Tamils Welcomed in VancouverHundreds support Tamil refugees on the MV Sun Sea by Murray BushIsaac OommenThe Dominion - http://www.dominionpaper.ca VANCOUVER—Two hundred people assembled at the Vancouver Art...
August 27, 2010Tamils Welcomed in Vancouver Hundreds support Tamil refugees on the MV Sun Sea by Murray BushIsaac OommenThe Dominion - http://www.dominionpaper.ca VANCOUVER—Two hundred people assembled at the Vancouver Art Gallery on the afternoon of August 22 to show ...
Iraqi asylum seeker Ali Hili claims British government delays in granting asylum is "killing gay Iraqis". Hili is the leader of Iraqi LGBT who first brought the world's attention to the plight of LGBT gays in Iraq....
The UK unlike the US is signed up to UNICEF's UN Rights of Child (except for two articles) but it is still locking up child asylum seekers a practice that Sir Al Aynsley-Green, the Children's Commissioner says...
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The Cambodian government is considering the granting of asylum to refugees from East Turkistan. Twenty-two people, including two small children have fled China via Vietnam to Cambodia. These ethic Uyghurs...
A U.S. lesbian war deserter wins a key victory in asylum bid. Private Bethany Smith, who now goes by the name Skylar James, took her case to Federal Court in September after being denied asylum by the Immigration...
Renowed Iranian film maker Narges Kalhor , daughter of a close associate of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has requested asylum in Germany.
Kalhor's father Mehdi Kalhor is an advisor of...
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"Quetta Front & the Baluchi Factor As fighting in Afghanistan, particularly the south, intensifies U.S. policy-makers are beginning to shift their gaze to Afghanistan’s southern border with Pakistan and...
The answering machine says, “Thank you for calling Brian, Janina, and Tony Wasilewski.” But for nearly two years, Tony has lived alone in his house in the northwest suburbs of Chicago, separated by more than 4,000 miles from his wife and son. On June 8, 2007,...
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Nederland will be helping its neighbor with better weather, Greece with asylum seekers. A sort of floating processing center seems to be what they are talking about. How is it decided where in EU asylumseekers will end up? "Following a meeting in Athens with Greek...
"That made him part of an unprecedented new trend: Mexican police officers claiming safe haven across the border in America, because they claim their own colleagues cannot protect them - or might even be trying to kill them."Britain's Telegraph reports on the newest trend...
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An explosion on board an asylum boat on its way to Christmas Island off the coast of Australia, has killed three people, and dozens more are injured. The injured are being taken to hospitals in Darwin and Broome. There were 49 people on board, most of whom were believed to be...
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BY ELISA MIGNOT, SCIENCES PO, SPECIAL TO THE MEDILL NEWS SERVICE "We were living in a truck when the Americans attacked," said the man in a low and shaky voice. "We hid behind the driver's seat." He was perched on a chair in the refugee service of Amnesty...
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BY MITCHELL WU[This story appeared originally on Immigation Here & There, a project of the Medill School of Journalism] Neither of us can speak Arabic, but Ashraf knows enough English to get through to us. "I...
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BY ELISA MIGNOT [This story appeared originally on Immigration Here & There, a project of Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, done in conjunction with the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po)] "We were living in a truck when the...
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