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Defiant Sri Lanken Asylum Seekers To Stay On Australian Ship Oceanic Viking

ABC News | Posted 11.05.2009 | World

Read More: Oceanic Viking, Asylum Seekers, Immigration, Indonesia, Australia, Asylum, Illegal Immigrants, Sri Lanka, World News

The 78 Sri Lankans aboard the Oceanic Viking in port in Indonesia have declared that their "final decision" is to remain on the Australian ship. ...

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Genesio Oliveira, Gay Brazilian Married To Massachusetts Man, Is Denied Asylum

AP | RUSSELL CONTRERAS | Posted 10.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Asylum Seekers, Tim Coco, John Kerry, Attorney General, Obama Administration, Doma, Asylum, Justice Department, Defense of Marriage Act, Genesio Oliveira, Eric Holder, Politics News

BOSTON — A gay Brazilian man has been denied asylum by the Obama administration and won't be reunited with his Massachusetts husband in the U.S....

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Impending Closure of Denver's Survivors' Center

Pius Kamau | Posted 11.15.2009 | Denver

Read More: Social Services, Immigration, Rape, Mental Health, Asylum, Torture, Denver, Rocky Mountain Survivors' Center, Denver News
Pius Kamau

How can a center that has been valiantly fighting to mend broken souls from the four corners of the earth end up closing its doors?

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South African white man granted refugee status

AP | ROB GILLIES | Posted 10.17.2009 | World

Read More: South Africa, Refugee, Race, Brandon Huntley, Persecution, Apartheid, Canada, Post-Apartheid, Asylum, Refugee Status, World News

TORONTO — A white man from South Africa has been given refugee status in Canada after claiming persecution, his lawyer said, angering many in hi...

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3 Iraqi Refugees Fleeing Violence Languish In A Federal Lockup

Global Post | Todd Bensman | Posted 09.24.2009 | World

Read More: Iraq US, Iraqi Refugees, Iraq War, Iraq Asylum, Iraq, Iraqis Fleeing, Asylum, Human Rights, War Wire, Refugees, World News

PEARSALL, Texas -- One fled the Iraqi city of Irbil when militant Islamists threatened his life for befriending local Christians. Another bolted from ...

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Necessary Reforms for Detained Asylum Seekers

Human Rights First | Posted 09.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Asylum Seekers, Human Rights, Detention, Asylum, Politics News
Human Rights First

Two new Senate bills -- the Secure and Safe Detention and Asylum Act and the Protect Citizens and Residents from Unlawful Detention Act -- would provide safeguards to detained asylum seekers and immigrants.

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Leahy: Obama Leaving Thousands Of Refugees In Limbo

Government Executive | Posted 09.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Citizenship, Barack Obama, Patrick Leahy, Senate Judiciary Chairman, Immigration, Leahy, Obama, Obama Refugees, American Immigration Lawyers Association, Citizenship and Immigration Services, Homeland Security Department, Refugees, Asylum, Politics News

Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., is calling on the Obama administration to correct problems that have left thousands of refugees and as...

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ICE: Above the Law?

William Fisher | Posted 08.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Department of Homeland Security, Immigration Detention, Us Department of Justice, Asylum, Ice, Politics News
William Fisher

Civil liberties advocates say the immigration detention system has caused an as-yet unknown number of deaths in recent years and subjected thousands of immigrants to inhumane conditions.

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World Refugee Day: After Fleeing Persecution At Home, Asylum Seekers Face Prison-Like Conditions In U.S.

Kelly Nuxoll | Posted 07.21.2009 | World

Read More: Immigration, World Refugee Day, Guinea, Human Rights First, Refugees, Asylum, World News
Kelly Nuxoll

Like the bulk of people who come to the United States seeking asylum or without correct documentation, Jean-Pierre spent the first phase of his new life as a prisoner.

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Somali Pirates May Allow Capture To Reap Asylum Benefits: Legal Experts

Telegraph | Posted 06.19.2009 | World

Read More: Somalia Pirates, Pirate Asylum, Somalia Government, Foreign Affairs, Somali Pirate, Somali Pirates, Somali Pirate Asylum, Somalia, Europe, Asylum, Advocacy, Pirates, World News

Somali pirates might be allowing themselves to be deliberately captured in order to take advantage of European asylum laws, Dutch legal experts have w...

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Bush-Era 'Terrorist' Definition Causes U.S. Allies To Lose Asylum Bids

McClatchy | Marisa Taylor | Posted 06.04.2009 | World

Read More: Asylum Terrorist, Bush Patriot Act, Refugee Law, Patriot Act, George Bush, Immigration, Terrorism, Definition of Terrorist, Asylum, Terrorist Asylum, World News

WASHINGTON -- Forced to flee his homeland because he supported America's ideals, Tsegu Bahta thought he'd be embraced by the country he emulated and r...

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No Time to Wait for Justice

John Kerry | Posted 04.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gay Rights, Doma, John Kerry Gay Rights, Junior Oliveira, Tim Coco, John Kerry Gay Marriage, Massachusetts, Immigration, Brazil, Homophobia, Gay Marriage, John Kerry, Marriage Equality, Asylum, Humanitarian, Immigration Policy, Equality, Politics News
John Kerry

Justice may be blind, but it sure ain't always swift. It's time Tim Coco and his husband Genesio "Junior" Oliveira be reunited.

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Darfur Asylum-Seeker Kicked Out Of UK, Then 'Murdered' In Sudan

The Independent | Robert Verkaik | Posted 04.17.2009 | World

Read More: Darfur, Omar Al-Bashir, Asylum-Seekers, Khartoum, Asylum Program, Sudan, Asylum and Immigration Tribunal, Adam Osman Mohammed, Asylum, World News

Adam Osman Mohammed, 32, was gunned down in his home in front of his wife and four-year-old son just days after arriving in his village in south Darfu...

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A Women's Rights Advocate in the Midst of Bloodshed -- Her Path to Asylum

Nina Boyajian | Posted 12.22.2008 | Politics

Read More: Women's Rights, Democratic Republic of Congo, Asylum, Torture, Congo Violence, Congo Women, Politics News
Nina Boyajian

In the DRC, women are still considered second-class citizens, and are themselves punished (by their families and communities) for the rape and other sexual abuse to which they are subjected.

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Iraqis Top UN List Of Asylum Seekers Again

UPI | Posted 11.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: United Nations, War Wire, Displaced Iraqis, Foreign Affairs, Iraq, Asylum, Politics News

GENEVA, Switzerland, Oct. 20 (UPI) -- The U.N. refugee agency said that despite a decline in the number of asylum-seekers from Iraq, the country conti...

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Immigration: Have the Inmates Taken Over the Asylum?

William Fisher | Posted 11.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: Immigration Reform, Asylum, Civil Rights, Michael Mukasey, Politics News
William Fisher

No, this isn't about the economic meltdown - but it's almost as complicated. Try to follow it along. In what some government critics are citing as an...

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Finally, A Good News Story, Sort Of

William Fisher | Posted 10.26.2008 | Politics

Read More: Immigration, Female Genital Mutilation, Civil Rights, Asylum, Michael Mukasey, Politics News
William Fisher

A woman who was denied asylum in the U.S. despite her fears that she would suffer additional female genital mutilation if she was deported to her nati...

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