Publication date: 30 June 2023
FAIRWORK Belgium's 2022 annual report analyses inter alia the complex system of single permits. Given current practices, this system "benefits dishonest employers" according to the organisation.
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Main theme: Economic migration
Publication Type: Report
Keywords: migrant workers, single permit, undocumented migrants
Publication date: 21 April 2023
The updated AIDA Country Report on Belgium provides a detailed overview on legislative and practice-related developments in asylum procedures, reception conditions, detention of asylum seekers and content of international protection in 2022. Further, the report includes an annex providing an overview of temporary protection.
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Main theme: Asylum
Publication Type: Report
Keywords: asylum procedure, reception condition, detention
Publication date: 05 April 2023
The paper examines the amendments to the Eurodac proposal proposed by the Council and the European Parliament and the connections between Eurodac and other CEAS reform proposals.
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Main theme: Data & Statistics
Publication Type: Report
Keywords: Eurodac, Common European Asylum System
Publication date: 24 March 2023
This Policy Note analyses the challenges faced by asylum seekers in the EU to access their right to education, from primary-level education to higher and vocational education. It is based on the analysis of the 19 country reports and further desk research.
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Main theme: Integration
Publication Type: Report
Keywords: access to education, inclusion, special needs
Publication date: 13 March 2023
The DRC Global Displacement Forecast 2023 Report, projects that the total number of people displaced will increase by 1.9 million in 2023 and an additional 3.5 million in 2024. This means that by 2024, the number of displaced people will have more than doubled since 2015 and increased by more than 50 million.
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Publication date: 10 January 2022
This comparative report provides an overview of the use of digital tools and remote working methods in asylum processes in 23 European countries. It questions the risks and benefits of such use and highlights several fundamental guarantees and procedural safeguards which must continue to apply to ensure that they do not infringe the existing CEAS framework.
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Main theme: International Protection
Publication Type: Report
Keywords: digitalisation, asylum procedure
Publication date: 15 February 2017
We know surprisingly little about how NGOs and asylum lawyers conduct research for asylum claims. To close this gap, Asylos interviewed 20 asylum lawyers and NGO staff in Belgium, France, Germany, Greece and the UK to understand the challenges of researching evidence, as well as the opportunities for improving the research process. Access the findings in our report
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Main theme: International Protection
Publication Type: Report
Keywords: country of origin information (COI)
Publication date: 06 February 2017
Through its work in collaboration with grassroots associations and its task to provide information and referral in relation to individual requests, the Human Rights League has noted a series of needs specific to the domain of migration. The most important is undoubtedly that of access to information for migrants about their rights. The Human Rights League has therefore published a pocket guide containing the most important practical information for migrants.
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Main theme: Integration
Keywords: migrants rights
Publication date: 01 January 2017
This report of the ‘Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion’ (ISI) explores the urgency of and opportunities for addressing childhood statelessness. Over 50 experts and organizations have contributed material – essays, interviews, photographs and more.
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Publication date: 27 May 2016
The ICMC has conduct a project called SHARE to build a European resettlement network. Here is the final report.
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Publication date: 10 May 2016
This study, published by the Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants (PICUM), focuses on links between the Europe 2020 Strategy and undocumented migrants.
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Main theme: Irregular Migration, Integration
Publication Type: Study
Keywords: EU 2020 Strategy, social inclusion, undocumented migrants
Publication date: 10 February 2016
The 51st edition of Forced Migration Review is dedicated to the current migration crisis in Europe, which is examined from different perspectives (legal, practical, moral...).
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Main theme: Asylum, Migration
Publication Type: Report
Keywords: Forced Migration Review, migration crisis
Publication date: 09 November 2015
Through this publication, the Ciré informs private persons, who wish to welcome a migrant at home, about the needs of the sector and the legal consequences.
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Main theme: Reception
Publication Type: EMN Reports & studies
Keywords: accomodation, private person
Publication date: 21 September 2015
The Annual Report 2014/ 2015, produced in the framework of the Asylum Information Database (AIDA) project, provides information on the main developments regarding asylum policies and practices in EU Member States.
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Main theme: Asylum
Keywords: Common European Asylum System, asylum policy
Publication date: 03 July 2013
This report provides statistics, information on the legal framework, the asylum procedure and reception conditions for asylum seekers in Belgium.
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Main theme: Reception, International Protection
Publication Type: Report
Keywords: asylum decisions, asylum law, asylum policy, asylum procedure
Publication date: 28 February 2013
The Dublin transnational network project co-ordinated by Forum Réfugiés -Cosi in collaboration with ECRE, the Hungarian Helsinki Committee and national partners published a comparative report on the Dublin application in several EU member states.
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Main theme: Reception, International Protection
Publication Type: Report
Keywords: Dublin Regulation
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The brochure is a practical guide to the Immigration Law. It is regularly updated since 2006. The new version is up to date till January 2012 and contains the recent modifications regarding family reunification.
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Main theme: Asylum
Keywords: legislation
Publication date: 24 August 2011
In July, the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA)issued a policy paper entitled "Policy paper: the recast of the EU asylum Procedure and Reception Directives", containing its concerns & recommendations on the 2 directives.
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Main theme: Reception, International Protection, Vulnerable groups
Publication date: 28 March 2011
ECRE/ELENA-survey providing a comparative overview of the provision of legal aid for asylum seekers in Europe
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Main theme: International Protection
Publication Type: Opinion
Keywords: legal aid for asylum seekers
Publication date: 28 March 2011
Revised ECRE-guidelines on the treatment of still one of the most important ethnic groups of refugees in Europe
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Main theme: International Protection
Publication Type: Report
Keywords: Chechen refugees, Chechnya, IDP
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In its pushback report 2023 published today, the human rights organisation 11.11.11. says there were 346.004 illegal pushbacks of people migrating to Europe in 2023 - that is 947 every day. The organisation used information provided by NGOs, human rights bodies and UN agencies to report this figure.
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Main theme: Borders & Visa
Keywords: external border, pushback, human rights
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Eurochild and the Federation of Non-Governmental Organisations for Children (FONPC) are organising an international conference to share good practices and lessons on how civil society can facilitate the integration of refugee and asylum-seeking children.
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Main theme: Vulnerable groups
Keywords: children, Integration
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In a press release published today, Doctors of the World declared that it opposes a new article of the draft law presented by Nicole de Moor, providing for the possibility of carrying out medical examinations under constraint to facilitate the forced return of third-country nationals. Doctors of the World says this measure risks further complicating access to health care for these particularly vulnerable people.
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Main theme: Return & Readmission
Keywords: proactive return policy, medical examination, constraint
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Through its campaign “So what, we continue the exploitation?”, the CIRÉ underlines that undocumented workers who informally fill the labour needs, are at risk of being exploited. It pleads to give them access to legal work, particularly through the single permit procedure.
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Main theme: Cross-sectional
Keywords: undocumented migrants, undocumented worker, single permit, labour shortages, labour exploitation
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Samusocial, CIRÉ, Médecins du Monde, Ilot and the Brussels Platform Armoede have launched the campaign "Without papers, without rights, without shelter" to demonstrate the reality of undocumented persons and to propose concrete recommendations to policymakers in this field.