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TEHRAN (Tasnim) – A standoff involving a boat carrying Rohingya refugees and the Indonesian navy has ended with a dramatic rescue that took 18 hours to complete due to heavy rains and high seas.
On July 28, 2021, the world will mark the 70 th Anniversary of the 1951 Refugee Convention. In the wake of World War II, the United States played a lead role in drafting this convention, which specifies key protections for people forced to flee persecution. By later acceding to the Refugee Protocol, the United States promised to abide by the Convention’s legal requirements, including its prohibition against returning refugees to places where their lives or freedom are at risk. The U.S. Congress subsequently enacted the Refugee Act of 1980, incorporating the Convention’s definition of a re...
Tokyo has long been criticized for restrictive immigration policy. Can it change? By March 12, 2021 Advertisement During the current ordinary session of the Diet, the Japanese government plans to revise the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act in order to prevent the long-term detention of foreign nationals. To this end, a cabinet decision to revise the legislation was made on February 19, 2021. The revision of the legislation was influenced by domestic and international criticism against Japan’s immigration and refugee policy. In September 2020, the United Nations Human Rights...
Terror among many immigrant communities. wh when we talk about the undocumented population, the trump administration is talking about potentially going after 2,000 people with final orders of deportation. when we look at the larger undocumented population, you have 5 million u.s. citizen children who have an undocumented parent. about 4 million u.s. citizen children who live with someone undocumented. what would happen to those children? one potential legal hurdle is this could violate the president's own executive order against family separations. as you mentioned, asylum -- our asylum proces...