April 2012

European Court of Human Rights rules once again that Italy has violated the Convention by expelling a Tunisian in spite of request to Rome for interm measures

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Migration Policies

Advocate General argues that rape and sexual coercion of a minor child does not amount to “imperative grounds of public security” but expulsion of author of such acts may be justified


Irregular Migration

Coalition of NGOs demand NATO for clarification on how 63 migrants died in the eastern Mediterranean after repeated distress signals went unheeded


Asylum/Refugees

ECHR: Intercepting asylum-seekers at sea to send them back to the country of departure clearly violates the Convention


Racism/Discrimination

 Still no agreement on revising Dublin II Regulation, but more mechanisms of solidarity

Integration/Diversity

Major study on Muslims in Germany – too much attention given to negative conclusions and too little emphasis on positive findings