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The government should speed up asylum seekers’ claims instead of focusing on costly and unworkable deterrents

A mob of men wielding sticks and knives attacked a shelter for LGBTQ refugees and asylum seekers from sub-Saharan Africa on February 23. Police called to the site arrested at least eight people from sub-Saharan Africa, even though they have refugee status and are therefore legal residents in Tunisia. This…

Award winning journalist and refugee Zaina Erhaim has condemned messages sent by then health secretary Matt Hancock and Cabinet Secretary Simon Case about quarantine hotels

The family had been offered accommodation in Edinburgh - but faced a further test when it flooded.

Exclusive: Fifty refugees have taken cases against the government that paint a disturbing picture of their treatment, documents show

People in world’s poorest countries are being ‘short-changed’, ministers claim

More than 8 million Ukrainian refugees have entered Poland since Russia’s February 2022 invasion. About 1.5 million of them have remained in the central European country rather than moving on to other places or returning home amid Europe’s biggest refugee crisis since World War II.

Asylum seekers in Karachi tell of terror of being sent back to the Taliban and despair at being shackled and held in Pakistani jails

With the war in Ukraine now in its second year, nearly a third of the country’s population has been displaced, including 8 million people who have sought refuge beyond its borders.

Select committee accuses government of wilfully obscuring facts around ‘unsustainable’ trend

The recent death of a Uighur man -- who had sought refuge in Thailand and was subsequently detained for nearly a decade, was a sad reflection of the unbalanced response towards persons who seek refuge, or "refugees", in this country. Various groups currently seek protection from persecution, armed conflicts and…