Fahamu Refugee Legal Aid Newsletter

The Fahamu Refugee Legal Aid Newsletter is a monthly electronic publication that provides news, reflection, and learning on the provision of refugee legal aid. It is aimed primarily to be a resource for legal aid providers in the Global South where law journals and other resources are hard to access. It complements the information portal, http://www.frlan.org. The newsletter follows recent developments in the interpretation of refugee law; case law precedents from different constituencies; reports and helpful resources for refugee legal aid providers; and stories of struggle and success in refugee legal aid work.

1st Oct 2012

Country of Origin and Legal News

AFRICA

LIBERIA: Grant rejects refugees relocation
NIGERIA: A bewitching economy - witchcraft and human trafficking; More Liberian refugees in Nigeria opt for repatriation
RWANDA: Human Rights Watch expresses concerns over World Bank funding in Rwanda
SOUTH AFRICA: Xenophobia rears its head as ‘war’ declared in Mayfair; Asylum seekers live in hope that Home Affairs will respect court order
SOUTH SUDAN: Peace and conflict assessment of South Sudan 2012
TANZANIA: An urgent briefing on the situation of Burundian refugees in Mtabila camp in Tanzania
UGANDA: Producer of play about being gay in Uganda is jailed
WESTERN SAHARA: Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights observes grave human rights violations
ZIMBABWE: Election season raises risks for gay population

AMERICAS

CANADA: Coquitlam Roma family faces deportation due to new ‘safe countries’ legislation
VENEZUELA: Open borders and open hearts: How the Venezuelan state addresses its population of Colombian refugees

ASIA-PACIFIC

AUSTRALIA: Outsourcing responsibilities: Australia’s punitive asylum regime; Asylum seekers to be processed under Nauruan law; Most asylum seekers actual refugees

GEORGIA: Georgia’s prisons: roots of scandal

JAPAN: Kurdish refugee returns to Tokyo to thank supporters

NEW ZEALAND: I-Kiribati Man Wanting ‘Climate Change Refugee’ Status Denied by New Zealand Immigration

THAILAND: Burmese refugees could go back within one year

EUROPE

DENMARK: Research changes legal system; Cooperative asylum seekers to be granted more rights; Poor interpreters put asylum seekers at risk

GERMANY: Humane levels of support for asylum-seeking families; First refugees of the Libyan War in Germany

GREECE: In crisis, Greece rounds up immigrants; Journalists report it’s not rhetoric to draw parallels with Nazism

ITALY: Italy abandoning refugees to poverty and isolation, says report

MALTA: ‘Anti-Maltese’ Frontex rules are declared null

NORWAY: Asylum seekers face discrimination despite residence permit

SLOVAKIA: Humiliating means used to test sexual orientation of asylum seekers

UK: Refugees protest against Yishai in London; The lesbian asylum case that shows a broken system; Pregnant, detained, and subjected to force;

MIDDLE EAST

ISRAEL: Interior Minister: Despite sad sight, migrants trapped on Egyptian border will not be allowed into Israel; ‘Detaining, deporting Sudanese citizens is legal’; Israel’s lethal apathy toward refugees
PAKISTAN: Afghan refugees ordered to leave Pakistan by year-end

GLOBAL

The Meijers Committee raises concerns about the establishment of EUROSUR

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