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Canadian Council for Refugees and Amnesty International call for stay of removal while threat of torture examined
29 June 2006
Report 2006: World's poor and disadvantaged pay price of war on terror
POL 10/018/2006
23 May 2006
SAFE THIRD COUNTRY AGREEMENT SHOWN TO VIOLATE REFUGEE RIGHTS
29 March 2006
Italy: The invisible children
EUR 30/003/2006
23 February 2006
Ukraine: Ten asylum-seekers forcibly returned to Uzbekistan
EUR 50/001/2006
20 February 2006
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Letter to The Honourable Stockwell Day regarding stay of removal while threat of torture examined
29 June 2006
Italy:Invisible children - The human rights of migrant and asylum-seeking minors detained upon arrival at the maritime border in Italy
Minors are often forgotten in discussions on global migration and asylum. According to UNHCR, at any one time there may be up to 100,000 unaccompanied children in Western Europe alone. As many as 20,000 unaccompanied minors lodge asylum applications every year in Europe, North America and Oceania.(1) Children are particularly vulnerable to human rights abuses, both as minors and as migrants/asylum-seekers, and are thus subject to an intersectional vulnerability. In Italy, many migrant and asylum-seeking minors, whether accompanied by family members or alone, are put in immigration detention centres each year after arrival at the maritime border without an opportunity to challenge the lawfulness or arbitrariness of their detention. Their exact number is not available due to a lack of transparency in the Italian immigration system. Because the practice of routine, generalized detention does not comply with international human rights laws and standards, such detention is not subjected to protective assessments (such as whether it is in the child’s best interests) as required by the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC).
EUR 30/001/2006
23 February 2006
Bosnia and Herzegovina: Behind closed gates: ethnic discrimination in employment
Between 1992 and 1995 the three major ethnic groups of today’s Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), Bosniaks (Bosnian Muslims), Bosnian Serbs and Bosnian Croats, fought a bitter conflict for political and economic power. Tens of thousands of people were killed and millions were driven from their homes as attempts were made to create "ethnically cleansed" territories. Tens of thousands of workers in these territories were discriminated against and unfairly dismissed because of their ethnicity.
EUR 63/001/2006
26 January 2006
Greece
OUT OF THE SPOTLIGHT
The rights of foreigners and minorities are still a grey area
"Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth, or other status."
Article 2, Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Freedom from discrimination is the basis upon which the protection of human rights rests. The failure to guarantee freedom from discrimination is thus a fundamental failure in such protection practices. Amnesty International has documented various aspects of this failure around the globe. This report outlines the situation in Greece. It documents a consistent pattern of human rights violations across a range of fields that stem from the failure of the state to combat discrimination, in the practices of its representatives as well as of non-state actors. These practices range from the denial of protection to refugees and the ill-treatment of migrants, to the forced eviction of Roma from their settlements and the inadequate protection of minority rights.
EUR 25/016/2005
5 October 2005
Burundi: Refugee Rights at Risk : Human Rights Abuses in Returns to and from Burundi
It is a time of fragile hopefulness in Burundi. The country has emerged from several decades of devastating civil war and massive human rights violations and begun a peace process. The Arusha Peace and Reconciliation Agreement for Burundi was signed in August 2000. All but one of the armed opposition groups have agreed to those accords. (1) The United Nations has a significant presence in Burundi through the mandate(2) of the United Nations Operations in Burundi (ONUB), which includes a peacekeeping force of close to 5,500 soldiers now widely deployed throughout the country and acting under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations. A constitutional referendum, held on 28 February 2005, led to the adoption of a new constitution for the post transition period. After several delays, local, legislative and presidential elections are due to be held in various phases by 19 August 2005. All of these developments offer reason for hope.
AFR 16/006/2005
27 June 2005
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