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Welcome to the February 2008 issue of The Researcher!
The New Year sees the publication of the Immigration, Residence and Protection Bill, 2008. We publish the Minister’s speech at the launch of the Bill and also an article by Hilkka Becker of the Immigrant Council of Ireland which looks at certain aspects of the Bill. As with the earlier version of the Bill we hope to include a number of viewpoints on this most important legislation over forthcoming issues.
The core business of the Refugee Documentation Centre is researching Country of Origin Information and we are happy to include in this issue a number of articles on the subject. Brian Allen, an Expert Witness writes on ‘The Bajuni People of Southern Somalia and the Asylum Process’. David Goggins investigates ‘Some Human Rights Issues in Iran’. Patrick Dowling looks at the situation in Sudan in the 1990s through the lens of Kevin Carter, Pulitzer winning photographer. Gábor Gyulai of the Hungarian Helsinki Committee has given us the Executive Summary of his study on COI, ‘Country Information in Asylum Procedures – Quality as a Legal Requirement in the EU’. I discuss the question whether UK Home Office Operational Guidance Notes should be used as COI in Ireland.
Elsewhere in this issue, John Stanley, BL provides case summaries of significant caselaw, Bobby Pringle of IOM gives us an update on two Return Information Projects and Sarah Ruedeman writes about the separated child’s credibility in the asylum process.
Paul Daly, RDC
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