Sentences with phrase «treatment of asylum»

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.

But it should be kept in mind that among our own conservatives, there is a home - grown hostility towards the UN which emerged in the late 1990s in the Australian campaign against the UN's human rights system.2 The criticisms by the Howard Government of the UN human rights system and the calls for it to be reformed were driven by anger and embarrassment at international condemnation of Australia's treatment of asylum seekers and inability to solve the problems of Indigenous disadvantage.

Last month, the president of the Australian Medical Association (AMA) finally denounced Australia's appalling treatment of asylum seekers, calling it «state - sanctioned child abuse.»

Third, treatment of asylum seekers must improve.

We documented the poor standard of accommodation and inappropriate treatment of asylum seekers by contracted housing providers in our report The Poverty Barrier, published in 2013.

MPs have robustly criticised the treatment of asylum seekers in the UK, concluding many applicants lack advice and support and the overall experience can be «inhuman and degrading».

His «Love Makes a Way» campaign (whose oversized badge he is wearing for our interview) is aimed at shaming the authorities into «repenting» of their treatment of asylum seekers.

Not exact matches

The lead Catholic Bishop for Asylum and Migration has called on the government to suspend and review its recent extension of charges for non UK - citizens receiving NHS treatment.

Bayern follow in the footsteps of several other German clubs and fan groups who have extended a greeting to refugees amid severe tension in Germany over the treatment of those forced to flee war - torn areas in search of asylum.

The treatment of rape victims in the asylum system is a constant source of outrage to campaigners.

A well - known left wing member of the SNP, she has campaigned strongly on social justice issues, seeking better treatment for asylum seekers and she holds the SNP Deputy portfolio for that area.

In much the same way as government ministers motivated the Asylum and Immigration Act and defended their treatment of refugees in Rochester Prison, the manifesto states that «the vast majority of so - called «refugees» pouring into Britain every year are not real refugees at all but simply people seeking to better their living standards».

Freedom from Torture and Spiritan Asylum Services Initiative Ltd (SPIRASI) were awarded a two - year grant in April 2015 towards «Rehabilitation services and exploration of best practice in treatment for adult torture survivors and their families in the UK and Ireland.»

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

Earlier the home affairs committee recommended that the Home Office establish user groups of asylum seekers housed under the Compass contracts, to support the complaints process and feed into the wider oversight of quality and treatment in asylum accommodation.

Specifically, any asylum seeker receiving or accepted for treatment at one of Freedom from Torture's centres in Birmingham, Glasgow, London, Manchester and Newcastle should always be accommodated close to that centre.

The treatment group were assigned roles — alarmist, denier, conspiracy theorist or clickbait monger — and tasked with distorting a government fact sheet on asylum seekers using a set of cards outlining common propaganda tactics consistent with their role.

Once Upon a Time is getting the Avengers treatment courtesy of low - budget straight - to - video specialists The Asylum, who have released the poster and trailer for their latest offering Avengers Grimm.

There are multiple twists in Stonehearst Asylum, scenes of Victorian torture / mental - illness treatment, and almost no energy or interest in a picture that's near totally lacking in depth or resonance.

As the standard of treatment is comparable to that accorded to international / foreign students, most refugees and asylum - seekers are unable to turn these rights into entitlement because hosting states tends to restrict public funds to their citizens (33).

What makes it worse is that South Africa is adopting the developed countries stance, most precisely European Union policies, towards treatment of refugees and asylum - seekers.

, in combination with the principles of human dignity and most favourable treatment imposes a responsibility in certain circumstances on States not to apply the cessation clause to refugees and asylum - seekers, whose home country is not safe for them to return.

Like many Western countries, South Africa has adopted an urban asylum policy, which is based on the temporary protection of refugees.1 To that end, refugees and asylum - seekers are treated as «temporary residents,» a legal position that implicitly subjects them to restrictive immigration principles, namely exclusivity and self - sufficiency.2 Such treatment is inimical to the purpose and principles of the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and the 1969 OAU Convention Governing the Specific Aspects of Refugees in Africa.

Batman: Arkham Asylum will be getting the Game of the Year treatment, available March 26th, 2010 across European and PAL...

It blew me away and ticked so many personal and professional boxes: an Italian developer with a great game — a huge Italian heritage tick — based on a real asylum whose building still exists in Volterra, Tuscany — a huge PR tick — and a game that brings attention to mental health (something I am personally interested in) and highlights the atrocities of past treatments — tick, tick, tick.

Most importantly, in the NS & ME case (Case C - 411 / 10 and C - 493 / 10), decided in December 2011, the CJEU followed the ratio of MSS, holding that «Dublin» transfers must be suspended where the transferring State can not be unaware of systemic deficiencies in the asylum system of the responsible State which give rise to substantial grounds for believing that the asylum seeker will face a real risk of being subjected to inhuman and degrading treatment contrary to Article 4 of the Charter.

In this case, counsel for the Secretary of State referred to the fact that consideration had been given to prosecuting the Claimant for his non-cooperation under s. 35 (3) of the Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc.) Act 2004: failing without reasonable excuse to comply with a requirement made by the Secretary of State to take specified action which the Secretary of State thinks will or may enable a travel document to be obtained by or for the Claimant which would facilitate the Claimant's deportation or removal from the United Kingdom.

Specifically, CCLA presented concerns about treatment of refugees and asylum seekers and migrants; police accountability and administration of justice; threats to the absolute prohibition against torture; national security measures which unjustifiably curtail rights and seek to normalize exceptional powers; and violence against women.

The Court concludes that a violation of the right to freedom of religion may constitute persecution within the meaning of Article 9 (1) of the Directive where an applicant for asylum, as a result of exercising that freedom in his or her country of origin, runs a genuine risk of being prosecuted or subjected to inhuman and degrading treatment or punishment.

However, while the issue of immigration in the US (as in other countries) has traditionally been regarded as a political or economic issue, more recently there is a recognition — in some quarters at least — that there are social and human issues, such as the separation of families, the treatment of refugees and asylum seekers, racial anxieties, national identity and perceptions that traditions are under threat.

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).

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.

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.

It was not uncommon for care at asylums to include the use of restraints and violent treatment by doctors.