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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. [...]

Update 42 now available at ILPA’s new improved website, alongside a whole load of other useful info sheets, legal briefings and publications… Asylum Screening Unit – making asylum claims; Family Returns – opening of new detention centre for children; HM Inspectorate of Prisons – reports on 2 deportation charters and on HMP Long Lartin; Legal [...]

For the last few weeks, NCADC has been operating with just one worker and two volunteers since Ariel, our Campaigns Coordinator based in Brighton left to work overseas. This has coincided with most of our volunteers also moving on to work or further studies, so we’re concentrating on priority services at the moment.

The UK Government must conduct a complete and radical overhaul of the current system of enforced removals from the UK, according to a new briefing and campaign launched today (7 July) by Amnesty International UK. Private security companies, contracted by the UK Government, have reportedly used dangerous and improper control and restraint techniques. In the [...]

G4S, the global security services company, is bidding to provide accommodation and services for asylum seekers across the UK. They have invited interested parties to talk to them about the proposals at a series of events. The contract is worth £135.5 million a year in total, broken down into six regions with several companies and [...]

No Borders press release, 21 June Update: blockade ended peacefully at 9pm with no arrests Anti-deportation campaigners are blockading Colnbrook and Harmondsworth detention centres in a last-minute attempt to stop the forcible deportation of Iraqi refugees to Baghdad on a specially chartered flight scheduled to leave London this evening. 30 angry protesters from No Borders, [...]