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KN & Ors-v-Minister for Justice & Equality, MAM-v- Minister for Justice & Equality
19 June 2020 | Judicial Body: Ireland: Supreme Court | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Asylum-seekers - Derivative status - Family reunification | Countries: Ireland - Somalia |
Case of Nur Ahmed and Others v. Ukraine
For these reasons, the court, unanimously: Decides to join the applications; Declares inadmissible: (i) the first and eighth applicants’ complaints that their detention under the domestic court’s detention orders did not comply with Article 5 § 1 of the Convention and (ii) the sixth, seventh and ninth applicants’ complaints that their detention under the domestic court’s detention orders prior to 10 August, 5 November and 22 May 2012 respectively did not comply with Article 5 § 1 of the Convention; Declares the remainder of the applications admissible; Holds that there has been a violation of Article 5 § 1 of the Convention in respect of second to ninth applicants, on account of lack of records of their arrest and detention prior to the issuance of detention orders in respect of them; Holds that there has been a violation of Article 5 § 1 of the Convention in respect of the second to fifth applicants on account of their detention under the domestic court’s detention orders in the absence of a decision ordering their expulsion; Holds that there has been a violation of Article 5 § 1 of the Convention in respect of the sixth applicant on account of his detention from 10 August to 17 October 2012, in respect of the seventh applicant on account of his detention from 5 to 23 November and in respect of the ninth applicant on account of his detention from 22 May to 17 October 2012; Holds that there has been a violation of Article 5 § 4 of the Convention in respect of the first and the sixth to ninth applicants. 18 June 2020 | Judicial Body: Council of Europe: European Court of Human Rights | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Asylum-seekers - Immigration Detention | Countries: Somalia - Ukraine |
Warda Osman Jasin v. Denmark
25 September 2015 | Judicial Body: UN Human Rights Committee (HRC) | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Asylum-seekers - Deportation / Forcible return - Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment - International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) | Countries: Denmark - Italy - Somalia |
Tripartite Commission for the Voluntary Repatriation of Somali Refugees from Kenya, Joint Communique
30 July 2015 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Multilateral Treaties/Agreements |
Sana'a Declaration
13 November 2013 | Publisher: Regional Treaties, Agreements, Declarations and Related | Document type: Resolutions/Recommendations/Declarations |
Tripartite Agreement Between the Government of the Republic of Kenya, the Government of the Federal Republic of Somalia and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Governing the Voluntary Repatriation of Somali Refugees Living in Kenya, 2013
10 November 2013 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Multilateral Treaties/Agreements |
UNHCR intervention before the Supreme Court of Israel, High Court of Justice, in the case HCJ 7146/12
7 March 2013 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Court Interventions / Amicus Curiae |
The Luxemburg Court: Conductor for a Disharmonious Orchestra?
2 May 2012 | Publisher: Hungarian Helsinki Committee | Document type: Legal Articles/Analyses/Commentaries |
RB (Linguistic evidence - Sprakab) Somalia v. Secretary of State for the Home Department
10 September 2010 | Judicial Body: United Kingdom: Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Asylum-seekers - Bajuni - Credibility assessment - Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports) | Countries: Somalia - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland |
R (on the application of ZO (Somalia) and others) (Respondents) v. Secretary of State for the
Home Department (Appellant)
On appeal from the Court of Appeal (England and Wales) [2009] EWCA Civ 442. 28 July 2010 | Judicial Body: United Kingdom: Supreme Court | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Asylum-seekers - Fresh / New claim - Reception - Right to employment | Countries: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland |