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Case of O.M. and D.S. v. Ukraine (Application no. 18603/12)
For these reasons, the Court, unanimously,Joins to the merits the Government’s objection as to the first applicant’s victim status regarding her complaint under Article 3 of the Convention and rejects it; Declares the first applicant’s complaints under Articles 3 and 13 of the Convention concerning her removal from Ukraine and the alleged lack of effective domestic remedies in that regard admissible and the applicants’ remaining complaints under Articles 3, 5 and 13 inadmissible; Holds that there has been a violation of Article 3 of the Convention; Holds that there is no need to examine the first applicant’s complaint under Article 13 taken in conjunction with Article 3 of the Convention; Holds that the respondent State has failed to comply with its obligation under Article 34 of the Convention 15 September 2022 | Judicial Body: Council of Europe: European Court of Human Rights | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Non-refoulement - Rejection at border | Countries: Kyrgyzstan - Ukraine |
Submission by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in the Case of O.M. and D.S. v. Ukraine (Application No. 18603/12)
15 July 2013 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Court Interventions / Amicus Curiae |
Ukraine: Amnesty International welcomes commitments to combat police impunity for torture and other ill-treatment and to uphold the principle of non-refoulement, but regrets the rejection of recommendations relating to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people
20 March 2013 | Publisher: Amnesty International | Document type: Presidential Statements |
UN agency asks Ukraine to free detained former prime minister of Tajikistan
20 March 2013 | Publisher: UN News Service | Document type: Country News |
Safe and Secure: How do Refugees Experience Europe's Borders? Modern challenges to protection and the 1951 Refugee Convention
December 2011 | Publisher: Jesuit Refugee Service | Document type: Country Reports |
Vitaliy Semenovich Kaganovich v. Alberto Gonzales, Attorney General
On Petition for Review of an Order of the Board of Immigration Appeals. Argued and Submitted: November 17, 2006 Pasadena, California; Filed: December 12, 2006. 12 December 2006 | Judicial Body: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Deportation / Forcible return - Exhaustion of domestic remedies - Non-refoulement | Countries: Ukraine - United States of America |
Vasiliy Ostapovich Romanishyn v. Attorney General
On Petition for Review of an Order of Removal of the Board of Immigration Appeals, U.S. Department of Justice, Executive Office for Immigration Review (BIA No. A71-346-048). Argued: Monday, May 15, 2006. 20 July 2006 | Judicial Body: United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Criminal justice - Deportation / Forcible return - Non-refoulement - Religious persecution (including forced conversion) - Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness - Witnesses | Countries: Ukraine - United States of America |