Ethiopian migrants arrive on the shore of Obock, Djibouti
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migration

Towards the New Return Regulation: More Obligations, Less, Rights, and Pressures on Third States to Support EU Return Policies. An Analysis of the Return Regulation as Adopted by the European Parliament on March 26, 2026.

IntroductionOn 26 March 2026, the European Parliament approved, with some significant amendments, the proposed regulation on the return of third-country nationals residing irregularly on the territory of the Union (COM(2025)101...
Advocates disrupt transfer of asylum seekers from Villawood
© Kate Ausburn
asylum

Ruling Against the Police Headquarters in Vicenza and Venice: An Analysis of Judgments No. 616 and 617 of the Regional Administrative Court of Veneto

IntroductionThrough judgments nos. 616 and 617 of 2026 of the Veneto Regional Administrative Tribunal, the tribunal ruled that administrative inefficiency is not an inevitability due to a lack of resources,...
A child holding hands with his grandfather are standing on a car and looking at the horizon. The child waves a Palestinian flag and the grandfather has a keffiyeh on his shoulders
Occupied Palestinian Territories

In a Communication to Italy (AL ITA 9/2025) and ENI S.p.A. (AL OTH 149/2025), the UN Special Rapporteur on Palestine and the Working Group on Business and Human Rights denounce their alleged complicity with Israel’s crimes in Palestine

IntroductionOn 17th December 2025, Francesca Albanese, the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967, and the Working Group on the issue of...
A young migrant from Darfur waits to reach England from Calais, France.
© UNICEF/Laurence Geai
migration

The European Parliament approves at first reading the regulation on the return/deportation of third-country nationals irregularly present in EU member states. Stricter rules and fewer guarantees

On 26 March 2026, the European Parliament approved, with some significant amendments to the Commission's draft (COM(2025)101 final), the proposed regulation on the return of third-country nationals who are irregularly...