Kenyan authorities have been accused of looting a market owned by refugees in Kenya's Dadaab refugee camp in the country's north eastern region after an explosion on Tuesday, Radio Garowe reports. | Abdifatah Ahmed Ismail, a Dhagahley refugee camp representative who spoke to media said that after the explosion, Kenyan officers began firing at civilians who were near the site of the explosion.
This is the second event in HRC's Equality Talks speaker series. We hope you can join us today at 3:30 p.m. EST, here in HRC's DC headquarters or live online. | A full list of speakers and details about the location are available here. HRC is thrilled to help bring together such an impressive line-up of refugee advocates and experts. If you can't make the talk, a live broadcast will be available at www.hrc.org/equalitytalks.
In January 2011, a burning tire was thrown into the Ashdod apartment of five Sudanese refugees . Two of the men were hospitalized. On the same night, three teenagers -- Israeli-born daughters of African migrants -- were beaten up by a group of Jewish...
Palestine, (Pal Telegraph) - Palestinians are marking on Tuesday 64 years since predominantly European colonizers wiped their country off the map, cleansed the land of their villages, and brutally installed the state of Israel. | Nakba Day – meaning "catastrophe" –
About 2,500 Rohingya refugees from Burma who have been appealing for asylum with UNHCR officials in India were dispersed from their occupation site outside U.N. offices this week.
The recent announcement by Federal Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism Jason Kenney of dramatic changes to the Interim Federal Health Program (IFHP) has deeply disturbed health providers across Canada. | The IFHP covers temporary, basic health-care coverage to resettled refugees and those claiming asylum in Canada. Drastic cuts to the IFHP are to be implemented on June 30.
US Ambassador Gina Abercrombie-Winstanley and Home Affairs Minister Carmelo Mifsud Bonnici bid them farewell on the start of this new journey in their life. | The ambassador having arrived in Malta only last week, this was the first time she was present for such a departure. | In comments to The Malta Independent, she said the experience was “exciting” and “gratifying”.
Suhakam officials are expected to visit ISA detainees in Kamunting tomorrow. | According to Suaram, some 50 detainees are still in Kamunting and 14 are Malaysians. | "We know family members of some detainees and they have informed us of the strike. | "The information we have is sketchy. We have received some information from a family member who has visited her husband," said Suaram executive director, E Nalini."
ASYLUM seekers rejected after arriving by boat a decade ago are boarding vessels and coming back to Australia in the latest surge of arrivals. | One man even made his second dangerous sea journey with his 11-year-old son, while two changed their names for their second voyage in a bid to dupe immigration officials.
Posted: 1:00 AM | Comments: 0 (including replies) getCommentCount(151840795) | In the midst of the current brouhaha around the Harper government's effective cancellation of the interim federal health program for refugees, a major paradox is flying under the public's radar. | Canada's pugilistic minister of immigration, Jason Kenney is able to set up his usual man of straw, the "bogus refugee,"
Fighting between the newly formed country of South Sudan and its rival, Sudan, has sent a new wave of refugees into Kenya, where camps are already swamped by refugees from other conflict zones, such as Somalia.
Ranjini faces a life in detention. | THE Gillard government has failed to implement a decision of last year's ALP national conference that offered hope for almost 50 refugees facing indefinite detention because ASIO has deemed them threats to national security.
The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) and the Ministry of Home Affairs and Immigration on Monday launched the organized voluntary repatriation of Angolan refugees from the Osire refugee camp, which is situated 220 km north of Windhoek. | The launch, witnessed by foreign dignitaries, took place at the Osire refugee settlement.
The top United Nations refugee official today voiced his alarm at new inflows of refugees into Rwanda and Uganda, fleeing fighting in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). | More than 8,200 refugees have crossed from DRC into Rwanda since 27 April, according to staff of the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). These are in addition to the 55,000 Congolese refugees that Rwanda is already hosting.
On June 30, Angolan refugees who enjoy asylum in Namibia and the entire Southern African Development (SADC) region will lose their refugee status. | This means that they will no longer enjoy international protection and assistance which they have enjoyed over the years.
The Namibian Government through the Ministry of Home Affairs and Immigration has encouraged all Angolan refugees accommodated in the country to register for voluntary repatriation back to their country of origin. | Deputy Minister of Home Affairs and Immigration Elia Kaiyamo made the appeal when he officially launched the start of the voluntary repatriation process for Angolan refugees at the Osire Refugee Camp on Monday morning.
Mic Network Inc.: To this day, Israel has continued to deny the Palestinian refugees the right to return to their homeland and pay just compensation, a violation of U.N. Resolution 194, of 1948. According to international and human rights laws, all refugees have the right to return to their homes -- a right that has been reaffirmed by international human rights organization such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch.
Take today's report from the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights that the regime “opened fire on a refugee camp in southern Syria […] killing three people including a child”. Who, you may ask, are the occupants of this camp? “Palestinian refugees...
May 16, 2012 JERUSALEM (JTA) -- Most African migrants in Israel are involved in criminal activity and should be imprisoned and deported, Israel's interior minister said. Only a small number of the Africans who have infiltrated into Israel are refugees and should be treated as such, Eli Yishai said Wednesday in a widely reported interview with Army Radio. Yishai suggested giving the migrants a repatriation grant before returning them to their...
Keywords: ost of the African refugees in Israel engage in crime and should be rounded up in prisons or holding facilities and then deported from the country, Interior Minister Eli Yishai (Shas) said in an Army Radio interview on Wednesday morning. "They should be put into holding cells or jails," he said, "and then given a grant and sent back" to their countries of origin.
New Hampshire quietly fell under the realm of Secure Communities last week, the federal program looking for potential immigration violations that checks the fingerprints of anyone who has been arrested.
Living in tattered tents in Delhi, Myanmarese refugees from the Rohingyas community have been demanding refugee status in India, as they seek jobs and education for their children.
Please enter recipient valid email address. | A major bump has surfaced in the well-traveled road from Nairobi, Kenya, to Minnesota for Somali refugees hoping to reunite with family members here. | Recently, the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi began asking for more proof to verify that refugees applying to come here are who they say are.
Asylum seekers branded security threats by the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation have been involved in a spate of suicide attempts inside the nation's detention network.
Embassy -: A potentially legitimate refugee from a so-called safe country delivering a baby or undergoing emergency surgery for a heart attack at a Canadian hospital will have to pay for it out of pocket because of changes to the government's refugee health insurance scheme, set to take effect in July. | The NDP calls it "unconscionable." One doctor said "people could die because of this."
This latest departure brings the total of beneficiaries of international protection who were resettled to the United States from Malta since 2007 to 985 migrants. Since the start of the USRRP in 2008, the number of beneficiaries of protection resettled to the United States amounts to 957. | 174 migrants have been resettled from Malta to the United States of America since the beginning of 2012.
SRI LANKA has offered Immigration Minister Chris Bowen an escape for Tamil refugees branded a threat by security agencies and locked in indefinite detention in Australia - saying they are needed back home. ''Help is required in Sri Lanka now,''...
Immigration Minister Jason Kenney has said the changes will save Ottawa $100 million over five years and crack down on bogus refugee claimants. Dr. Neil Arya, who holds a refugee health clinic once a week at the Centre for Family Medicine and Refugee...
Israeli Minister: Jail All African Migrants Yishai Says Only Refugees Can Stay By Haaretz Published May 16, 2012. | Israel€™s Interior Minister Eli Yishai said on Wednesday that most of the migrants from Africa are engaged in criminal actions and should be placed in detention facilities. Yishai said that Israel is willing to provide financial assistance for migrants to leave.
There were 492 people aboard the boat when it landed near Victoria in August 2010 and so far just six of the migrants have been accepted as refugees . After police announced charges Tuesday, both Immigration Minister Jason Kenny and Public Safety...
Human Rights Watch researchers who traveled to northern Iraq in April interviewed more than three dozen Syrian Kurdish refugees , who described the dire events they had witnessed at home. A 17-year-old at another refugee camp, Moqabli, showed us his...
The Yemeni government has a poor record of protecting Eritreans arriving in Yemen in recent years, Human Rights Watch said. Although the country hosts almost 1,000 registered Eritrean refugees who were recognized as such many years ago, more recently it hasarrested and indefinitely detained Eritreans as soon as they arrive by boat on Yemen's southern shores.
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For the past several weeks, four South Korean activists have been detained by China in the northeastern city of Dalian, according to a statement from South Korea's foreign ministry. It appears the activists were meeting with North Korean refugees in China in order to learn about their experiences. | The Network for North Korean Democracy and Human Rights (NKnet)
According to a human rights group, the four activists had interviewed North Korean refugees living in hiding in the area. Many North Koreans escaped across the border to China before heading for South Korea. One of the detainees is Kim Young-Hwan—a...
Israel seems to pick and choose which aspects of International law it wants to abide. When it comes to Palestinians they seem to ignore every aspect of the law and potray it as biased towards the palestinains. Hypocritical of the Foreign Ministry to start quoting International law. | So how democratic is your country? | We are talking about deporting 700 individuals but there are 3000 coming in through Sinai illegally every month.
The religious leader, who lives in Rome, says that ''hundreds of refugees are being held in slave conditions in Kufra'', where he says ''they are forced to work by armed men, who forced them to handle heavy weapons, clean tanks, without food and water...
After the change in Government in November 2007, there was a marked change in rhetoric and the treatment of especially asylum seekers by the then new Labor Government. In the four and a half years since then, we have seen significant reforms but also some serious setbacks in the treatment of asylum seekers.
Julian Burnside: "The fact that a person has been adversely assessed by ASIO does not mean they are a terrorist." | ASYLUM seekers branded security threats by the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation have been involved in a spate of suicide attempts inside the nation's detention network.
Two people have been charged with helping to smuggle a ship full of Tamil migrants into Canada. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward VANCOUVER – Two people among 492 Tamil refugee claimants who landed on the West Coast of Canada two years ago have now...
Over only a few days, more than 1000 families from 60 Australian cities and towns volunteered to host asylum seekers awaiting a protection visa, under a government scheme to release more refugees from detention. | From next month, the Australian Homestay Network, the Red Cross and the federal government will coordinate to place asylum seekers released from detention on bridging visas in Australian households for a six-week stay.
Michael Ofori Amanfo Boateng: Keywords: bbc : The first group of South Sudanese refugees stranded for months in a camp in Sudan is on its way to the south. About 400 people - out of a total of up to 15000 - are being taken by bus to Khartoum from where they will be flown to the South...
The first group of 35 Angolan refugees out of the 3000 who have registered for voluntary repatriation at the Osire refugee camp in the Otjozondjupa region will be repatriated to their country of origin on Tuesday, New Era has established. | Their repatriation would mark the first of three waves during which 3000 refugees will be repatriated by June 30.
As dusk settles over the isolated Saharan town Kufra, young guards order a few hundred migrants lined up at a detention centre to chant "Libya free, Chadians out", before they kneel down for evening prayers. | Most of the prisoners in the small, squalid compound called the Freedom Detention Centre - run by Kufra's military council - are from Chad.
A ceremony to mark the beginning of the process of voluntary repatriation of Angolan refugees will take place on Monday, May 14, at the Ocire Camp in Namibia. | On May 15th, Tuesday, the first group of 100 Angolan refugees will head to the Namacunde reception centre (Angolan Cunene province), 15 kilometres from the border of Santa Clara, Namibia. | The other refugee reception centre is located in Caila, in the Angolan province of Kuando.
The visiting Commissioner used the opportunity to congratulate Mrs. Suleiman on her appointment and made a presentation on the NCFR whose mandate is to define policies and general principles relating to refugees, asylum seekers, internally displaced persons and migrants.
The immigrants, who come to the European Union, realize that the level of unemployment in Germany is one of the lowest in Europe. Germany gradually becomes a great attraction to immigrants from Europe and other parts of the world...
Islamabad—Islam has guaranteed the Human Rights much earlier than the rest of the world acknowledged its importance after centuries. The last sermon of Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) is the living charter of human rights containing peace, equality and non...
The panel will begin this Thursday, May 17 at 3:30 p.m. here at HRC's D.C. headquarters. | Remarks will be made by the Honorable Anne Richard, Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees, and Migration as well as Eleanor Acer, Director of the Refugee Protection Program at Human Rights First. HRC President Joe Solmonese will also speak.
Displacement caused by conflict and human rights violations is typically resolved through the pursuit of three "durable solutions": local integration, resettlement or voluntary return. It has often been assumed that durable solutions mark the end of mobility for refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs). However, in recent years it has become clear that this assumption needs to be reconsidered. Even after the situations that forced them...
After a fire destroyed Bhutanese camp in Nepal. | KATHMANDU: A human rights organization has reported that Bhutanese refugees in Nepal have been tortured by the country's Central Investigation Bureau in the capital, Kathmandu. | The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC)
The Somali embassy in Tanzania helped the group regain their freedom after it negotiated a deal with the country€™s Ministry of Interior. | Ahmed Abdulsamad Ahmed, one of the freed asylum seekers described their dangerous and harrowing passage through four east African countries. "My journey began in Mogadishu where I left due to grinding poverty, uncertainty and insecurity."
Moreover, Hein continues, ''some sadly renowned detention centres were re-opened''; together with political prisoners suspected of being supporters of the Rais overthrown by the revolution, also '' migrants and refugees without rights'' are kept...
Expected to be the nexus of refugees , facilities throughout London have been putting in overtime as the release of the last movie approaches and as migrants from all over the world travel to the city for the final days of Potter mania.
Almost 1,000 miles from the Mediterranean coast in Libya€™s desolate southeast desert, the Kufra oasis strategically lies near the long and porous borders of Egypt, Sudan and Chad. | "The two main hubs are Kufra and Sabha in Libya," explains Emmanuel Gignac, head of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) in Libya.
Starting on Wednesday May 16 at the University College of Sant'Efisio in Cagliari will be three days of seminars, meetings and debates regarding refugee emergency and asylum requests within the context of the heavy financial crisis which has hit Europe...