I was talking during my sleep. I used to wake up crying and scared. Some of the discs of my back are also damaged. The punishments for those who fall under government suspicion are brutal.
Amnesty International documented 14 cases of sexual violence committed by security forces, including seven cases of rape, committed against five women, a teenage boy and a five-year-old girl. Sexual violence took place at border crossings or in detention centres, during questioning.
Testimonies are consistent with well-documented patterns of sexual violence and rape committed against civilians and detainees during the conflict by pro-government forces. The officer subsequently raped Noor and her five-year old daughter in a small room used for interrogation at the border crossing.
Security forces arrested them immediately at the border crossing and accused Yasmin of spying for a foreign country. Yasmin and her children were transferred to an intelligence detention centre, where they were detained for 29 hours. Intelligence officers raped Yasmin, and took her son to another room where they raped him with an object. If you get out of Syria again and come back again, we will welcome you in a bigger way.
We are trying to humiliate you and your son. You will not forget [this] humiliation in all your life. Some families chose for women to return to Syria ahead of their husbands, assuming they would be less likely to be arrested than men — partly because women are not subject to compulsory military service.
However, Amnesty International documented the arbitrary or unlawful detention of 13 women, some of whom were interrogated about their male relatives, and of ten children, aged between three weeks old and 16 years old, who were arrested along with their mothers. Security forces subjected five children to torture and other-ill treatment.
Nearly all of the refugees and migrants risking these treacherous sea journeys set off from Libya — a country itself in turmoil, in which refugees and migrants are at heightened risk of persecution and violence.
At the end of , under pressure from governments across the EU, the Italians withdrew their search and rescue mission Operation Mare Nostrum in the Mediterranean. The number of people attempting the crossing in has not fallen, but the death toll has risen hugely. In one incident in April, people are believed to have drowned. Belatedly, EU leaders have acknowledged a need to save lives.
We are working to ensure the UK government supports an effective, EU-supported search and rescue mission in the Mediterranean while the current crisis persists. More about our work on search and rescue. The inquiry reported in March In line with our submission, they found the use of immigration detention in the UK to be excessive and disproportionate. Tens of thousands of people are subjected to immigration detention every year, and in some cases their detention continues for several months or years.
This has done profound and lasting harm to the mental health of many people, including in at least six cases doing so serious harm as to amount to a breach of the prohibition on torture, inhuman and degrading treatment in Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights. A company limited by guarantee registered in England and Wales and a charity registered in England and Wales and Scotland SC Amnesty International United Kingdom Section.
A company limited by guarantee registered in England and Wales Amnesty International UK. To travel by ordinary lawful routes, these people are required to obtain visas.
And there are no visas available for those who are seeking asylum. A tiny number of refugees are permitted to resettle from unsafe and unsustainable conditions in countries neighbouring their own — such as refugee camps in Jordan and other precarious situations in Lebanon.
Since January the UK has resettled just 18, Syrian refugees through this system — a pitifully small proportion of the near 4 million Syrians in Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan. With the rise in the global refugee population , conditions in poorer countries hosting many more refugees than Europe is receiving are often inadequate, devoid of hope and dangerous.
For them, people smugglers and perilous boat journeys are the only choice left. Neither the Refugee Convention nor EU law requires a refugee to claim asylum in one country rather than another. The EU does run a system — called the Dublin Regulations — which allows one EU country to require another to accept responsibility for an asylum claim where certain conditions apply.
The relevant conditions include that the person is shown to have previously entered that other EU country or made a claim there. This is supposed to share responsibility for asylum claims more equitably among EU countries and discourage people moving on from one EU country to another. It is clear the system greatly benefits countries like the UK and is very unfair to countries like Greece and Italy. By the end of , the global refugee population stood at Countries like Turkey and Pakistan host more refugees than all EU countries combined.
Except for Turkey, no European country appeared among the top ten hosts of refugees at the end of Ethiopia, Kenya, Chad and Uganda were all on that list. Within the EU, Sweden and Germany have consistently led the combined EU effort in receiving asylum claims and providing protection.
France lags behind but for years has still received more than twice the number of asylum claims received by the UK. Asylum-seekers in the UK can qualify for accommodation and financial support while waiting for their claims to be finally decided.
This is the same in other EU countries. Elsewhere in the EU, asylum-seekers must be permitted to work if their claims have not been decided within 9 months, although some countries permit this after less time. This does not apply in the UK, where permission to work will not be granted unless 12 months have past and the claim remains undecided.
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