Our research shows that assaults against human rights is a poor way to defend human rights and the rule of law: link.springer.com/article/10.100… Miss von der Leyen is wrong. Aleksandra Ancite-Jepifánova Sarah Ganty Springer Nature

Families belong together! States have a legal obligation to uphold the principle of family unity for refugees. UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency has issued new guidelines on family reunification, providing guidance for developing effective family reunification procedures: refworld.org/policy/legalgu…

Important read on illegal pushbacks at the Lithuania-Belarus border and how measures to counteract the ”instrumentalisation” of asylum seekers punish the victims of persecution instead of the perpetrators. euobserver.com/migration/arfa…

Why has the EU supported Ukraine but ‘othered’ Palestine? Juan Roch Gonzalez & I just published the article “The Colonial Imaginary of ‘Europe’ in the EU’s Asymmetrical Response to the Russian and Israeli Aggressions” in JCMS. Check it out in open access👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

[READ] Following the passing of the amendment to Iraq’s Personal Status Law 188, Rend Al-Rahim’s warnings about its devastating impact on women, children, and Iraqi society as a whole are now a stark reality. Full article ⬇️ buff.ly/4dp4qKl

“A manipulation of the narrative of hybrid warfare to justify the suspension of fundamental human rights”.

You can find my take on Poland’s “suspension of the right to asylum” and its impact on the EU’s common #asylum framework in EUobserver. I highlight how the common asylum policy is effectively unraveling, with broad political support for its demise. euobserver.com/migration/ard2…

In February, I attended #ECtHR GC hearings in three 🇪🇺-#Belarus border cases involving alleged “migrant #instrumentalisation”. In my latest piece for Verfassungsblog I show why 🇱🇻🇱🇹🇵🇱 arguments cannot justify any derogations from #asylum seekers' rights. verfassungsblog.de/eu-belarus-bor…

Great analysis by Aleksandra Ancite-Jepifánova. I would add one point: while one might theoretically imagine ‘no violation’ of Art. 4 Prot. 4 due to an expansive reading of the ND & NT exception, there must be a violation of Art. 3 if the Court takes its absolute character seriously.

A highly recommended article by @GraBaranowska on the three so-called 'migrant #instrumentalization' cases against Poland, Latvia and Lithuania before the #ECtHR. What has been discussed during the hearings and what is at stake?

This has been a long time coming, but here it is: Polish government—the same one that pledged to restore the rule of law—has just ‘suspended’ the constitutional right to #asylum. And it did so by executive action, bypassing procedures meant to regulate human rights restrictions.

✍️ On Verfassungsblog, our Senior Research Fellow Aleksandra Ancite-Jepifánova analyzes the "migrant instrumentalization" cases currently considered by the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. Details: 👉 tinyurl.com/y4z6dat3

I call it genocide because IT IS genocide. Defined by intent, not by method or means. Visible without magnification—if we look with context, at the victims: what they share is being part of a group, as such. Because of it, they get killed, tortured, maimed, starved, raped,

Baden-Württemberg: Männer von jesidischen Überlebenden des Genozids dürfen seit 10 Jahren nicht zu ihren Frauen und Kindern nach Deutschland 🇩🇪 kontextwochenzeitung.de/politik/747/fr…