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Asylum and the European Convention on Human Rights (Human Rights Files No. 9) (2010)
Introduction
Overview
Background considerations: movement of refugees in Europe from the aftermath of the Second World War to the present
Recent trends in Europe
Part One - The role of the European Convention on Human Rights in protection from expulsion to face human rights abuses
The applicability of the Convention to asylum cases
The risk of torture, inhuman or degrading treatment
The significance of the jurisprudence of the UNCAT Committee
The extraterritorial application of other articles of the ECHR
Procedural guarantees and the right to an effective remedy where expulsion is threatened
Forced expulsion of reluctant deportees
Part Two - The role of the European Convention on Human Rights in situations not involving protection from expulsion
Detention under Article 5 and restrictions on freedom of movement under Article 2 of Protocol No.4
Family life and private life
Children and asylum
Article 12 - The right to marry and found a family
Status of those whose claim is being examined or has been rejected
Non-discrimination - Article 14 and Protocol No.12
Racism, xenophobia and the media
Terrorism
Part Three - The subsidiary protection of the European Court of Human Rights
The right of individual petition
Interim measures - Rule 39
Expediting cases
Conditions to be fulfilled
Execution of judgments - The Committee of Ministers
Asylum and the European Union
Conclusion
Appendix I - Selected Council of Europe instruments relating to asylum
Appendix II - Key European Union texts relating to asylum
Appendix III - Guidelines on human rights and the fight against terrorism (extract)
Appendix IV - Countries which have accepted the right of individual petition under the United Nations Convention against Torture
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