Asylum Seekers’ Access to Territory and to the Asylum Procedure in the Republic of Hungary Report on the Border Monitoring Program’s First Year in 2007 December
- Document number
- 1960
- Date
- 2008
- Title
- Asylum Seekers’ Access to Territory and to the Asylum Procedure in the Republic of Hungary Report on the Border Monitoring Program’s First Year in 2007 December
- Author/publisher
- Hungarian Helsinki Committee
- Availability
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- Document type(s)
- Research/Study/Analysis,
- Keywords
- Irregular Migration, Feminization of migration, Economic migration, Labour migration, Free movement, Undocumented migrants; Undocumented labour; Migrant rights; Migration management; Comprehensive approach to migration; Migration policy; Restrictive migration measures,
- Summary
The report underlines that the communication between the Border Guard and the HHC has significantly improved as a result of the continuous and accurate information sharing. Furthermore, the report finds that the Border Guard procedures have become more comprehensible and transparent. Nevertheless the HHC has expressed its serious concern over certain practices, such as the lack of interviews during the return procedures, which HHC believes constitutes a breach of the non-refoulement principle. Therefore HHC and UNHCR, in stressing the importance of personal interviews, strongly recommend that the police should conduct interviews in so-called ‘simple cases' when the foreigner is holding a false or forged travel document or visa, in order to ensure that no one is returned who is at risk of persecution or who wishes to seek asylum in Hungary. In addition, the report emphasizes the need for regular - language, cultural and other - trainings for police personnel performing border control tasks. In this respect it has been considered to develop a good practices manual relating to the treatment of persons in need of international protection.
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