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For family visits in the event of illness, death or childbirth You have compelling reasons to visit your family. This really concerns travel in exceptional cases such as: - You are visiting a seriously ill (effective 15 May) or terminally ill family member or attending a funeral. You are a first or second degree family member. Fill in the sickness visit statement. - You come to the Netherlands for the delivery of your legal partner. If you are not officially married, you have recognized the unborn child as a partner. You must also prove that your partner is pregnant for more than 34 weeks. - Grandparents can travel to the Netherlands to visit their newborn grandchild. Fill in the birth certificate (effective 15 May). - You are a divorced parent from a third country who want to visit your child. Complete the statement of divorced parent (effective from 15 May).  More info: https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/onderwerpen/coronavirus-covid-19/reizen-en-vakantie...

Dr Lourdes Peroni *, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Ghent University Human Rights Centre (ECHR aspects) and Professor Steve Peers (EU law aspects) In what is possibly one of the most important judgments of 2016,  Paposhvili v. Belgium , the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has memorably reshaped its case law on when Article 3 ECHR (which bans torture or other inhuman or degrading treatment) applies to the expulsion of seriously ill migrants. In a unanimous judgment, the Court leaves behind the restrictive application of the high Article 3 threshold set in  N. v. the United Kingdom  and pushes for a more rigorous assessment of the risk of ill-treatment in these cases. For us at the  Human Rights Centre  of Ghent University, it was a thrill to intervene as a third party in such an important case. In  our third party intervention  we submitted that  Paposhvili  offered a unique opportunity to depart from th...