VE 100 / December 2004

For early activists, 1985 began with the European Conference on the Right of Asylum held in Lausanne from February 15th to 17th, and the Churches published a memorandum in the spring of the same year critical of official policy. However, the mobilization for the right of asylum would primarily stem from a major change for asylum seekers. Following the entry into force in July 1984 of the provisions of the first revision of the Asylum Law, which considerably limited avenues of appeal, many expulsion decisions became enforceable during 1985, acutely raising the question of a «global solution» for the longest-standing cases.