Gurkha veterans settling in Britain should be dispersed around the country in the same way as asylum seekers, a defence minister has claimed.

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

DETENTION for child asylum seekers is to be brought to an end in the UK, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has revealed.

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 Irish Times reports that an asylum appeal case referred to the European Court of Justice could set an important legal precedent affecting thousands of asylum claims in the EU. Five asylum seekers have launched an appeal against a transfer order to Greece made by the Irish Minister for Justice issued under the Dublin II regulation - the EU law that stipulates asylum applications should be decid...

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

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.

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