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EC Pushes Broad Plan on Migration, Asylum
October 25, 2017
The European Commission (EC) recently announced the "next steps" in its overarching plan to develop "a stronger, fairer and more effective EU migration and asylum policy," including a new resettlement plan for 50,000 asylum seekers and expanded pressure on EU member states to streamline their migrant return policies.
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CoE Official Seeks Revision of Russian Laws on Public Events
October 25, 2017
The Council of Europe's (CoE) Commissioner for Human Rights Nils Muižnieks has published a memorandum calling for the "thorough revision" of Russian laws he says interfere with the freedom of assembly to take into account international human rights standards.
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CoE Pushes Countries to End Child Migrant Detention
October 20, 2017
As the Council of Europe (CoE) seeks to pressure countries to adopt its Action Plan in Protecting Migrant and Refugee Children, the regional organization hosted a conference in Prague pushing governments to end the detention of migrant children and to search for alternatives to the practice.
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ECtHR: Spanish "Collective Expulsion" Violated Rights
October 20, 2017
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has held that Spain violated the rights of two people attempting to enter its territory by "expelling" them - even if, as Spain argued, the migrants had not yet entered Spanish territory when they were apprehended - without permitting them any judicial or administrative remedy.
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EU Supports Spanish Position on Catalan Referendum
October 20, 2017
Following the violent intervention of Spanish authorities against citizens attempting to vote in the recent Catalan independence referendum, the EU issued a brief statement calling the vote illegal and the response to the vote "an internal matter for Spain," while venturing that, beyond the legal issues involves, this is not the time for "divisiveness and fragmentation."
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