Private contractors are taking hundreds of millions of pounds from a system riddled with abuse, suicide and criminality, ...

Labour is considering plans to send failed asylum seekers to detention centres in the Balkans. The refugees could be deported to ‘return hubs’ in countries such as Serbia, Bosnia, Albania and North ...

UK Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said the country’s asylum system needs “substantial reforms” as she laid out plans to reduce record flows of migrants arriving in small boats across the English Channel ...

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. 14 February 2002 It is too early to ...

Hadush Kebatu - an Ethiopian who arrived in the UK on a small boat - was re-arrested on Sunday, after being accidentally ...

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Nahia Riviera was thousands of miles from home in a Norwegian center for asylum seekers last December trying to flee the United States, where she no longer felt ...

An asylum-seeker sentenced to 12 months in a British prison for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl was mistakenly released Friday, prompting an urgent police search for a man whose case had ...

SHENGJIN, Albania, April 11 (Reuters) - Italy dispatched 40 failed asylum seekers to Albania on Friday to be held until repatriation to their home countries in vacant, Italian-run detention centres ...

Hadush Kebatu's crimes led to protests in Epping, Essex, and eventually outside hotels housing asylum seekers across the country.