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ICERAS focuses on facilitating asylum seekers and refugees internationally
November, 2016
Recent Activities of the Plight of Eritrean Refugee
Recent Activities of the Plight of Eritrean Refugee By: Tigist Abebe & Simon Gebreselassie A mathematics lecturer, the Capuchin priest of Eritrean nationality, Father Vittorio Boria, The Plight of Eritrean Refugee Committee at St. Nicholas church was created to help address the issues that Eritrean refugees face once they leave Eritrea. The Committee was created […]
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Eritrean refugees in Israel sent to Uganda and Rwanda
Kampala, Uganda – The sky was still an inky black when the flight from Cairo touched down at Entebbe Airport near Kampala, the capital of Uganda, one morning in mid-January, the fluorescent glow spilling from the small terminal providing the only source of light. It had been 15 hours since Musgun Gebar left Tel Aviv, […]
Tags: Eritrean refugees, Israel, Rwanda, Uganda
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Home Office Policy Towards Eritrean Asylum Seekers – Solution or Confusion?
By Tesfahannes Beyene, Britain’s policy towards Eritrean asylum seekers and Economic migrants is confused to say the least. The answer is simple; there is no any coherent policy towards Eritreans as many of those who claim to be Eritreans are in fact Ethiopians. The strange thing is that Britain’s Home Office (the office of domestic […]
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Deported to persecution: The Home Office’s Eritrean programme
By Philip Kleinfeld Monday, 11 April 2016 It was roughly twelve months after 31-year-old Gebre Berhane (not his real name) escaped Eritrea that the letter came through from the Home Office. He’d already lost 13 years of his life to forced military service and faced the threat of a regime which he says kidnapped his father turning on him. […]
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Judges deem Eritrea unsafe for migrants’ return as Home Office advice rebutted
The Home Office will alter its much-criticised policy on Eritrean asylum seekers, after a legal ruling found that the majority of those fleeing the country risk persecution or serious harm on returning. The ruling, which could affect thousands of Eritreans, one of the largest groups to seek asylum in Britain every year, contradicts the government’s […]
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Hundreds of Eritreans’ asylum applications still ‘incorrectly refused’
Hundreds of asylum applications from Eritreans are being incorrectly refused by the government owing to its “unacceptable” policy on accepting refugees from the country, MPs have said. The home affairs select committee has called on the Home Office to explain why it still has not updated its guidance on asylum seekers from Eritrea, even though […]
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Some recent statistics regarding eritrean refugees and asylum seekers
Refugees. Eritreans comprised the fourth largest migrant group within the mass influx into Europe in 2015 (following Syrians, Iraqis and Afghans). The World Post (Huffington Post); United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Eritreans comprised the largest group of African refugees in Europe in 2015. BBC. Eritreans comprised the largest group of asylum seekers in the […]
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Sharp increase in number of Eritrean refugees and asylum-seekers in Europe, Ethiopia and Sudan
During the first ten months of 2014, the number of asylum-seekers in Europe from Eritrea has nearly tripled. In Ethiopia and Sudan, neighbouring Eritrea, the number of Eritrean refugees has also increased sharply. So far this year, nearly 37,000 Eritreans have sought refuge in Europe, compared to almost 13,000 during the same period last year. […]
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Home Office block on Afghan and Eritrean teen refugees ‘a disgrace’
The Home Office has come under attack over the publication of new, highly restrictive, eligibility criteria for child refugees hoping to be transferred from France to Britain, which will stop many Eritrean, Afghan and Yemeni teenagers aged 13 or 14 getting sanctuary in the UK. The Home Office minister Robert Goodwill was also under pressure […]
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UK approach to Eritrean refugees: what is the reality on the ground?
UK approach to Eritrean refugees: what is the reality on the ground? 2/11/2016 – 17:00 – 18:30 HRS. Since the beginning of last year, Eritreans have made up the fourth largest group of asylum seekers in the European Union, and the second largest group to arrive in Italy by boat, after Syrians. Until recently, the […]
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