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The Ireland Refugee Documentation Centre, part of the Legal Aid Board, is an independent library and research service. The Centre provides a research and query service for all organisations involved in the asylum process, and builds and maintains a collection of objective and up to date country of origin , asylum, immigration and human rights [...]

The Fahamu Refugee Legal Aid Newsletter is a monthly forum for news and reflection on the provision of refugee legal aid. Focusing on the global south, it provides a unique range of news stories, organisation profiles, and legal explanations to assist those providing free legal advice on asylum, refugee and human rights cases across the [...]

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. [...]

Country of Origin Information (COI) is central to refugee status determination. However, the Research Unit at (sadly now defunct) Immigration Advisory Service highlighted serious concerns about the quality of initial decision making in asylum claims in the UK, and in particular the use/misuse of COI. You can download the IAS research into COI here (pdf) [...]

The 649-page report, Human Rights Watch’s 21st annual review of human rights practices around the globe, summarizes major human rights issues in more than 90 countries and territories worldwide. It is an essential resource for anyone campaigning against removal from the UK. You can browse chapters by country or download the full report in pdf [...]

The racism that kills The recent death of Jimmy Mubenga adds to the grim statistic of those who have died as a result of the UK’s brutal immigration laws. Harmit Athwal of Institute for Race Relations writes at the Guardian website on the launch of the new IRR report, Driven to Desperate Measures: 2006-2010, which documents [...]

The indefinite immigration detention of migrants who cannot be deported is ineffective, inefficient and enormously damaging, according to a new report, “No Return No Release No Reason: Challenging Indefinite Detention”, by London Detainee Support Group. Only one in three people held in immigration detention for over a year are eventually deported, according to LDSG’s research. [...]

Fund for Peace has published it’s annual Failed States Index for 2010. The 2010 Failed States Index ranks 177 states according to 12 social, economic, political, and military indicators based on data from more than 90,000 publicly available sources. The reports are essential tools for people fighting deportation or removal. In 2010, the top ten [...]

Source: ECRE On 4 May 2010 Eurostat published the 2009 statistics on asylum in the EU-27. According to the report, nearly 261,000 persons submitted an application for international protection or have been included in such application as a family member. Asylum seekers came mainly from Afghanistan and Russia (both 8%), Somalia and Iraq (both 7%) [...]

‘One Day We Will Be Reunited’: Experiences of Refugee Family Reunion in the UK Scottish Refugee Council, April 2010 Conflict, war and persecution not only force people to flee their countries and seek sanctuary, they also force families and loved ones apart. For the people who find sanctuary in the UK and are recognised as [...]