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UK Officials Restrain And Assault Blind Bisexual Asylum Seeker

A blind bisexual asylum seeker was allegedly assaulted by UK deportation officers at Heathrow airport on Saturday, the 5th of April. Alain Kouayep Tchatchue reportedly fled his native Cameroon, where same-sex acts are punishabl...
by Isabella Grotto
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Human Rights

Russians Wary Of Snowden Asylum

After spending six weeks ensconced in Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport, Edward Snowden was finally permitted to leave the airport “transit zone” after he received temporary asylum in Russia for the period of one year. Slipp...
by Daniel Kennedy
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Politics

With us or against us: Tory scaremongering has genocidal overtones

The newly independent Tory government has provided further indication of its brazen radicalism. Following the Queen’s Speech in May, during which plans were announced for a new “counter-extremism bill” that will brin...
by Gustav Isherwood
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Africa

Why The Russian, Nigerian And British Governments Are Acting Like Big Bullies

One story that has emerged in the “weird news” sections of many online news outlets over the past few days is the news that a Nigerian woman disowned her cat for displaying ‘homosexual tendencies’. The woman from Lafi...
by Michael Osiyale
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Detained and Desperate: Undocumented Migrants in Greece

Stories of despair were transmitted through Twitter when politicians, journalists and anti-racism activists visited a detention facility within the Drapetsona police station in Piraeus city, where more than 100 unauthorized ...
by Global Voices
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International Migrants Day: Why We Should All Celebrate

Today marks the 13th anniversary of International Migrants Day, a day identified by the United Nations to respect and recognise the freedoms, plights, and fundamental rights of migrants everywhere. However, while the vast major...
by L.
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Europe

Immigrants Are People Too, With Stories: Here’s Mine.

There is something startling in how little the British seem to know about their history. The same holds true for the majority of Europeans. I arrived in the UK aged 13 from Portugal in 2004. My father had been in England for 1...
by Davide Castro
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Asia

Bought Brides: A Challenge To China’s Immigration Policy?

The huge flow of internal migrants in China is well-known and has been thoroughly reported on by observers of Chinese society (see this FAR article). Although less sizeable, another kind of migration is creeping up on the Part...
by Erik Svanberg
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Australia

‘No Advantage’ for Anyone: Australia takes a humanitarian step backwards

The Federal Government of Australia has announced changes to its policies that will see Australia take a huge leap backwards in the humanity of its processing of refugees and asylum seekers. Allow me a moment here for honest di...
by Yassmin Abdel-Magied
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