Tag: seekers
Uganda reaches agreement with US to take in some failed asylum seekers
African country’s foreign ministry says the two states are working on the details of a deal over deportees Uganda has reached an agreement with the US to take in deportees from third countries who may not get asylum but are “reluctant” to go back to their own countries, according to Uganda’s foreign ministry. The country…
Asylum seekers to be removed from Epping hotel after council wins High Court injunction
Asylum seekers are due to be removed from an Essex hotel after a council was granted a temporary High Court injunction blocking them from being housed there. The injunction was sought by Epping Forest District Council to stop migrants being placed at The Bell Hotel in Epping, which is owned by Somani Hotels Limited. Thousands…
Scott Morrison sought advice to obstruct Nauru asylum seekers from accessing abortions, documents reveal
Advocate claims Abbott government was concerned asylum seekers and refugees were using medical transfers as a back door to get into Australia Australia news live: latest politics updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Scott Morrison overrode medical advice in the case of an asylum seeker in offshore detention trying…
Home Office says record number of refused asylum seekers deported since July
Labour’s description of 16,400 ‘immigration offenders and foreign criminals’ angers campaigners Keir Starmer has boasted of deporting a record number of refused asylum seekers and overseas criminals since scrapping the Rwanda scheme, using language that has dismayed human rights campaigners. The Home Office said on Thursday it had returned more than 16,400 “immigration offenders and…
Australia violated rights of asylum seekers on Nauru, UN watchdog rules
United Nations human rights committee says decision should serve as warning to other nations considering outsourcing asylum processing Australia violated the rights of asylum seekers arbitrarily detained on the island of Nauru, a UN watchdog has ruled, in a warning to other countries intent on outsourcing asylum processing. The UN human rights committee published decisions…
Strasbourg court finds Greece guilty of ‘systematic’ pushback of asylum seekers
In ‘potentially trailblazing’ decision, European court of human rights finds country engaging in illicit deportations The European court of human rights has found Greece guilty of conducting “systematic” pushbacks of would-be asylum seekers, ordering it to compensate a woman forcibly expelled back to Turkey despite her attempts to seek protection in the country. In a…