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1 hour ago   From the section UK   64 comments Prime Minister David Cameron is "punishing businesses" by trying to fulfil promises to cut immigration, the Institute of Directors says. It made its warning jointly with think tank British Future. Figures due to be published on Thursday are expected to show net migration is more than three times higher than the government's target. The Home Office says it remains committed to reducing the net total to the tens of thousands. The Institute of Directors and British Future say radical policies to prevent migrants coming to the UK will damage the economy. The two groups are calling for a "comprehensive immigration review" to establish what policies could be put in place to achieve the tens of thousands target, and what their impact would be on the UK's economy, culture and society. They say the prime minister and Home Secretary Theresa May should ask an expert body, the Migration Advisory Comm...

Europe 'must open official channels for migrants' ·          3 hours ago   ·          From the section Europe Image caption Francois Crepeau called on Europe to create a coherent policy on migration Migrant tragedy ·          Migrants: What can Europe achieve?   ·          Are more people on the move?   ·          In depth report   ·          The Med's migrant survivors   European leaders should do more to open up and help migrants instead of using language that dismisses their rights, a UN expert on migrant rights has said. Talking about "marauders" and "swarms" was an unsubtle way of dismissing their legitimacy, said Francois Crepeau. European countries should open official channels and their labour marke...

Canada’s acceptance of Hungarian Roma asylum-seekers is on an upswing after plummeting to record lows just a few years ago. In 2009-10, only one to two per cent of refugee claimants from Hungary were accepted as the Conservative government initiated a crackdown on “bogus” refugees. Simply being Roma from Hungary is not proof of persecution, refugee judge rules The Federal Court of Canada has rejected the refugee claim of a Hungarian man of Roma background by dismissing the portrayal of sweeping, generalized persecution against the Roma in his homeland. The man’s credibility was also questioned over his reliance on a variation of a classic excuse: his dog ate his cellphone. The case of Mario Gyula Varga is the latest clash over Canada’s reception of the diasporic Roma. Read more … But data from the Immigration and Refugee Board show the acceptance rate has steadily increased: to 20 per cent in 2013, 35 per cent in 2014 and 68 per cent in the first half...

  UN DAILY NEWS from the UNITED NATIONS NEWS SERVICE 20 August, 2015 ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ UN REFUGEE AGENCY WELCOMES JOINT DECLARATION BY FRANCE AND UNITED KINGDOM ON SITUATION IN CALAIS The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) today welcomed the joint declaration signed by the Governments of France and the United Kingdom on the situation in Calais and the associated action plan to deal with it. "I appreciate that the two Governments have taken a common approach to address the complex situation in Calais," said UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres in a press release. "I welcome, in particular, the humanitarian and protection elements of the plan, while fully recognizing the importance of combatting smuggling and trafficking, which exploit vulnerable individuals....

      Web version    New York  Aug 21 2015 1:00PM    UN News Centre with breaking news from the UN News Service  Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Slavery Urmila Bhoola. UN Photo/Jean-Marc Ferré (file) MAURITANIA: UN EXPERT WELCOMES NEW ANTI-SLAVERY LAW, SAYS EFFECTIVE ENFORCEMENT IS KEY While applauding the adoption of a new anti-slavery law in Mauritania that doubles, from 10 to 20 years, the maximum prison...