Capacity building also appears to be the best way in which UNHCR can exert significant influence over asylum laws and practices.

The focus of legislation dealing with asylum has shifted from protection to control.

BiH Law on Immigration and Asylum (previous)

Shelter

Shelters

Asylum

Both provide for temporary residence or provisional asylum respectively where longer term asylum cannot be granted.

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?

Mrs. Anne Castagnos, European affairs officer, France Terre d Asile

There is clearly a need for States to address asylum abuse and people smuggling, but, in this process, asylum must be preserved.

Terrorists should not be allowed to use other states and safe havens by abusing asylum laws and human rights issues.

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

Also included are provisions for expanding the list of crimes which render a person ineligible to apply for asylum and establishing a one year time limit for filing an asylum application.

v. Women's refuges

Asylum seeking procedures.

Shelters for adolescents

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

The legitimate practice of asylum needed to be re examined as a solution.

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

38. It is noted with concern that the implementation of some of the provisions of the Asylum and Immigration Act of 1996 may be detrimental to the protection of asylum seekers against any racial discrimination.

A Safer Path to Asylum

This is a bird sanctuary.

I had hoped the gods would be kind.

Asylum remains the cornerstone of refugee protection.

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

The Government, acting in accordance with the provisions of the Immigration and Asylum Law, deported the people in a peaceful manner.

A significant number of asylum seekers have already been offered services of legal assistance and job finding.

Under the Immigration Act 2003, the asylum process was supported by a streamlined legislative framework aimed at dealing efficiently with the high number of applications and providing protection speedily to those who met the definition of refugee.

The previous Law on Immigration and Asylum in BiH did not have a single provision to address the issue of trafficking in people and prostitution it regulated the issues of entering, stay and partly movement of foreigners, and provided conditions for granting asylum or cessation of asylum.

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.

And journalists are in the street rallying to improve the shield laws.

All States must recognize that guarding borders must not prevent physical access to asylum procedures or fair refugee status determination for those entitled to it under international law.

With respect to trafficking in persons, the law also made provision for protecting those in need and sheltering victims.

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

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.

The very concept of asylum has changed and developed over time and variations exist between its scope in international standards and in some national legislation.