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Member news – Call for support: Global campaign to end the immigration detention of children

3 February 2012

Call for support: Global campaign to end the immigration detention of children The International Detention Coalition (IDC) will launch a global campaign to end the immigration detention of children at the UN Human Rights Council in March this year as well as in a number of countries. IDC needs your support to build and put [...]

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Report on the 2011 ASEAN Civil Society Conference/ ASEAN People’s  Forum 2011

12 May 2011

This year the ASEAN Civil Society Conference (ACSC) 2011 was hosted by civil society groups in Jakarta from the 3rd – 5th May, 2011 at Hotel Ciputa in Jakarta. The ACSC was attended by more than 1300 participants from all over ASEAN. Apart from the plenaries, there were more than 33 workshops that were held [...]

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Sub-Regional Symposium on Refugee Protection in East Asia

23 April 2010

DATE: April 28, 2010 (Wed) 10:00 ~ 17:00 Location: Seoul, Republic of Korea Venue: International Conference Hall, Gwangbok Hall, Yonsei University Sinchon Campus Theme: Refugee Protection in East Asia and the Role of Civil Society Background Recently, there have been some positive developments in the asylum field in the Asia Pacific Region. In 2008, the [...]

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Stop the repatriation of the Sri Lankan refugees and asylum seekers now!

6 January 2010

SUARAM has been informed that the actual number of Sri Lankan asylum seekers at risk of deportation by the Malaysian Government is 19 individuals. They are scheduled to be deported on 7 and 8 January 2010 and are currently located at KLIA Immigration Detention Centre.

In addition, we were also informed that the 19 have been registered by UNHCR during detention at Machap Umboo Immigration Detention Centre, Malacca. It is most likely that their asylum claims are still being processed by UNHCR.

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UN High Commissioner for Refugees Dialogue on Protection Challenges

4 January 2010

Representatives of national governments, municipalities, non-governmental and inter-governmental organisations, academics and refugees participated in the UN High Commissioner for Refugees’ (UNHCR) Dialogue on Protection Challenges held in Geneva from 9-10 December 2009. The focus of the dialogue was on the hurdles faced by people of concern to UNHCR in cities and other urban settings

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