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Home Office bids to restrict jobs for asylum seekers
Limit sought so some asylum seekers can apply for work only in industries with staff shortages Home Office ministers are trying to thwart the impact of a supreme...
A High Court judge ordered the UKBA to stop removing foreign nationals from the UK with little or no warning
Written by Emma Ginn Update on Medical Justice Judicial Review A High Court judge ordered the UKBA to stop removing foreign nationals from the UK with little or...
Quaker response to UK Borders Agency review of detention of children
Review into ending the detention of children for immigration purposes 1. We welcome the Government`s commitment to ending the detention of children for immigration...
Medical Justice welcomes the announcement to close the facilities to detain children at Yarl’s Wood.
Press release : Nick Clegg’s announcement on ending detention of children today We agree with Nick Clegg that detaining children at Yarl’s Wood is a...
SERCO contract continues with Yarls Wood until April 2013 – £32m
Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre contract extension Our contract to operate, manage and maintain the Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre...
ECDN record of campaign against detention of children
End Child Detention Now press campaign: http://claresambrook.com/campaign-page/campaign-page.html Through the Summer of 2009 six friends helped a small family...
Trees only move in the wind – A study of unaccompanied Afghan children in Europe
6. Conclusion and recommendations [see full report UNHCR AFGHAN CHILDREN JUNE 2010] 233. The interviews conducted in the preparation of this study indicate that...
Family wing at Yarl’s Wood detention centre to close
The family wing of the Yarl’s Wood immigration detention centre in Bedfordshire is to close. Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said the move was part of the...
Where is Gloria now? Nobody knows
As the case of a deported frail and mentally ill woman shows, our stretched asylum system fails the most needy and vulnerable Late on Thursday evening, Gloria,...
Immigrants should not be in jail, says prisons watchdog
Brook House Removal Centre: ‘Immigration detention should not be the same as prison’, says Dame Anne Owers The United Kingdom Border Agency should be...
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Sample letter in support of suspension of forced removals to Baghdad, Iraq
Letter to: Lord Navnit Dholakia House of Lords Westminster London SW1A 0PW Dear Navnit Dholakia, As a member of the Quaker Asylum and Refugee Network I am writing...
Permission to Work
We’ve teamed up with Still Human Still Here to urge the government to get behind more sensible rules for asylum seekers which allow them to work if they’ve...
Greater Manchester Immigration Aid Unit – Urgent: We need your help
On 28th June 2010 we received news of the decision by the Legal Services Commission to cut our legal aid contract to provide immigration legal advice and representation...
Send in letters about RMJ in support of fair legal representation
I am sure many of you have heard that Refugee and Migrant Justice have gone into administration as a result of the new legal aid payment system. As co-ordinators...
End detention of children – tell the UK Border Agency what you think!
We wanted to update you with what’s been happening since the new Government pledged to end the immigration detention of children. As we reported last time, this...
Refugee and Migrant Justice goes into administration- Demonstrate Against Likely Closure of Refugee and Migrant Justice – Defend Legal Aid Refugee and Migrant Justice (RMJ)
Demonstrate Against Likely Closure of Refugee and Migrant Justice – Defend Legal Aid Refugee and Migrant Justice (RMJ), the largest provider of specialist...
Save RMJ update
Dear All, I’m just writing with a quick update on the progress of the Save RMJ campaign so far. First of all, many many thanks for you kind support....
Why RMJ are facing closure – The government must ensure asylum seekers receive good-quality legal representation before more families suffer
End this ‘inhumane and expensive’ asylum system The government must ensure asylum seekers receive good-quality legal representation before more families...
Urgent appeal for support from Refugee and Migrant Justice
Hello, I’m writing to you from a charity called Refugee and Migrant Justice: we provide free legal advice and representation to asylum seekers and other...
Let’s end child detention at the Release Carnival,
Our friends at SOAS Detainee Support are hosting the Release Carnival in London’s Torrington Square on Saturday 5th June from 12 noon, calling on the government...
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Trees only move in the wind – A study of unaccompanied Afghan children in Europe
6. Conclusion and recommendations [see full report UNHCR AFGHAN CHILDREN JUNE 2010] 233. The interviews conducted in the preparation of this study indicate that unaccompanied Afghan children who make the long trip to Europe are deeply and negatively affected by their experience. As well as the hardships and abuses of the journey, after arrival they... [Read more of this review]
Immigrants should not be in jail, says prisons watchdog
Brook House Removal Centre: ‘Immigration detention should not be the same as prison’, says Dame Anne Owers The United Kingdom Border Agency should be stripped of its responsibility for detaining asylum seekers and illegal immigrants, the Chief Inspector of Prisons has said. Dame Anne Owers, who for nine years has been the prisons watchdog,... [Read more of this review]
Government urged to reform ’shameful’ system said to have left up to 20,000 destitute
Thousands of failed asylum seekers rely on charities for food, says Red Cross Up to 20,000 failed asylum seekers are living in the UK in conditions of destitution, relying on charities for food, a Red Cross report will say today, criticising the government’s asylum system as “shameful” and “inhumane”. A network of Red Cross... [Read more of this review]
BEDFORDSHIRE LOCAL SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN BOARD Publishes highly critical report
BEDFORDSHIRE LOCAL SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN BOARD Publishes highly critical report today 14 JUNE 2010 Bedford LSCB 090610unprotected(2) 6. RECOMMENDATIONS 6.1 The review made detailed recommendations to all the participating agencies and to the Bedford Borough Council Local Safeguarding Children Board that have been accepted and each agency has produced... [Read more of this review]
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants, Addendum : Mission to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Extracts: Report submitted by the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants, Jorge Bustamante, on his mission to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 22–26 June 2009 Publication Date 16 March 2010 Human Rights of migrants in UK – United Nations report Report from the UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights of... [Read more of this review]
Arise and Shine. Self-advocacy. Asylum Seekers.
The Cast. Lydia Besong’s play “How I became an Asylum Seeker”. April 2, 2010 (without photos) As this blog reaches it’s first anniversary the stories that have been whispering in my ear over the past twelve months are drawn together: The Yarl’s Wood hunger strike. The forthcoming election. War and refugee movements. The unsavoury... [Read more of this review]
Almost 80 per cent of asylum seekers wrongly refused legal representation at appeal
A ground-breaking project at Devon Law Centre has found that asylum seekers are being wrongly refused publicly-funded legal representation for their asylum appeals in 79 per cent of cases, and that at least 30 per cent of these people have a legitimate claim to some form of protection. Thursday 1 April 2010: The project’s final report warns that recent... [Read more of this review]
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