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11 Jun 2025

Le présent rapport est une mise à jour du COI Focus daté du 20 juillet 2021. Il s’intéresse à l’attitude des autorités marocaines vis-à-vis de leurs ressortissants de retour ayant quitté illégalement le pays et/ou ayant introduit une demande de protection internationale en Belgique et/ou y ayant séjourné. Il couvre la période allant de février 2023 à mars 2025.

Le retour dans le pays d’origine est envisagé lorsque l’étranger ne réunit plus les conditions requises pour son séjour en Belgique. Ce retour peut être volontaire ou forcé.

11 Jun 2025

Le présent rapport donne un aperçu de la situation en matière de corruption et de circulation de faux documents au Togo. Il s’agit d’une mise à jour du COI Focus daté du 13 juillet 2021.

La recherche documentaire pour cette mise à jour a été clôturée le 14 avril 2025.

11 Jun 2025

Ce rapport dresse un état des lieux de la situation sécuritaire dans les régions anglophones du Cameroun. Il porte en particulier sur la période allant de janvier 2023 à mars 2024 et met à jour le COI Focus du 20 février 2023. La recherche pour cette mise à jour a été clôturée le 28 mars 2024.

All reports (502)

Syria

13 February 2020

The purpose of this report is to provide relevant information regarding the socio-economic situation in Damascus City for use in the context of international protection status determination, including refugee status and subsidiary protection, especially in view of the EASO country guidance development on Syria.

This report was finalised on 30 January 2020. Any event taking place after this date is not included in this report.

07 February 2020

The purpose of this report is to analyse the situation of women in Syria, focusing mainly on the general situation of women in the country while also paying special attention to area-specific features in those parts of Syria under the control of non-state armed groups, information relevant for international protection status determination, including refugee status and subsidiary protection, and in particular to inform the EASO country guidance development on Syria.

The first draft of this report was finalised on 18 November 2019. Some additional information was added during the finalisation of this report in response to feedback received during the quality control process, until 10 January 2020. Any event taking place after this date is not included in this report.

27 January 2020

This report concerns the Syrian territories, which have been outside the control of the Government of Syria (GoS) and returned to GoS control through so-called reconciliation agreements. It explores how these agreements were reached, their consequences for the population of the respective areas, as well as how GoS exerts its control in the aftermath. Not all areas/cities are included, but rather a selection that serves to illustrate the different developments.

The report covers the period from 2014 until October 2019. The drafting of this report was finalised on 1 October 2019. Some additional information was added during the finalisation of this report in response to feedback received during the quality control process until 28 October 2019.

23 December 2019

The purpose of this report is to provide relevant information regarding the main actors in Syria for the assessment of international protection status determination, including refugee status and subsidiary protection, and in particular to inform the EASO country guidance development on Syria.

The information gathered is a result of research using public, specialised paper-based and electronic sources until 31 October 2019. Some additional information was added during the finalisation of this report in response to feedback received during the quality control process, until 29 November 2019. The report is based on information from UN reports, reports from human rights organisations, academic publications and news articles, that in different ways describe the actors in Syria.

11 November 2019

This report analyses the security situation in Syria, focusing in particular on the situation for the civilian population. The reference period is 2018 and the first half of 2019. Some additional information was added during the finalisation of this report in response to feedback received during the quality control process until 18 September 2019.

After finalisation of the content of the report by Landinfo, during the editing phase, significant developments to the security situation occurred, which did not follow recent trends in the conflict. Because of the significant nature of these developments, having an impact on the content of this report, EASO agreed with Landinfo to include a separate chapter (Chapter 6, New developments), with a short overview of information up until 23 October 2019. Because of the early stage and volatile nature of such developments in the conflict, information on this will have to be updated on short notice. EASO plans such update by spring 2020.

13 March 2018

The purpose of the meeting was to facilitate discussions among participants on key issues in Syria relevant to COI researchers, to update each other on recent information needs and new national products, and to discuss future joint activities.

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