Kiribati man's climate change asylum bid fails
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9:46 02/12/2013
New Zealand's High Court has rejected a claim that a Kiribati man was effectively a refugee because of climate change. Ioane Teitiota was appealing against the decision of an immigration tribunal to...
Kiribati man claims to be 'climate refugee'
14:02 09/10/2013
A man from the Pacific island republic of Kiribati is to appeal to the High Court in New Zealand claiming to be a refugee because of global warming. The man's original application for asylum was...
UK's ambassador to Nigeria: no decision on security bonds
9:36 03/09/2013
The UK's ambassador to Nigeria, Dr Andrew Pocock, has told a Nigerian newspaper that the UK has yet to decide whether to introduce a system of security bonds which would be paid by some applicants...
UK ministers refuse to predict immigration levels from Romania, Bulgaria
13:35 16/01/2013
The UK's Prime Minister David Cameron has said that it is impossible to know how many immigrants will come to the UK from Romania and Bulgaria next year when transitional immigration controls as...
UN launches appeal for Syria
15:27 22/12/2012
The United Nations has issued a request for US$1.5bn to help support 5m Syrians displaced by the Syrian conflict. The UN has said that it needs US$519.6m to support 4m people internally displaced in...
Nauru asylum seekers end hunger strikes against Australian government
12:31 16/11/2012
The Age newspaper reports that most of the hunger strikers on Nauru have ended their protests. Some reports last week suggested that 300 of the 350 inmates then being held in the offshore processing...
