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Now playing Next World News EU offshore migrant processing would 'breach human rights' "To have policies like the offshoring of asylum claims, in North African countries for example, is wrong," 28/06/2018
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Now playing Next Romania The Romanian who is seeking asylum in Africa He's not your typical asylum seeker, but Radu Mazare says he is simply trying to escape political persecution in his home country of Romania. 29/05/2018
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Now playing Next No Comment Small groups from caravan of asylum seekers cross to US A group of women and children passed through to the US side of the border with Mexico on Wednesday, part of the caravan of Central Americans seeking asylum in the United States 03/05/2018
Now playing Next United Kingdom ECJ ruling boosts Europe's 'most vulnerable migrants' Europe’s most vulnerable migrants were boosted by a ruling that gives greater protection to those who have been tortured, according to an expert. 24/04/2018
Now playing Next World News EU granted 500,000 people asylum protection in 2017 EU member states as well as Norway, Iceland and Switzerland granted protection status to 538,000 asylum seekers in 2017, according to new data released by Eurostat on Thursday. 19/04/2018
Now playing Next Germany 10,000 refugees from Middle East, North Africa to resettle in Germany Around 10,000 refugees from North Africa and the Middle East will be allowed into Germany from Greece, the European Commission has confirmed. 19/04/2018
Now playing Next Germany Life sentence for student murder in Germany The asylum seeker claims to be from Afghanistan and the murder of the 19 year old in 2016 at Freiburg fueled a backlash against a mass migration 21/03/2018
Now playing Next World News Euroviews. EU-Turkey deal, a symbol of a short-sighted asylum policy | View "Fear is a constant," says a Syrian woman living in a camp on the Greek islands, where thousands of asylum seekers remain stuck because of a deal the EU struck with Turkey two years ago, according to Amnesty International. 19/03/2018
Now playing Next Czech Republic Czech Republic: Refugee row Prague is facing an EU legal suit for refusing to accept asylum seekers under the bloc's system to relieve other member states hit most by immigration 23/02/2018