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asylum seekers

Britain Sets a Precedent That Worries the UN Refugee Agency

Damilola Banjo
• June 27, 2022

Britain’s new five-year asylum partnership arrangement with Rwanda is showing the rest of Europe how countries can possibly lock refugees out of their borders. And Filippo Grandi, the United Nations high commissioner for refugees, is worried about this precedent….

Categories: Africa, Human Rights, Migration, Refugees

How Many Immigrant Children Is the US Detaining? Nobody Knows

Barbara Crossette
• January 22, 2019

Sloppy or nonexistent identification systems at the United States-Mexican border, no organized tracking of children snatched from their parents — some often too young to say who they are — and the withholding of important information by Trump officials,…

Categories: Human Rights, Migration, Refugees

GEOPOLITICS

David Miliband on Our Duty to the Strangers in Our Midst: Refugees

Barbara Crossette
• December 19, 2017

David Miliband, a former British foreign secretary, has been president and chief executive of the International Rescue Committee since 2013, overseeing both the agency’s humanitarian relief operations and its refugee resettlement and assistance programs in several American cities. The son…