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Stowaways on ferries from Greece, including children as young as 13, are sent back by Italian authorities within hours without adequate consideration of their particular needs as children or their desire to apply for asylum.</div> </div> </li> <li class="views-row views-row-2 views-row-even"> <div class="views-field-field-imagefile-fid"> <span class="field-content"></span> </div> <div class="views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/web/20130122153136/http://www.hrw.org/news/2013/01/21/kenya-don-t-force-55000-refugees-camps">Kenya: Don’t Force 55,000 Refugees Into Camps</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">Jan 21, 2013</span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-news-teaser-value"> <div class="field-content">The Kenyan authorities should halt their plan to forcibly move 55,000 registered refugees and asylum seekers from cities to overcrowded and underserviced refugee camps. 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And there are severe social problems, linked in part to the huge influx in recent years of irregular migrants from outside the European Union.</div> </div> </li> <li class="views-row views-row-4 views-row-even"> <div class="views-field-field-imagefile-fid"> <span class="field-content"></span> </div> <div class="views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/web/20130122153136/http://www.hrw.org/news/2013/01/18/egypt-don-t-force-palestinians-back-syria">Egypt: Don’t Force Palestinians Back to Syria</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">Jan 18, 2013</span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-news-teaser-value"> <div class="field-content"><p><span style="color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"><span style="color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">Two Palestinians being held at the Cairo airport, apparently refused entry to Egypt, are at risk of deportation to <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130122153136/http://www.hrw.org/middle-eastn-africa/syria"><font color="#0000ff">Syria</font></a>. The man and his son would face indiscriminate violence and possible persecution if returned to Syria.</span></span></p></div> </div> </li> <li class="views-row views-row-5 views-row-odd"> <div class="views-field-field-imagefile-fid"> <span class="field-content"></span> </div> <div class="views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/web/20130122153136/http://www.hrw.org/news/2013/01/17/kenya-discrimination-against-rift-valley-displaced">Kenya: Discrimination Against Rift Valley Displaced</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">Jan 17, 2013</span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-news-teaser-value"> <div class="field-content">The Kenyan government has discriminated based on ethnicity in assisting displaced people from the Rift Valley. 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