Asylum seekers

Spain plans stricter rules on asylum seekers in Ceuta after border crisis, draft decree shows

The decree, designed to speed up applications and deportations for over 10,000 migrants who remain in the tiny territory, would mark a major strategic shift for Spain's pro-immigration government.

Moroccan security forces clash with migrants attempting to cross into Spain's North African enclave of Ceuta near the town of Fnideq, on the Morocco-Spain border, on July 31, 2026.
SOME 1,300 members and supporters of the Eritrean Blue Revolution Front attend their August Congress in Israel. The movement, which grew out of the diaspora-based Brigade N’Hamedu, says it seeks to turn years of activism into organized political opposition to President Isaias Afwerki’s government.

Eritrea's Blue Revolution: Inside the movement challenging one of Africa's longest-serving rulers

IRANIAN DISSIDENT Heydarian attends a regional NGO consultation in Geneva. He is now living in hiding while appealing Switzerland’s rejection of his asylum application.

Switzerland rejects asylum application from Iranian refugee pursuing Judaism

Endalkew Yemani Tesma, shown here in Jerusalem on Aug. 14, 2023, faces the possibility of deportation.

Ethiopian asylum seekers in Israel face deportation after years without permanent status


Hope for Israel's Darfur asylum seekers after court ruling

Separated from his family, Hassan says he fled from Sudan to Egypt and on through the Sinai desert into Israel, where he has been living in immigration limbo for 11 years.

WOMEN WALK to the market in Abu Shock IDPs camp in Al Fashir, capital of North Darfur, Sudan, last year.

Dozens of Palestinians use Barcelona layover to seek asylum in Spain

It is the second attempt by a group of airline passengers to gain entry to Spain in less than two weeks.

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Grapevine November 3, 2021: Doctors in the house

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

 FROM LEFT: Itsik Kamilian, CEO of the Ambassador's Club; Erez Naane; Bahraini Ambassador Khaled Yusef al-Jalahma; Yitzhak Eidan

Jerusalem Cinematheque to host fundraiser for African asylum-seekers

Jerusalem Cinematheque will screen Flee, a movie about Afghan refugees to raise funds for asylum seekers.

 Afghan refugees walk to a bus taking them to a processing center upon arrival at Dulles International Airport in Dulles, Virginia, US.

Woman seeking political asylum to avoid being a queen can give a goat instead

A woman who is supposed to become a queen in her come country appealed for political asylum in Israel to avoid taking the throne.

Petting the goat, Iza Paziza, at Moshav Tal Shahar

Euro-Asian Jewish Congress leaders help Afghan refugees find asylum in Canada

Some 40 Afghan residents were granted asylum in Dubai and Canada on September 6.

 Euro-Asian Jewish Congress leaders help Afghan refugees find asylum in Canada

Israel's African asylum seekers are living in limbo

Israel's government tends to take a long time processing each individual’s claim for refugee status, and rarely grants it, leaving them stuck in a country with minimal rights and an uncertain future.

African asylum seekers wait to apply for a visa in Bnei Brak, Israel

Activist banned by Knesset speaker for saying firing squad should kill MK

Meretz MK Gaby Lasky was told yesterday she should be killed after advocating for Israel to take in Afghan refugees.

 Israeli lawyer Gaby Lasky is seen at the supreme court for hearing in Jerusalem on September 14, 2020.

Israel needs to treat African asylum seekers better - opinion

During the Netanyahu era, government policy was designed to criminalize and demonize African asylum seekers and force them to leave voluntarily by making their lives as miserable as possible.

Asylum seekers demonstrate in front of the Knesset

Demonstrators at south Tel Aviv protest attack police, asylum seekers

Several hundred protesters were present at the demonstrations that were sparked by the assault of a woman in south Tel Aviv last month.

South Tel Aviv protest. August 1, 2021.