Sep 15, 2014 | Events, News
The International Commission of Jurists and the Greek Council for Refugees will hold today a two-day conference on administrative detention of migrants and asylum seekers according to international and Greek law.
The conference will address the interplay of international law, EU law and national law in the domain of administrative detention of third country nationals. With presentations given by international experts and Greek experts and practitioners, the conference will address issues such as the nature of detention, its lawfulness, conditions of detention and treatment and judicial review of situations of deprivation of liberty.
Greece-conference-detention-ICJGCR-2014 (programme in English)
Greece-conference-detention-ICJGCR-2014-greek (programme in Greek)
Migration_and_International_Human_Rights_Law_Greek_materials (Collection of case law materials in Greek)
Sep 4, 2014 | E-bulletin on counter-terrorism & human rights, News
Read the 85th issue of ICJ’s monthly newsletter on proposed and actual changes in counter-terrorism laws, policies and practices and their impact on human rights at the national, regional and international levels. The E-Bulletin on Counter-Terrorism and Human...
Jul 28, 2014 | News
Today the Consultative Forum on Fundamental Rights of Frontex published its first annual report.
The report intends to explain the functioning of the Consultative Forum, retrace Consultative Forum’s activities in 2013 and give a short outlook for 2014. It contains the main recommendations that the Consultative Forum made to Frontex and its Management Board in 2013 and the impact of those.
The Consultative Forum was instituted pursuant to article 26a of Frontex Regulation as revised in October 2011.
It is currently composed by:
- two European Union Agencies:
- European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA)
- European Asylum Support Office (EASO)
- four UN Agencies and Intergovernmental Organisations:
- United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
- International Organization for Migration (IOM)
- Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe, Office for
- Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (OSCE / ODIHR)
- Council of Europe (CoE)
- nine Civil Society Organisations:
- Amnesty International European Institutions Office (AI EIO)
- Caritas Europa (CE)
- Churches’ Commission for Migrants in Europe (CCME)
- European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE)
- International Commission of Jurists (ICJ)
- International Catholic Migration Commission (ICMC)
- Jesuit Refugee Service Europe (JRS)
- Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants
- (PICUM)
- Red Cross EU Office.
The Consultative Forum has the competence to assist the Executive Director and the Management Board in fundamental rights matters.
Frontex_Consultative_Forum_AR2014 (Report in pdf)
Jul 3, 2014 | E-bulletin on counter-terrorism & human rights, News
Read the 84th issue of ICJ’s monthly newsletter on proposed and actual changes in counter-terrorism laws, policies and practices and their impact on human rights at the national, regional and international levels. The E-Bulletin on Counter-Terrorism and Human...
May 30, 2014 | E-bulletin on counter-terrorism & human rights, News
Read the 83rd issue of ICJ’s monthly newsletter on proposed and actual changes in counter-terrorism laws, policies and practices and their impact on human rights at the national, regional and international levels. The E-Bulletin on Counter-Terrorism and Human...
