Title UNHCR intervention before the European Court of Human Rights in the case of Sharifi and others v. Italy and Greece
Publisher UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
Publication Date October 2009
Country Afghanistan | Eritrea | Greece | Italy | Sudan
Topics Access to procedures | Non-refoulement | Safe third country | Single procedure
Citation / Document Symbol Application No. 16643/09
Related Document(s) Sharifi et autres c. Italie et Grèce  |  Submission by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) concerning the execution of the judgment by the European Court of Human Rights in the case of Sharifi and Others v. Italy and Greece (application no. 16643/09, judgment of 21 October 2014)  |  Submission by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe concerning the supervision of the execution of the judgment by the European Court of Human Rights in the case of Sharifi and Others v. Italy and Greece (no. 16643/09, judgment of 21 October 2014)
Cite as UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), UNHCR intervention before the European Court of Human Rights in the case of Sharifi and others v. Italy and Greece, October 2009, Application No. 16643/09, available at: https://www.refworld.org/docid/4afd25c32.html [accessed 20 October 2022]
Comments For more information on the situation in Greece, please see UNHCR’s Observations on Greece as a country of asylum, December 2009. See further Committee of Minister (CM) decisions of September 2016 and June 2017 available at: http://hudoc.exec.coe.int/eng?i=CM/Del/Dec(2016)1265/H46-16 ; http://hudoc.exec.coe.int/eng?i=CM/Del/Dec(2017)1288/H46-17E) and Italian authorities submission of Sept. 2017 ( available at: http://rm.coe.int/CoERMPublicCommonSearchServices/DisplayDCTMContent?documentId=090000168075968c); the Communication by Italian Government Action plan (https://rm.coe.int/CoERMPublicCommonSearchServices/DisplayDCTMContent?documentId=090000168091f978 ); and the decision by the Committee of Ministers of 5 March 2020 (available at: https://search.coe.int/cm/Pages/result_details.aspx?ObjectID=09000016809cc879)