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Amnesty International UK briefings on Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill

This independent legal opinion, prepared as part of our work to End Israeli Apartheid, examines whether public bodies can lawfully exclude suppliers from public contracts under the Procurement Act 2023

This submission to the Home Affairs Committee identifies several discrete aspects and various underlying assumptions of the UK's immigration system that enable human trafficking.

Amnesty International UK's third-party intervention in the Supreme Court appeal of the case of For Women Scotland v Scottish Ministers, November 2024.

Letter urging the Scottish government to review its human rights due diligence process for its funding of arms companies

Letter urging the Scottish government to minimise the negative impact of Prevent on human rights in Scotland

Amnesty's submission to the Public Bill Committee considers the wider implications for the UK's immigration system of ending EU free movement.

Amnesty International UK Submission to the Data Protection Bill Public Bill Committee (immigration exemption)

This submission aims to emphasise the need for a perspective that recognises integration as a thing to be achieved within and among communities rather than something to be done by or to refugees.

Amnesty UK Submission to Home Affairs Committee on Human Trafficking

Joint Migrant Voice and Amnesty UK Submission to House of Lords Justice and Home Affairs Committee on Family Migration

This submission focuses on Article 98 (duty to render assistance) of the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea.

The submission sets out Amnesty's opposition to that in principle and practice, and identifies serious misunderstandings that underpin the arguments currently advanced in favour of clause 2.

This submission draws attention to wider Government policy, including the Illegal Migration Bill, and how it is inconsistent with ambitions of securing efficiency within the UK's asylum system.

This submission identifies a group of young British people whose marginalisation and vulnerability is gravely exaggerated by barriers to their rights to British citizenship.

This is a submission to the Home Affairs Select Committee for the Committee's inquiry into Channel Crossings.

The submission sets out information on the nationality rights of people affected by the Windrush scandal in response to oral evidence given to the Committee concerning these rights.

This is a submission to the Home Affairs Select Committee for the Committee's inquiry into Channel Crossings.

This submission explains how the UK’s routine use of immigration detention breaches international human rights law and sets out recommendations to ensure detention is used only as a last resort.

This submission explains why a compensation scheme alone cannot address the Windrush scandal and highlights the unresolved need for cultural change.