October 2013 Issue of the Fahamu Refugee Legal Aid newsletter

IN THIS ISSUE

News on Countries of Origin

News on Countries of Asylum

Deportation & Detention News

Reader Response

Announcements

Conferences and Workshops

Calls for Papers

Vacancies

Choucha update

Rejected asylum seekers tortured in Sri Lanka

Facilitations for family reunification of Syrian refugees in Switzerland

Convention Against Torture victory won for Somali national

Illegal deportations from Italy - sending Egyptians back into a civil war

KISA reports targeting of human trafficking victims and a breach of medical confidentiality in Cyprus

Case Watch: Kenya judge rules against ‘War on Terror’ renditions

Israel: Supreme Court overturns law to prevent infiltration

Morocco urged to establish new asylum and migration policy that protects the human rights of migrants

Legal aid for refugees in Morocco: Droit et Justice launch their programme

Moroccan monarch and government take on asylum reform at long last

Playing with people’s lives: The plight of Rwandan refugees in the Great Lakes region

Introduction to CA7 on Belarus, changed country conditions: Boika v. Holder

Case Note: Shehadeh (FE), Re. Judicial Review [2013] Scot CS CSOH_139 (21 August 2013)

Removal of Chechen family from Sweden to Russia would expose them to real risk of ill-treatment

Somali man would not be at risk due to current security situation in Mogadishu if deported from Sweden

Selection of written answers and statements from the House of Lords Summer Recess 2013

The Dublin Regulation: A critical examination of a troubled system

Summary Conclusions: Roundtable on the Future of Refugee Convention Supervision

Return only option for South Africa’s Angolan refugees

The reach of the Exclusion Clause to the Refugee Convention

Massive expulsions from Tanzania: Did they target Rwandans?

Australia and Southeast Asia: Refugee protection and irregular migration

Repatriating Somali refugees: The plan and arising issues

Publications

Resources

Requests