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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.

This submission makes general observations on the UK's immigration system, with some further specific observations concerning social integration, forced migration, and children.

This resource lists various briefings and submissions that were produced for reasons other than advocacy on the passage of a specific Bill through Parliament.

This submission argues that the Home Office’s approach to fee waivers for children’s citizenship applications is ineffective and calls for simpler, more humane criteria.

We joined human rights & racial justice orgs in calling the Home Secretary to ensure the review on counter-extremism measures includes human rights impact on communities.

Response to the 2023 Scottish Consultation on the Abortion Services (Safe Access Zones) (Scotland) Bill

Executive summary of Amnesty International UK's response to the Scottish Government's 2023 consultation on a Human Rights Bill for Scotland

Response to the Scottish Criminal Justice Committee's 2023 call for written evidence on the Police (Scotland) Bill

Amnesty International UK letter to UK Visas & Immigration concerning policy to end use of physical documentation of immigration status.

Amnesty UK letter to Home Office Permanent Secretary on Asylum Policy and Government's Rwanda Strategy

In this joint letter, Amnesty International UK welcomes the new First Minister to his post and urges prompt action on the Human Rights Bill in Scotland.

Joint letter concerning Shell plc’s proposed sale of all of its shares in it’s Nigerian operation, the Shell Petroleum Development Company, to Renaissance African Energy.

This resource urges peers to reject the Safety of Rwanda Bill at Third Reading, warning that it still breaches human rights obligations and reflects a harmful, failed deterrence‑based asylum policy.

The submission explains why the Bill offends against international human rights law, the rule of law more generally and respect for constitutional arrangements in the UK.

The Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill is a constitutionally extraordinary and deeply harmful piece of legislation. As a coalition of more than 260 organisations working in and across the UK, we call on Peers to reject the Bill at Second…

Amnesty International UK submission to International Agreements Committee on UK-Rwanda Treaty

This resource contains various correspondence with Ministers, officials and others concerning a variety of matters from British people's rights to citizenship, to the rights of refugees and migrants in the UK or internationally.