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World Refugee Day is an international day designated by the United Nations to honour refugees around the globe. It falls each year on 20 June and celebrates the strength and courage of people who have been forced to flee their home country to escape conflict or persecution.
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Hoofdthema: Asylum
Trefwoorden: World Refugee Day
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During the last Justice and Home Affairs Council under the Belgian Presidency, Ministers agreed to extend the temporary protection for Ukrainians for one year. This will run until March 2026.
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Hoofdthema: Cross-sectional, Asylum, Migration
Trefwoorden: temporary protection, Ukraine, visa policy, Schengen, border control, interoperability
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On 13 June 2024, the Court of Justice of the European Union released its judgment in the case C-563/22 involving a stateless Palestinian mother and her child, registered with UNRWA, who left the Gaza strip to seek protection in Bulgaria. In this case, the Court provided guidance on the interpretation of Article 12(1)(a) of Directive 2011/95/EU and of Article 40(1) of Directive 2013/32/EU.
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Hoofdthema: International Protection
Trefwoorden: refugee status, exclusion, Palestinian, UNRWA, stateless persons, subsequent application
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On 11 June 2024, the European Commission proposed to extend the temporary protection for people fleeing Russia's aggression against Ukraine for another year, from 5 March 2025 to 4 March 2026. The Council still needs to formally adopt the proposal.
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Hoofdthema: Tijdelijke bescherming
Trefwoorden: temporary protection, Ukraine
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In case C-646/21, the Court of Justice of the European Union clarified that women, including minors, who share as a common characteristic the fact that they genuinely come to identify with the fundamental value of equality between women and men during their stay in a Member State may be regarded as belonging to ‘a particular social group’, constituting a ‘reason for persecution’ capable of leading to the recognition of refugee status.
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Hoofdthema: International Protection
Trefwoorden: refugee status, reasons for persecution, membership of a particular social group, best interests of the child
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On 17 June 2024, the European Union Agency for Asylum (EUAA) will publish its Asylum Report 2024 during an online event. This edition highlights measures taken by EU+ countries to manage over 1.1 million asylum applicants in addition to over 4.4 million displaced persons registered for temporary protection.
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Hoofdthema: Asylum
Trefwoorden: EUAA, asylum applications, asylum decisions
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Doctors Without Borders, Doctors of the World, CIRÉ, Vluchtelingenwerk Vlaanderen, BelRefugees, Caritas International, and the Humanitarian Hub underline the permanent lack of reception, protection and access to medical services for applicants for international protection without a reception place. They want to challenge policy-makers and raise public awareness about people left left on the street.
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Hoofdthema: Reception
Trefwoorden: reception crisis, reception capacity
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De workshop zal de uitdagingen en beste praktijken belichten bij de toepassing van de richtlijn tijdelijke bescherming in Duitsland, Nederland en Litouwen. De deelnemers zullen ook toekomstscenario's bespreken om de bescherming van Oekraïners te blijven garanderen.
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Hoofdthema: Tijdelijke bescherming
Trefwoorden: begunstigde van tijdelijke bescherming, Oekraïne, implementatie
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The list of safe countries of origin, which is revised once a year, was updated on 12 May 2024 and is now published in Belgium’s Official Journal. At present, the following countries are considered as safe countries of origin: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Republic of North Macedonia, Kosovo, Montenegro, Serbia, India and Moldova.
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Hoofdthema: International Protection
Trefwoorden: list of safe countries of origin
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In its 2023 annual report, the Federal Institute for Human Rights draws attention, among other things, to the failure of the authorities to enforce the rulings of the Belgian and European courts and tribunals, in particular in the context of the reception crisis. The lack of resources for the judiciary, threats to human rights defenders and weaknesses in the right to information are also underlined.
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Hoofdthema: Reception
Trefwoorden: human rights, reception crisis, right to information
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On 22 May 2024, a joint conference hosted by Fedasil and the EUAA highlighted innovative collaboration models designed to strengthen migration systems. The event brought together diverse participants from various EU Member States, including government bodies, international organisations, civil society groups, and private entities. It focused on strategies to improve the reception, information provision, and pre-integration of international protection applicants.
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Hoofdthema: Reception
Trefwoorden: New Pact on Migration and Asylum, multistakeholder approach, reception, information provision, preintegration
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In Palestinian cases, several elements prevent the Office of the Commissioner General for Refugees and Stateless persons (CGRS) from taking a decision within the initial six-month period after receiving the application for international protection. The CGRS commits to ensuring that Palestinian cases are processed more quickly and that a decision can be taken within 21 months of the submission of the application for protection.
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Hoofdthema: International Protection
Trefwoorden: application for international protection, Palestinian, processing time
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During a joint webinar, experts from the European Migration Network and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development highlighted the positive trends characterizing the labour market integration of Ukrainians, including employment rates and their progress, main sectors of employment, and most common policies and measures for facilitating labour market integration. They also identified the difficulties and remaining challenges in this domain.
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The Expert Conference, that is jointly hosted by Belgium’s Federal Agency for the Reception of Asylum Seekers (Fedasil), and the European Union Agency for Asylum (EUAA), in cooperation with the Migration Policy Institute Europe (MPI Europe), aims to explore multi-stakeholder strategies in three specific areas: reception, information provision, and pre-integration.
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Hoofdthema: Reception
Trefwoorden: multistakeholder approach, reception, information provision, preintegration
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Tijdens dit webinar zullen de belangrijkste bevindingen van de nieuwe gezamenlijke EMN-OESO Inform over de arbeidsmarktintegratie van personen met tijdelijke bescherming uit Oekraïne worden voorgesteld. Deze bevindingen zullen worden aangevuld met inzichten van andere internationale organisaties. Tevens zullen specifieke benaderingen en maatregelen van verschillende gastlanden belicht worden.
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Hoofdthema: Integratie, Tijdelijke bescherming
Trefwoorden: labour market integration, beneficiary of temporary protection, Ukraine
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The Secretary of State for Asylum and Migration announced that applications for international protection from people from safe countries of origin have been processed in 12 working days and those from people originating from countries for which a low rate of protection is granted in 39 days, since 1 February 2024. This aims to free up places in the reception network for those who actually need protection.
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Hoofdthema: International Protection
Trefwoorden: application for international protection, accelerated procedure
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On Friday 3 May 2024, the Council of Ministers approved a draft royal decree appointing Pieter Spinnewijn as Director General of the Federal Agency for the Reception of Asylum Seekers (Fedasil). His mandate will begin on 1 July 2024 for a period of six years.
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Hoofdthema: Reception
Trefwoorden: Fedasil, Director General
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On the proposal of Minister of Foreign Affairs Hadja Lahbib and Secretary of State for Asylum and Migration Nicole de Moor, the Council of Ministers approved a draft royal decree establishing the list of safe countries of origin, now including Moldova.
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Hoofdthema: International Protection
Trefwoorden: list of safe countries of origin, moldova
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The Flemish Red Cross confirmed that the emergency village built in Mechelen in May 2022 for Ukrainians will close its doors in a few months. The rental contracts expire at the end of June 2024 and the Flemish Red Cross wants to help the 319 people still staying there find sustainable housing by then.
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Hoofdthema: Temporary protection
Trefwoorden: temporary protection, Ukraine, emergency village
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On 18 March 2024, the Belgian Presidency of the Council of the European Union, the Office of the Commissioner General for Refugees and Stateless Persons (CGVS) and the European Union Agency for Asylum (EUAA) co-organized a conference during which participants reiterated the need for greater convergence between Member States to achieve a fair and efficient asylum system.
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Hoofdthema: International Protection
Trefwoorden: convergence, asylum practices, Common European Asylum System, New Pact on Migration and Asylum
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In de uitspraak in zaak C-222/22 oordeelde het Hof van Justitie van de Europese Unie dat de Kwalificatierichtlijn zich verzet tegen een vermoeden dat elk volgend verzoek om internationale bescherming, gebaseerd op omstandigheden die de verzoeker heeft gecreëerd door zijn of haar eigen beslissing sinds het verlaten van het land van herkomst, voortkomt uit het oogmerk de procedure voor de verlening van internationale bescherming te misbruiken of te instrumentaliseren. Elk volgend verzoek moet op individuele basis worden beoordeeld.
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Hoofdthema: Internationale bescherming
Trefwoorden: kwalificatierichtlijn, vluchteling, volgend verzoek, misbruik, bekering
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On the occasion of the second anniversary of the activation of the TPD, this Migration Policy Institute Europe webinar will discuss what will happen when the TPD expires in a year’s time. The findings from comparative research in Latin America, Turkey, and Europe on approaches to temporary status and the arc of public support for displaced persons will also be presented.
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Hoofdthema: Temporary protection
Trefwoorden: Temporary Protection Directive, Ukraine
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A strategic analysis by the European Agency for Asylum (EUAA), reveals that in 2023, 1.14 million applications for international protection were lodged in the EU+ countries (i.e. the 27 European Union Member States, plus Norway and Switzerland), marking the highest level in seven years. The analysis sheds light on the trends that were observed in 2023.
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Hoofdthema: Asylum
Trefwoorden: EUAA, application for international protection, temporary protection
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Of the 14.779 Ukrainian refugees registered with the VDAB, 45 percent (6.599) have already worked and 27 percent (4.045) are still working. Some argue that more should be done to guide them into work, inter alia encouraging language learning in the workplace.
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Hoofdthema: Integration, Temporary protection
Trefwoorden: Ukraine, employment rate, labour market access, language barrier
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Gezien de grote druk op het Belgische opvangsysteem, creëerde Fedasil meer dan 3.000 plaatsen in 2023. Ondanks deze inspanningen, kwam Fedasil vorig jaar plaatsen tekort om alle aanvragers van internationale bescherming op te vangen.