Regional Focus: Europe

Publications:

"As though we are not human beings": Police Brutality against Migrants and Asylum Seekers in Macedonia (Human Rights Watch, Sept. 2015) [text]

"Bringing the Refugee Crisis Home to Berlin," New Yorker, 15 Sept. 2015 [text]

Displacement Figures in Ukraine Fail to Reflect a Complex Reality, Briefing Paper (IDMC, Sept. 2015) [text]

The Dutch Response to the Refugee Crisis (Border Criminologies Blog, Sept. 2015) [text]

EU Migration Talks: What EU Governments Can Do to Help Solve the Crisis (EUROPP Blog, Sept. 2015) [text]

Europe's Refugee Emergency: Update #1 on the Situation in Greece, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Serbia

Interview with Jeff Crisp, Former Head of UNHCR's Policy Development and Evaluation Service (Urban Refugees, Sept. 2015) [access]

"An Island of Refugees," New Yorker, 16 Sept. 2015 [text]

Justice and Home Affairs Council Meeting, Brussels, 22 Sept. 2015: Background Note (Council of the European Union, Sept. 2015) [text via Statewatch]

*The Mass Flight of Syrian Refugees: What are the Legal Obligations of States? (Oxford Human Rights Hub Blog, Sept. 2015) [text]
- First in a new blog series on "Human Rights and the Refugee Crisis in Europe."

No Country for Refugees: Information Note (Hungarian Helsinki Committee, Sept. 2015) [text]

Over 210 000 First Time Asylum Seekers in the EU in the Second Quarter of 2015 (Eurostat, Sept. 2015) [text]

"Refugee Crisis: Apart from Syrians, Who is Travelling to Europe?," The Guardian, 10 Sept. 2015) [text]

Simply No Consensus: Can the EU Respond to Continued Refugee Flows?, Webinar, 18 Sept. 2015 [info]
- Follow link for podcast.

Web resource:

Courses on Admissibility Criteria, Asylum and Intro to ECHR (Human Rights Education for Legal Professionals) [access]
- Freely available e-learning courses.

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Related post:
- Regional Focus: Europe (16 Sept. 2015)

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