- Sophie: Fake passports and bids for freedom
- Cherie: Is there any chance for us to get any rights for what we did for the British Forces in Iraq?
- Matt: For the first time in my life, I felt that… I am a Traitor
- Fred (Apr 2003): I thank Coalition forces to liberate Iraqi people and to put us agreed conditions after the war
- Jeremy: wish of my life to pay a visit to London to see its noble peoples whom I respect and love too much
- Jane: Fleeing Iraq, the reality
- Patrick: Mid July 2004 and the assassinations started
- Trevor: I am just sitting in my house waiting the militia to come and kill me
- Will: Im living a very horrible life, hiding and doing no job to feed my family
UNHCR - Iraqis top latest asylum figures for industrialized countries - 26 September 2007
Submitted by markb on September 26, 2007 - 11:14.
This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Ron Redmond – at the press briefing, on 21 September 2007, at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.
To read the article on the UNHCR wesite, follow this link: http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/news/opendoc.htm?tbl=NEWS&id=46f3...
The number of Iraqis applying for asylum in industrialized countries went up by 45 percent in the first half of 2007 compared to the previous six months, according to our latest quarterly statistical report on asylum trends in industrialized countries. The information is based on official information provided by governments.
Iraqis made some 19,800 asylum claims during the first six months of 2007 in the 36 industrialized countries included, an increase of 45 percent compared to the last six months of 2006, when 13,600 applications were received. The Iraqi number for the first six months is already approaching the total figure for all of 2006 – 22,200. Iraqis were the No. 1 nationality applying for asylum in industrialized countries in the first half of the year.
This latest figure, which reflect continuing violence in Iraq, are more than double those for the first six months of 2006, when a total of 8,500 asylum applications were submitted by Iraqis. If this trend is maintained, by the end of the year the number of Iraqi asylum seekers might reach over 40,000, the highest number since 2002.