Human rights
- Abduction 2,353
- Abuse of psychiatry 170
- Access to water 647
- Arbitrary arrest and detention 10,378
- Children's rights 11,009
- Civil and political rights 1,905
- Contemporary forms of slavery 395
- Death in custody 695
- Death penalty 3,194
- Disappeared persons 5,571
- Economic, social and cultural rights 4,713
- Equal opportunities 200
- Equality before the law 476
- Extrajudicial executions 6,347
- Extreme poverty 602
- Forced labour 6,298
- Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 10,826
- Freedom of assembly and association 12,285
- Freedom of conscience 971
- Freedom of expression 36,648
- Freedom of information 18,572
- Freedom of movement 5,733
- Freedom of religion 14,077
- Freedom of speech 13,258
- Gross, systematic and large-scale 145
- Housing, land and property rights (HLP) 3,448
- Human rights activists 7,404
- Human rights and fundamental freedoms 16,812
- Human rights courts 326
- Human rights monitors 2,598
- Indigenous persons 2,171
- Migrant rights 1,312
- Minority rights 1,505
- Pre-trial detention 1,761
- Prevention of discrimination 513
- Prison or detention conditions 6,328
- Racism / Xenophobia / Hate Crimes 520
- Right to a nationality 1,092
- Right to development 189
- Right to education 2,978
- Right to employment 2,047
- Right to family life 847
- Right to food 895
- Right to health 1,331
- Right to justice 1,311
- Right to leave 192
- Right to liberty and security 606
- Right to life 828
- Right to registration at birth 726
- Right to return 401
- Right to seek asylum 284
- Right to self-determination 1,297
- Sexual and reproductive rights 1,106
- Women's rights 9,055
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UNHCR observations on the Order of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of
Latvia on the Declaration of Emergency Situation (No 518)
13 October 2021 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Comments on National Legislation |
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A.M. (au nom de M.K.A.H.) c. Suisse
Discrimination; intérêt supérieur de l’enfant; développement de l’enfant; droit de l’enfant d’être entendu dans toute procédure judiciaire ou administrative l’intéressant; protection et assistance humanitaire voulues pour les enfants réfugiés; droit de l’enfant de jouir du meilleur état de santé possible; traitements inhumains ou dégradants 6 October 2021 | Judicial Body: UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Children's rights - Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) - Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment - Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness - Statelessness | Countries: Bulgaria - Switzerland - Syrian Arab Republic |
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UNHCR Position on Returns to South Sudan - Update III
October 2021 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country/Situation Specific Position Papers |
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OPINION OF ADVOCATE GENERAL PIKAMÄE, in Case C‑483/20 XXXX
v Commissaire général aux réfugiés et aux apatrides (Request for a preliminary ruling from the Conseil d'État (Belgium))
1. Migratory journeys are often the result of a combination of two elements: chance and necessity. In the case before the Court, a Syrian national, after travelling through Libya and Turkey, arrived in Austria, where, out of necessity, he lodged an application for international protection. After obtaining refugee status, he went to Belgium to be reunited with his two children, one of whom is a minor, and there lodged a new application for international protection, which was declared inadmissible in view of the prior recognition granted in the first Member State. 2. It is against that background that the question arises, to my knowledge for the first time, whether, in particular, the fundamental right to respect for family life enshrined in Article 7 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (‘the Charter’), read in conjunction with the obligation to take into consideration the child’s best interests set out in Article 24(2) of the Charter, can override the inadmissibility mechanism for applications for international protection laid down in Article 33(2)(a) of Directive 2013/32/EU. (2) 30 September 2021 | Judicial Body: European Union: Court of Justice of the European Union | Document type: Case Law | Legal Instrument: 2013 Dublin III Regulation (EU) | Topic(s): Refugee status determination (RSD) / Asylum procedures - Right to family life | Countries: Austria - Belgium - Syrian Arab Republic |
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UNHCR observations on draft Amendments to the Law of the Republic of
Lithuania on Legal Status of Aliens (No 21-29207)
27 September 2021 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Comments on National Legislation |
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CASE OF M.D. AND OTHERS v. RUSSIA
(Applications nos. 71321/17 and 9 others – see appended list)
Relying on Article 2 (right to life) and Article 3 (prohibition on inhuman or degrading treatment), the applicants complain that their expulsion to Syria would put them at grave physical risk. Some of the applicants also complain under Article 13 (right to an effective remedy) that they had no effective domestic remedies in respect of their complaints under Articles 2 and 3 that their detention pending removal was arbitrary and the examination of their complaints against detention orders was not speedy. 14 September 2021 | Judicial Body: Council of Europe: European Court of Human Rights | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Arbitrary arrest and detention - Effective remedy - Expulsion - Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment - Non-refoulement - Right to life | Countries: Russian Federation - Syrian Arab Republic |
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Z.H. v. Sweden
6 September 2021 | Judicial Body: UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CPRD) - Deportation / Forcible return - Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment - Mental health | Countries: Afghanistan - Sweden |
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D.Z. v. Switzerland
Examination of the same matter under another procedure of international investigation or settlement; non-exhaustion of domestic remedies Risk of torture upon return to country of origin; non-refoulement 31 August 2021 | Judicial Body: UN Committee Against Torture (CAT) | Document type: Case Law | Legal Instrument: 1984 Convention against Torture (CAT) | Topic(s): Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment - Non-refoulement | Countries: China - Switzerland |
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X c. Suisse
Risque pour la vie et risque de torture ou de mauvais traitements en cas d’expulsion vers le pays d’origine 22 July 2021 | Judicial Body: UN Committee Against Torture (CAT) | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Convention against Torture (CAT) - Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment | Countries: Eritrea - Switzerland |
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Ainte (material deprivation – Art 3 – AM (Zimbabwe)) [2021] UKUT 0203 (IAC)
(i)Said [2016] EWCA Civ 442 is not to be read to exclude the possibility that Article 3 ECHR could be engaged by conditions of extreme material deprivation. Factors to be considered include the location where the harm arises, and whether it results from deliberate action or omission. (ii) In cases where the material deprivation is not intentionally caused the threshold is the modified N test set out in AM (Zimbabwe) [2020] UKSC 17. The question will be whether conditions are such that there is a real risk that the individual concerned will be exposed to intense suffering or a significant reduction in life expectancy. (iii) The Qualification Directive continues to have direct effect following the UK withdrawal from the EU. 22 July 2021 | Judicial Body: United Kingdom: Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) | Document type: Case Law | Legal Instrument: 1950 European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) | Topic(s): EU Qualification Directive - Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment - Livelihoods | Countries: Somalia - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland |
