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Position paper: Women Asylum Seekers Victims of Domestic Violence (November...
Source: ASSAFBelow is ASSAF's position paper on the topic of asylum seekers who are victims of domestic violence.Position paper: Asylum Seekers who are Victims of Domestic Violence - English - November...
View ArticleIsraeli High Court Gives the State 90 Days to Decide on Welfare for Refugees
Source: Haaretz, Lee YaronCriticizing the state for dragging its feet, the High Court of Justiceruled on Monday that the state must decide within 90 days on providing welfare services WelfareCourt...
View ArticleIsraeli Ministry Got $10 Million to Help 500 Distressed Asylum Seekers. Only...
Source: Haaretz, Lee YaronM. has been living on the street for nine months now, passing every season of the year under the open sky. At his age, 67, it’s not getting easier. “I look for places to sleep...
View ArticleIsrael’s ‘Deposit Law’ Is Pushing Asylum Seekers to Financial Ruin
Source: News Deeply, Steven DavidsonIN MAY 2017, Israel effectively cut one-fifth of asylum seekers’ wages, hoping people such as Eden Tasfamariam would leave the country.Deposit LawWelfare
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Asylum-seeking minors in Israel
Children of asylum seekers are particularly vulnerable in Israel, deprived of many of their basic rights. Like their parents, these children lack legal status.MinorsChildrenUnaccompanied...
View ArticleEfforts to prevent the deportation of children in Out-of-Home Placement (2012)
With the commencement of the deportations to Sudan (2012), described by the Ministry of the Interior as "voluntary return", ASSAF began to receive appeals regarding children from South Sudan in...
View ArticleASSAF's Executive Director's Speech at the 66th session of the UN Committee...
Ms. Tali Ehrenthal's speech was given at the formal briefing of the Committee's 66th session in Geneva, 30 September 2019.UN-CESCRWelfareSocial rights
View ArticleIsrael Admits Failure to Use Budgeted Funds to Aid At-risk Asylum Seekers
Source: Haaretz, Lee YaronThe Social Affairs Ministry has admitted that in the past two years it hasn’t provided any assistance to asylum seekers with disabilities or those working as sex workers,...
View ArticleUN Panel Demands Answers From Israel on Failure to Protect Asylum Seekers
Source: Haaretz, Bar PelegIsrael must explain to the United Nations why only a minuscule proportion of asylum seekers here are granted refugee status, and why they cannot get permanent work permits or...
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Asylum Seekers in Israel - Situation Report (August 2019)
Source: ASSAF; The Refugee Rights ForumInstead of using asylum seekers for political propaganda and exploiting the genuine plight of the residents of South Tel Aviv for the purpose of conflict with the...
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Health and Welfare Services to Asylum Seekers - Situation Reports (2018)
Source: ASSAF; The Refugee Rights ForumWelfare Services to Asylum Seekers - an Overview (2018)Social rightsHealthWelfareIsrael`s policy
View ArticleIsraeli Towns to Provide Welfare Funds for Asylum Seekers – Two Years Late
Source: Haaretz, Lee YaronIsrael's Finance Ministry earmarked funding for social services to asylum seekers more than two years ago, but the Labor Ministry never told the municipalities about it,...
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ASSAF’s support of asylum seekers during the lockdown imposed in Israel to...
Source: ASSAFThe outbreak of Coronavirus and the ensuing lockdown have devastated the asylum seekers’ community in Israel - a community already marginalized and living in poverty.ASSAF’s activities...
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Vulnerable and Neglected: Asylum Seekers and Israel's Social Services -...
Source: ASSAFIn the new report Vulnerable and Neglected - Asylum Seekers and Israel's Social Services (in Hebrew), ASSAF presentsVulnerable and Neglected: Asylum Seekers and Israel's Social Services -...
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