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Durban refugee office turns away asylum applicants
A staff shortage means asylum seekers are unable to make appointments to apply for refugee status
Australia to ‘carefully consider’ Saudi woman’s asylum plea
Rahaf Mohammed Al-Qunun, fleeing alleged abuse by her conservative family, says she tried to reach Australia on a tourist visa
Swedish student delays deportation of Afghan man with in-flight video stream
Activist Elin Ersson disobeyed authorities to delay the deportation of an Afghan asylum seeker, saying it is not right “to send people to hell”
Queer Ugandans struggle with the complexities of seeking asylum from repression
In the week that the first Pride parade was held at a refugee camp in Kenya, a commentator assesses the situation for LBGTI asylum-seekers from Uganda
Sierra Leone vice-president asks US for asylum
Sam Sumana was expelled from the governing All People's Congress party for what is described as "his anti-party activities".
Atheists: Excluded and overlooked
It's not just refugee law. The low status accorded to unbelievers has now become a matter of systematic civic exclusion, writes Zoe Williams.
Russia says ‘not thinking about’ asylum for Syria’s Assad
Russia has made no agreement to grant Bashar al-Assad asylum and is "not even thinking about" doing so, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said.
Refugees in backlog limbo
A damning exit report by a team of experts blasts the Department of Home Affairs for failing asylum-seekers in South Africa.
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