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March 11th, 2019

Help bring LGBTQ refugees to safety in the West

type:	Crowd Funding, Donation, NGO, Volunteering
by:	Yair Oded

The Rainbow Railroad save LGBTQ lives by helping them escape persecution in their home countries and find asylum in North America and Europe.

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January 30th, 2019

Asylum seekers citing domestic abuse remain in limbo in U.S.

by:	Yair Oded

U.S. gov't policy denying asylum requests based on domestic violence leaves thousands of vulnerable Central American women in fear of deportation.

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November 28th, 2018

U.S. Gov’t denies legal entry to asylum seekers

by:	Yair Oded

Members of the migrant caravan sprayed with tear gas while trying to cross into U.S. and file for asylum.

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December 07th, 2017

As winter comes refugees remain trapped on Greek islands

by:	Maria João Morais

More than two years after the outbreak of the refugee crisis, the latest Greek emergency highlights, once again, the failure of the EU migration policy.

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November 09th, 2016

Asylum seekers facing lifetime ban from Australia

by:	Vanessa Ellingham

The Australian government is planning to ban asylum seekers who reach Australia by boat from ever being allowed into the country.Australia already [...]

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Two refugees set themselves alight in protest at Australia's detention policy

by:	Vanessa Ellingham

Last week 23-year-old Iranian Omid Masoumali set himself on fire in protest at his ongoing detention on Nauru, one of two offshore detention centres [...]

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April 27th, 2016

Papua New Guinea asks Australia to make alternative arrangement for asylum seekers

by:	Vanessa Ellingham

Today there was an unexpected breakthrough in the generally shameful story of Australia passing its responsibility to asylum seekers on to its [...]

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March 09th, 2016

EU-Turkey deal will only divert refugees towards more dangerous routes

by:	Vanessa Ellingham

The EU-Turkey deal that will see refugees returned to Turkey if they land n Greece will not deter refugees from continuing to flee to Europe.Hundreds [...]

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January 13th, 2016

Denmark will strip refugees of their valuables

by:	Vanessa Ellingham

Denmark will force refugees to give up their valuables as a kind of payment for their accommodation as they apply for asylum.The new law, expected to pass [...]

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October 01st, 2015

by:	Jekaterina Saveljeva

In 2001 the Irish government launched the Direct Provision system. It was designed as a temporary measure to provide for the welfare of asylum seekers and their families while they awaited decision on their [...]

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September 22nd, 2015

Could Australia’s "Stop The Boats" policy work in Europe?

by:	Vanessa Ellingham

As EU leaders discuss possible military action to halt the smuggling of asylum seekers across the Mediterranean, the Australian Prime Minister [...]

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September 09th, 2015

A change isn't gonna come, it's here now

by:	Vanessa Ellingham

I have cried at least as many happy tears as sad ones watching the news over the last week.There have been scenes of utter devastation, one [...]

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September 02nd, 2015

Farcical visa checks in Australia overrun by protesters

by:	Vanessa Ellingham

Last week the Australian Border Force announced it would launched a massive operation to perform random visa checks on immigrants throughout the city [...]

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August 19th, 2015

Open borders the only way forward

by:	Vanessa Ellingham

"Open borders are the simplest and most effective way to help asylum seekers." This is what migration researcher François Gemenne told German magazine Stern [...]

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August 12th, 2015

Migrants locked in Greek stadium overnight

by:	Vanessa Ellingham

More than a thousand refugees are currently locked inside a stadium on the Greek island of Kos as authorities there struggle to process the vast [...]

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August 07th, 2015

Walls are never a solution

by:	Ama Lorenz

"We are witnessing a genocide caused by European selfishness," said Palermo mayor Leoluca Orlando as the Irish navy ship LE Niamh docked in the port [...]

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July 23rd, 2015

Everyday heroes of Mediterranean migration crisis

in:	Humans
by:	Vanessa Ellingham

In April the world’s press celebrated an unusual but undoubtedly heroic act. One image galvanised public discussion on the EU’s response to the [...]

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June 18th, 2015

Refugee roommates welcomed by German locals

in:	Humans, Economy
by:	Vanessa Ellingham

More than 200,000 people sought asylum in Germany in 2014 – a record number that is likely to be challenged again this year.Many asylum seekers [...]

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June 17th, 2015

Australia's Stop the Boats: by hook or by crook

by:	Vanessa Ellingham

Evidence from Indonesian police points to the Australian government paying a crew of people smugglers to turn around their boat carrying 60 asylum [...]

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June 10th, 2015

New Zealand: Isolation shouldn't stop us from caring

by:	Vanessa Ellingham

As an editor at Fairplanet I write frequently about the international migration crisis. 52 million people are displaced in our world right now, the [...]

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What good is asylum if you can't even get there?

by:	fairplanet

Finally a state has offered asylum to the migrants currently floating aimlessly off the coast of Myanmar, but with little fuel and food and a long [...]

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Asia's own deadly migrant journey

by:	Vanessa Ellingham

While heads in Europe are firmly turned to face the ongoing tragedy of migrant deaths in the Mediterranean, another equally dangerous migration path [...]

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Is 'bomb the boats' really the next best solution?

by:	Vanessa Ellingham

After last month's string of tragedies in the Mediterranean saw the migrant death toll rise to 1600 for this year alone, public outcry forced EU [...]

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April 22nd, 2015

Smuggler knows best: how to solve the Mediterranean migration crisis

by:	Vanessa Ellingham

With the news that an estimated 700 migrants drowned in the Mediterranean from one capsized boat over Saturday night and Sunday morning, the total [...]

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November 10th, 2014

Why climate refugees are the hot potato of immigration policy

in:	Humans, Nature
by:	Vanessa Ellingham

In August this year, a Tuvaluan family claiming asylum on the grounds of climate change had their application accepted by a New Zealand court.Sigeo [...]

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November 03rd, 2014

Drown a migrant to save a migrant?

by:	Vanessa Ellingham

Starting this week the Italian search and rescue mission for migrants crossing the Mediterranean is set to come to an end, resulting in outrage in [...]

Returned migrants board a bus to Tegucigalpa in front the Center for Returned Migrants, San Pedro Sula airport, Honduras, September 2014. © 2014 Stephen Ferry for Human Rights Watch

October 17th, 2014

Migrants crossing US border denied the opportunity to claim asylum

by:	Vanessa Ellingham

Central Americans seeking asylum in the USA are being denied the opportunity to make genuine claims for asylum, according to a new report released by [...]

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September 17th, 2014

700 presumed dead in the Med - urgent EU action required

by:	Vanessa Ellingham

Three boats carrying migrants across the Mediterranean have been shipwrecked in recent days, with 700 people presumed dead. The few survivors of the [...]

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July 25th, 2014

Asylum seekers' month-long wait at sea is over, but what now?

by:	Vanessa Ellingham

The Australian government has taken a u-turn on its harsh immigration policies by accepting a boat of Tamil asylum seekers on to its shores - the [...]

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July 11th, 2014

Refugees occupy Berlin's TV Tower

by:	Vanessa Ellingham

"Please translate for us," a refugee calls out to police as a group of protesters are split up, "since we are not allowed to learn German." It's the [...]

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July 09th, 2014

Australia 'sends the persecuted back to the persecutors'

by:	Vanessa Ellingham

By returning 41 Tamil asylum seekers to Sri Lankan military in the weekend, Australia has violated international law and is in breach of the [...]

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June 30th, 2014

Thirty asphyxiate on overcrowded boat bound for Italy

by:	Vanessa Ellingham

About 30 bodies have been found on a migrant boat bound for Italy, among around another 560 refugees crowded onboard travelling between North Africa and [...]

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April 30th, 2014

Australia outsources asylum seeker processing to Cambodia

by:	Vanessa Ellingham

Asylum seekers attempting to reach Australia by boat could be detained in Cambodia, after a deal was struck yesterday between the two [...]

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January 05th, 2014

Bulgaria shamed over asylum seekers

in:	Humans
type:	Allgemein
org:	Amnesty International

“The position taken by the UNHCR highlights the shameful treatment of asylum seekers in Bulgaria,” said Barbora Cernusakova, Amnesty International’s Bulgaria researcher.“Asylum seekers [...]

An Armed Forces of Malta ship carrying rescued migrants arrives at the AFM Maritime Squadron base at Haywharf in Valletta

November 15th, 2013

At least 12 migrants killed in boat sinking off Greek coast

in:	Humans
type:	Allgemein
by:	Redaktion

The migrants were travelling in an inflatable boat which sank near Lefkada, a western Greek island in the Ionian Sea. It is presumed they were headed [...]

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