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Our submission to the consultation on reforming asylum support in the UK.

Follow up report from the 2004 report Get It Right: How Home Office decision making fails refugees found that one in five decisions to refuse asylum was overturned on appeal.

This submission highlights concerns about how credibility is assessed in asylum decision‑making, particularly for women, people with mental ill health, torture survivors and certain nationalities, and its impact on appeal outcomes.

Executive summary of Amnesty International report - Generalisations, omissions, assumptions...

Amnesty submission to the Foreign Affairs Committee: British Foreign policy and the 'Arab Spring'

This briefing outlines the widespread discrimination and human rights abuses faced by Roma communities across Europe.

This report considers those who have sought asylum and who are detained solely under Immigration Act powers.

This briefing highlights serious failings in the training of contractors, including staff being taught techniques unsuitable for use on planes.

This briefing examines the devastating human rights impact of major oil spills in Bodo, Nigeria, highlighting Shell’s failure to clean up and Amnesty International’s calls for action.

Submission by Amnesty International UK In response to 'Choice for Women: wanted pregnancies, safe births'. A UK Government consultation on reproductive, maternal and newborn health.

Amnesty's annual statistics report on the global use of the death penalty for 2012.

Amnesty International. Reforming Asylum Support Consultation. Response to the Summary of Questions

This is an Amnesty International UK submission to the Home Affairs Select Committee examining the rules governing enforced removals from the UK.

One year on: An analysis of UK measures to protect trafficked persons. A report by Lorena Arocha for the The Anti-Trafficking Group.

This report examines arms transfers to the region and explores some common principles that can be applied by states when authorizing arms transfers, and which should underpin the Treaty's framework.

This briefing outlines Amnesty International's concerns regarding the Strathclyde Taser Pilot.

Amnesty International response to the government consultation on the powers of the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission (NIHRC).

Policy submission to the Historical Institutional Abuse Taskforce of Northern Ireland Executive.

Election briefing 2011 - Northern Ireland: Institutional child abuse

Amnesty International UK submission to the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission on 'A Bill of Rights for Northern Ireland'. EUR 45/002/2010