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Protecting UNRWA
On 22 October 2025, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) published the long-awaited Advisory Opinion on the Obligations of Israel in relation to the Presence and Activities of the United Nations, Other International Organizations and Third States in and in relation to the Occupied Palestinian Territory (hereinafter ‘the AO’). The United Nations General Assembly
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Interim Measures ‘Geneva Style’
In proceedings supported by the Society for Civil Rights (‘GFF’) before the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (‘Committee’ or ‘CESCR’), in mid-October 2025, Germany was provisionally requested to grant the complainant subsistence benefits pending the Committee’s decision
#Germany #InternationalCovenantOnEconomicSocialAndCulturalRights #RefugeeLaw
https://voelkerrechtsblog.org/interim-measures-geneva-style/
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Subsidiary Protection and Climate Refugees
The International Organization for Migration reports that, over recent decades, 218.6 million people have been internally displaced due to climate change, and some projections estimate that up to 1.2 billion people could become “climate refugees” by 2050.
Yet, there is no consensus on the definition of
#ClimateChange #MigrationLaw #RefugeeLaw
https://voelkerrechtsblog.org/subsidiary-protection-and-climate-refugees/
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S.S. and Others V. Italy
Recently, particularly in Europe, the obligations towards refugees and asylum seekers have become a game of cat and mouse, whereby obligations are created, and loopholes or other legally sound ways of dodging the obligation without violating any framework are found and exploited. As a result, the distressed civilian
#EuropeanCourtOfHumanRights #HumanRights #NonRefoulement #RefugeeLaw
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Pushing Back Responsibility
In June 2025, the Greek government announced the deployment of naval warships to international waters off the Libyan coast, framing the operation as a necessary intervention to prevent migrants from reaching Greek territory. Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis justified the initiative as a “pre-emptive message”, intended to signal that human
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Non-Penalization Under Threat
#ImmigrationLaw #NonPenalization #RefugeeLaw
https://voelkerrechtsblog.org/non-penalization-under-threat/
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The Plight of Palestinian Refugees
#Palestine #RefugeeLaw #UnitedNations
https://voelkerrechtsblog.org/the-plight-of-palestinian-refugees/
Fifteen members of the Columbus Commission of Immigrant and Refugee Affairs were officially sworn in as the city’s newest community leaders April 8. The newly formed commission was first established by an ordinance introduced by Columbus City Council member Lourdes Barroso de Padilla, which was confirmed Nov. 18, 2024, according to The Columbus Dispatch. The […]
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[] The Applicant feels that she and other similarly-situated individuals are at risk of being deported to CECOT due to the Trump Administration’s executive orders demonizing transgender people, equating advocating for the fundamental human rights of transgender children as “child abuse” and labelling transgender people as a group are morally inferior due to being transgender (see para. 33 in this Application as it relates to the Military Readiness EO). As a result, the Applicant feels that transgender people as a group are at a high risk to be targeted for deportation by the Trump administration, regardless of whether the trans people have citizenship.
[] This is also more likely when you consider how Trump is attacking trans people’s right to access accurate identity documents and proof of citizenship (such as a passport).
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#Trump #trumpregime #elsalvador #elsalvadorconcentrationcamp #trans #refugeelaw
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