| 8 January 2008 |
Letter to the Daily Mail: Regarding the article "Migrants walked three miles in Chunnel."
Dear Mr Dacre, I am writing with concern in regard to an article published online in the Daily Mail of 4 January 2008 entitled “Migrants walked three miles in Chunnel”...
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24th
December
2007 |
Letter to the Daily Mail: Regarding the article “The festive feast laid on for would-be asylum seekers massed in Calais.”
Dear Mr Dacre, I am writing with concern in regard to an article by Ms Rebecca Camber in The Daily Mail of 24 December concerning foreign nationals in Calais, “The festive feast laid on for would-be asylum seekers massed in Calais.” As you may note, the article uses the terms “refugee” and “asylum seeker” interchangeably.
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24th December
2007 |
Letter to the Daily Express: Regarding the article " Next Stop? Yes, Britain."
Dear Mr Hill, I am writing with concern in regard to an article by Mr Nick Fagge in The Daily Express of 21 December concerning foreign nationals in Calais, “Next Stop? Yes, Britain.”
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20th December 2006
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Letter to the Daily Express: Regarding the article "WPC paid ultimate price for immigration shambles"
Dear Mr O’Flynn, The UN Refugee Agency, like all in our society concerned for public safety, remains deeply shocked by the murder of WPC Sharon Beshenivsky.
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| 5th December 2006 |
Letter to The Sun: Regarding the article “Why didn’t Reid deport these criminals at once?”
Dear Mr Gaunt, Having read your column “Why didn’t Reid deport these criminals at once?”, I am troubled by the use of terminology in relation to asylum seekers.
Unsuccessful asylum claimants cannot be called “bogus asylum seekers” or “illegals”.
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| 1st December 2006 |
Letter to the Daily Express: Regarding the article “We spend £60m on failed refugees as biggest detention centre smoulders”
Dear Mr Whitehead, Having read your article “We spend £60m on failed refugees as biggest detention centre smoulders”, I am once again troubled by the use of terminology in relation to refugees and asylum seekers. |
23rd
November
2006 |
Letter to the Daily Mail: Regarding the article “400,000 and rising, the backlog of failed asylum seekers”
Dear Mr Slack,
Having read your article “400,000 and rising, the backlog of failed asylum seekers”, I am troubled that refugees have been misrepresented in such a way. |
3rd
November
2006 |
Letter to The Sun: Regarding the article “Illegal begs to be kicked out”
Dear Ms Hagan,
Having read your article “Illegal begs to be kicked out”, I am troubled that you would misrepresent asylum seeking, as there is no such thing as an “illegal asylum seeker”. It cannot be illegal to seek asylum as it is a fundamental human right under international law. |
9th
August
2006 |
Letter to the
Daily Mirror: Sue Carroll column “Wake up to home truths on asylum”
Dear Mr. Wallace, Your columnist’s story of 9 August, “Wake up to home truths on asylum” unnecessarily conflates the issues of asylum and immigration.
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16th
May
2006 |
Withdrawal from 1951 Refugee Convention: Letter to the Daily Telegraph
Dear Sir, I read with both great surprise and disquiet The Daily Telegraph's leader (13 May 2006) calling for the UK to withdraw from the 1951 Refugee Convention.
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| 16th May 2006 |
Letter to The Times: Regarding the article "Refugee behind heroin trade jailed for 22 years" (16/05/06)
Dear Mr Thomson,
For more than a half century States like the UK have used the Refugee Convention to identify individuals in need of international protection, saving over 50 million people from persecution, torture, extra-judicial execution and other human rights abuses, while screening out many millions of non-refugees.
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27th
April
2006 |
Letter to the Mail and the Daily Express: Statement concerning recent claims in the media about asylum applications
Following the recent launch of the UNHCR report "The State of the World's Refugees: Human Displacement in the Displacement in the New Millennium", UNHCR wishes to clear up some factually incorrect claims that appeared in some media outlets.
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| 2nd April 2005 |
Use of terms '' illegal'' and ''bogus'' asylum seekers: Letter to The Spectator
In a letter to the Spectator, UNHCR points out Rod Liddle's erroneous use of the terms "illegal" and "bogus" asylum seekers, and stresses that at a time when asylum numbers are plummeting in industrialised countries, it is false to claim that the UK is facing an asylum crisis.
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| 7th March 2005 |
Problems of asylum seeker employment: letter to the Editor of
The Independent.
UNHCR welcomes an article entitled "A Dentist's Tale" (The Independent,5th March) concerning asylum seekers' frustration with the UK employment system. It stresses that at a time when asylum numbers are plummeting, their employment helps build community cohesion and contribute crucial skills to the workforce.
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