Asylum seekers News
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At least 300 migrants bound for Australia on board a wooden boat from Indonesia were reported missing with many feared dead as the boat sinks off the coast of East Java, according to an Indonesian emergency official.
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The sacrifice asylum seekers make leaving troubled homelands is not made easier arriving in Australia where detention practices are likely to cause additional harm.
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Some of the more than 100 asylum seekers detained at the Sydney detention center in Australia have reportedly been injured as firefighters tried to extinguish fire on at least nine buildings earlier torched by detainees who were denied visa to Australia.
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Long-staying asylum seekers in Australia's Christmas Island have attacked security forces and set fire to buildings and facilities of the detention center.
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A young Mexican female police officer has fled Mexico and sought asylum in the US following death threats she received from a criminal group that wanted her to work for them.
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The UK’s Supreme Court has ruled unanimously in favour of two gay men who faced persecution in their home countries of Iran and Cameroon.
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At least 123 illegal Afghan migrants bound for Australia were discovered on two islands in Indonesia while waiting for boats to transport them to Australia.
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A leading UK gay-equality organisation says asylum seekers who have been raped, tortured and threatened with death because of their sexual orientation in their home country are being deported because of systemic discrimination in the asylum system.
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Two men and a woman have fallen to their deaths from the 15th floor of a high rise flat in Glasgow, Scotland. It appears that the three committed suicide to avoid deportation.
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Sri Lankan anAfghanistan refugees and asylum-seekers detained in the Christmas Island off the northwestern coast of Australia have reportedly attacked each other, resulting in the wounding of at least 37 detainees.
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Asylum seekers Headlines
Forty children held in adult detention centres while seeking asylum are thought to have received £1m compensation from the Home Office.
A United Nations High Commission for Refugees report says that Afghan refugees constitute the highest number of asylum seekers in the world - but life is not always easy for those who return home.
More must be done by government to help prevent young refugees and asylum seekers from falling into destitution, a children's charity warns.
The husband of jailed Ukrainian former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko is granted political asylum in the Czech Republic.
Advocate for blind Chinese lawyer says US asylum deal expected ahead of Clinton's China visit
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