Dear Jill Stein and “Abandon Harris” Voters: My Asylum-Seeker Clients Need Your Help October 16, 2024 I have been a member of the Green Party for more than 20 years. Our presidential candidate is Dr. Jill Stein, who is polling at between 1% and 2% in most swing states. That doesn...
Refugee and asylum-seeker inflows in the United States and other OECD member statesChad Haddal
Article 3 of the United Nations Convention Against Torture (1999) states that no asylum seeker can be returned home if the threat of torture is strong enough. The BCIS does have the option, however, of sending an unsuccessful asylum seeker to a third country in which there is no danger of...
According to the United Nations High Commission on Refugees, the number of 'People of Concern' continues to escalate, particularly through the effects of protracted war, oppressive regimes and climate-based disasters like floods and droughts. Among these people are 'refugees' who face persecution in...
While refugees andasylum seekersas cross-border forced migration have provoked considerable political debates in many countries, theUnited Nations Development Programme (2009)emphasizes that the overwhelming majority of movers relocate inside their own country. They have crossed no frontiers but may face ...
I think it's wonderful that there are places in the modern world that will do this. I mean, it's entirely without self interest to take on an asylum seeker, and if anything it can actually be bad for a country, because they might end up making an enemy of another country. ...
In June a third asylum seeker or refugee died by suicide on Nauru, and comes only three weeks after a Rohingya refugee on Manus Island killed himself. Twelve people have died from injuries or illness sustained in offshore processing centres since the facilities were reopened in late 2012. ...
If an asylum seeker qualifies for the program, agents return them to Mexico with a court date, instructions on "when and where to appear," as well as a list of "free or low cost legal providers." Those instructions are given in English and Spanish. ...
(refugee, asylum-seeker, undocumented) and whether or not data on migrants’ length of time in receiving-country was collected and considered. We recorded whose (mother, father and/or other person such as a grandparent) parenthood experience was examined and the age-group of the children (e....
But it is left to individual states to work out for themselves how to harmonise their legislation with the commitments in the Convention. These goals are violated when the asylum seeker is not suffering persecution. Our present arrangements positively encourage people to tell fibs - hardly the...