Comments on refugee law & policy

A random selection of recent comments from refugee and asylum NGOs on various legal and policy issues:

- The European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE) provides recommendations to the Finnish Presidency of the EU on asylum issues.

- The Refugee Council (UK) responds to a Home Office consultation on the "Implementation of Council Directive 2004/83/EC of 29 April 2004 on minimum standards for the qualification and status of third country nationals or stateless persons as refugees or as persons who otherwise need international protection and the content of the protection granted" (August 2006).

- RSDWatch comments on a recent decision of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) that concerned UNHCR's rejection of an Iranian couple's application for refugee status (August 2006).

- The Serbian Refugee Council focuses on Serbia's draft amendment to the law on refugees in its first newsletter (June-August 2006).

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