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The Legal watch and action unit on asylum issue aims to ensure that refugees and asylum seekers’ rights are complied with, that is to say that they have a full knowledge of their rights, that they enjoy effective access to their rights and have a high quality representation. To achieve this, we want to build on our volunteers’ legal expertise and experience with asylum seekers and refugees.

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Our goal is not to provide a solution to all asylum seekers whose application has been dismissed, nor is it to promote action against all negative decisions.

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The Legal Section rests on jurists. Our team comprises 12 volunteers who are legal professionals, be they academics or practitioners. All have signed our Volunteer Contract, which includes a strict confidentiality clause

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See a model of Volunteer Contract

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Every Friday, two volunteers are present to deal with Pink Paper-related issues. They gather and sum up the needs of refugees and asylum seekers. This information is then passed on to the Pink Paper Team. Research is undertaken on a voluntary basis, depending on the availability of each Team member.

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Our work entails 3 main tasks:

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Legislation and case-law monitoring: gathering and sharing the Luxemburgish, EU law and ECHR legal news in the field of asylum right.

 

So that lawyers and other practitioners have a better understanding of the case law

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Asylum seekers individualized monitoring: offer legal support to asylum seekers whose lawyers face two different kind of pressure: short deadline to bring actions and a complex legal system.

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So that asylum seekers have a better understanding of the procedure.

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So that asylum seekers are better prepared to the procedure, which helps saving time during the interviews with the Ministry (proof gathering etc.)

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Reflections and recommendations on current issues, such as effective access to the labor market in concordance with EU law, analysis of the European Commission proposal “Asylum Package II”

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For a substantive work ahead of the legislative work and constructive proposals.

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