Posts tagged with "Asylum seekers"

Housing the main issue for asylum-seekers in Cyprus, study shows Cyprus

Housing the main issue for asylum-seekers in Cyprus, study shows

May 24th, 2018 Housing is a major problem for asylum seekers in Cyprus, and some of them, even families with children, may remain homeless for some time, a study commissioned by UNHCR Cyprus and conducted by the University of Nicosia has shown. The study was presented by Associate Professor of Social Work Stefanos Spaneas on Thursday.  According to...
Number of asylum seekers in Cyprus continues to rise markedly, UNHCR says Cyprus

Number of asylum seekers in Cyprus continues to rise markedly, UNHCR says

May 23rd, 2018 The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Cyprus is in contact with Syrian refugees who been in touch with their office fearing that some of the eight bodies washed up in the north last week may have been relatives or friends. A UNHCR report said the tragedy underlines the vital importance of rescuing lives at sea and the need...
225 unaccompanied minors applied for asylum in 2017 Cyprus

225 unaccompanied minors applied for asylum in 2017

May 16th, 2018 Some 225 unaccompanied minors applied for asylum in Cyprus last year, according to the latest Eurostat report made public on Wednesday. The report said that the unaccompanied minors amounted to 32.4 per cent of all asylum applications received in Cyprus. Four per cent of applicants concerned minors up to 14 years old, while the...
Asylum-seekers at real risk of homelessness Cyprus

Asylum-seekers at real risk of homelessness

April 24th, 2018 A “disturbingly high” number of asylum-seekers in Cyprus are facing risk of homelessness, destitution and desperation because of critical shortcomings in the national asylum and reception policies, the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (Unhcr) said on Monday. The international organisation said it was aware of a number...
Push to establish special court to speed up asylum cases Cyprus

Push to establish special court to speed up asylum cases

April 18th, 2018 Justice Minister Ionas Nicolaou presented a new bill on Wednesday to establish a new court to decide appeals of third-country nationals who have not been granted international protection status. Nicolaou, who presented the bill to the House legal affairs committee, said that an international protection court would meet European...
57 per cent more asylum seekers Cyprus

57 per cent more asylum seekers

March 20th, 2018 Cyprus saw a 57 per cent increase in the number of asylum seekers in 2017 compared to 2016, Eurostat figures showed on Tuesday. The European Statistical Service said in 2017 there were a total of 4,475 asylum seekers while in 2016 there were a total of 2,840. Out of the arrivals the past year, 1,770 were from Syria, 435 from India...
MPs say conditions at asylum centre are inadequate Cyprus

MPs say conditions at asylum centre are inadequate

February 26th, 2018 MPs on Monday called on the government to step up and improve conditions at the reception centre for asylum seekers at Kofinou in Larnaca. Members of the House human rights committee, accompanied by the interior ministry permanent secretary, Kypros Kyprianou, Children’s Rights Commissioner, Leda Koursoumba, the community leader of...
Third suspect remanded after Kofinou fracas Cyprus

Third suspect remanded after Kofinou fracas

February 18th, 2018 The Larnaca District Court today on Sunday issued a five-day detention order against a 25-year-old from Eritrea into alleged cases of conspiracy to commit a felony and malicious damage at the Kofinou reception centre for asylum seekers on Friday night. Two other Eritreans, aged 24 and 25, were remanded for six days on Saturday in...
Asylum seekers set fires, cause ruckus at Kofinou, two remanded (Update2 ) Cyprus

Asylum seekers set fires, cause ruckus at Kofinou, two remanded (Update2 )

February 17th, 2018 Two men, aged 24 and 25, from Eritrea were remanded in custody for six days on Saturday after riots broke out at an asylum reception centre in Kofinou during which rubbish bins were torched and installations damaged. The court heard the two suspects and another man, also from Eritrea, started protesting on Friday night at 9.30pm...
Police order protesting asylum seekers out of Australian-run camp Oceania

Police order protesting asylum seekers out of Australian-run camp

November 23rd, 2017 Papua New Guinea police sealed off an officially shuttered Australian-run detention camp on Thursday and ordered asylum seekers occupying it to leave as they confiscated food and water the men had stockpiled, asylum seekers told Reuters. About 380 asylum seekers have shut themselves inside the Manus Island Centre for more than three...
Wanted: bikes for teenage asylum-seekers Cyprus

Wanted: bikes for teenage asylum-seekers

May 15th, 2017 The Cyprus Cycling Federation said on Monday it had collected 42 bicycles for young children at the Kofinou asylum-seekers’ reception centre but need more for teenagers. The initiative was started by a volunteer, Natasa Georgiou, and has been carried out in close cooperation with the asylum services. The bicycles will be...
‘Life of refugees in Cyprus’ series launched by Unhcr Cyprus

‘Life of refugees in Cyprus’ series launched by Unhcr

May 9th, 2017 The office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (Unhcr) in Cyprus announced on Tuesday they were launching a series of stories about asylum seekers living on the island to shed light on their daily lives and the problems they face. Through this series of stories, to be posted regularly on the Unhcr’s social media...
Italy, Greece face off against easterners in EU migration feud Greece

Italy, Greece face off against easterners in EU migration feud

December 9th, 2016 The European Union's tug of war over how to share out the burden of caring for asylum-seekers is not over, Slovakia's interior minister said on Friday after six months of trying unsuccessfully to bridge differences between member states. Central and Eastern European governments opposed to taking in refugees are at loggerheads with...
Protesters attack EU asylum offices on Greece's Lesbos World

Protesters attack EU asylum offices on Greece's Lesbos

October 24th, 2016 Asylum-seekers attacked the premises of the European Asylum Support Office (Easo) on the island of Lesbos on Monday, protesting against delays in dealing with asylum claims, Greek and EU authorities said. About 70 people, most from Pakistan and Bangladesh, threw rocks and burning blankets at Easo containers inside the Moria migrant...
Refugees no longer avoiding Cyprus en masse Cyprus

Refugees no longer avoiding Cyprus en masse

September 11th, 2016 By Evie Andreou It is too soon to link the latest arrivals of groups of refugees from Syria in Cyprus with the closing down of the Balkan routes into northern Europe, officials say, but the country must be alert for the possibility of more arrivals. Earlier this week, 55 Syrians arrived on foot on a beach in Kato Pyrgos through the...
Number of migrants claiming benefits in Germany surges by 169 per cent World

Number of migrants claiming benefits in Germany surges by 169 per cent

September 5th, 2016 The number of migrants claiming German welfare benefits soared by 169 per cent last year, data showed on Monday, a figure likely to further boost anti-immigrant groups such as the Alternative for Germany (AfD), which performed well in a weekend election. Around 975,000 migrants were receiving benefits in accordance with the Act on...
Australian state leader offers to house stranded asylum seekers World

Australian state leader offers to house stranded asylum seekers

August 18th, 2016 The premier of Western Australia state, a member of Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's Liberal Party, has offered to accept refugees from Australian-funded detention centres amid growing concern about conditions for the 1,350 people held in the camps. Under Australian law, anyone intercepted trying to reach the country by boat is sent...
Rich countries less welcoming to refugees? World

Rich countries less welcoming to refugees?

July 22nd, 2016 According to a report released by Oxfam earlier this week, the top six wealthiest countries (accounting for almost 60 percent of the global economy) host a mere 9 percent of the world’s refugees. Between them, Germany, the United States, France, China, the United Kingdom and Japan hosted 2.1 million refugees at the end of 2015....
Home provides hope for the rootless teens Cyprus

Home provides hope for the rootless teens

May 15th, 2016 By Annette Chrysostomou   “It is like a big family,” says 19-year-old Odai from Syria as he remembers his time at the Home for Children shelter for unaccompanied minors in Nicosia. “People here have what they need,” says Max from Somalia, who lived at the shelter for 16 months. Cyprus may not score well compared...
Greece passes asylum law needed for EU-Turkey migrants deal Turkey

Greece passes asylum law needed for EU-Turkey migrants deal

April 2nd, 2016 Greek lawmakers on Friday passed an asylum amendment bill needed for the implementation of a European Union agreement with Turkey for the return of refugees and migrants from Greek islands to Turkey starting on Monday. The deal aims to end the uncontrolled influx of refugees and other migrants after more than one million people...
CoE ‘regret’ over UK’s refusal to resettle refugees in Bases Cyprus

CoE ‘regret’ over UK’s refusal to resettle refugees in Bases

April 1st, 2016 NILS Muižnieks, the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, has expressed regret over the UK’s refusal to resettle 67 refugees and asylum seekers, stranded for almost 18 years in the British Bases in Cyprus. In an interview with the Cyprus News Agency following the publication of his latest report on Cyprus, Muižnieks...
NATO overcomes Greek-Turkish tensions to agree Aegean mission (Updated) World

NATO overcomes Greek-Turkish tensions to agree Aegean mission (Updated)

February 25th, 2016 By Robin Emmott NATO allies have overcome territorial sensitivities between Greece and Turkey and agreed on how their ships will help counter the criminal networks smuggling refugees into Europe across the Aegean Sea, NATO's chief said on Thursday. After late-night talks in Brussels, NATO envoys set out how ships already sent to...
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