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A new app has been launched in southern France to help asylum seekers with their administrative status, accommodation, health or even their everyday needs. It's available in six languages.

Prosecuted for embezzlement in his country of origin, the Kazakh businessman Moukhtar Abliazov now lives in France, where he has been granted political refugee status. At the same time, he is the subject of an indictment by the French justice. On 30 April, he gave the daily Le Monde an interview in which he denounces a political cabal led by the […]

IHC has declared that the NADRA has not been vested with the power to suspend or block the computerized national Identity card (CNIC) of a citizen

InfoMigrants By Charlotte Oberti Published on : 2021/05/06 French politicians have been debating whether there is a link between terrorism and immigration, after a policewoman was killed by a Tunisian man in Paris on April 23. InfoMigrants reviews the current laws on immigration and legalizing undocumented foreigners in France. The April 23 killing of a French policewoman by a 36-year-old Tunisian man in Rambouillet, near Paris, reopen...

PARIS Despite authorities in France being legally required to provide housing to asylum seekers, Hussain spent over a year sleeping rough in the streets of Paris after he submitted his application for international protection.  There was a small park surrounded by a stone wall in the northeast of the city where he could sleep without being disturbed by the police, and the underside of a balcony near Gare de l’Est, one of the main train stations, where he sought shelter, often with other asyl...

France has been criticised for deporting Chechen refugee Magamoed Gadaev to Russia despite several court rulings saying he should not be expelled, human rights groups said. In 2010, Gadaev fled to Poland from Chechenya, Russia’s Muslim-majority southern region, where he served a prison sentence for alleged ties with separatists. He says he was tortured in prison. Gadaev was granted asylum in Poland before moving to France, where he became a witness in prominent torture cases involving Chechen...

News News Strasbourg 15 February 2021 Augmenter la taille du texte Imprimer la page Imprimer en PDF A delegation of the Council of Europes Group of Experts on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings (GRETA) carried out an evaluation visit to France from 8 to 12 February 2021 as part of the third evaluation round of the Convention on Action a...

The family during Mass in a Catholic church in Tehran. (Photo by ATTA KENARE/AFP) When Ali (not his real name) went to the French Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons (OFPRA) for his interview, he knew that he would be questioned about his personal history, particularly about his conversion to Christianity in Iran. He was asked to name a scripture passage that was important to him. He chose the Passion of Jesus Christ. "How did this passage resonate with you?" the protec...

UNHCRs IBelong Campaign to End Statelessness   © UNHCR UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, welcomes Iceland’s accession to the United Nations Statelessness Conventions, key international treaties to counter statelessness. “We welcome Iceland’s accession, which brings the world one step closer towards ending statelessness,” said Pascale Moreau, UNHCR Director of the Regional Bureau for Europe. Europe is home to more than 500,000 stateless people.  The total number of stateless people glob...

Honduras: UN and IACHR Experts Urge Immediate Adoption of Law to Protect Internally Displaced People Format The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) and the UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons, Cecilia Jimenez-Damary, welcomed the official submission of the Bill for the Prevention, Care, and Protection of Internally Displaced People to the National Congress of Honduras on October 14, 2020. In view of the current context in the region, which is ...