On Friday August 14th, between 2 pm and 4 pm, we will be co-organizing with European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE) an online seminar titled “Non-Refoulement Principle under International Human Rights Law and ECtHR Caselaw”. In this seminar, expert lawyer Julia Zelvenska from ECRE will be presenting to us the legal framework and norms surrounding non-refoulement principle, a very fundamental guarantee for refugees and asylum seekers, as outlined by international human rights law, and specifically the European Convention on Human Rights, and we will be discussing some of the precedent-setting decisions and more recent decisions from the European Court of Human Rights, with respect to the application of non-refoulement principle. Our seminar will be bilingual with Turkish and English simultaneous interpretation available. Our seminar is free and open to anyone interested in the subject, please register here for attendance.
RRT has hosted various thematic online seminars in the summer months of 2020; including a 4-session seminar focusing on national legal framework concerning asylum and protection which took place between June 12th and July 3rd; 2 seminars with the participation of an expert lawyer from International Commission of Jurists on international human rights mechanisms and economic, social and cultural rights of refugees and which took place on July 9th and July 16th; and 2 seminars in collaboration with European Council on Refugees and Exiles where expert lawyers from ECRE share their perspective on issues of key importance for Turkish legal practitioners: international human rights standards and ECtHR caselaw on administrative detention (which took place on July 24th) and this upcoming seminar on non-refoulement principle on August 14th.
The successive trainings in June, July and August were supported within the framework of a project implemented by RRT in association with American partner organization Refugee Solidarity Network (RSN) aiming to contribute to the strengthening of legal expertise among Turkish legal practitioners on immigration and asylum law.