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In a recent judgement in Case C‑134/23, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) clarified that Article 38 of Directive 2013/32/EU does not preclude legislation of a Member State designating a third country as generally safe for certain categories of applicants for international protection, even if that third country has suspended, in general terms and without any prospect of a contrary development, the admission or readmission of those applicants to its territory.
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Hoofdthema: International Protection
Trefwoorden: applicant for international protection, safe third country, Turkey, readmission
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In a recent judgement, the Court of Justice of the European Union concluded that some of the discriminatory measures against women in Afghanistan, namely forced marriage and the lack of protection against gender-based violence and domestic violence, must be classified alone as "acts of persecution" and that other measures, taken as a whole, given their cumulative effect and the fact that they are applied deliberately and systematically, constitute such acts.
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Hoofdthema: International Protection
Trefwoorden: Afghan woman, act of persecution, gender, nationality
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The Office of the Commissioner General for Refugees and Stateless Persons (CGVS) announced on 2 October 2024 that the notification of decisions granting or refusing subsidiary protection status to applicants from Lebanon is suspended until the CGRS has sufficient objective information to assess the security situation in Lebanon.
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Hoofdthema: International Protection
Trefwoorden: applicant for international protection, Lebanon, refugee status, subsidiary protection status
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Eerstelijnswerkers krijgen in hun job soms te maken met verzoekers van internationale bescherming met een trauma, met conflicten, spanningen en zelfs persoonlijke veiligheidsrisico's. Bijgevolg worden ze blootgesteld aan een hoog risico op persoonlijke stress en burn-outs, depressie, trauma en andere mentale gezondheidsproblemen. Deze conferentie wil nationale en Europese stakeholders samenbrengen om ervaringen, uitdagingen en praktische oplossingen te bespreken.
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Hoofdthema: Opvang
Trefwoorden: welzijn van personeel, eerstelijnswerker, stress, burnout
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On 1 October 2024, Nicole de Moor stated that proportionally speaking, more Palestinian applicants for international protection come to Belgium than to other European Member States. She also confirmed that the protection rate for Palestinian applicants had increased in recent years.
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Hoofdthema: International Protection
Trefwoorden: Palestinian, applicant for international protection, New Pact on Migration and Asylum
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After nearly two years of closure, Fedasil’s Info Point reopened on 27 September 2023, at its new location in rue Héger-Bordet, 3. The Info Point offers information and counseling for applicants for international protection living outside the reception network, but also migrants in transit and persons without a residence permit.
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Hoofdthema: Reception
Trefwoorden: information provision, applicant for international protection, transit migrant, irregularly staying third-country national
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In a statement from 19 September 2024, the Council of Europe notes that Belgium has taken steps to address the wider reception crisis (such as creating 3.500 additional reception places and accelerating the examination of certain asylum applications to free up existing reception places), but these measures are insufficient.
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Hoofdthema: Reception
Trefwoorden: reception crisis, accommodation, material assistance, judicial decision
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The European Union Agency for Asylum (EUAA) released the latest asylum trends for the first half of 2024. By June 2024, EU countries had received 513.000 applications for international protection. While the figure remained stable compared to the first six months of 2023, some changes occurred at the national level.
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Hoofdthema: International Protection
Trefwoorden: application for international protection, asylum trend, asylum recognition rate
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Cindy Ngamba, a 25-year-old Cameroonian refugee living in the United Kingdom, won the bronze medal in the boxing discipline at the Paris Olympics. She is the first athlete in any sport to secure a medal while representing the refugee team.
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Hoofdthema: International Protection
Trefwoorden: Olympic Games, boxing, refugee olympic team
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In het 2024 Rule of Law Report, in het landenhoofdstuk over de rechtsstaat in België, beveelt de Europese Commissie aan dat België stappen onderneemt om ervoor te zorgen dat overheidsinstanties definitieve uitspraken van nationale rechtbanken en het Europees Hof voor de Rechten van de Mens naleven. Hierbij wordt met name gewezen op vonnissen die de staat verantwoordelijk houden voor het niet bieden van adequate opvang aan asielzoekers.
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Hoofdthema: Opvang
Trefwoorden: rechtsstaat, opvang, verzoeker om internationale bescherming
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Op 9 juli publiceerden bijna 100 NGO’s, waaronder ECRE en verschillende ECRE-lidorganisaties, een gezamenlijke verklaring waarin ze alle EU-lidstaten oproepen om het recht om asiel aan te vragen te garanderen en hun verplichtingen ten aanzien van het internationale vluchtelingenbeschermingssysteem na te komen.
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Hoofdthema: Internationale bescherming
Trefwoorden: verzoek om internationale bescherming, uitbesteding, externalisering
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Vanaf 1 juli 2024 zullen volwassen asielzoekers die in een opvangcentrum verblijven en een werkinkomen hebben, moeten bijdragen aan deze opvang. Wie geen bijdrage wil leveren, kan overwegen om buiten het opvangcentrum te verblijven.
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Hoofdthema: Opvang
Trefwoorden: opvangcentrum, financiële bijdrage, materiële hulp
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The Immigration Office disclosed a new website aimed at informing applicants for international protection about the purpose and course of the registration. Each step of the process is explained in 16 languages via texts, audio, and videos. The website was co-funded by the European Union.
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Hoofdthema: International Protection
Trefwoorden: registration, application for international protection
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In order to structurally shorten the duration of reception in Belgium, an amendment was made to the Reception Act. Anyone who receives a final negative asylum decision must leave the reception place within a period of 30 days.
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Hoofdthema: Reception
Trefwoorden: reception centre, material assistance
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World Refugee Day is an international day designated by the United Nations to honour refugees around the globe. It falls each year on 20 June and celebrates the strength and courage of people who have been forced to flee their home country to escape conflict or persecution.
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Hoofdthema: Asylum
Trefwoorden: World Refugee Day
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During the last Justice and Home Affairs Council under the Belgian Presidency, Ministers agreed to extend the temporary protection for Ukrainians for one year. This will run until March 2026.
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Hoofdthema: Cross-sectional, Asylum, Migration
Trefwoorden: temporary protection, Ukraine, visa policy, Schengen, border control, interoperability
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On 13 June 2024, the Court of Justice of the European Union released its judgment in the case C-563/22 involving a stateless Palestinian mother and her child, registered with UNRWA, who left the Gaza strip to seek protection in Bulgaria. In this case, the Court provided guidance on the interpretation of Article 12(1)(a) of Directive 2011/95/EU and of Article 40(1) of Directive 2013/32/EU.
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Hoofdthema: International Protection
Trefwoorden: refugee status, exclusion, Palestinian, UNRWA, stateless persons, subsequent application
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On 11 June 2024, the European Commission proposed to extend the temporary protection for people fleeing Russia's aggression against Ukraine for another year, from 5 March 2025 to 4 March 2026. The Council still needs to formally adopt the proposal.
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Hoofdthema: Tijdelijke bescherming
Trefwoorden: temporary protection, Ukraine
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In case C-646/21, the Court of Justice of the European Union clarified that women, including minors, who share as a common characteristic the fact that they genuinely come to identify with the fundamental value of equality between women and men during their stay in a Member State may be regarded as belonging to ‘a particular social group’, constituting a ‘reason for persecution’ capable of leading to the recognition of refugee status.
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Hoofdthema: International Protection
Trefwoorden: refugee status, reasons for persecution, membership of a particular social group, best interests of the child
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On 17 June 2024, the European Union Agency for Asylum (EUAA) will publish its Asylum Report 2024 during an online event. This edition highlights measures taken by EU+ countries to manage over 1.1 million asylum applicants in addition to over 4.4 million displaced persons registered for temporary protection.
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Hoofdthema: Asylum
Trefwoorden: EUAA, asylum applications, asylum decisions
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Doctors Without Borders, Doctors of the World, CIRÉ, Vluchtelingenwerk Vlaanderen, BelRefugees, Caritas International, and the Humanitarian Hub underline the permanent lack of reception, protection and access to medical services for applicants for international protection without a reception place. They want to challenge policy-makers and raise public awareness about people left left on the street.
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Hoofdthema: Reception
Trefwoorden: reception crisis, reception capacity
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De workshop zal de uitdagingen en beste praktijken belichten bij de toepassing van de richtlijn tijdelijke bescherming in Duitsland, Nederland en Litouwen. De deelnemers zullen ook toekomstscenario's bespreken om de bescherming van Oekraïners te blijven garanderen.
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Hoofdthema: Tijdelijke bescherming
Trefwoorden: begunstigde van tijdelijke bescherming, Oekraïne, implementatie
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The list of safe countries of origin, which is revised once a year, was updated on 12 May 2024 and is now published in Belgium’s Official Journal. At present, the following countries are considered as safe countries of origin: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Republic of North Macedonia, Kosovo, Montenegro, Serbia, India and Moldova.
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Hoofdthema: International Protection
Trefwoorden: list of safe countries of origin
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In its 2023 annual report, the Federal Institute for Human Rights draws attention, among other things, to the failure of the authorities to enforce the rulings of the Belgian and European courts and tribunals, in particular in the context of the reception crisis. The lack of resources for the judiciary, threats to human rights defenders and weaknesses in the right to information are also underlined.
