NCADC – blog

Today’s top stories: Action alert: save gay Burundian Alvin Gahimbaze; Support the Iranian hunger strikers; Telephone protest against Barnardo’s involvement in child detention; Certificates of Approval (for marriage) abolished.

Today’s top stories: Yet more on David Cameron’s anti-immigrant speech; UK survey on knowledge and attitudes towards refugee protection; First Athens, now Croydon: Iranian asylum seekers on hunger strike; Sex-trafficked women’s charity Poppy Project in danger as funding withdrawn.

Today’s top stories: More on David Cameron’s anti-immigration speech: Opening speech in local elections campaign focuses on immigration, not cuts in services; Unite the Union: independent survey shows immigration actually ranked last in  workers’ concerns; British National Party claims Cameron has further legitimised their (racist) policies.

Today’s top stories: Cameron’s dodgy rhetoric obscuring real questions about immigration policy; Europe must make migration policies more humane, says Council of Europe;

Daily news round up Today’s top stories: Sex trafficking victim wins substantial damages from Home Office; Sex trafficking charity loses out to Salvation Army over £6m contract; With a migrant crisis looming, the EU should learn from its past mistakes; Huge anti-gay campaign unfolding in Uganda.

Daily news round-up from NCADC Today’s top stories: Detaining children is not a necessary evil, despite the Coalition’s approach; Activists disrupt Barnados meeting to protest at their involvement in detention; New detention phone system to keep detainees under control; New immigration rules turn back the clock on domestic violence;

Daily news round-up from NCADC. Today’s top stories: Asylum housing budget slashed by almost £30m; Fortress Europe: sanctuary or death for Africans fleeing Libya, Tunisia; London demonstration in solidarity with people’s uprising in Iraqi Kurdistan.

Daily news round-up from NCADC Today’s top stories: The IRR responds to Searchlight’s ‘Fear and HOPE’ report; Major development on LGBT asylum protections at the European Parliament; 335 African refugees fleeing Libya are murdered out at sea; Serbia: Roma denied adequate housing – Amnesty International report.

Daily news round-up from NCADC Today’s top stories: All criminal convictions to act as bar to settlement from today – even women escaping domestic abuse; Legal Aid cuts; Annual immigration cap comes into force; Updated leaflet: Section 4 support leaflet, ‘Are you destitute and at the end of the asylum process?’

Daily news round-up from NCADC Today’s top stories: New Immigration Rules: Trapping women in violent relationships; Report on Legal Aid cuts by Justice Committee; Marriage: Abolition of the Certificate of Approval scheme; Tunisian Migrant Crisis vs. Italian Migrant Crisis – Comparing the Numbers.