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Illuminating the UK’s lethal detention and deportation conditions Inspection Report: too many pregnant women in detention Urgent Action Needed for Zimbabwean Activist Court rules deported Sri Lankan family can return International: new on NCADC country information pages Legal: detention centres legal surgery rotas ‘Raising Refugee Women’s Voices’ conference report Glasgow City of Sanctuary event — [...]

This week, OpenDemocracy presents a disturbing new dossier by the award-winning author Clare Sambrook — Official lying and how it harms our democracy. OpenDemocracy founder Anthony Barnett reflects on the impact of Clare Sambrook’s coverage of child detention, and the citizens’ campaign End Child Detention Now. “…in the intense, relentless process of exposing the scandal [...]

You have most probably heard about the latest scandal at the Home Office. Basically it was about a pilot scheme to replace the blanket checks on passports of people visiting the UK with a more targeted approach, and whether the Home Secretary knew the extent to which this was being implemented by her Border Force [...]

To subscribe to NCADC news by email, go to www.ncadc.org.uk/news In this newsletter: Victims of Trafficking are victims of crime, not criminals; Doctors of the World – Health is Not A Luxury campaign; Was failed asylum seeker allowed to stay in the UK because he goes to the gym?; Other news; Legal Updates; Parliament; Upcoming [...]

In Monday’s newsletter we highlighted an article by Dr Paquita de Zulueta on the importance of ensuring that asylum seekers and undocumented migrants retain access to primary care, calling on her colleagues to “overcome bureaucratic barriers and register patients irrespective of their residential status.” Dr Zulueta volunteers at Doctors of the World, Project:London, a humanitarian [...]

In an ongoing crusade to remove the “universal” bit from the concept of human rights, the Conservative Home Secretary Theresa May  has announced plans to deport more migrants who have completed prison sentences, even if it means breaking up families. Home Secretary Theresa May But first, a suspect cat incident. In her speech at the [...]

Lunar House in Croydon The Guardian reports today on a strongly worded letter from the Law Society to the UK Border Agency and the UN refugee agency, protesting the broken system that is stopping refugees from submitting claims for asylum. The letter, sent to the head of the Asylum Screening Unit (ASU) and the United [...]

The August/September edition of Women’s Asylum News is now available to download from  the Asylum Aid website. The lead article in this month’s issue covers the latest report by the Asylum Support Appeals Project (ASAP) which considers barriers to asylum support appeals for women and has been written by Gerry Hickey, Legal Adviser at ASAP. [...]