Sentences with phrase «detention of asylum»

The Refugee Research Blog believes that the detention of asylum seekers and refugees should be no longer than administratively necessary for identity, health and security checks and that Australia must fulfil its obligations under the United Nations Refugee Convention.

Prior to coming to the Bar, Pearl was at United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and provided legal advice to practitioners on asylum law and policies in the UK; reviewed conditions of detention of asylum seekers, including unaccompanied minors, in accordance with UNHCR's guidelines; and represented UNHCR at the 20th Assembly session on the adoption of a resolution.

On Saturday 18 November 2017 activists surrounded Dungavel Detention Centre in South Lanarkshire, calling for an end to the detention of asylum seekers.

The ConDems have done nothing so far that Labour would not do, apart from scrapping ID cards and Detention of asylum seekers kids that is.

Today's confirmation that Labour will end the indefinite detention of asylum seekers means the Conservatives are the only major party still supporting the policy.

Labour and Lib Dem pledges leave Tories as the only party still backing indefinite detention of asylum seekers

Not exact matches

The pro-migration Senators» complaints about border agents, deportations, and detention beds come as blue - collar wages are beginning to rise after decades of minimal growth, and as Trump's deputies step up their efforts to deter migration by illegal immigrants and asylum - seekers.

In Jarrod's home country, immigration and asylum has long been a source of political debate, and the pastor has made a name for himself by opposing the draconian detention policies of the Australian government.

Asked which of those successes means the most to him, Farron is quick to plump for ending the detention of children of asylum seekers.

Somewhere between 60 and 72 inmates at the centre conducted a demonstration in the courtyard on Saturday night, in a protest against the use of fast - track detention to decide asylum claims.

In this case, those harmed included survivors of torture who came to the UK seeking asylum, only to face re-traumatisation from being locked up in immigration detention centres.

Asylum at heartWe were encouraged that, on the first few days of a new government, the prime minister and his deputy declared they would end child detention for immigration purposes.

Female victims of rape and torture are subjected to abuse and intimidation in British detention centres, according to a damning new report into the plight of women asylum seekers in the UK.

Measures that have been challenged include the suspension of benefits for «late claim» asylum seekers, the Home Secretary's power to set «tariffs» on sentences and the detention of terrorist suspects without charge.

The government has already been accused of deserting its promise to end the detention of children in immigration centres — a change that would have signaled one of the Lib Dem's few influences on policy and demonstrated that the government was at last sympathetic to the cause of asylum seekers.

Documents released by the Department of Homeland Security revealed the broad scope of the president's ambitions: to publicize crimes by undocumented immigrants; strip such immigrants of privacy protections; enlist local police officers as enforcers; erect new detention facilities; discourage asylum seekers; and, ultimately, speed up deportations.

And she herself continues to let down the many female asylum seekers who have been victims of violence yet are needlessly locked up in detention centres such as Yarl's Wood.

«Our asylum system is riddled with failings, with applicants facing a culture of disbelief from their very first interview, often meaning that people who are entirely unsuitable for detention are locked up anyway.

«Some of the practices employed at the Dungavel detention centre in Scotland, including the detention of children, have been absolutely shameful and show why we need a new direction when it comes to asylum and immigration policy.»

Run by a collective of volunteers the Unity Centre is a migrant solidarity centre which has been providing practical support and solidarity for asylum seekers in Glasgow since 2006, especially for those facing difficulties such as detention or destitution.

Mr Justice Ouseley said fast - track detention «carries an unacceptably high risk of unfairness» because of the extremely limited time asylum seekers are given with lawyers.

The Home Office is to investigate claims of racism in a asylum detention centre after an undercover BBC documentary.

Control orders Section 44 stop and search powers The Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, and its use by local authorities Deportation with assurances that failed asylum seekers will not be mistreated Organisations that promote hatred and violence 28 - day pre-charge detention

The legal developments came as protesters gathered outside Harmondsworth immigration detention centre to demand the release of the Nigerian asylum seeker.

The Border Force Act 2015 says that from July 2015 contracted workers including doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals face a prison sentence of up to two years for blowing the whistle on substandard medical care given to asylum seekers in detention centres.

Nevertheless, the situation of asylum seekers located in detention centres demonstrated that in order to obtain a refugee status in the European Union, people needed something more than to escape from persecution and travel to Europe.

One of the main issues raised during the debate about the detention centres was that the foreigners who stayed there were asylum seekers.

«The hunger strikers in Aurora joined a total of 149 asylum seekers around the country at 10 different detention facilities, according to Piper.

Within these pages, a desperate asylum seeker is pacing the hallways of Sydney's notorious Villawood detention centre; a seven - year - old Sudanese boy has found solace in a patchwork bike; an enraged black militant is on the war - path through the rebel squats of 1960s Brixton; a Mississippi housewife decides to make the ultimate sacrifice to save her son from small - town ignorance; a young woman leaves rural Jamaica in search of her destiny; and a Sydney schoolgirl loses her way.

Artists have joined protests against the National Gallery of Victoria's contract with Wilson Security, which manages services at Australia's offshore detention centres on Manus Island and Nauru — the company is the subject of controversial claims regarding assault against asylum seekers held in its detention centres.

Aleksandr Dolmatov, a Russian rocket scientist and vocal critic of Putin seeking asylum in the Netherlands, committed suicide at a «detention center» near Rotterdam Airport after receiving news that his request for asylum had be denied and that he would be returned to Russia.

She advocates, speaks and writes regularly on issues relating to the human rights of refugees and migrants, including legal representation, detention, U.S. asylum law and policy, and protection from xenophobic and bias - motivated violence.

These areas included immigration (save for asylum claims or work carried out for those in immigration detention); employment (except where there is a discrimination claim); education (except for Special Educational Needs work); welfare benefits (except for appeals to the Upper Tribunal and onwards); debt; clinical negligence for the majority of adults and children; and personal injury.

Bar a few notable exceptions, the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (LASPO) essentially limits the scope of legal aid in immigration cases to matters relating to asylum and international protection and challenges to immigration detention.

Accredited under the Law Society Immigration & Asylum Accreditation Scheme as a Level 2 Caseworker and Supervisor, David Saldanha has appeared as an advocate in hundreds of asylum and immigration appeals over the past 20 years before the First - tier Tribunal and Upper Tribunal and their predecessors, gaining a significant experience in a wide range of immigration matters, such as asylum claims and unlawful detention, standing on behalf of the most vulnerable people in the soAsylum Accreditation Scheme as a Level 2 Caseworker and Supervisor, David Saldanha has appeared as an advocate in hundreds of asylum and immigration appeals over the past 20 years before the First - tier Tribunal and Upper Tribunal and their predecessors, gaining a significant experience in a wide range of immigration matters, such as asylum claims and unlawful detention, standing on behalf of the most vulnerable people in the soasylum and immigration appeals over the past 20 years before the First - tier Tribunal and Upper Tribunal and their predecessors, gaining a significant experience in a wide range of immigration matters, such as asylum claims and unlawful detention, standing on behalf of the most vulnerable people in the soasylum claims and unlawful detention, standing on behalf of the most vulnerable people in the society.

Additional Resources American Bar Association Commission on Immigration American Immigration Lawyers Association Amnesty International Country Reports Asylum Pro Se Guide — English (Create by students at Stanford Law) Center for Gender and Refugee Studies, University of California, Hastings College of the Law (includes resources for gender law and asylum) Department of Justice Country Conditions Research Detention Watch Network EOIR Virtual Law Library (with BIA precedent decisions) Human Rights Watch, Country Specific Reports Human Rights Watch, Children's Rights Division Immigrant Legal Resource Center Immigration Equality (includes extensive resources for LGBT asylum claims) Immigration and Nationality Act Immigration Regulations (C.F.R. Title 8) National Immigrant Justice Center's Resources for Attorneys Representing Asylum Seekers (includes numerous free training webinars) UNHCR Guidance Report on LGBT Asylum Claims United Nations High Commission on Refugees USCIS Guidance on Adjudicating LGBT Asylum Claims University of Minnesota Human Rights Library / Refugee and Asylum Resources U.S. State Department Country Reports Women on the Run, UNHCR Report (resources for female asylum - seekers) Women's Human Rights Net Yale Law School's Refugee & Asylum Resources (includes several resources for gender - based asylum cAsylum Pro Se Guide — English (Create by students at Stanford Law) Center for Gender and Refugee Studies, University of California, Hastings College of the Law (includes resources for gender law and asylum) Department of Justice Country Conditions Research Detention Watch Network EOIR Virtual Law Library (with BIA precedent decisions) Human Rights Watch, Country Specific Reports Human Rights Watch, Children's Rights Division Immigrant Legal Resource Center Immigration Equality (includes extensive resources for LGBT asylum claims) Immigration and Nationality Act Immigration Regulations (C.F.R. Title 8) National Immigrant Justice Center's Resources for Attorneys Representing Asylum Seekers (includes numerous free training webinars) UNHCR Guidance Report on LGBT Asylum Claims United Nations High Commission on Refugees USCIS Guidance on Adjudicating LGBT Asylum Claims University of Minnesota Human Rights Library / Refugee and Asylum Resources U.S. State Department Country Reports Women on the Run, UNHCR Report (resources for female asylum - seekers) Women's Human Rights Net Yale Law School's Refugee & Asylum Resources (includes several resources for gender - based asylum casylum) Department of Justice Country Conditions Research Detention Watch Network EOIR Virtual Law Library (with BIA precedent decisions) Human Rights Watch, Country Specific Reports Human Rights Watch, Children's Rights Division Immigrant Legal Resource Center Immigration Equality (includes extensive resources for LGBT asylum claims) Immigration and Nationality Act Immigration Regulations (C.F.R. Title 8) National Immigrant Justice Center's Resources for Attorneys Representing Asylum Seekers (includes numerous free training webinars) UNHCR Guidance Report on LGBT Asylum Claims United Nations High Commission on Refugees USCIS Guidance on Adjudicating LGBT Asylum Claims University of Minnesota Human Rights Library / Refugee and Asylum Resources U.S. State Department Country Reports Women on the Run, UNHCR Report (resources for female asylum - seekers) Women's Human Rights Net Yale Law School's Refugee & Asylum Resources (includes several resources for gender - based asylum casylum claims) Immigration and Nationality Act Immigration Regulations (C.F.R. Title 8) National Immigrant Justice Center's Resources for Attorneys Representing Asylum Seekers (includes numerous free training webinars) UNHCR Guidance Report on LGBT Asylum Claims United Nations High Commission on Refugees USCIS Guidance on Adjudicating LGBT Asylum Claims University of Minnesota Human Rights Library / Refugee and Asylum Resources U.S. State Department Country Reports Women on the Run, UNHCR Report (resources for female asylum - seekers) Women's Human Rights Net Yale Law School's Refugee & Asylum Resources (includes several resources for gender - based asylum cAsylum Seekers (includes numerous free training webinars) UNHCR Guidance Report on LGBT Asylum Claims United Nations High Commission on Refugees USCIS Guidance on Adjudicating LGBT Asylum Claims University of Minnesota Human Rights Library / Refugee and Asylum Resources U.S. State Department Country Reports Women on the Run, UNHCR Report (resources for female asylum - seekers) Women's Human Rights Net Yale Law School's Refugee & Asylum Resources (includes several resources for gender - based asylum cAsylum Claims United Nations High Commission on Refugees USCIS Guidance on Adjudicating LGBT Asylum Claims University of Minnesota Human Rights Library / Refugee and Asylum Resources U.S. State Department Country Reports Women on the Run, UNHCR Report (resources for female asylum - seekers) Women's Human Rights Net Yale Law School's Refugee & Asylum Resources (includes several resources for gender - based asylum cAsylum Claims University of Minnesota Human Rights Library / Refugee and Asylum Resources U.S. State Department Country Reports Women on the Run, UNHCR Report (resources for female asylum - seekers) Women's Human Rights Net Yale Law School's Refugee & Asylum Resources (includes several resources for gender - based asylum cAsylum Resources U.S. State Department Country Reports Women on the Run, UNHCR Report (resources for female asylum - seekers) Women's Human Rights Net Yale Law School's Refugee & Asylum Resources (includes several resources for gender - based asylum casylum - seekers) Women's Human Rights Net Yale Law School's Refugee & Asylum Resources (includes several resources for gender - based asylum cAsylum Resources (includes several resources for gender - based asylum casylum claims)

International human rights law provides that immigration detention is a measure of last resort and must be non-punitive, non-arbitrary, conducted with regard to due process and must not sweep up asylum seekers or other vulnerable people: Amnesty International, United Nations Human Rights Committee periodic country review in the summer of 2015: online https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/amr20/1806/2015/en/.

To accomplish the goal of providing free legal service to asylum - seekers and access to justice to immigrants, PAIR conducts asylum intakes, screenings and consultations for detained immigrants, and «Know Your Rights» presentations in detention centers and in immigrant communities across Massachusetts.

Immigration: All aspects of immigration, asylum, nationality and refugee law with particular emphasis and expertise in: asylum and human rights cases; overlap between asylum and extradition law; representing children subject to immigration control; representing victims of trafficking and other vulnerable clients; detention and deportation; immigration issues in adoption and surrogacy cases; immigration for family members of British and settled people; EEA - related matters, in particular relating to third - country national family members; appeal work in FTT and UT and the higher courts; public law challenges to Home Office in judicial review; and immigration bail.

The book includes chapters on defense of juveniles, requirements for immigration applications (asylum, cancellation, etc.), immigration detainers and detention, and post-conviction relief.

The ECtHR rejected the narrow interpretation of this provision suggested by the applicant that as soon as an asylum seeker had surrendered to the authorities, detention was no longer justified under Art 5 because he was no longer seeking «unauthorised entry».

During this second period of detention the authorities considered prosecuting the applicant for failing to comply with the Secretary of State's request to take specific action to obtain a travel document (under s. 35, Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc.) Act 2004).

The Committee considers that the mandatory detention under the Migration Act of «unlawful non-citizens», including asylum seekers, raises questions of compliance with Article 9, paragraph 1, of the Covenant, which provides that no person shall be subjected to arbitrary detention.

That would allow independent inspectors to investigate and report on matters of torture, cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment across Australia and in Australia's offshore asylum seeker detention centres.

The Royal Australasian College of Physicians also released a position statement on treatment of asylum seekers, a key plank of which is calling on the Government to end detention.

Though not all refugee and asylum seeking children and adolescents are subjected to these circumstances, experiences often claimed to be encountered by them include the violent death of a parent, injury / torture towards a family member (s), witness of murder / massacre, terrorist attack (s), child - soldier activity, bombardments and shelling, detention, beatings and / or physical injury, disability inflicted by violence, sexual assault, disappearance of family members / friends, witness of parental fear and panic, famine, forcible eviction, separation and forced migration (Burnett & Peel, 2001; Davies & Webb, 2000).

Search terms included single and combined forms of the following descriptors: refugee camp, refugee detention, imprisonment, child and / or adolescent refugee, asylum seeker, displacement, Australia, development, long term effects, long term stress, post-traumatic stress, stress, psychopathology, mental health, psychiatric effects and psychological well being.

An underlying question for participants was how much racism, at an institutional level and in the high levels of public support for tough approaches to asylum seekers, has to do with the treatment of children in immigration detention and if it helps in advocacy to raise racism as an issue.

Asylum seekers from Sri Lanka or Afghanistan who arrive by boat on or after 9 April 2010 will be subjected to mandatory immigration detention for the duration of the suspension.