The Researcher is published three 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.

[continuing in German language] Der Bericht setzt sich mit Fragestellungen rund um Meinungs- und Redefreiheit, sowie Presse- und Versammlungsfreiheit in kurdischen Belangen auseinander, beleuchtet die Situation pro-kurdischer Parteien und gibt einen Überblick über die Situation von Kurden beim Wehrdienst, Ungleichbehandlungen von KurdInnen in Haft und vor Gericht, sowie über Gewalt gegen kurdische Frauen.

The new search interface gives you more room to formulate your search query. We also introduce a Moderated Search, based on the ecoi.net COI Thesaurus. This new function will help you to refine your search.

The Researcher is published three 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.

The Researcher is published three 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.

The Common EU Guidelines for processing Country of Origin Information (COI), April 2008

The Researcher is published three times 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.

Our search engine now considers documents containing English and German terms related to your search terms. This will increase the number of relevant results. This has been made possible by linking a thesaurus to our search engine.

The Hungarian Helsinki Committee’s (HHC) study “Country Information in Asylum Procedures – Quality as a Legal Requirement in the EU” is published in the framework of the trans-national project “COI Network III – Training, Master Class, Good Practice”. It investigates how substantive quality standards of researching and assessing COI appear in the form of legal requirements in the EU.

It can be difficult to research country of origin information (COI) needed to substantiate women’s asylum and human rights claims. Recognising this Asylum Aid has drawn together practical guidance on undertaking research on women’s gender related claims, based on their experience of working directly with women asylum seekers, their legal representatives and supporters.