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Communications No. 55/2018 E.B on behalf of E.H. et al. v. Belgium, 24 March 2022

Dec 20, 2022

The CRC Committee found that the children’s detention in closed family detention centres violated the prohibition on ill-treatment (art. 37 CRC), read alone and in conjunction with the best-interests principle (art. 3 CRC). Belgium’s failure to consider alternatives...

Decision n° 166/2013 of 19 December 2013, Constitutional Court (Belgium)

Oct 21, 2021

Decision of the Constitutional Court on the action for annulment brought by a coalition of associations on the legality of article 74/9 of the law of 15 December 1980. The Court confirmed the legality of this article and clarified its scope, finding that the detention...

Decision n° 251.051 of 24 June 2021, Council of State (Belgium)

Oct 21, 2021

Final decision of the Council of State on the action for suspension and annulment brought by a coalition of associations after the publication of the Royal Decree of 22 July 2018 establishing the modalities of detention of families in migration. The Council of State...