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UK - World - Miscellaneous - Archive - UN Briefings - Australia: School kits on refugees branded propaganda and War of words over asylum seekers

:: UK ::

"We won’t deny health care to asylum seekers"

Leaflet -asylum campaign:

Statement by NHS Workers against the government’s immigration policies

Petition by Health Workers against the Government’s attitudes and policy towards asylum seekers and refugees

GPs call for better treatment of asylum seekers

"Doctors have launched a campaign demanding "the best the NHS can offer" for asylum seekers and refugees and branding checks on patients' asylum status "unethical and inefficient".

7/6

Winning start for footy-mad migrants

7/6

Revealed: 10% of children in care homes are asylum seekers

"More than one in 10 children in care homes in Glasgow are refugees, city council officials will reveal this week.

6/6

We’re the moderate party, say snubbed UKIP

6/6

Political courage is needed to tackle our asylum myths

"Migration has been one of the driving forces of global economic growth - so why do we see it with such dark irrationality?

5/6

Asylum-seeker numbers fall again in UK and 28 other Industrialised Countries: first quarter of 2004

4/6

Britain Slips to Second in Asylum Seekers League Table

4/6

Support grows for mum in battle to stay in the city

5/6

Rwandan's story moves students

4/6

A refugees's cry: Please don't let the UN forget us

5/6

Bullies in war on migrants convicted

"Two thugs who used petrol bombs while waging a campaign of hatred and intimidation against asylum seekers were found guilty yesterday of a string of violent offences.

5/6

:: World :

Sudan: Lay Down the Law to the Killers of Khartoum

Sudan: Top UN relief official hails release of aid workers detained by rebels

'Major Emergency' after Million Flee in Sudan

Sweden: School preps for refugees

About 1,000 Hmong coming to Stockton

Cambodia: Up to 160 Vietnamese tribespeople hiding in Cambodian jungle

Burma: Demobilize Child Soldiers

Iraq: UN human rights report urges steps to end abuses in Iraq

Iraq: Open Letter to all Heads of State of the Coalition Forces in Iraq

PDF file

Iraqi Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

US: At last, a haven from horror

Venezuela 2004: Nicaragua's Contra War Revisited

Ireland: Limerick’s Refugees and Asylum Seekers

Jesuits call for immigration policy review

Ireland: Fears of triad link to body found in car

Ireland: Citizen vote 'plays into racist hands'

"Critics say poll will put immigration policy back 200 years.

Afghanistan: MSF condemns fatal attack on aid workers

Pakistan: Agencies halt Pakistan operations

Uzbekistan: Authorities now behaving "as badly as usual" after post-bombing crackdown

Guatemala: Land where women are killers' prey

Zimbabwe: Nuns in front line of Mugabe campaign to drive the last whites from Zimbabwe

South Africa: Shameful Truth About SA's Treatment of Refugees

Algerian rebel attacks shake government peace drive

Tibet: The Dalai Lama: A life less ordinary

DR Congo: Rebels 'still hold DR Congo town'

DR Congo: fighting reopens festering ethnic conflict

DR Congo: Chronology-Key events in the Democratic Congo conflict

DR Congo: Two South African UN troops killed in Congo ambush

DR Congo: Looting paralyzes food distribution in DR of Congo

Uganda: IDPs reported killed in fresh rebel attack in Kitgum

Russia: Last tented camp for Chechens in Ingushetia slated for closure, UN says

OT/Israel: Countries set to hold largest-ever conference on Palestine refugees

Israel approves Gaza pullout plan

Netherlands: Dutch political culture 'cultivates migrant hate'

Chechen Asylum Cases

"People fleeing Chechnya formed the largest group seeking asylum in developed countries during the first quarter of 2004, the UN refugee agency

Australia: School kits on refugees branded propaganda

Kosovo/Serbia: Serb teenager shot dead in Kosovo

Saudi Arabia: BBC pair shot

Lebanon: UN repatriates 15 Iraqi Kurds from Lebanon

Greece: Fight against exploitation

China, Vietnam in a battle of words over human trafficking

:: Miscellaneous ::

Attempts to prevent human trafficking are making conditions worse for voluntary migrants

"We do not dispute that in both settings migrants have suffered hardship and abuse, but current anti-trafficking approaches do not help their problems," they write. These studies show that a more flexible and realistic approach to labour migration among young people is required, they conclude.

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Anti human trafficking measures can increase exploitation

Cementing Fortress Europe: Implementing the Amsterdam Treaty

"The five year deadline for agreement on the common EU immigration and asylum policy expired on 1 May 2004. This article examines the key decisions, how they were taken and what they will mean for asylum-seekers

New Europeans drift home with broken dreams

Reporters' log: All the latest on the D-Day anniversary events

Race row wounds 'Czech Pop Idol'

Britain to tighten up Commonwealth job scheme

Working visa restrictions labelled racist

Blair to impose immigration quota on Africans and Asians

Eurosceptics, far-righters eye surge in EU elections

UN labour organization reviews migration in 93 countries for new action

The definition of torture

All mouth, no trousers

Nick Cohen: Why do we make so much fuss about a bunch of no-hope, neo-Nazi criminals called the BNP?

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:: Archive ::

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:: UN Briefings ::

Asylum-seeker numbers fall again in first quarter of 2004: UN refugee agency

UNHCR briefing - 4 June 2004

1) – Fist quarter asylum statistics

2) – Chad/Darfur

3) – Ingushetia

4) – World enviroment day

http://www.unhcr.ch/briefing-notes

:: Australia: School kits on refugees branded propaganda ::

Australia: School kits on refugees branded propaganda

Australia says YES to refugees (presumably NO to asylum-seekers who arrive through their own efforts)

Primary School Information Kit

:: War of words over asylum seekers ::

War of words over asylum seekers

June 5, 2004 - 10:30PM

A row over the media's use of the term "illegal immigrants" to describe asylum seekers will go before the Australian Press Council this week.

Central Coast woman Mira Wroblewski has lodged the complaint, which the council will hear on Wednesday.

She said a large number of refugee groups and individuals supported her action.

The complaint was against The Sydney Morning Herald's use of the terms "illegal immigrants" and "illegal entrants" when publishing articles on asylum seekers.

But Ms Wroblewski hoped the action would force the council to formulate guidelines to restrict the use of the terms in all media outlets.

"The complaint is based on the fact that asylum-seekers are not illegal," Ms Wroblewski said in a statement.

"Seeking asylum, or refuge, in Australia is legal under both international and domestic law.

"Australia is a signatory to both the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the United Nations Convention on Refugees.

"Australia's Migration Act brings this into domestic law.

"This means that Australia has undertaken to accept asylum-seekers and process their claims."

Ms Wroblewski became involved in refugee support work after visiting Woomera Detention Centre for the first time in 2002.

"I could not believe how innocent people are being treated in my country," she said.

"They are not criminals, they have done nothing illegal. Despite this, they are treated worse than people who have done something illegal.

She said the federal government used the term "illegal" to vilify asylum seekers and justify their treatment.

"I believe that the media should use the more accurate and respectful terms `asylum-seekers' or `refugees' to describe people who come to seek our help," Ms Wroblewski said.

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