ICF-NEWS
ICF-Newsletter May 2007:
Focus: Situation in the Reception Conditions and the Impact of the Reception Directive in the ICF Countries
- Reception Conditions in Germany
- Reception Conditions in Austria
- Reception Conditions in Slovenia
- Reception Conditions in Hungary
- Reception Conditions in Poland
- Reception Conditions in the Czech Republic
- Reception Conditions in Slovakia
ICF-Newsletter March 2007:
Focus: Legal Changes and Developments in the ICF Region
- Legal developments in Slovenia
- Hungary rushes to catch up with transposition of EU law
- New goverment - old policies in Austria?
- Restrictive draft transposition act in Germany - Downgrading EU standards
- New proposed regulations on labour market in Poland
- Czech Republic: Current amendment to the asylum act too restrictive
Go to ICF-Newsletter March 2007
ICF-Special January 2007:
- German EU Council Presidency
- Germany: Not acting in compliance with Reception Directive
Go to ICF-Special January 2007
ICF-Newsletter November 2006:
Focus: Social Benefits for Asylum Seekers and Refugees
- Social benefits for asylum seekers in the Czech Republic
- Hungary's social benefits scheme leaves refugees in doldrums
- Austrian Disintegration Policy
- Social Benefits in Poland
- Social Benefits in Slovenia
- Social Benefits for Asylum Seekers in Germany: Costs Decreasing, Protest Rising, Legalisation Offered
EU NEWS
- EU Asylum Harmonisation Process
- European Court Condemns the Detention of Separated Child in Belgium
Go to ICF-Newsletter November 2006
ICF-Newsletter September 2006:
Focus: International ICF Conference in Tutzing, Germany, 8.-10.9.2006
"No Place, Nowhere?" - Refugee Protection in Central Europe
- 1: European Deportation Station - The Dublin II Regulation and its Impact
- 2: Resettlement - Additional Protection Mechanism?
- 3: Situation on the Eastern European External Borders
- 4: Freedom of Movement and the Detention of Asylum Seekers in Central Europe
- 5: Social Reception Conditions in Central Europe
ICF NEWS
- The Dublin regulation and the detention of aliens in the Czech Republic
- Hungary to delay transposition of EU asylum directives, reception lags behind
- Situation of asylum seekers in Slovakia
- Asylum means detention - more restrictive detention of asylum-seekers in Austria
Go to ICF-Newsletter September 2006
ICF-Newsletter July 2006:
Focus: Participation
- Austria: Participation of asylum seekers
- Germany: No chance to participate
- Poland: Participation of asylum seekers according to reception conditions monitoring
- Czech Republic: First and only refugee association
- Hungary: Refugees receive initial boost to get on their feet in the country
ICF REGION
- Slovenia: Detention Centers in Slovenia
- JRS Dispatches: Germany - Situation of detainees in need of improvement
EU NEWS
- Regularisation of immigrants is an EU matter
- Satellite tracking of immigrant boats
Go to ICF-Newsletter July 2006
ICF-Newsletter May 2006:
ICF REGION
- Slovenia: New developments
- Hungary: Court recognises refugees in a precedent-setting case
- Czech Republic: Aliens Act more friendly for immigrants and refugees
- Poland: Persons with subsidiary protection are 'better protected'
- Austria: Harassment of married couples
- Austria: New citizenship law
- Documentation of a deportation under the Dublin II regulation
EU NEWS:
- Free access to the labour market for refugees!
- Protection gaps under the Dublin II regulation
- Malta, a gate into the EU locked
- Hunger strikes and demonstrations for the right to remain in Belgium
- Deaths in Congo trigger debate on suspending deportations from Germany
ICF-Newsletter March 2006:
Focus: Dublin II
- ECRE on Dublin II regulation: 'unfair, inefficient and resource-intensive'
- Seminar on the impact of the Dublin II regulation on the protection of refugees in central Europe (January 23, 2006, Prague)
- News from Slovenia: Dublin II in practice, legislative changes to asylum law and social reception conditions
- Austria: legislative changes, the status of refugee protection and Dublin II in practice
- Poland: Majority of 'illegal' immigrants are imprisoned in detention facilities
ICF REGION
- CPT published report on detention in Poland
- NGO 'Asyl in Not' accuses police in Slovakia of torture
- DW-WORLD.DE reports on border patrols at the EU borders
- UNHCR on the transposition of the EU directive/reception standards in Germany
EU NEWS:
- Decision by the European Parliament's Legal Affairs Committee to refer the Asylum Procedures Directive to the European Court
- UN campaigns for protection of refugees in Greece
- Trend towards detention of children in Belgium
Go to ICF-Newsletter March 2006
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