By Ilan Lior. Israel says aim is to make employing asylum-seekers more expensive for businesses; human rights organizations warn that the obligation will exacerbate poverty.
Decision not to send Dafurians to Holot based on fact that most asylum seekers have not had their political asylum requests answered yet, immigration authority says.
By: Ilan Lior
Sheyzaf Zach, who heads the advocacy and support center of the refugee aid organization ASSAF, said Gesher’s shutdown is another case of penny wise, pound foolish. Failing to give traumatized asylum seekers basic mental health services means they are liable to deteriorate to the point where they need psychiatric hospitalization, he said.
By: Ilan Lior
By Tedros Abraha, 28, has lived in Uganda since January. He spoke to Ryan Lenora Brown in English. Brown traveled to Uganda with the International Women’s Media Foundation.
As told to RYAN LENORA BROWN
Six years after he fled Darfur for Israel, Mutasim Ali, one of the leaders of the asylum seekers’ struggle in Israel, has been granted refugee status. Ali: ‘Now I can live a normal life with dignity.’
By Yael Marom
Up to 400,000 people in Eritrea enslaved by authoritarian government, UN inquiry finds. Eritreans are one of the largest groups crossing the Mediterranean. By: Patrick Kingsley, migration correspondent
