When Hong Kong’s Uzma Naveed discovered she was a finalist for a women’s empowerment global award in Paris, it should have been the proudest moment of her life. Instead, she was left with mixed feelings. The 37-year-old refugee from Pakistan was chosen from a pool of 1,500 nominees from 97 jurisdictions for the “national impact”…
It was only after his family were granted permission to start a new life in Australia that footballer Valentino Yuel realised there was a world beyond the Kenyan refugee camp where he spent his first 11 years. Yuel, 31, who joined Hong Kong Premier League club Eastern District in October, was born in 1994 to…
Britain’s interior minister on Sunday defended plans to drastically reduce protections for refugees and end automatic benefits for asylum seekers, insisting that irregular migration was “tearing our country apart”. UK govt defends plan to limit refugee status The measures, modelled on Denmark’s strict asylum system, aim to stop thousands of migrants from arriving in England…
London — Britain will drastically reduce protections for refugees under plans to overhaul its asylum system, the Labor government said on Saturday. The measures were announced as Prime Minister Keir Starmer faces mounting pressure over irregular migration in the face of soaring support for the hard right. “I’ll end UK’s golden ticket for asylum seekers,”…
Khas Kunar, Afghanistan – Stoori was pulled out from under the rubble of his house in Kunar province after it was destroyed by the magnitude 6 earthquake which struck on the night of August 31. But the guilt of not being able to save his wife haunts him. “I barely had enough time to pull…
The need to house asylum seekers in hotels is more important than local objections to their presence, a UK court has been told. The British government is appealing against a decision by a judge to stop the owner of a hotel from using the property to accommodate asylum seekers. The Bell Hotel in Epping, Essex,…
London – Hong Kong democracy activist Tony Chung, who once called for the city’s independence and was the youngest person to be jailed under its national security law, has been granted asylum in the U.K. Chung, 24, posted a letter from the U.K. interior ministry on his Instagram page on Sunday, which read, “Your claim…
In the cholera-stricken refugee camps of western Sudan, every second is infected by fear. Faster than a person can boil water over an open flame, the flies descend, and everything is contaminated once more. Cholera is ripping through the camps of Tawila in Darfur, where hundreds of thousands of people have been left with nothing…
At Uganda’s sprawling Kiryandongo refugee settlement, residents who had fled South Sudan attacked the mud-and-tarpaulin shelters of new arrivals from Sudan, stealing food, killing one and injuring almost 100, according to doctors and witnesses. Raiders hit Makkal Abdul Aziz’s hut at dinnertime, stealing the porridge and bread she was feeding her six children, the one…
london – A “one-in, one-out” deal in which Britain can return some migrants who cross the Channel in small boats back to France came into force on Tuesday, the U.K. government announced. The interior ministry said that British authorities were “operationally ready” and that migrant detentions were expected to begin “within days” following ratification of…