Group Estimates 109 Iraqi Journalists Have Died During War - 10.05.2006:A new report by the Iraqi Journalists Union has determined that 109 Iraqi journalists have died over the past three years. Read more...
One Year after the Massacre in Andijan - 10.05.2006:European foreign ministers should call on the Uzbek government to stop harassment and persecution of human rights defenders, independent journalists and members of the political opposition, Read more...
Outrage over policy to lock up Ulster asylum seekers - 28.02.2006:There was outrage today over a new Home Office policy to transfer Ulster's asylum seekers and immigrants to detention centres in England and Scotland. Read more...
Life of an asylum seeker in Britain - 28.02.2006:The life of a refugee is a daily struggle, coloured by worry, fear, loneliness, poverty and survival, as I found out after meeting Tino Ahdemi, an asylum seeker from Zimbabwe, who’s been here for seven years, and is still awaiting a Home Office decision on his immigration status. Read more...
Families give up on their asylum battle - 22.02.2006:TWO families who fled their homeland in fear of their lives have given up their fight for asylum. Read more...
Asylum seeker family detained - 22.02.2006:A GLASGOW-based family of asylum seekers has been detained by immigration officials. Home Office officials moved the Shvetsov family on Saturday during a dawn raid and they were detained at Dungavel, in Lanarkshire. Read more...
Health trusts accused of discrimination:HEALTH bosses were today accused of “institutional discrimination” against refugees and asylum seekers after attempting to make sweeping cuts to a service provided for them. Read more...
French police accused of brutality:France, which sees itself as a bastion of human rights, has received embarrassingly low marks on the subject in a Council of Europe report to be released this week. Read more...
In pictures: the Berlin Film Festival:In February 2002, Michael Winterbottom's In This World won the Berlin Film Festival's top prize, telling the story of two Afghan asylum seekers hazardously crossing Europe in search of a better life. Read more...