This commentary identifies what the ‘Still Human Still Here’ coalition considers to be the main inconsistencies and omissions between the currently available country of origin information (COI) and case law on Iraq and the conclusions reached in the December 2011 Iraq Operational Guidance Note (OGN), issued by the UK Border Agency. The 93 page document [...]
Human Rights Watch February 13, 2012 A major legal reform package to be introduced by the Turkish government leaves key problems with free speech and arbitrary detention unresolved, Human Rights Watch said today. The draft package has been sent to the Parliamentary Justice Commission, and the government has indicated that it could become law in [...]
UNHCR News Stories, 3 February 2012 KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of the Congo, February 3 (UNHCR) – The UN refugee agency said Friday it was alarmed by recent reports that Congolese civilians have been tortured and killed by armed groups entering camps for the internally displaced in the volatile province of North Kivu. The agency called [...]
Published by UKBA, 2 February 2012 This report, and other Country Specific Asylum Policy OGNs, can be found at UKBA website here Contents: Country assessment - Actors of protection - Internal relocation - Country guidance case law Main categories of claims - Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) - The Mungiki - Prison Conditions Discretionary Leave - [...]
Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) >> AA (unattended children) Afghanistan CG [2012] UKUT 16 (IAC) (01 February 2012) Cite as: [2012] UKUT 16 (IAC) FULL DETERMINATION AND REASONS AT BAILII HERE This Country Guidance case finds that: (1) The evidence before the Tribunal does not alter the position as described in HK and Others [...]
IRIN, UN News Service, 26 January 2012 ABIDJAN, 26 January 2012 (IRIN) - Côte d’Ivoire is abandoning free health care for all after a brief experiment because of skyrocketing costs. “In nine months the government had to pay 30 billion CFA francs [about US$60 million] under difficult circumstances,” Ivoirian Health Minister Yoman N’dri said in [...]
Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) >> LZ (homosexuals) Zimbabwe CG [2011] UKUT 487 (IAC) (26 January 2012) Available at BAILII website Cite as: [2011] UKUT 487 (IAC) LZ (homosexuals) Zimbabwe CG [2011] UKUT 487 (IAC) (26 January 2012) This Country Guidance case finds that: (i) There has been much public expression of extreme homophobia [...]
Chapter on Angola from Human Rights Watch World Report 2012 Published 24 January 2012 Available at Human Rights Watch in English and Portuguese In 2011 President Jose Eduardo dos Santos, in power for 32 years, faced an unprecedented wave of criticism. Inspired by the pro-democracy Arab Spring movements, Angola witnessed an incipient movement of anti-government [...]
Human Rights Watch 22 January 2012 Turkey: Credibility Depends on Rights at Home End Clampdown on Journalists, Kurdish Activists, Government Critics Turkey’s international credibility as a rising regional power will be compromised as long as it imprisons journalists, Kurdish political activists, and other government critics, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2012. [...]
Available at Human Rights Watch Published 22 January 2012 Events of 2011 As the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government focused on promoting Turkey’s regional interests in response to the pro-democracy Arab Spring movements, human rights suffered setbacks at home. The government has not prioritized human rights reforms since 2005, and freedom of expression and [...]