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November 18
Bidding to save family
Nov 16 2005 – Evening Chronicle
A thousand red balloons have been released in support of a family threatened with deportation.
New fears in asylum fight
Nov 16 2005 – Evening Gazette
Supporters of asylum-seeking Kosovans fighting to stay in Redcar fear the family could soon be forced ...
National News
Dead, but not buried
New Statesman, UK
... "By making legal immigration and asylum nearly impossible, these policies lead to the death of refugees, who [flee] because of war, persecution . . . ...
Asylum work right call expected
BBC News, UK -
MSPs are expected to call for asylum seekers living in Scotland to be allowed to work. ... At present, those awaiting an asylum decision can not work. ...
Hope for Iraqi asylum seekers
Oldham Advertiser, UK -
... of pounds. They notified British authorities upon their arrival and made initial asylum seeker applications which were rejected.
UN refugee chief calls for concerted action to defend asylum on ...
Reuters AlertNet, UK -
GENEVA, November 16 (UNHCR) – Warning that rising intolerance is a "clear danger" to the institution of asylum, UN High Commissioner for Refugees António ...
November 14
Local News
Asylum seekers' struggle
Nov 14 2005 – Evening Gazette
A family seeking asylum say they are struggling to feed their baby son as the child's father is unable ...
National News
Fears for safety at asylum centre
BBC News, UK -
Concerns about detainees' safety at a detention centre in Cambridgeshire have increased, a prison report claims. Twice as many detainees ...
ic Newcastle.co.uk, UK -
... announced. Failed asylum seekers and other immigrants with no right to be in Britain will be returned to countries hit by the disaster. ...
November 10
Local News
Family's fears of return to Africa
Sunday Sun
A family of refugees who fled to the region from Angola have spoken of their fear of being sent back ...
OK, you can stay – pay us £335
Sunderland Echo, UK -
... A Home Office spokeswoman said: "We have introduced fees for non-asylum immigration services as part of our aim to deliver a managed migration programme that ...
National News
The images of racism being used to shock Scotland's schoolkids
Glasgow Evening Times, UK -
... for pupils. There are around 11,500 asylum seekers and refugees living in Glasgow and many have been subjected to racial abuse. Mr ...
Migrant workers can help the UK
IT Week, UK –
Too few commentators wanted to make a distinction between illegal immigrants, asylum seekers, economic migrants and any other category of foreigner which might ...
PETITION: Zorka's last chance
Peterborough Evening Telegraph, UK -
Backed by a petition signed by 2,000 Peterborough people, Zorka Djukic was due to appear before the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal in Walsall, West Midlands. ...
Asylum seekers project lands a clunch of silverware at major ...
24dash.com, UK -
A scheme helping asylum seekers integrate into a city has clinched a clutch of trophies in the prestigious UK Housing Awards ceremony. ...
Pupils fight for deported friends
Manchester Evening News, UK -
... Last month, their application for asylum was refused, they were arrested and held at Yarls Wood detention centre, Bedfordshire. ...
Film attacks Dungavel detention centre
The Herald, UK -
Visit Dungavel (Monster of the Glen) is a provocative new film that mixes drama, animation and music to highlight the incarceration of asylum seekers in the ...
Asylum measure inhuman and disastrous, says report
Guardian Unlimited, UK -
A report has denounced government moves to force failed asylum seekers and their families to leave the country as "inhuman and administratively disastrous". ...
November 3
National news
Law lords reject asylum case appeal
Nov 3 2005
Home Secretary Charles Clarke has suffered defeat at the hands of the Law Lords when they threw out ...
The Asylum Centre quietly opens
Weston & Somerset Mercury, UK -
Government chiefs have been accused of behaving in 'a cloak and dagger fashion' over the opening of Portishead's new asylum seeker screening centre. ...
Christians challenged to live as sylum seekers
Ekklesia , UK -
A church agency is challenging Christians and others to take on the life of someone who has been refused asylum. The challenge is ...
Give them a medal! Volunteers rewarded for selfless efforts
Leeds Today, UK - 8 hours ago
... sexual health services. Former banker Samuel packed in his job in Zimbabwe to seek asylum in the UK only last year. Within a month ...
Thank you citizens
Bexley Express , UK -
During the month, Gypsies, Travellers, asylum seekers and refugees who volunteered highlighted the huge amount of voluntary work undertaken by under-fire ...
Asylum raids protest meeting
ic WestLothian.co.uk, UK -
A public meeting is to be held in protest against dawn raids to deport asylum seekers. A number of high-profile speakers are due ...
QUEEN HONOURS COUNTRY'S VOLUNTEERS
Community Newswire, UK -
... the reception were: Imelda Quinn, from Derby, who visits a young girl in residential care as part of CSV's Allies project; Londonasylum seeker Benjoly Mongay ...
Immigration centre blasted
This is Local London, UK -
... In May, it invited asylum seekers and staff to talk, confidentially, about their experiences of the service and the organisation has spent the last six months ...
