Watery end for many asylum seekers
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Up to 4 000 asylum seekers drown at sea every year as they flee persecution or poverty, according to newly published British research.
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LALOGI CAMP, Northern Uganda  - Natalia Lariang  survives on handouts in one of scores of refugee camps dotted  across northern Uganda, praying for an end to one of the  world's most brutal civil wars.
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Failed asylum seekers are to be offered an extra Â£500 to return home in the wake of figures showing the number of removals is at its lowest level for five years.
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Delvina da Costa complained of squalid  conditions and a shortage of food in the refugee camp where she  has lived for almost two years, but the prospect of returning  to her old neighborhood in Dili fills her with dread.
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BELGRADE, Oct 25 (IPS) - For more than a decade, the problem of refugees  in  Serbia was only expressed in numbers, exploited by politicians or   simply put aside.
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Dozens of excited refugees leaned over the barge's railing as it glided up the Nile, marveling at the lush, green swamplands that had replaced the desert of northern Sudan. It was their first sign that they were nearing home.
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LISBON, Aug 9 (IPS) - A proposed European Union (EU) directive imposing   tighter restrictions on granting political asylum is causing  major concern  to refugee councils across the 15 nations that  comprised the EU until the  bloc's May 1 expansion to 25  countries.
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A refugee charity claims failed asylum seekers in Wales are being left destitute by Home Office rules.
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In a cruel irony, survivors of the tsunami in South Asia whose lives were devastated by water, now need fresh water to help stave off the threat of disease.
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ATHENS, Oct 29 (IPS) - Serious indication of torture, widespread violation  of human rights, systematic abuse and complete neglect of human  life is what refugees and undocumented immigrants face on the  south-eastern border of the European Community.
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Thousands of Thais, mostly from the fishing town of Nam Khem, have trickled into a makeshift refugee camp with little more than the clothes on their backs &#151; and harrowing tales of how they escaped death and their loved ones did not.
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Fears that rejected asylum seekers would be driven underground by a decision to stop their welfare benefits have been confirmed.
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Seoul has passed controversial new measures intended to slow the flow of asylum seekers.
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Some 25,000 asylum-seekers whose applications for refuge were rejected will be allowed to stay, the newly installed Dutch government said Saturday, reversing the previous administration's hardline immigration policy.
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BUDAPEST, Nov 29 (IPS) - In an embarrassing development for Hungary, Sweden  has for the past weeks received a growing number of asylum  applications from mostly ethnic Roma citizens who complain of  discrimination in the fellow European Union (EU) member state.
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New efforts are under way to reach some 100,000 Somali refugees in camps cut off by floods in north-east Kenya.
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Australia ended on Friday its controversial policy of sending asylum seekers into often-lengthy detention on small Pacific island nations, with the last refugees leaving Nauru to live in Australia.