ABC News 12 March 2013 A group of 30 Afghan MPs has written to the Federal Government urging it to abandon plans to return asylum seekers to Kabul. The ABC has obtained a copy of the letter, which says the security situation in the Afghan capital is getting worse and attackers are targeting members of [...]
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Sri Lanka: Rape of Tamil Detainees
Human Rights Watch 26 February 2013 Politically Motivated Sexual Assaults in Custody Continue Since Conflict Sri Lankan security forces have been using rape and other forms of sexual violence to torture suspected members or supporters of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. While widespread rape [...]
Zimbabwe: new country guidance – CM (EM country guidance; disclosure) Zimbabwe CG [2013] UKUT 00059(IAC)
Link to judgement on BAILII judgement delivered on January 31, 2013 – – – – – “Bleak future for Zimbabwe asylum seekers in UK” Summary by Brighton Mutebuka, Via NewZimbabwe.com Published 4 February 2013 The long awaited new country guidance case on Zimbabwe has now been promulgated. In a judgement delivered on January 31, 2013, [...]
Greece: Must improve detention conditions for migrants – UN experts
UN News Service 31 January 2013 available at: UNHCR RefWorld A group of United Nations independent experts today stressed that Greece must improve the conditions of detention for migrants and effectively implement recent legislation to enhance screening procedures for asylum-seekers. “In most detention facilities visited by the Working Group, the conditions fall far below international [...]
Greece: Human Rights Watch, World Report 2013
Human Rights Watch World Report 2013 – Greece Published 31 January 2013 Available at Human Rights Watch Extract: Legislation passed in April permits police to detain migrants and asylum seekers on overly broad public health grounds, including susceptibility to infectious disease based on national origin and living in conditions that do not meet minimum hygiene [...]
Afghanistan: Human Rights Watch world report 2013
Human Rights Watch World Report 2013 – Afghanistan Published 31 January 2013 Available at Human Rights Watch Introduction Afghans feel enormous anxiety as the 2014 deadline for withdrawing international combat forces from Afghanistan looms, and powerbrokers jockey for position. The Afghan government’s failure to respond effectively to violence against women undermines the already-perilous state of [...]
Greece: Summary Returns of Unaccompanied Migrant Children and Adult Asylum Seekers from Italy to Greece
Human Rights Watch January 22, 2013 Press release: Italy is summarily returning unaccompanied migrant children and adult asylum seekers to Greece, where they face a dysfunctional asylum system and abusive detention conditions, Human Rights Watch said in a report published today. Stowaways on ferries from Greece, including children as young as 13, are sent back [...]
Italy: Summary Returns of Unaccompanied Migrant Children and Adult Asylum Seekers from Italy to Greece
Human Rights Watch January 22, 2013 Press release: Italy is summarily returning unaccompanied migrant children and adult asylum seekers to Greece, where they face a dysfunctional asylum system and abusive detention conditions, Human Rights Watch said in a report published today. Stowaways on ferries from Greece, including children as young as 13, are sent back [...]
Greece: Asylum-seekers and migrants hounded by police and right-wing extremists
Amnesty International 20 December 2012 Greece: The end of the road for refugees, asylum-seekers and migrants Greece is seriously failing to respect the rights of asylum-seekers and migrants, Amnesty International warned in a briefing published today. Every year, tens of thousands of irregular migrants and asylum-seekers from the Middle East, Asia and Africa cross the [...]
Cote D’Ivoire: “A Long Way from Reconciliation”
Human Rights Watch November 19, 2012 This 73-page report details the brutal crackdown that followed a series of violent attacks on military installations around the country in August. The attacks were allegedly committed by militants loyal to former President Laurent Gbagbo. The resulting crackdown recalled the grave crimes committed during the 2010-2011 post-election crisis, in [...]
