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Harvard Law School (HLS) Lecturer Deborah Anker will receive the Governor's New American Appreciation Award next month for her work with refugees and asylum...
According to Ierardi, Anker will receive the award in specific recognition of her work in asylum law and for the establishment of the Immigration and Refugee Law program at the Law School...
...among the most effective advocates for expanding the rights of women to asylum because of genderrelated abuse," said Smith Professor of Law Henry Steiner, director of the Human Rights Program at the Law School...
Since 1978, Anker has litigated refugee cases before asylum adjucators at all administrative levels. For the past 15 years, she has filed amicus curiae briefs in the Supreme Court for every major refugee case...
...Monday and just wanted a ride to London so they could defect. After several hours of negotiations at London's Stanstad Airport which brought the Red Cross, the United Nations Commission on Refugees, and the Iraqi Community Association of London into the loop, the hijackers, pleading for political asylum, gave themselves up without harming any of the 199 people aboard. "It was such a low-key hijacking, it hasn't gotten people terribly excited," says TIME's Helen Gibson in London."The hijackers simply didn't want to go back to Iraq. They would rather face the relatively luxurious British...