Access Denied? – Human Rights Approaches to Compensate for the Absence of a Right to Be Granted Asylum
Access Denied? – Human Rights Approaches to Compensate for the Absence of a Right to Be Granted Asylum
The European Court of Human Rights decided this week (in M.E. and Others vs. Belgium) that European states are not bound by the European Convention on Human Rights in visa procedures at their embassies.
"The decision (...) will undoubtedly further propel the debate on the scope of extraterritorial state jurisdiction. More importantly, however, it reveals the necessity of addressing the systemic exclusion of refugees from the international legal order", BIM researcher Adel-Naim Reyhani writes in his article on verfassungsblog.de.
The 1st Slovenian-Austrian Lawyers' Day was held at University (Juridicum) on 19 and 20 September 2019. Individual lectures on the topic "Managing Migration and the Rule of Law" reflected current challenges in the context of migration. In addition, the 1st Slovenian-Austrian Lawyers' Day served as a networking opportunity for Slovenian and Austrian law researchers and professionals.
Climate change is becoming an increasingly important factor with regard to migration and displacement. Although most persons affected by climate change-related mobility remain in their regions of origin, some of them (will) arrive in Europe, including in Austria. However, the legal status of persons arriving in Europe in this context is still inadequately addressed (normative protection gap).
EU Member States are bound not only by international refugee law, but also by EU law on refugees and asylum. Despite this common normative framework, asylum practices in the individual EU countries vary widely. This can lead to a refugee seeking international protection being granted asylum in one Member State but subsidiary protection or even a negative decision in another. Experts from the European and Austrian asylum systems will examine these questions at length and discuss the challenges and opportunities in the European asylum system.
Programme (Excerpt):
Adel-Naim Reyhani wrote a commentary on "DerStandard" regarding the incident at the BH Dornbirn and was interviewed together with Hannes Tretter by "Vorarlberger Nachrichten".