News tagged with 'asylum seeker'. Found 3 tagged news.

Remnants of ethnic cleansing policies within Balkan States continue to perpetuate refugee woes

Belgrade :: Serbia | 5 months ago

Posted by amymiller

International Refugee Day is today, June 20th and once again Serbia tops the chart of having the highest refugees within Europe. The United Nations High Commission on Refugees 2007 Global Report states that there are approximately 97’000 refugees...

Tags: Refugee, Serbia, Europe, United Nations, UNHCR, displaced, Croatia, Balkan, discrimination, amnesty, ustasha, Nazi, asylum seeker, EU, Refugees

Israel’s refugee roundups

Ramallah :: Palestine | 8 months ago

Posted by jesse.rosenfeld

Posters around Jerusalem appeared on March 13 by rightwing settlers announcing a Sunday protest march to destroy the family home of Merkaz Harav yeshiva attacker, Ala Abu Dhaim's. However, with Israeli nationalists mobilizing both in the Knesset and at...

Tags: refugee, asylum seeker, tel aviv, israel, nationalist, darfur, Sudan, Egypt, jerusalem, palestinians, activist, immigration

Home Secretary Kazemi Halts Deportation to Iran

London :: United Kingdom | 8 months ago

The Government's surprise intervention yesterday follows an international outcry over the plight of Mehdi Kazemi, 19, who lost his asylum claim in Britain even though his former ...

Tags: Europe Britain, Mehdi Kazemi, Iran, asylum seeker, Jacqui Smith, halts deport