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April 24, 2018 Dispatches

Bosnia Failing to Protect Asylum Seekers

Country Appears Ill-equipped to Manage Increase in Arrivals

Asylum seekers and other migrants gather in a park in Bosnia and Herzegovina’s capital Sarajevo, where volunteers provide them with food, blankets, and medical care.
April 24, 2018 Commentary

Friends of Syria must speak up for refugee rights

Bar Elias, a town in Lebanon’s Bekaa valley, has become home to Syrian refugees who were evicted from the Rayak air base, and have settled here in informal encampments.
April 23, 2018 Commentary

Proactiva’s Release Does Not Spell End of Italy’s War on Rescue Groups

Italian judge’s releases rescue ship but upholds legal fiction of Libyan search and rescue zone. Judith Sunderland from Human Rights Watch explains why the contradiction matters.

A rigid hulled inflatable boat (RHIB) approaches the MV Open Arms, the search and rescue ship of Proactiva Open Arms, in the central Mediterranean off the coast of Libya, December 16, 2017
April 20, 2018 News Release

Lebanon: Mass Evictions of Syrian Refugees

Expulsions by Municipalities Appear Discriminatory, Lack Due Process

A clothesline in an informal tent settlement in Bar Elias, Bekaa Governorate, Lebanon. Refugees evicted from the Rayak air base area settled here in January 2018. The refugees say there was no procedure, no written notice, no opportunity to discuss or cha
April 19, 2018 Dispatches

Greece’s Highest Court Rules to Better Protect Asylum Seekers

New Arrivals Can No Longer Be Trapped in Abuse on Greek Islands

Greece refugee in wheel chair
April 17, 2018 Report

Yemen: Detained African Migrants Tortured, Raped

Grant Access to Asylum Procedures; Hold Abusers Accountable

Buraika detention facility for migrants in Aden governorate, Yemen. © 2018 VICE News Tonight on HBO
April 16, 2018 News Release

France: Bill Could Undermine Asylum Seekers’ Rights

Amend Draft to Safeguard Access to Protection

Tents are seen at a makeshift migrant camp on a street near the metro stations of Jaures and Stalingrad in Paris, France, October 28, 2016
April 9, 2018 Report

Friends of Syria: Action Needed at Brussels Conference

Focus on Justice, Refugees, Education

People walk with their belongings as they flee the rebel-held town of Hammouriyeh, in the village of Beit Sawa, eastern Ghouta, Syria March 15, 2018. REUTERS/Omar Sanadiki
April 5, 2018 Commentary

When the Path to Safety Is Anything But

Syrians run as they flee from the Syrian town of Ras al-Ain to Turkish border town of Ceylanpinar, Sanliurfa province
April 4, 2018 Dispatches

China Detains 7 More North Korean Refugees

Forced Return Threatens Torture, Sexual Abuse, and Mistreatment

2018년 3월 28일 평양의 조선중앙통신이 보도한 이 촬영날짜 미상의 사진에서 중국에 비공식 방문한 북한 지도자 김정은이 베이징에서 중국 시진핑 국가주석과 악수하고 있다.
April 4, 2018 Dispatches

Trump’s Fearmongering about Migrant Caravan

US Congress Should Reject Draconian Asylum Policies

Central American migrants take a break from traveling in their caravan, as they journey to the U.S., in Matias Romero, Oaxaca, Mexico April 3, 2018.
April 4, 2018 News Release

‘Temporary’ Status But Long-Term US Lives

Congress Should Create Path to Legal Status for Deeply Rooted Immigrants

Rony and Ronyde Ponthieux in Miami, FL. © 2018 Human Rights Watch
April 1, 2018 Commentary

Yes to refugee repatriation, but first things first

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March 26, 2018 News Release

US: FOIA Suit on Border Guards’ Rights Abuses

Asylum Seekers Bullied, Misrepresented, Records Show

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March 22, 2018 News Release

Turkey: Mass Deportations of Syrians

EU Should Raise Issue, Pledge Aid at Conference

A Turkish soldier surveys the border line between Turkey and Syria near the city of Kilis, March 2, 2017.

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