asylum

Jumping the Gun? The proposed early application of some of the EU’s new asylum pact – and a common list of supposedly ‘safe countries of origin’ – Go Health Pro

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Jumping the Gun? The proposed early application of some of the EU’s new asylum pact – and a common list of supposedly ‘safe countries of origin’ – Go Health Pro

  Steve Peers, Professor of Law, Royal Holloway University of London Photo credit: Andre Engels, via Wikimedia Commons The EU’s asylum pact was adopted less a year ago, and mostly won’t apply for over another year – and yet the EU Commission has already proposed to amend it, in order to bring forward some of … Read more

CfP Conference of Young Scholars of International Legal Studies; Asser-CSHR Online Summer Programme; Summer School on Human Rights in Theory and Practice; Summer School on EU Migration and Asylum Law and Policy – EJIL: Talk! – Go Health Pro

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CfP Conference of Young Scholars of International Legal Studies; Asser-CSHR Online Summer Programme; Summer School on Human Rights in Theory and Practice; Summer School on EU Migration and Asylum Law and Policy – EJIL: Talk! – Go Health Pro

1. Call for Papers: Conference of Young Scholars of International Legal Studies. On 4 – 5 December 2025, the Department of Law at the University of Ferrara (Italy) will host the XXII edition of the Conference of Young Scholars of International Legal Studies, dedicated to “The Principle of Good Faith in International and European Union Law.” The organizers have issued a call for papers open to scholars of public and private international law and EU law, who are currently enrolled in a PhD program or who obtained their PhD no more than five years ago. To apply, authors must submit an abstract (no more than 600 words), in either Italian or English, along with a curriculum vitae, by 22 June 2025, to giovaniinternazionalisti2025 {at} gmail(.)com. Further information is available here.

2. Asser-CSHR Online Summer Programme 2025: International Sport and Human Rights. Since 2022, T.M.C. Asser Instituut (The Hague), in collaboration with the Centre for Sport and Human Rights, has organised a yearly summer course on sport and human rights. This 4th online edition (21 – 23 and 26 – 28 May 2025) brings together speakers from academia and practice (including sport body representatives, athletes, civil society actors) to give participants a balance between theoretical knowledge and practical application. This year, the programme will involve a multidisciplinary discussion of the intersection of sport and human rights with contemporary topics of governance, mega-sporting events, gender, e-sports, remedy, and dispute resolution. Through a mix of interactive sessions and productive exchanges, they will discuss what a world of responsible sport looks like. Reflections of previous programmes can be found here and here. Registrations are open, and all details can be found here. A limited number of scholarships are also available: details can be found here.

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EU Law Analysis: The Italy/Albania asylum treaty reaches the CJEU: what are the issues? – Go Health Pro

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EU Law Analysis: The Italy/Albania asylum treaty reaches the CJEU: what are the issues? – Go Health Pro

  Professor Steve Peers, Royal Holloway University of London Photo credit: Pudelek, via Wikimedia Commons   Is the Italy/Albania deal on housing asylum-seekers a model of the future, to be emulated by the rest of the EU, and the UK – or is it destined to be an expensive failure, like the UK’s Rwanda policy? … Read more

‘Quiet Life,’ a tale of two Sleeping Beauties waiting to be granted asylum – Go Health Pro

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‘Quiet Life,’ a tale of two Sleeping Beauties waiting to be granted asylum – Go Health Pro

Sergei (Grigoriy Dobrygin, left), Natalia (Chulpan Khamatova, right), and their two daughters (center), Alina (Naomi Lamp) and Katja (Miroslava Pashutina), in “Quiet Life”, by Alexandros Avranas. LES FILMS DU WORSO LE MONDE’S OPINION – NOT TO BE MISSED Movie year opens with a “morning-after the-night-before” movie that never seeks to seduce but rather seizes us … Read more

Is the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruling on granting asylum to Afghan women an implication of qualification of gender apartheid in Afghanistan? – EJIL: Talk! – Go Health Pro

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CfP Conference of Young Scholars of International Legal Studies; Asser-CSHR Online Summer Programme; Summer School on Human Rights in Theory and Practice; Summer School on EU Migration and Asylum Law and Policy – EJIL: Talk! – Go Health Pro

Introduction

From a feminist perspective, international law has frequently failed to adequately address gender issues, primarily due to the challenges posed by a male-centric discourse reflected in its organizational and normative structure. This limitation is particularly evident in refugee law, where gender-based persecution has long struggled to gain recognition as a ground on its own for asylum. The 1951 Refugee Convention, developed in the context of post-war Europe with a limited understanding of the concept of persecution (see here and here), defines a refugee as someone fleeing their country because of a well-founded fear of persecution on grounds of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion, with gender being notably absent. This historical framework continues to hinder protections for women from Afghanistan under current refugee law, who face severe deprivation of fundamental rights and systematic discrimination. This system of oppression recently gained legal attention as ‘gender apartheid’ to distinguish the severity of the situation of women’s rights in this context (see this and this).

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