A call for urgent action by the Indonesian and Australian governments Merak asylum seekers need a just solution The situation at Merak has dragged on much too long. For over 120 days, the 254 mostly Tamil asylum seekers have been stranded there. They have suffered hardships at the hands of the Australian and Indonesian authorities. The International Organisation

The tabloid press has been waging a campaign against asylum seekers in Britain for quite a while now. They might say that it isn’t against “genuine” asylum seekers it is aimed at, but nevertheless they have helped inhibit British society from what it is for most of these people a painful and certainly life-threatening experience. News

by Salma Yaqoob Earlier this year, the Red Cross described the way our immigration system treated those whose claims for asylum have been denied as ’shameful’. Birmingham City Council has now added to this catalogue of shame by its decision to cancel a contract with the UK Border Agency to house 190 asylum seekers. “Asylum seekers last

Christians are defying the law to help asylum-seekers In every major city, Christians of all deno minations - Anglicans, Catholics, Methodists and Quakers - are going to great lengths to support asylum-seekers threatened with deportation. When asylum-seekers come to the end of the application process and have exhausted all appeals, their benefits are stopped, they lose their accommodation and they...

The detention of asylum seekers' children is a stain on the UK's moral authority and should be ended, a report has said.

In one of its most controversial reports the Centre for Social Justice will today call for failed asylum seekers to receive support or be allowed to work. The think tank founded by Iain Duncan Smith and directed by Philippa Stroud...

GURKHA campaigners have condemned a defence minister's call for Nepalese veterans settling in Britain to be "dispersed" around the country like asylum seekers.

No single issue has done more to poison the immigration well in recent years than that of asylum seekers, or ‘bogus asylum seekers’ as the Daily Mail and the rest of the gutter press would have everyone believe. Beyond the headlines there is, however, a much more complicated story to be told.

Asylum seekers and migrants who want to appeal against decisions made against them will be charged under new plans.

The number of failed asylum seekers removed from Britain has fallen to its lowest level for five years Government figures will show this week.