Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The number of refugees globally has increased substantially since 2014. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees estimates that at the end of 2019, [3] the number of forcibly displaced persons is at 79.5 million, including internally displaced people (IDP; 45.7 million), refugees (26 million), asylum seekers (4.2 million), and Venezuelans displaced abroad (3.6 million), compared to ...
Thomas John Barnardo (4 July 1845 – 19 September 1905) was an Irish, Christian [1] philanthropist and founder and director of homes for poor and deprived children. From the foundation of the first Barnardo's home in 1867 to the date of Barnardo's death, nearly 60,000 children had been taken in.
An asylum seeker is a person who leaves their country of residence, enters another country, and makes in that other country a formal application for the right of asylum according to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Article 14. [3] A person keeps the status of asylum seeker until the right of asylum application has concluded.
Studies from Australia have proven that detention policies have a long-term negative impact on asylum seekers mental health. [117] Other policies such as forced separations and community dispersions, precise and difficult to meet standards to qualify for asylum, and restricted access to basic needs during the process have also been pointed to ...
The family of Ernesto Rocha-Cuadra, a Nicaraguan asylum-seeker who died in ICE custody and had filed grievances alleging physical mistreatment, seek answers about his death.
Since 2014 the number of refugees seeking asylum in Spain has increased greatly and Spain has received criticism for what has been perceived as a failure to keep up with these numbers. Spain has offered to provide asylum to 17,337 refugees by September 2017, however, only 744 of which were extended asylum status in the country by July 2017. [210]
None had a history of mental illness. Pseudopatients used pseudonyms, and those who were mental health professionals were given false jobs in a different sector to avoid invoking any special treatment or scrutiny. Apart from giving false names and employment details, further biographical details were reported truthfully.
Matthew Daniel Muller (born March 27, 1977) is an American kidnapper, rapist, former immigration attorney, and Marine veteran. He is known for carrying out the kidnapping in Vallejo, California, referred to in the media as the ”Gone Girl” kidnapping, and depicted in the Netflix docuseries American Nightmare.