Asylum

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There are more than 27000 Chin refugees and asylum-seekers in Malaysia of which two third of them are not registered by UNHCR office and hiding in jungles and staying separately in urban areas in fear of authority detection and arrest. Since Malaysia is not UN signatory on Refugee Convention, all refugees are arrested as illegal [...]

The UNHCR needs greater support …..at least some of the 78 Sri Lankans aboard the Oceanic Viking have been in Indonesia for years and have already been granted refugee status, it seems, on the basis of the limited information available, that the UNHCR system needs more international support for placing refugees…..
‘The Australian’ has argued consistently [...]

http://www.euronews.net/ A group of Australian-bound Sri Lankan asylum seekers stranded in Indonesia staged a protest late Monday (October 26) to force the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to recognise their plight.
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Herer’s a trailer of Nick Broomfield’s short film for Amnesty International on the issue of destitute refused asylum seekers in the UK. Amnesty is campaigning to end the scandal of destitution of refused asylum seekers. Watch the entire documentary and take action at http://www.amnesty.org.uk/asylum
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Herer’s a trailer of Nick Broomfield’s short film for Amnesty International on the issue of destitute refused asylum seekers in the UK. Amnesty is campaigning to end the scandal of destitution of refused asylum seekers. Watch the entire documentary and take action at http://www.amnesty.org.uk/asylum
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A growing number of mainly young men, including refugees from Afghanistan and Pakistan, are gathering in a makeshift camp near the French port of Calais.
Squalid conditions and reports of outbreaks of violence, including a rape, have prompted the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) to establish a permanent presence in Calais.
The U.N. Commission hopes [...]

Panel Discussion Celebrating the Publication of “Asylum Denied”
WHAT:
A panel discussion celebrating the publication of “Asylum Denied: A Refugee’s Struggle for Safety in America”
WHEN:
Thursday, April 3, 2008, 3:30 — 5:30 p.m.
MODERATOR:
David Cole, Professor, Georgetown University Law Center, and Author, “Enemy Aliens: Double Standards and Constitutional Freedoms in the War on Terrorism”
WHO:
Philip G. Schrag, Professor, Georgetown University [...]

An attempt on October 25, 2004 by North Korean refugees to enter a foreign consulate in China and seek asylum. Note women and children climbing over the barbed wire. Watch and listen carefully about 2:50 into the footage. These people have no protected rights, and are risking their lives. What could drive them to go [...]