Newszine 39 - October

Support Groups
Open Letter to all human & civil and refugee organizations In Defence of Refugees in Turkey
Release all asylum detainees from Democratic Republic of Congo - return is unsafe
Refugee-NGO's in more than 30 European Countries reject EU draft directive on Asylum procedures

"Stop Your War On Asylum Seekers "
Open Letter to the editors of the Daily Mail , the Express, and the Sun
Brighton & Hove Committee to Defend Asylum Seekers, have set up an online letter campaign.

Amnesty International
"Afghanistan: No one listens to us and no one treats us as human beings. Justice denied to women"
Congo DR: Stop the slaughter now

Human Rights Watch: October 2003
Stop Violence against Women in Pakistan

UNHCR press releases: October 2003
Safeguards needed for EU asylum rules on "safe countries", warns UNHC
UNHCR urges caution as EU negotiates "safe country" concepts

Home Office Press Releases: October 2003
New Detection Technology To Prevent Illegal Immigration

Media - articles on asylum/refugee/economic migrants/ issues : October 2003
Community Fund stands by asylum group grant Guardian October 28, 2003
Welcome to Britain, and our own brand of torture Times Online Tuesday 28th October 2003
The truth about immigrants The Guardian Tuesday 28th October 2003
Asylum law plans attacked   BBC News Online Tuesday 28th October 2003
UN cuts details of Western profiteers from Congo report   Independent Monday 27th October 2003
Refugees and Asylum Seekers - PCC Guidelines on media reporting    Press Complaints Commission
Anger over asylum centre U-turn    BBC News Online Wednesday 22nd October 2003
Watch asylum terms, says press watchdog Times Online Thursday 23rd October 2003
Migrant girl, 9, tells of planned exodus from Libyan camp Independent Thursdsay 23rd October 2003
Accents on trial in asylum seeker tests The Guardian Wednesday October 22nd 2003
Asylum seeker pupils praised   BBC News Online Wednesday 22nd October 2003
Is our immigration system in crisis? The Independent Tuesday 21st October 2003
Congo DR Asylum seekers left in 'limbo'    BBC News Online Tuesday 21st October 2003
Strewn with corpses, another refugee ship offloads its cargo Independent 21st October
Prisons watchdog to target asylum centres   BBC News Online Monday 20th October 2003
Asylum saving 'limited'   The Guardian Monday October 20th 2003
Blair's tough stance on asylum 'helps BNP'   The Independent 20th October 2003
EU's "G5" discuss fight against terrorism, immigration EUbusiness.com 19th October 2003
Section 55: Asylum cases 'clogging the courts'   Guardian October 16th 2003
Asylum-seeking nurses work without pay in Scots hospitals The Herald 13/10/2003
Europe to consider quotas for immigrants     The Times Online, Monday 13th October 2003
Labour vents fury at Herald's 'separatist' asylum campaign  Observer Sunday October 12th 2003
Chilling echoes The Guardian Saturday October 11th 2003
Concern mounts for Sudan refugees BBC News Online Friday 10th October 2003
Lottery lost £1m a week after asylum row          The Guardian Thursday 9th October 2003
'We were in prison. I did not understand' The Guardian Thursday 9th October 2003
Burundi 'still unsafe for refugees' BBC News Online Thursday 9th October 2003
Blunkett ordered to rethink on asylum   The Times Thursday 9th October 2003
Letwin pledges to send asylum-seekers 'far, far away'    Independent 08/10/2003
West still failing to protect Afghan women The Guardian Monday October 6, 2003
Anger at asylum seekers evictions   BBC News Online Scotland Friday 3rd October 2003
Asylum error to cost UK millions   The Guardian Thursday October 2nd 2003
Blair's asylum stance 'chilling' BBC News Online Wednesday 1st October 2003
Hundreds in fear of religious persecution take their case to the House of Lords

Last updated 26 August, 2008