• EU: Provide Protection for Syrian Refugees
    Dec 23, 2012
    The European Union and its member states should do more to help the thousands of Syrian asylum seekers trying to reach Europe as the Syrian crisis worsens and winter sets in.
  • Australia: End Offshore Transfer of Migrant Children
    Nov 24, 2012
    The Australian government should immediately stop transfers of migrant children - including unaccompanied migrant children and child asylum seekers - to offshore processing sites in Manus Island of Papua New Guinea, and Nauru.
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  • EU: Provide Protection for Syrian Refugees
    Dec 23, 2012
    The European Union and its member states should do more to help the thousands of Syrian asylum seekers trying to reach Europe as the Syrian crisis worsens and winter sets in.
  • Australia: End Offshore Transfer of Migrant Children
    Nov 24, 2012
    The Australian government should immediately stop transfers of migrant children - including unaccompanied migrant children and child asylum seekers - to offshore processing sites in Manus Island of Papua New Guinea, and Nauru.
  • Israel: Asylum Seekers Blocked at Border
    Oct 27, 2012
    The Israeli military has since June 2012 prevented dozens of asylum seekers, most of them Eritreans, from crossing Israel’s newly constructed fence on its border with Egypt, Human Rights Watch, the Hotline for Migrant Workers, and Physicians for Human Rights – Israel said today. Israel has also unlawfully deported dozens more back to Egypt, the three groups said. Israel should stop rejecting asylum seekers at the fence unless its officials determine in a fair procedure that they do not face threats to their lives or freedom or inhuman and degrading treatment because of that rejection.
  • EU, as peacemaker, should welcome those fleeing war
    Oct 16, 2012
    Human Rights Watch gives its view of the award of the Nobel peace prize to the European Union.
  • Europe failing to tackle boat tragedies in Mediterranean
    Sep 12, 2012
    The EU and its member states must do more to prevent migrant deaths at sea if they are to deliver on their humanitarian ethos – writes Judith Sunderland.
  • China: Refugees Forcibly Returned to Burma
    Aug 23, 2012

    China should stop its forced returns of thousands of ethnic Kachin refugees to northern Burma, where they are at risk from armed hostilities, Burmese army abuses, and lack of aid.

  • Australia: ‘Pacific Solution’ Redux
    Aug 16, 2012

    The Australian parliament’s swift approval of an “offshore processing” law marks a shift in refugee policy that appears arbitrary and discriminatory on its face.

  • Malta: Migrant Detention Violates Rights
    Jul 18, 2012
    Malta’s automatic, indiscriminate, and blanket detention of migrants – including unaccompanied migrant children – is inhumane and unnecessary. It doesn’t deter migrants from coming to Malta and it violates international law.
  • Greece’s Other Crisis: Xenophobic Violence
    Jul 13, 2012
    “I realized it is so easy to die here. We came from so far away and it is so easy to get killed here,” Ali Rahimi, an Afghan asylum seeker, told us after he was stabbed five times in the torso in September 2011.
  • Greece: Migrants Describe Fear on the Streets
    Jul 10, 2012
    The Greek authorities are failing to tackle a rising wave of xenophobic violence that has left migrants afraid to walk the streets.
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