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Original Source by RUADHÁN Mac CORMAIC, Migration Correspondent THE IRISH Refugee Council has welcomed as an “enlightened step” the Government’s commitment to end the use of hostels to accommodate separated children seeking asylum. The change was recommended by the Ryan report into institutional child abuse.…

Former Supreme Court judge and president of the Law Reform Commission Catherine McGuinness has become a sponsor of the Irish Refugee Council, expressing an interest in promoting comprehensive reform of the asylum system. “For many years I have watched with concern how the lack of…

By Jamie Smyth, Social Affairs CorrespondentPEOPLE ARE waiting four years for the Government to decide on their applications to become Irish citizens, with some rejected for frivolous reasons such as receiving parking fines, a new report says.The study, Living in Limbo – Migrants’ Experiences of…

The direct provision system for asylum seekers has a high human and social cost, and adapting to normal life afterwards is a slow process.VIDEO: Heidar has recently gained refugee status and has left the direct provision system. He speaks about the difficulties he has faced…

Over one-third of the residents in State accommodation for asylum-seekers—known as Direct Provision—are children. With the length of time in the asylum process ranging from less than a year to more than seven years, these children spend a significant proportion of their childhood in Direct…

By Colette BrowneJustice Minister Alan Shatter has rightly decried the "inconvenient truth" that the State’s doors "were kept firmly closed to German Jewish families trying to flee from persecution and death" during the Holocaust.However, maybe he should ask himself if the State would be any…

OPINION: There needs to be an effective remedy to asylum review cases so aggrieved applicants will not have to look to the courts for redress, writes CATHERINE McGUINNESS WHEN THE courts resume next month the High Court will return to a backlog of more than…

The European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE) has launched the Asylum Information Database (AIDA) website, mapping asylum procedures, reception conditions and detention in 14 EU countries. The website is part of a project funded by EPIM and carried out in partnership with the Hungarian Helsinki Committee,…

The rights of immigrants must be protected and foundations can use their unique strengths to play a leading role such as funding public education and civic engagement, said Gara LaMarche, The Atlantic Philanthropies' President and CEO, in this speech at the European Foundation Centre Meeting…