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The Court of Appeal found that preventing reliance on pre-settled status for the purpose of claiming certain social assistance benefits, amounted to unlawful discrimination on the grounds of nationality. Read more
The AIRE Centre is partnering with Centrepoint, the UK’s leading youth homelessness charity, to help EU nationals living and working in the UK, and their families, achieve EU residency status. Read more
Representatives of Montenegrin Institutions met in Budva on 15 and 16 December 2022 to discuss the protection of aliens under Convention law. Read more
The Ministry of Justice of Montenegro, the AIRE Centre and the Regional Anti-Corruption Initiative, with the support of the Government of the United Kingdom, organised the Regional Conference "Effective confiscation of property acquired through criminal activity in accordance with European standards", which took place in Podgorica on 14 October 2022. Read more
The AIRE Centre's new guide: "Gender Equality and Discrimination on the Grounds of Sex: A guide on the relevant jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights" has now been published in English, Albanian, BCMS and Macedonian Read more
On 1 and 2 April 2022, the AIRE Centre hosted the first Regional Gender Equality Forum for the Western Balkans. Read more
On 10 February 2022 the coastal town of Budva has hosted a meeting of the Network of Young Judges in Montenegro, an informal group of newly-elected judges brought together to support an exchange of opinion, promote good practice and implement education programmes to enhance the application of law and build up judicial skills. Read more
On 7 February 2022 the AIRE Centre and the Regional Anti-Corruption Initiative (RAI) today held a seminar on standards and practices of confiscation of criminal assets, which brought together judges and prosecutors, as well as advisers and associates in judicial institutions from Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro. Read more
On 25 October 2021, the AIRE Centre organised a Roundtable on “Sentencing Practices of Montenegrin Courts” in Montenegro to present and discuss the "Analysis of Sentencing Practices for the Gravest Crimes" in Montenegro. Read more
On 25 May, the AIRE Centre and the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, in cooperation with the High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council and with the support of the British Embassy in Sarajevo, organised the Fourth Annual Conference of the Judicial Forum for Bosnia and Herzegovina devoted to Publicity and Transparency of the Judicial System – European Standards and Practice in BiH. Read more
The Guide "Covid-19 and the Impact on Human Rights - An overview of relevant jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights" has now been published in Bulgarian, Romanian and Turkish. Read more
The AIRE Centre and the Sarajevo Media Centre, with the support of the UK government, will present their reports entitled “Judicial Transparency during the Pandemic: Public and Media Outreach in Bosnia and Herzegovina” and “Media Coverage of the Cases and the Work of the Judiciary during the Pandemic in Bosnia and Herzegovina”. Read more