IRRI Rights in Exile Newsletter – April 2018
Published: 1 Apr 2018
Issue 91, April 2018
ISSN 2049-2650
Editorial Team: Fiona McKinnon, Mandy Jam, Susan Fratzke, Catherine Tyson, Natsumi Paxton, Nejla Sammakia, Iana Messetchkova, Mohamed ElSayeh, Kavita Kapur, Joshua Lowe, and Christian Jorgensen.
Chief Editor: Themba Lewis
Web links are in blue.
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In this issue:
News
Detention and Deportation News
Short Pieces
The power of civil mobilisation: How ordinary people stepped-in to help refugees in Northern Greece
Italy Shuts Down ‘Worrying’ Migrant Hotspot
Libyan coast guard vs NGO: Italy and the EU have chosen their allies
France: A sharp rise in rates of child detention is cause for concern
Αlmost two years after EU-Turkey statement, people are still trapped on the islands
Know your rights: A guide for migrants
Uganda: Giving hope to visually impaired woman in Palabek Refugee Settlement
Reawakening Awareness of Empowerment of Refugee Women and Girls in Uganda
Case Notes
M.K. v. Russia (application no. 35346/16) [Articles 2. 3 and 5 ECHR], 27 February 2018
CJEU: Request for a preliminary ruling, C-680/17 Vethanayagam
CJEU: Request for a preliminary ruling, C-635/17 E
USA: Matter of A-B-, 27 I&N Dec. 227 (A.G. 2018)
USA: Groups challenge Trump administration’s arbitrary detention of asylum seekers
USA: Order granting plaintiff’s motion for preliminary injunction (immigration detention)
USA: Nielsen v. Preap (focus: detention, criminal alien)
Opinion and Editorial
- Euromed comments on FRONTEX piece
- The French Asylum Bill – a deeply unbalanced proposal
- Why does the UK deport North Korean asylum seekers?
Letters to the editors
- Hotline for Refugees and Migrants Israel welcomes new Executive Director
- RLP Uganda engages Uganda People’s Defense Force to build refugee rights and protection capacity
- RLP Uganda: ‘Speak your Rights’ programme
Newsletters
- International Detention Monitor – March 2018
- Refugee Research Network – March 2018
- Right to Remain Newsletter – March 2018
- Statelessness and Inclusion Bulletin – February 2018
- European Asylum Support Office Newsletter – February 2018
Announcements
Conferences, courses, and workshops
Vacancies
- Center for Migration & Refugee Studies at the American University in Cairo seeking researcher
- Two postdoctoral fellowship opportunities mobility, politics and transformation in sub-Saharan Africa (South Africa)
- Immigrant Defense Project, New York
- Safe Passage Project, New York
- Migration Policy Centre at the European University Institute in Florence
- Oxford Department of International Development and the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford
Resource: new UNHCR updates on the situation in South Sudan