On 27 September 2017, the Academy of Justice, in cooperation with CRPK, UNHCR Implementing artner, conducted a training on: "Movement and residence of foreigners and legal proceedings against them in the Republic of Kosovo".
The purpose of this training was to raise the participants' knowledge regarding the legal provisions in force for asylum and their implementation when deciding on asylum, recognition of asylum procedure conducted by the Department of Citizenship, Asylum and Migration within the Ministry of Interior Affairs and the National Commission for Refugees in Kosovo, as well as administrative conflict procedure before the competent court.
During this training special attention was paid to the cooperation between states and UNHCR in resolving refugee problems, especially when there is a sudden and massive movement of displaced people across borders, harmonization and improvement of provisions on international protection in the regions, as well as the definitions of refugees regarding national and international legislation.
Also within this training were elaborated national legislation, in particular the Law on Asylum of Kosovo and other bylaws regulating this field. In this regard were treated, the asylum seekers' rights under the national legislation, the procedure for handling asylum applications and the conditions for the suspension of this procedure, as well as, restriction of the right to asylum.
The dilemmas and questions during the training were addressed through partial theoretical explanation, as well as working groups of participants, based on cases and use of concrete examples from current judicial practice.
Beneficiaries of this training were Judges of the Court of Appeal, Basic Prosecutors, Officials from the Department of Citizenship, Asylum and Migration within the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and an official from the Free Legal Aid Agency.
27-09-2017