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April 25, 2018
These are the opening lines of a new game called 'Waiting Game' which "simulates the experience of trying to seek asylum in the United States" designed to give users a perspective of the long, arduous journey which the asylum seekers undertake to reach a safe haven, and still the challenges for them are ...
iPolitics.ca
April 25, 2018
Conservative immigration critic Michelle Rempel introduced a motion Tuesday that's being debated in the House and calls on the government to act on the influx of asylum seekers at the U.S.–Canada border. In addition to asking that the government ensure border service agencies are properly equipped, ...
Full Fact
April 25, 2018
The Home Office figure for all assessed children found to be adults in 2016 (the last year for which we know the total number of children seeking asylum) is similar – 61%. There are some health warnings attached to the quality of these data sources, and their comparability. Firstly, the 61% figure is indicative ...
Haaretz
April 25, 2018
Israel has vowed to reopen its detention facilities for asylum seekers after admitting in court on Tuesday that there is currently no possibility to forcibly deport them. A statement released by the Prime Minister's Office after the dramatic announcement to the High Court of Justice said that "after the third ...
Irish Times
April 25, 2018
Retired High Court judge Bryan McMahon recommended in June 2015 that newly arrived asylum seekers receive a decision on their application within 12 months and that they be given the right to work after nine months. Nearly three years later, asylum seekers are waiting an average of 19 months for an ...
BBC News
April 25, 2018
Called the Darwen Asylum Seekers and Refugee Enterprise (DARE), the group includes people who have been in Britain for a few months and others who have been waiting to hear about their application to stay for years. The most recent group includes Eassa Malik, an asylum seeker originally from ...
Human Rights Watch
April 25, 2018
(Athens) – The Greek government's move on April 20, 2018, overturning a binding court ruling ordering it to end its abusive policy of trapping asylum seekers on Greece's islands raises rule of law concerns, 21 human rights and humanitarian organizations said today. Rather than carrying out the April 17 ...
Globalnews.ca
April 24, 2018
The federal government says Canadians will need to wait at least a few days — and possibly longer — for a fully updated plan to deal with a renewed surge in irregular border-crossings. The number of people crossing between established, legal checkpoints spiked in March and the first two weeks of April, ...
Human Rights First
April 24, 2018
“The Trump Administration and the Department of Homeland Security should focus on the actual threats to this country rather than continuing to falsely paint manageable numbers of asylum seekers as dangers to this country in an attempt to push draconian legislation to block refugees from seeking asylum.
Human Rights Watch
April 24, 2018
When you think of refugees in connection with Bosnia and Herzegovina, you may think of people displaced by fighting in the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s. But today the country is facing a different kind of refugee crisis as it strains to safeguard the rights of a growing number of people from other regions ...
ClickLancashire
April 3, 2018
The agreement between Israel and the United Nations to deport more than 16,000 African asylum seekers to Western countries has drawn mixed reactions. Netanyahu later said at a news conference that Canada, Italy and Germany would be among the countries where migrants would be resettled.
Haaretz
April 3, 2018
Netanyahu Accuses U.S. Human Rights Group of Foiling Asylum Seeker Deal With Rwanda, Says Will Investigate ... Fund, a U.S.-based human rights organization, was behind the Rwandan government's decision to pull out of a previous agreement to deport African asylum seekers from Israel to Rwanda.
Haaretz
April 3, 2018
We began protesting for our rights in late 2013, when myself and many other asylum seekers were sent to the Holot detention facility for more than a year. It seemed as if the justification was to make our lives miserable and break our spirits. We continued fighting from and within the detention facility.
Haaretz
April 3, 2018
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees released an official statement Tuesday afternoon in which it expressed its dismay over Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's decision to cancel the deal with the UN to resettle African asylum seekers from Israel. "It is with disappointment that UNHCR ...
Haaretz
April 3, 2018
Only Netanyahu can, they said. The joy swept opponents of the Israeli government's deportation plan but also those who aren't all that interested in the fate of the 40,000 refugees and asylum seekers. The shock announcement of an honorable and reasonable agreement with the United Nations was like a ...
Immigration Blog (blog)
April 3, 2018
The caravan of Central Americans en route to the United States, hoping to request asylum, has called attention to weaknesses in U.S. border policy as it pertains to asylum seekers. Additionally, questions have been raised concerning Mexico's response (or lack thereof) to Central Americans seeking ...
Telegraph.co.uk
April 3, 2018
Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, announced yesterday he had reached a deal with the UN to resettle thousands of African asylum seekers only to u-turn within hours after a rebellion by his own ministers. The Israeli leader said on Monday afternoon that he had struck an international ...
KTLA
April 3, 2018
Trump Threatens Honduras' Foreign Aid Over 'Caravan' of Asylum Seekers. Posted 5:15 AM, April 3, 2018, by CNN Wire, Updated at 05:19AM, April 3, 2018 ...
Haaretz
April 3, 2018
"We applaud all those who demonstrated and raised their voices to promote a just solution for those seeking asylum in Israel," Rabbi Rick Jacobs, of the Union ... Speaking at a news conference earlier on Monday, Netanyahu said the plan to deport asylum seekers to "a third country" was scrapped when "it ...
Haaretz
April 3, 2018
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Tuesday that Israel is cancelling a deal with the United Nations refugee agency on the resettling of African asylum seekers. The deal was annnounced by Netanyahu himself on Monday afternoon. The deal was set to stop the forced deportation to Africa from ...
Haaretz
April 3, 2018
Explaining that an initial plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda in Africa had fallen apart, he said he then sought to resolve the matter through an agreement with the UN refugee agency. He placed blame for Rwanda's reconsideration of the agreement to accept asylum seekers from Israel on the New ...
Haaretz
April 3, 2018
One thing is certain: More than the government ever cared about solving the social problems in the neighborhoods of south Tel Aviv, which were dilapidated and neglected long before the wave of African asylum seekers began arriving some 12 years ago, it wanted its base to know it was doing something ...
The Guardian
April 2, 2018
Severing access to the high court would have a significant impact on the rights of asylum seekers held in detention on Nauru at the behest of the Australian government, the human rights lawyer George Newhouse said. Of the 16 appeals decided by the high court under the arrangement since 1976, 11 have ...
The Straits Times
March 24, 2018
LONDON (AFP) - An 18-year-old Iraqi asylum seeker on Friday (March 23) received a life sentence with a minimum 34-year jail term over the botched bombing of a rush-hour London Underground train that injured 30 people. Judge Charles Haddon-Cave said Ahmed Hassan had constructed a homemade ...
Evening Echo Cork
March 24, 2018
The Government says this signals "the successful conclusion" of Irish participation in the EU relocation programme in Greece. Some 1,022 asylum seekers have now been relocated to Ireland, in addition to 792 refugees. Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan and the Minister of State with Responsibility for ...
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) International
March 24, 2018
For the first time since the EU-Turkey refugee deal of March 2016, this winter more people have been allowed to leave the Greek Aegean islands for the European mainland than were reaching them from Turkey: 8 380 arrivals and 9 768 departures were registered between November 2017 and end of ...
The Times
March 24, 2018
Nadia Nadim does an amusing impersonation of Jack Nicholson telling Tom Cruise's character in A Few Good Men that he “can't handle the truth” — but, more pertinently, can we handle the truth of her story, one that encompasses murder, oppression, escape, bravery, an intimidating intellect and an eye ...
Quartz
March 24, 2018
Last year, 650,000 migrants (pdf) applied for asylum in the European Union. This figure was just over half the number recorded in 2016, when 1,206,500 migrants applied for asylum in the bloc. The majority of these applications came from Syria, followed by Iraq and Afghanistan. Asylum seekers from these ...
The Texas Observer
March 23, 2018
It took more than four months, a bombardment of letters and calls and protests, an FBI investigation, a federal lawsuit and the intervention of at least 46 members of Congress — but Laura Monterrosa, a 23-year-old Salvadoran asylum-seeker who alleged sexual abuse at an immigrant detention center ...
InfoMigrants
March 23, 2018
Asylum-seekers arriving in Germany are to be sent to centers where they will stay until their application is decided, under a plan by the new coalition government. The move is intended to make the process more efficient, but critics are worried that vulnerable and traumatized people may be put at increased ...
The Independent
March 23, 2018
Campaigners described the practice of bedroom sharing as “degrading” and a “cause of real harm”, while the council acknowledged that it could have a “serious effect” on the mental health of asylum seekers. One asylum seeker, 28-year-old Jerome, said sharing a bedroom had left him with “no privacy”, ...
thejournal.ie
March 22, 2018
Prior to last month, the ban on employment reduced asylum seekers to subsisting on a payment of €21.60 per week. Earlier this month, TheJournal.ie reported that those seeking asylum may not have a legal basis for seeking either a driving licence or a learner permit. In many cases, particularly in rural ...
NL Times
March 21, 2018
The Netherlands does not have to grant residents of Afghanistan asylum, because the country is safe enough to return to, the Council of State ruled on Wednesday. The highest administrative judge in the Netherland agreed with a previous ruling by the court in The Hague, RTL Nieuws reports. This lawsuit ...
Eternity News
March 21, 2018
Unfortunately, Richard is one of about 12,000 people seeking asylum in Australia who are at risk of losing financial support as a result of government changes to ... Council of Australia, the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre and others to campaign for the restoration of key support services for asylum seekers.
The Local Sweden
March 20, 2018
Unicef also criticised the age-assessment process of asylum seekers as inadequate, as well as pointing out that children rarely speak during the asylum process in Sweden, despite the children sometimes themselves having grounds to claim asylum, such as due to the risk of child marriage. "The report ...
The Japan Times
March 20, 2018
The Tokyo District Court on Tuesday rejected a lawsuit filed by two Syrian asylum-seekers — echoing the Immigration Bureau's decision not to grant them refugee status — in the first such court challenge in Japan since civil war broke out in the Middle Eastern nation in 2011. Joude Youssef, one of the ...
Cyprus Mail
March 20, 2018
Cyprus saw a 57 per cent increase in the number of asylum seekers in 2017 compared to 2016, Eurostat figures showed on Tuesday. The European Statistical Service said in 2017 there were a total of 4,475 asylum seekers while in 2016 there were a total of 2,840. Out of the arrivals the past year, 1,770 ...
Human Rights First (blog)
March 20, 2018
A year into the Trump Administration's fearmongering campaign and harsh crackdown on asylum seekers, Part one of our two-part video series sheds light on the humanity many have lost sight of—the untold stories of the mothers, fathers, and children who have risked their lives in search of the most basic ...
Human Rights Watch
March 19, 2018
I've used these words often over the past two years to describe the situation for thousands of asylum-seeking women, men, and children trapped on Greece's islands. They are pawns in a deal struck between the European Union and Turkey that empowers Greece to try to force most asylum seekers back to ...
Winnipeg Free Press
March 18, 2018
Two asylum seekers who were injured while crossing the border from the U.S. into Manitoba in frigid temperatures are calling on Canada to scrap the Safe Third Country Agreement. Razak Iyal and Seidu Mohammed lost their fingers to frostbite after walking over the border in December 2016 to make a ...
Austin American-Statesman
March 18, 2018
Austin City Council Member Greg Casar, left, with Bob Libal, executive director of Grassroots Leadership, and Bethany Carson, right, immigration researcher and organizer for Grassroots Leadership, walks away after being denied access to the T. Don Hutto Residential Detention Center on Tuesday, ...
South China Morning Post
March 17, 2018
Roy Njuabe, 40, a pastor at a Hong Kong church and a father of two, would not have survived had he not fled to the city as an asylum seeker in 2005. He now works with people facing a similar predicament at Vine Community Services Limited (VCSL), a non-profit organisation established in 2012, which ...
Haaretz
March 17, 2018
I was imprisoned for an unlimited period, for no reason except for that I was seeking asylum.” Instead of letting the routine ... For a year Alon and Mograbi came once a week to an abandoned hangar near Holot and worked with the asylum seekers on “Legislative Theater at Holot.” From the play 'Legislative ...
Slate Magazine
March 16, 2018
While prior Supreme Court cases extend Fifth Amendment protections to “all persons within the United States,” the government uses a type of “entry fiction” to deny these due process rights to asylum seekers. In this context, this fiction posits that an asylum seeker, because of his apprehension at the U.S. ...
Haaretz
March 15, 2018
The gates of the Holot detention facility in the Negev closed behind the last of its detainees Wednesday, shutting down the compound after it had housed Eritrean and Sudanese asylum seekers for four years. The closure of the facility is part of the government's expulsion campaign. The Population ...
The Sun
March 8, 2018
AN ASYLUM seeker who fled domestic violence and death threats from her own brother in Algeria has told how she has never been happy in England. Radhia Mohammed El Hadj said: “The quality of life here, it's killing me”. Asylum seeker Radhia Mohammed El Hadj shares a room with four-year-old ...
Haaretz
March 8, 2018
PORTRAITS OF REFUGEES: Tel Aviv's Beit Kandinof gallery next Wednesday will host a refugee benefit exhibition, where visitors will meet the asylum seekers behind the portraits on display and hear their stories. The fundraiser is the brainchild of photographer Jonathan Small and Beit Kandinof founder ...
Haaretz
March 8, 2018
And yet, when we face a similar reality of asylum seekers in Israel who are begging for their lives and, who, based on most accounts, can expect torture, theft, rape and even death in the countries where they are due to be sent, Yad Vashem issued a statement declaring that it is inappropriate and dangerous ...
Irish Times
March 8, 2018
Sir, – The Restaurant Association of Ireland is complaining that the Department of Justice's heavy-handed stance on restricting immigration into Ireland is preventing Irish restaurants from dealing with a shortfall of up to 8,000 chefs (“Restaurant association boss says Ross is 'letting the industry down'”, ...
The Australian
March 8, 2018
Unemployed asylum-seekers on bridging visas, including those studying English, will have their income support cut, at the same time as the Turnbull ... the decision retrospective, catching at least one asylum-seeker who sent more than $1000 back home to help his sister who was evicted from her home.
