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asylum policy

For the benefit of children?

"It is not Norwegian asylum policy that causes children to flee, it is the situation in their home country," writes Mina Vinje. Press is disappointed by the Labor Party's Migration Committee and believes they are breaking international obligations.
mina@press.no -

Refugee policy: We must act now

Both the Labor Party and the government use children and young people to show the world how strict asylum and refugee policies can be. Strictly, yes – but how on earth can it be called fair?
andrea@su.no -

Xenophobic asylum doctor at Trandum

"Build a border fence against Sweden – don't wait until the invasion is underway!" The doctor who is considering whether people at Trandum are healthy enough to leave the country is also an active debater on immigration-hostile websites.
Carima Tirillsdottir Heinesen -

Inadequate health care

A large number of suicide attempts, frequent use of isolation and lack of psychiatric follow-up: The health service at Trandum faces both concern and criticism.
Carima Tirillsdottir Heinesen -

"You're not gay" 

It is so absurd to sit in a courtroom where someone is set to "make it probable" their gay behavior – and in many cases is not believed.
nina@skeivverden.no -

Drop them in!

Norwegian asylum policy is becoming increasingly brutal.
MODERN TIMES -

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