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March 2006
March 30
National News
ID cards: the truth is out
Telegraph.co.uk , United Kingdom -
... way for honest British citizens to "access services" ahead of undeserving intruders - this was at a time of intense newspaper interest in "bogus asylum seekers ...
Trainee nurse's plea to stay in country
Islington Gazette , UK -
... leaving her in a restaurant. Ms Kikule's asylum application was turned down when she turned 18 in January 2004. Her first appeal was ...
NUJ conference
Socialistworker.co.uk , UK - 29 Mar 2006
... Delegates adopted a strong anti-racist stance at the conference. They passed several motions against increasing racist attacks on Muslims and asylum seekers. ...
Dirty work
BBC News, UK - 29 Mar 2006
... Her employers allegedly threaten her with voodoo curses to keep her under control. She is now seeking asylum in the UK. "It's like slavery," she says. ...
Expanding IT firm means job boost
Tottenham, Wood Green and Edmonton Journal, UK -
... Mr Paduh, 28, who fled the war-torn Balkans as a 15-year-old refugee, said: "We are not going to be able to employ all these people ourselves but when they ...
March 28
Local News
Pair thank supporters
Mar 27 2006 – Evening Chronicle
A family of asylum seekers who won a five-year battle to stay in the region after a dramatic U-turn ...
National News
ASYLUM RAIDS VOW
Glasgow Daily Record, UK -
... The move follows claims of heavy-handed police tactics when a number of asylum seekers were deported from Scotland last year. McNulty ...
More than 2,000 children of asylum-seekers detained
Independent , UK -
More than 2,000 children of asylum-seekers are locked up every year, leaving them suffering depression, nightmares and eating problems, a coalition of campaign ...
Police role in asylum cases to be reduced
Glasgow Evening Times, UK -
The move follows fierce controversy last year over the use of "dawn raids" in which families of failed asylum seekers were picked up. ...
Refugees find haven from terror
Yorkshire Post Today, UK - 27 Mar 2006
... In Hull they will have English lessons. Asylum has already been granted, allowing them to work, although they will get benefits in the meantime. ...
Norwich Evening News, UK - 27 Mar 2006
... The Home Office has refused to reveal why it was detaining Mr Salemkour but 1,350 failed asylum seekers are now being sent home each month. ...
March 15
Local News
Charity for asylum seekers shut down
Mar 12 2006 – Sunday Sun
An organisation to help people in the North threatened with deportation has had to close its doors after ...
Out of Africa
Mar 14 2006 – Evening Chronicle
It's out of
World failed to see our pain
Mar 11 2006 – Evening Chronicle
Verron Munda left his wife and children and everything he owned. He had no choice. If he had stayed ...
National News
Asylum Seekers - Record Numbers Return Home Voluntarily
PR Newswire UK (press release), UK -
There has been a dramatic increase in voluntary returns from the UK since a more generous reintegration package was made available for asylum seekers on 1 ...
Refugee Action: Do not detain asylum seekers
Detention of asylum seekers should only be used as a very last resort, campaign group Refugee Action warned today. The measure is ...
Today's issue… Asylum removals
Politics.co.uk, UK -
At least 155,000 failed asylum seekers still need to be removed from the UK, but the number could be as high as 283,500, the public accounts committee says ...
Blair defiant in asylum backlog row
ic Scotland.co.uk, UK -
Tony Blair insisted the Government had made "enormous" progress on removing failed asylum seekers despite a damning report by MPs. ...
March 7
Local News
Mar 6 2006 – Evening Chronicle
Last year we reported on
National News
A record number of asylum seekers return home
Black Britain,
... finances. IOM assisted with 365 asylum seekers, to voluntarily returning home in January, and 522 asylum seekers returning in February. ...
LET MY SISTER LIVE
Leeds Today,
... The 26-year-old is just weeks from death but because her appeal for asylum has been rejected she cannot even be considered for the life-saving operation. ...
Refugees face the ultimate relocation — to the Western Isles
The Sunday Times,
... “In 2000, when the Home Office started to disperse asylum seekers to
PLEASE LET THEM STAY
Sheffield Today, UK -
... Nellie, Bloom and Charlotte's forced removal from Sheffield followed the failure of a three-year legal battle for asylum status to allow them to remain in this ...
March 1
Local news
Last bid to stay
Feb 27 2006 – Evening Chronicle
A family of asylum seekers ordered out of the UK are clinging to renewed hope that they will be allowed ...
A lucky escape
Feb 22 2006 – Evening Chronicle
For three traumatic years, Irena Carlton felt helpless as the war in her Bosnian homeland raged on. ...
National News
David Davis: chronic information deficit undermining asylum and ...
Conservatives.com, UK - 14 hours ago
"We welcome any progress in making the immigration and asylum system more efficient but the Government is still taking too long to remove those whose ...
Asylum applications fall
Politics.co.uk, UK - 21 hours ago
Asylum applications have fallen to their lowest level for a decade, according to new figures from the Home Office. The latest report ...
Welcome for family amnesty figures
OneWorld.net, UK - 28 Feb 2006
The Home Office has published today the Asylum statistics for the last quarter of 2005 as usual they are a mixture of very good and bad news for asylum seekers ...
Life of an asylum seeker in Britain
Black Britain, UK - 27 Feb 2006
... of a refugee is a daily struggle, coloured by worry, fear, loneliness, poverty and survival, as I found out after meeting Tino Ahdemi, an asylum seeker from ...
Students show support for asylum seekers in Britain
Black Information Link, UK - 24 Feb 2006
Yesterday, students across the UK showed their support for asylum seekers locally and nationally in a day of action organised by Student Action for Refugees ...
Migration: Asylum Seekers Office for National Statistics 10:04 28-Feb-06 - 2% fall in latest figures…
