Implementation of the new asylum law
Unaccompanied Children Disappear in Switzerland
[02.02.2010]
Thousands of children, coming to Europe without their parents, disappear every year from lodging and reception centers without a search procedure being set in motion. In Switzerland too, experts consider that the majority of unaccompanied children di...
Problematic Deportation of Asylum Seekers to Italy and Greece
[08.12.2009]
Switzerland continues to deport asylum seekers towards Italy or Greece according to the Dublin II Agreement that entered into force in December 2008. A report presented in November 2009 by the Swiss Observatory on the Asylum Law and Foreign National ...
Fahad In and Out of Switzerland and the Dublin Agreement
[09.04.2009]
Swiss authorities have deported an Iraqi asylum seeker who became famous after starring in the Swiss documentary film “The Fortress”. On 2nd April 2009, the Federal Department of Justice announced they sent Fahad Khammas back to Sweden ...
Inacceptable Restrictions in the Asylum Law in Sight
[27.03.2009]
A large coalition of fifty Swiss organisations presented its statement against the restrictions on the Asylum Law and National Act planed by the government. Indeed, the Federal Council has open for comments its revision of the Asylum Law and for th...
First Observations on the Implementation of Asylum and Foreigners’ Laws
[27.09.2008]
On 24 September 2008, on of the Centre for Monitoring the Asylum and Foreigners’ Laws presented its first report. Two years after the adoption by vote by the Swiss population of the revised asylum law and the New Foreigners Act, the French-sp...
Detention Before Expulsion Must be Reduced
[23.06.2008]
On 18 June 2008, the European Parliament adopted new community rules on the repatriation of illegal immigrants. As a future member of the Schengen and Dublin agreements (security and asylum accord), Switzerland has two years to adapt its law, which...
Denied asylum seekers are barred from access to health care
[11.03.2008]
Since the beginning of 2008 denied asylum seekers only receive emergency aid from the cantons where they live. This measure stems from the new asylum law and is supposed to cut costs. Some cantons, however, go even further and exclude failed asylum...
Asylum seekers without papers: NGO concerned
[02.11.2007]
In the first half of 2007 more than half of the rejections of applications for asylum were due to missing documents - compared with 9.9 per cent in 2005. This is what the non governmental organisation Swiss Refugee Council (SRC) observed afte...