We are releasing our annual report on asylum applications in industrialised countries, along with a press release summarizing the main findings of the report. Some of the highlights are as follows: ...

Rosebell Munyua arrived in the United States from her native Kenya in 2001, but was turned away by U.S. customs officials. She was later granted asylum in the United States and then sued the ...

DURING A VISIT to Washington this week, Australian Prime Minister John Howard expressed satisfaction that the United States would expedite the process of bringing the only Australian citizen held at ...

The immigration department's website claims that as of August 26 there were 667 people still being held in detention. The department does not include in those figures the 27 asylum seekers remaining ...

This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. 17 March 2006 We are releasing our ...