Luxembourg Profile

Introduction

List of Detention Sites

Map of Detention Sites

Country Links

Reference List

Luxembourg Detention Profile 2010

Quick Facts

Number of dedicated detention centres: 0

Total detention capacity (in special prison unit): 24 (2008)

Max. length of administrative detention: 1 year (asylum seekers); 4  months (irregular migrants)

Number of asylum applications: 510 (2009)

Pending asylum claims: 29 (2009)

Number of deportations: 233 (2008)

Last updated: May 2010

Luxembourg Country Links

 

Government Agencies

 

Ministère des Affaires Etrangères et de l’Immigration

http://www.mae.lu/

 

Ministère de la Justice

http://www.mj.public.lu/

 

Information d’actualités du gouvernement luxembourgeois

http://www.gouvernement.lu/gouvernement/index.html

 

 

International Organisations

 

UN High Commissioner for Refugees – Luxembourg Country Information

http://www.unhcr.org/pages/49e48eb16.html



NGOs & Research Institutions


Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) – Luxembourg Country Information

http://www.detention-in-europe.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=162&Itemid=195

 

Luxembourg Red Cross

http://www.croix-rouge.lu/

 

Caritas Luxembourg

http://www.caritas.lu/

 

Association de Soutien aux Travailleurs Immigrés (ASTI)

http://www.asti.lu/

 

Action des Chrétiens pour l’Abolition de la Torture (ACAT)

http://www.fiacat.org/fr/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=151

 

 

Media

 

L’Essentiel

http://www.lessentiel.lu/

 

Lëtzebuerger Journal

http://www.journal.lu/

 

Luxemburger Wort

http://www.wort.lu/wort/web/

 

Woxx

www.woxx.lu