As in previous years, refugees and asylum seekers have continued to find refuge in many parts of the world.

The trend in arrivals of asylum seekers, including those from countries outside the region stabilized, particularly in Brazil.

Shelter

Shelters

Asylum

Welcome with satisfaction the improvement and positive developments of regional cooperation in the field of migration, asylum and refugees and, in this regard, the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding of the MARRI Regional Forum, and the establishment of the Regional MARRI Center in Skopje, as well as the conclusions of the MARRI Ministerial Conference held in Tirana (5 April 2005).

Protection of asylum seekers

Various Executive Committee conclusions call upon States to take a positive attitude to admission and to asylum (called, in this context, first asylum, temporary asylum or temporary refuge).

(c) Right to asylum

As a refugee?

18 states, D.C. support challenge to new asylum policy

Treatment of foreign nationals, asylum seekers, refugees and immigrants in waiting areas

(a) The denial by some countries of access to asylum procedures for asylum seekers who lack documentation

v. Women's refuges

Asylum seeking procedures.

Shelters for adolescents

He'll ask for sanctuary. Borrow money, borrow time.

33. Neither political refugee status nor territorial asylum, nor diplomatic asylum may be granted.

A Safer Path to Asylum

This is a bird sanctuary.

I had hoped the gods would be kind.

Another 6,439 persons left the camp and are seeking shelter in the Iraqi Government controlled area.

Asylum remains the cornerstone of refugee protection.

One of the Arab shelters and another shelter can house women with disabilities.

Shelter from the Storm in Europe

Shelters for Battered Women

Establishment of hostels refuges

Dissenting opinion, Asylum case.

9.2 Women Asylum Seekers

Be careful. Don't forget to go to the shelter.

The backbone principle behind the issue of asylum and refugee protection is non refoulement, namely persons seeking asylum must not be pushed back to areas of danger.

Refuges for these groups come under the general heading of women's refuges and are the responsibility of municipal authorities, which receive special purpose funding for these refuges.

The United Nations Declaration on Territorial Asylum provides that States granting asylum shall not permit persons who have received asylum to engage in activities contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.

160. Since 1992, Western Europe has seen a downward trend in the number of asylum seekers arriving in the sub region.

UNHCR apos s actions to strengthen the asylum regime in the area drew support from delegations.

Following the Beijing Conference, eight new shelters for battered women had been opened, including one in the Arab sector, as well as 20 centres for the prevention of domestic violence.

(ii) From another point of view, however, the possibility for asylum seekers in those circumstances to leave the area of the country where they were seeking asylum appears purely theoretical to the extent that no other country offering a degree of protection comparable to that obtainable in the country where asylum has been requested is prepared or ready to receive the person.

II. ASYLUM, ADMISSION AND NON REFOULEMENT

Refugees and asylum seekers

2. Return of asylum seekers

SEEK ASYLUM FROM PERSECUTION

Detention of asylum seekers

I seek refuge near you, Allah.

While thousands of asylum seekers have been admitted and given refuge in many parts of the world, attitudes have hardened in others, resulting in a range of protection problems including refoulement at the border, establishment of institutional structures which severely restrict admission, restrictive application of the refugee criteria for individual asylum seekers, and new legal measures in international fora to automatically exclude certain categories of asylum seekers from refugee status.

This was taken under a homeless asylum built in 1885 to house 1,100 people.