Tag: asylum

The protection of fundamental rights under the Dublin system has been a very challenging issue in the European Court of Justice (ECJ) jurisprudence which, for that matter, has fruitfully benefited of the dialogue with national courts and the European Court of Human Rights. Beginning with the seminal...

Our asylum laws protect villains while abandoning victims. The botched handling of Abdul Shokoor Ezedi makes this painfully clear. Ezedi, an Afghan national, stowed away illegally in 2016. Twice denied asylum, he secured status only after a 2018 conviction for sexual assault. Last week, this suppose...

Amidst the intense political climate and election-year posturing, the matter of the right to seek asylum in the United States has become a highly disputed issue. In March 2023, demonstrators gathered near the White House to protest reported plans by the Biden administration to implement ne...

Estimates suggest that 70,000 new asylum seekers will arrive this year, an amount three times higher than the Immigration and Naturalization Service (IND) has said that it can handle, and far beyond the country’s capacity to shelter. Many of the temporary accommodations set up in ...