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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 [...]

NCADC welcomes today’s report  from the Home Affairs Select Committee, which raises concerns that the potentially lethal ‘head-down’ restraint technique is used during enforced removals, that racist language is used by escort staff, that there are too many escorts used in operations, and that risk assessments focus on the risk to escort staff rather the [...]

Human Rights Watch publishes World Report 2012; Unaccompanied Children: shocking report by Children’s Commissioner; Migrants’ benefits stats: investigation launched after complaints; Europe: human rights crisis; International: China, Nigeria, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq; Legal Updates; Parliament: cost of running detention centre; Research: UN seeks input for Report on Detention; Upcoming events; Subscribe to NCADC news by email [...]

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 [...]

Uche is a gay Nigerian man who arrived in the UK in 2005. Released in late 2011 from nearly two years in immigration detention, he is still fighting deportation to Nigeria.   His friend and supporter, Bryony Whitmarsh, and Paul Canning of LGBT Asylum News, tell his story below – a story that reveals just [...]

£42million bill to get remove failed asylum seekers: How taxpayer funding for secretive flights has QUADRUPLED in past seven years Graham Smith, The Daily Mail 29 December 2011 The Government has spent £42million on secretive flights to send failed asylum seekers back home, it was revealed today. British taxpayers are forking out a staggering £500,000 [...]

January The year began with cracks appearing in the government’s plan to dramatically reduce immigration by 2015 and reports of violence towards detainees by UKBA. Evidence mounts against aim to slash immigration by 2015 Migrants’ Rights Network, 26 January 2011 This week, government ministers seemed to shy away from supporting its increasingly doomed objective of [...]

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 [...]