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Asylum Seekers

Articles tagged with: Asylum Seekers

19 October 2021 05:27 PM

MPs stand to applaud Feridoon Aryan and his family, Afghan refugees. October 19, 2021 (by Maria Asmarat)

Catalonia welcomes 208 refugees who fled Taliban takeover of Afghanistan

Minister criticizes "opaque" nature of Spanish evacuations for giving priority to army collaborators 

Society

04 September 2021 01:23 PM

Bashir Eskandari, political exile and president of the Afghans and Catalans Association, during an interview in L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Friday, September 3, 2021 (by Alan Ruiz Terol)

'The people who are most at risk cannot leave the country', warns Afghan activist

Catalonia will take in 208 of the 1,700 refugees granted asylum in Spain following the Taliban takeover

Society

25 November 2019 08:28 PM

Meeting of the Catalan delegates, headed by Chakir El Homrani, in Mannheim city hall (by Elisenda Rosanas)

Government wants to give asylum seekers temporary work permits

Catalan social affairs minister picks up tips in Germany during visit to Patrick Henry Village refugee center in Heidelberg

Society

18 June 2019 07:41 PM

CEAR presents its annual asylum report (Alan Ruiz Terol/ACN)

Unresolved asylum applications exceed 100,000 in Spain

Catalan Commission for Refugees expresses "great disappointment" over policies of Pedro Sánchez government

Society

19 June 2018 11:16 AM

Migrants rescued by the Aquarius arrive in the port of Valencia (by MSF/Kenny Karpov)

Asylum seekers in Catalonia could triple this year, says human rights group

Commission for Refugees hopes Catalan people will show they are “a welcoming society”

Society

05 April 2016 06:22 PM

Barcelona's Mayor, Ada Colau, together with 5 other european Mayors, EU Commissioner for Migration, Dimitris Avramopoulos and EU Commissioner for Regional Policy, Corina Cretu (by EBS)

Barcelona’s Mayor reports to the EC Spain’s “immoral” management of the refugee crisis

Barcelona’s Mayor, Ada Colau, travelled to Brussels this Tuesday to report Spain’s “immoral”management regarding the refugee crisis, which she described as...

Politics Highlights

12 February 2014 11:57 AM

An institutional visit, with Israel Ambassador in Spain, to the Holocaust escape route through the Catalan Pyrenees (by M. Lluvich)

Project to honour thousands of Jews who braved Catalan Pyrenees to escape Holocaust

The project ‘Persecuted and Saved’ will tell the story of how 80,000 WW2 refugees escaped persecution and death through the Pyrenees mountains into Catalonia. The Israel Ambassador in Spain, Alon Bar, and the CEO of EL-AL - the...

Life & Style Highlights

28 January 2014 07:21 PM

The Catalan Minister for Social Affairs, Neus Munté, at Tuesday's press conference (by P. Mateos)

Catalan Government approves its first International Protection Plan for refugees

On Tuesday, the Catalan Government approved the International Protection Plan of Catalonia, which aims to protect people forced to leave their country for being persecuted. It is the first time Catalonia has its own legal instrument to face...

Society Highlights