Tag: Asylum seekers

Yet another Pakistan International Airlines flight attendant disappeared in Canada last week after touching down in Toronto, the airline's spokesman, Abdullah Hafeez Khan, confirmed on Wednesday.For more stories from The Media Line go to themedialine.org Khan said that flight attendant Faiza Mukhtar landed in Toronto on Jan. 19 ...

Last month, the United Nations warned of “serious implications” and said the “forced repatriation of Afghan nationals has the potential to result in severe human rights violations, including the separation of families and deportation of minors”.The sudden decision came after suicide bombings in Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provinces killed ...

Activists in France have called on the government to systematically grant asylum to women and girls fleeing the Taliban in Afghanistan, after the first all-female group of evacuees arrived in Paris. France flew five women over this week to apply for refugee status, but many thousands more are still ...

France has flown five Afghan women who had been "threatened by the Taliban" to Paris, where they are due to arrive this Monday.  Issued on: 04/09/2023 - 09:00 1 min According to French immigration authority chief Didier, a presidential order has ensured "special attention is being paid to women who ...

ISTANBULIt has been more than a month since Shan Virk’s cousins Asadullah and Usama left their homes in Pakistan.The two were among the hundreds of migrants and asylum seekers on a boat that sank off the coast of Greece on Wednesday, the latest in an unending series of human ...

ISTANBULIt has been more than a month since Shan Virk’s cousins Asadullah and Usama left their homes in Pakistan.The two were among the hundreds of migrants and asylum seekers on a boat that sank off the coast of Greece on Wednesday, the latest in an unending series of human ...

ATHENS — Coast guard, navy and merchant vessels and aircraft carried out a vast search-and-rescue operation into the early hours of Thursday morning for any migrants who may have survived the sinking of an overcrowded fishing boat off the Greek coast.As the enormity of the tragedy became clear -- ...

GENEVA Some 108.4 million people were forcibly displaced worldwide in 2022 as a result of persecution, conflict, violence and human rights violations, according to a report released on Wednesday.The Global Trends in Forced Displacement 2022 report by the UN Refugee Agency (UNCHR) found that the figure includes 62.5 million internally ...

First South Asian actor to win best new performer at Hong Kong Film Awards says he knew little about movie industry after first arriving in city at age four. Source link

If the issue of asylum seekers arriving by plane becomes a political football, a sensible policy solution becomes even more unlikely, writes Dr Abul Rizvi.AFTER A DECADE of not talking about any asylum seekers other than those who arrived by boat (or scare campaigns about those who might arrive ...