Sentences with phrase «faces asylum»

Firstly, we must rethink the hostile environment which faces asylum seekers and torture survivors.

But the travelers faced an uncertain future as they prepared to turn themselves in and face asylum.

A new report published by Médicins Sans Frontières has identified an urgent deterioration in the care available for vulnerable refugees on the Greek island of Lesbos, with particular issues facing asylum seekers who have experienced torture or violence.

Not exact matches

The government's slow pace in filling vacancies on the Immigration and Refugee Board has led it to declare that it will no longer be meeting legislated timelines in the face of a wave of irregular asylum seekers crossing the Canada-U.S. border.

After trekking through Mexico, the Central American asylum seekers now face an unsympathetic administration.

Some refugees believe they have a better chance at asylum if they become Christian; forcing them to return to places like Iran and Afghanistan — where converts can face the death penalty — would threaten their lives.

The challenge facing any local church which wants to engage with asylum seekers and refugees is how its existing congregation will respond.

Some countries including France have offered asylum to believers who're facing persecution but Britain has not.

Current visa holders, refugees already granted asylum, and travelers from Iraq no longer face restrictions, and the indefinite ban on refugees from Syria was reduced to 120 days — same as the overall refugee population.

Nigerian asylum seeker Iza Muazu is suffering organ failure after a 90 - day hunger strike but still faces deportation by the Home Office.

Earlier this week, the Foreign Minister of Ecuador, Ricardo Patino, announced his government's decision to provide «diplomatic asylum» to the founder of the Wikileaks website, who took up residence in the embassy in mid June to avoid extradition to Sweden to face questioning related to alleged sexual offences.

That means that until the lord chancellor appeals, asylum seekers will continue to face an appeals process which has been judged unlawful.

Lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT) people seeking asylum - including those living with HIV - face a lack of specialist support and services in the UK, according to new research.

Over the past year I have been researching the struggle faced by unaccompanied asylum - seeking children that arrive in the UK looking for protection.

I interviewed dozens of experts, social workers, lawyers and asylum - seeking teenagers and found that, far from being welcomed to safety, vulnerable children face an overwhelming number of obstacles.

This report from Medecins Sans Frontieres makes for grim and sober reading: it is clear that the situation facing vulnerable asylum seekers on Lesbos is increasingly precarious, and that urgent action is needed.

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.

The impact of poverty is compounded by numerous other issues in a hostile asylum system, from the years spent living in dirty and poorly maintained asylum accommodation, to years of waiting in limbo in fear of being returned home whilst facing disbelief from Home Office officials.

For Eritrean and Sudanese asylum - seekers facing deportation from Israel's Holot detention centre, the future is bleak.

Either way, states must face the reality that these measures will be unlikely to dissuade desperate people from seeking asylum.

It is well documented that asylum seekers regularly face serious risk of harm as a result of being detained, with torture survivors particularly vulnerable.

In this process, the asylum institution has been discredited with asylum seekers facing suspicion and pressures to provide almost impossible burden of proof.

It was kicked off by a petition by Nigerian lesbian asylum seeker Aderonke Adejumoke Apata, who faces being returned to her home country despite the fact homosexuality can be punished by stoning in some areas.

Ms. Mark - Viverito proudly announced that the multi-million-dollar New York City Unaccompanied Minors Initiative, started last year to handle the cases of the thousands of underage children pouring in without their parents, has successfully gotten free lawyers for some 1,600 foreign national boys and girls and won asylum for 14 of them — meeting the speaker's goal of providing legal representation to every unaccompanied child facing deportation.

The speaker's office estimated that two - thirds of the minors who have fled to New York qualify for asylum or other kinds of sanctuary due to the conditions they faced at home.

«Theresa May took the first step by demanding a review of the invasive and humiliating treatment gays face in the asylum process.

Moreover, some asylum seekers would face persecution upon return no matter which faction ends up winning, because those particular asylum seekers are too strongly associated with whoever the eventual losers in the civil war will be.

«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.

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.

A Somalian asylum seeker faces «imminent» deportation by the UK government, despite threats from terrorists to murder him on his return.

Landlords who fail to demand papers from asylum seeker tenants or evict them will face five - years in jail.

Reports from asylum support groups revealed that many refugees were facing extreme destitution, receiving a tiny sum per day and unable to get work or claim welfare.

In stating that «a generation ago, women faced forced feedings, jail, asylums and worse, [no] right to vote, own property and be viewed as equals,» she probably meant four generations ago.

«The long waits, the barriers asylum seekers face when they come here are onerous,» Kadiri said.

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.

«Hotter temperatures will accelerate migration of asylum - seekers to Europe: EU could face a massive influx by 2100 if carbon emissions hold steady.»

According to Kirmayer, Yezidis serve as an extreme case study of the psychological challenges that refugees face at every stage of forced migration, from the initial trauma of violent upheaval to the stress of uncertain asylum status and eventual resettlement.

Russia has granted him asylum for a year — he can return to the U.S. only if he is willing to face charges of espionage and theft of government property.

«In doing so, we also want to increase the recognition in society of the movements of solidarity with asylum seekers and refugees, and explore possible ways to resolve the challenges faced by volunteers and charities in the pro-asylum sector.»

A lot in this movie is stupid or makes no sense when you think about it - like the truth about the Bleeder's face and how that asylum doesn't have any emergency generator -, but it has its moments and Palance, Pleasence and Landau seem to be having crazy fun as sick f *** s.

Unlike the others, which are long slogs through large dungeons and pockets of enemies, Asylum Sanctorium allows you and the party to choose how the trial will be approached, and you can ultimately face all three main bosses at once, given the team is strong enough to handle that onslaught.

With the help of a ditzy tabloid reporter he digs into a plot that involves a small army of ET's cousins in human faces (marching into modern day New York dressed like they've stepped out of Happy Days), a lonely man in an insane asylum who may not be crazy after all, and the US government.

Episode 1 — «Welcome to Briarcliff» (Airs October 17, 10:00 pm e / p)-- «Welcome to Briarcliff Manor, a notorious insane asylum home to the deranged serial killer, Bloody Face.

«Outcast» may have pair of recognizable faces in key roles, but this is basically a Chinese historical soap opera by way of The Asylum.

Sri Lankan asylum seekers who were sent back by Australia cover their faces as they wait to enter a magistrate's court in Galle, Sri Lanka, on Tuesday.

Laurie has faced off against Michael Myers in a hospital, a boarding school and mental asylum.

(38) If refugees and asylum - seekers lack a marketable skill and are thus unemployed, they will nonetheless face a variety of problems and pathologies, including domestic violence, divorces, suicides, alcoholism, drug abuse, or engage in criminal activities so as to earn a living.

Using this approach we have supported systemic change with culturally and linguistically diverse people (including newly arrived, asylum seeker and refugee people), Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, people experiencing addiction, people living with disabilities, and people facing deep community exclusion or past trauma.

Gone is the hyper linear world of Asylum, replaced with an open world environment that you'll get to explore and punch faces in.

Rocksteady Studios delivers Arkham Asylum squarely onto the face with one of the most unexpectedly enjoyable movie - games since GoldenEye.