UNHCR’s observations to the Swedish government’s law proposal to introduce a list of safe countries of origin.
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, has submitted its observations to the proposal “Uppenbart ogrundade asylansökningar och fastställande av säkra ursprungsländer”, Ds 2020:2.
The proposal concerns the implementation of the Asylum Procedures Directive’s provision regarding safe countries of origin in Sweden’s national legislation. The stated purpose of the Proposal is to make the asylum procedure more efficient by accelerating the procedure for manifestly unfounded claims and thereby avoiding unreasonable costs for society, as well as reducing secondary movements by aligning Swedish rules on safe countries of origin with those of many other EU countries.
UNHCR does not object to the concept of “safe country of origin” per se, but highlights the importance of case-by-case analysis in order to ensure an individual assessment of each case. Despite the designation of a country as safe in general it may not be safe in a particular case because of the applicant’s particular profile.
UNHCR’s observations are available here.
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