Asylum Seekers
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US: Homeland Security Needs Reform, Not Expansion
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“Like Living in Hell”
Police Abuses Against Child and Adult Migrants in Calais
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Greece: A Year of Suffering for Asylum Seekers
EU-Turkey Deal Traps People in Abuse and Denies Them Refuge
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Poland: Asylum Seekers Blocked at Border
Ensure Procedure Access; Halt Summary Returns
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Canada: Expedite Snowden-Linked Asylum Cases
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EU: Draft Code for Sea Rescues Threatens Lives
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Poland: EU Should Tackle Unsafe Returns to Belarus
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EU: Boat Migration Demands Shared Responsibility
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World Refugee Day
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EU: Shifting Rescue to Libya Risks Lives
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Thailand: Investigate Death in Immigration Lockup
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Burma/Thailand: Deported Turkish Man at Risk
Finding Shelter
The world is in the midst of the worst refugee crisis since World War II. How did we get there? And what can be done to find the refugees a safe home?
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Exodus: Asylum Seekers Flee Into Europe
“What will happen to us?” “Will they fingerprint us?” was the constant refrain as we watched a human wave of asylum seekers and migrants from Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan crossing the Serbia-Hungary border.
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Fleeing Syria and Stranded in Hungary
Interactive Photo Feature: Thousands of asylum-seekers, including many from war-torn Syria, arrive daily in Hungary, seeking a path to Germany and other Western European countries. Hungary has detained and at times refused to allow people to continue onwards to Western Europe, citing an EU regulation. As a result, thousands have been stranded at Budapest's Keleti train station. Human Rights Watch researchers interviewed scores. Here are their stories. >>