeria, and Somalia updated
The featured topics on Afghanistan, Nigeria, and Somalia have been updated.
ACCORD publishes report on COI-Workshop “Women in Chechnya” (German language only)
ACCORD published a report on the situation of women in Chechnya, based on lectures by the experts Uwe Halbach and Svetlana Gannushkina. The report is available in German language only.
Study: Country Information in Asylum Procedures – Quality as a Legal Requirement in the EU
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.
Structural Differences and Access to COI at European Courts Dealing with Asylum
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).
