25 May 2004 [asylumpolicy.info] - 'Warehousing Refugees'
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Report: Asylum and migration: a review of Home Office statistics has been published
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Press release:
Asylum numbers 'mostly reliable'
25/5
Ministers cleared of asylum fiddle
25/5
Report Backs Government Figures on Asylum and Immigration
25/5
North West: 8000 granted assisted asylum
25/5
Illegal immigrants caught in Rosyth
"applied for asylum and they are being held at Dungavel while their applications are being processed
25/5
Minister Denies Asylum Abuse Claims
24/5
Jail after girl-smuggling attempt
24/5
Asylum Support crisis response website...helping to secure housing and support for eu accession nationals
24 May 04 update: NASS updates Asylum Support Appeals bulletin No: 23. Community Care Magazine reports that more than 150 people have been refused support. Article does not give any reference to the Section 55 Limbuela judgement of 21 May 2004 or the Indefinite Leave to Remain (ILR) amnesty. Article seems to be based on 17 May 2004 Hansard report, in which Des Browne confirmed that people could continue to be supported if failing to do so contravened Convention or Community treaty rights. Rights that NASS never addressed in its original blanket-policy to cancel accommodation and welfare benefit support on 1 May 2004.
Blunkett loses asylum appeal case (updated story from 21/5)
24/5
NASS bulletin 23: Asylum support appeals process (Revised v5)
"This Policy Bulletin was first issued under the title "Appeals Process".It incorporates the content of Policy Bulletin 9, "Asylum Support Adjudicators", which has now been withdrawn
Train brakes to avoid man on line
"The man - who is believed to be from Iraq
25/5
:: World ::
Crisis in Western Sudan
Sudan 'on verge of mass starvation'
Destitute Sudanese risk lives to speak out on abuse
UN troops buy sex from teenage refugees in Congo camp
US: Doctoral student from Ethiopia fights deportation
Netherlands: Ill treatment in a deportation prison - testimony of a former inmate
Mugabe in rare TV interview
Zimbabwean president denies his country needs food and rejects charges of human rights abuses
Israel 'pauses' Rafah operation
Turkmenistan: Unregistered religious activity still illegal
Justice Eludes Republika Srpska
Freedom House Warns of Threats to Hong Kong Media Rights
Former Soviet Countries Lagging Behind in Democracy
War returns with a vengeance as allies fail the Afghan people
Malaysia: Detainees Abused Under Security Law
New: Country Guides to Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
Iraq: No ‘Sovereignty Lite’
Bush outlines Iraq plans, will demolish Abu Ghraib
Comprehensive coverage from ISN Security Watch of the EU's enlargement to 25 members on 1 May 2004.
:: Miscellaneous ::
Immigrants the rich love
"Hysteria over legal migrants allows lucrative exploitation of illegal workers to go on unchecked
Illegal immigrants arrested at care home
Unlimited fines proposed for firms hiring illegal staff
25/5
Blunkett appoints development partner for ID card project
UNHCR: Evaluation and Policy Analysis
Two new research papers: Self-image and the well-being of refugees in Rhino Camp, Uganda and Remittances as unforeseen burdens.
:: Events ::
Bosnian artist provides red alert this Refugee Week
Bosnian refugee artist Pero Mandic speaks out for millions this Refugee Week (14-20 June 2004) with 'Crimson Harvest', an exhibition of his paintings of peace and war in the former Yugoslavia.
25th May: Africa Day
Africa Day is celebrated May 25th to recognize the establishment of the Organization of African Unity (OAU), precursor to the African Union, on that day in 1963
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:: 2004 World Refugee Survey ::
World Refugee Survey 2004 – Warehousing Issue
"Warehousing is the practice of keeping refugees in protracted situations of restricted mobility, enforced idleness, and dependency – their lives on indefinite hold – in violation of their basic rights under the 1951 UN Refugee Convention. Encamped or not, refugees are warehoused when they are deprived of the freedom necessary to pursue normal lives," writes Survey Editor Merrill Smith in the major article, "Warehousing Refugees: A Denial of Rights, a Waste of Humanity
Contents
A Tribute to our Friend and Colleague Arthur Helton by Prof. Gil Loescher
Lives Unlived by Lavinia Limon
In Memoriam... Fallen Refugee Workers
A Global Campaign to End Refugee Warehousing by Gregory Chen
Africa
East Asia and the Pacific
South and Central Asia
Middle East
Europe
Americas
regional summaries as one PDF document with graphics
Warehousing Refugees: A Denial of Rights, a Waste of Humanity by Merrill Smith
Just Enough for the City: Urban Refugees Make their Own Way by Karen Jacobson
With Palestine, against the Palestinians: Warehousing Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon by Lisa Raffonelli
Myanmarese Refugees in Thailand: No Freedom, No Choices by Veronika Martin
Steps Forward, More to Go: Afghans in Pakistan by Michelle Berg
Unending Limbo: Warehousing Bhutanese Refugees in Nepal by Hiram A. Ruiz and Michelle Berg
Banished on the Bases: Refugees and Asylum Seekers Denied Rights in Europe by Michelle Berg
http://www.refugees.org/wrs04/index.html
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