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Child refugees exposed to great danger and abuses in Europe, says UNHCR

originally published by: The Guardian
14th June 2010

A drastic increase in the number of unaccompanied minors trying to enter Europe is exposing thousands of children to severe dangers and human rights abuses, the UN Refugee Agency UNHCR warned today.

Following UK government plans to set up a £4m “reintegration centre” in Afghanistan so that it can deport unaccompanied child asylum seekers to Kabul from Britain, the UNHCR warned that the measures may force children to go underground, putting them in further danger as they try to avoid the authorities.

According to the report many children consider returning to their home country both a personal failure and “a betrayal of the trust and money that their families have invested in them”.

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26 May 201016 December 2022 4WardEverUK

Clegg does u-turn on McKinnon extradition

originally published by: THINQ.co.uk
26th May 2010

In a dramatic U-turn, Nick Clegg yesterday said the Government may have no power to prevent the extradition of hacker Gary McKinnon to the US.

The Liberal Democrat leader’s comments came in a radio interview on Five Live. It’s the first time Clegg has waded in on the case since becoming Deputy Prime Minister at the recent general election.

His comments came as a shock to supporters of the computer hacker, who had been heartened by the recent adjournment of extradition hearings.

26 May 201016 December 2022 4WardEverUK

Returned asylum seekers killed or jailed

originally published by: ABC News
19th May 2010

Refugee advocates say at least nine asylum seekers returned to Sri Lanka by the Howard government were killed and those sent back in past year have been held in police custody and some assaulted.

Australia has suspended its processing of Sri Lankan asylum seekers pending a review of conditions in Sri Lanka. Immigration Minister Chris Evans says the Federal Government has a “major problem” returning asylum seekers who have been involved with the Tamil Tigers.

Phil Glendenning, the director of the Catholic Church’s Edmund Rice Centre, has recently returned from Sri Lanka and says the country is in danger of becoming a police state.