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Westlund, Martin and Olena Chernenko, ‘Why the Temporary Protection Directive was Activated: Solidarity, Geopolitics, and Humanitarian Considerations’, Europarättslig Tidskrift 2 (2026), pp. 185–200.
The activation of the Temporary Protection Directive (TPD) in 2022 was a historic first, granting immediate protection to millions of Ukrainians fleeing Russia’s invasion. The decision stands in contrast to the EU’s response during the 2015 migration crisis, when the same mechanism remained unused. This article examines the reasons behind the Directive’s activation and assesses…
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Nääv, Maria and Elica Ghavidel Olofsson, ‘From Open Hearts to Closed: Legitimizing Weaker Asylum Rights through Human Rights Justification’, Juridisk Tidskrift (2025–26), pp. 178–199.
This article examines how the Swedish Government in 2021 justified weakening the right to asylum through the language of human rights. Focusing on legislative changes that replaced permanent residence permits with temporary ones, the article explores the contradiction between claiming to protect the right to asylum while simultaneously restricting it. Using a discourse-historical approach, the…
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HRJust Film Presented for The National Board of Health and Welfare in Sweden
On the 18th of May, HRJust presented our film to representatives from The National Board of Health and Welfare (Socialstyrelsen), including investigators, legal experts, and policy specialists working with guidance materials on how authorities apply new legislation affecting children and young people. The conversation centered on a difficult but necessary question: what happens when laws…
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International Adoption and Migration: Complex Intersectionality in the Name of Love and Crime
There is a gap or perhaps more of a blind spot in legal theory regarding how to explain the relationship between socially constructed identities and non-socially constructed biological vulnerabilities in the meeting with the law. This has always been the methodological challenge of child rights. The Complex Intersectionality of the child as both a social…
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HRJust’s Pathway Towards Impact
The following report shows how a legislative proposal can be examined, challenged, and brought into broader public and legal debate. From identifying problematic human rights justifications, to collaborating with civil society, producing scientific research, and engaging both decision-makers and academia, this is what impact can look like in practice.
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EU Migration Governance: Competences, Human Rights Justifications and the Internal-External Divide
Three main conclusions are drawn from this overview. First, the EU has broad and flexible powers in migration, which gives political actors significant room to act, especially in times of crisis, with only limited control from the courts. Second, human rights justifications play a limited role in EU migration measures. Human rights are often mentioned as general…
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Judicial Review in Sweden in the Context of Migration Law: Control Mechanisms and Human Rights Challenges
Judicial review can play a crucial role in safeguarding the rule of law, democratic procedures and human rights protections. In Sweden, the question of judicial review is particularly important in the field of migration law, a domain shaped by rapid legislative reforms, increasing political pressure and power, and heightened human rights concerns. Swedish judicial review…
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Internal and External Competences of the EU in Migration Law
The EU holds a range of competences in the area of migration. Over the past decades, the EU has developed a comprehensive constitutional framework that governs both internal migration across Member States of third-country nationals and external cooperation with third countries. While internal competences cover entry, residence, and asylum, external competences refer to its actions…
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Production of theme-specific reports including recommendations on how to better protect the fundamental rights of migrants
This report analyses how states use human rights justifications to restrict or reshape migrants’ rights while formally invoking human rights, across UN, EU and national levels. It recommends strengthening civil society, access to justice and strategic litigation to contest such justifications and better protect migrants’ fundamental rights.
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HRJust Film Screening at Save the Children Event Highlights Importance of Youth Participation
Last week, at Barnrättsdagen 2026, organised by Rädda Barnen / Save the Children Sweden, youth featured in our film “Migrant Children: The Innocent Victims of Sweden’s War on Gangs” shared their reflections on recent and proposed policies affecting their lives. They spoke about laws targeting children and young people including proposals around criminalising “disrespectful” behaviour…