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UK: Home Office plans to house asylum seekers in barges is 'dismal'The Government wrecked the asylum system by choosing to stop or delay making decisions on thousands of people’s asylum claims
29 Mar 2023 Press release -
Mexico: Fire in migrant detention centre is 'devastating''These devastating events lay bare a truly inhumane system of immigration enforcement' - Erika Guevara-Rosas
29 Mar 2023 Press release -
Japan: Government attempting to increase detention of asylum-seekers in ‘prison-like’ conditions
Repressive new bill would allow indefinite detention for irregular migrants and people seeking asylum
14 Mar 2023 Press release -
UK/France: New deal to prevent people crossing the Channel is 'heartless and anti-refugee'Seeking asylum is a vital human right, not something that can be banned or withdrawn for political convenience.
10 Mar 2023 Press release -
Tunisia: wave of attacks on Black African migrants has been fuelled by president's racism10 Mar 2023 Press release
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Bangladesh: Urgent relief needed for those hit by devastating fire in Rohingya refugee campSunday’s huge fire destroyed some 2,000 shelters, leaving an estimated 12,000 people without shelter
07 Mar 2023 Press release -
UK: Government's anti-asylum bill is a 'shocking new low'Attempting to disqualify people’s asylum claims en masse regardless of the strength of their case is a shocking new low for the Government.
07 Mar 2023 Press release -
Italy: Tragic deaths at sea must be wake-up call for European governments to set up safe routes for migrantsThe grief and horror felt by all of us over these tragic deaths must be channelled into action by European governments
27 Feb 2023 Press release -
UK: Asylum questionnaire is 'too little, too late'New Home Office statistics show asylum claims backlog topping 160,000
23 Feb 2023 Press release -
UK: Judgement on Shamima Begum's citizenship is 'disappointing'The Home Secretary shouldn’t be in the business of exiling British citizens by stripping them of their citizenship.
22 Feb 2023 Press release -
Italy: Parliamentary vote to further punish migrant sea rescue efforts condemnedVote comes amid news of major shipwreck off Libyan coast, with at least 73 people still missing
15 Feb 2023 Press release -
Greece: Authorities must 'drop all charges' against refugee rescue volunteers13 Jan 2023 Press release -
Greece: Authorities must drop 'farcical' trial of refugee rescue volunteers05 Jan 2023 Press release
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Indonesia: at least 180 starving Rohingya refugees reach Aceh after weeks at sea27 Dec 2022 Press release
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UK: Rwanda refugee ruling is 'bitterly disappointing'The Government’s Rwanda deal seriously undermines international refugee law and rides roughshod over the rights of people seeking asylum in the UK.
19 Dec 2022 Press release -
Morocco/Spain: Stalled investigations 'smacks of cover-up' six months after Melilla border carnage - new reportMounting evidence of crimes under international law by both Governments at the Melilla border
13 Dec 2022 Press release -
UK: PM announcement to crackdown on asylum is 'littered with errors'Sunak speaks of fairness – yet his Government has wrecked the UK’s asylum system
13 Dec 2022 Press release -
Malaysia: Government must stop forcible return of people to MyanmarDecision to overturn stay on deportation of 114 people to Myanmar risks their safety
13 Dec 2022 Press release -
Southeast Asia: 'Swift action' needed to rescue Rohingya refugees stranded at seaSix-fold increase of mostly Rohingya people making risky journeys by sea from Myanmar and Bangladesh this year
09 Dec 2022 Press release -
UK: Year on from mass drowning new statistics show asylum system in 'complete disarray'Call for ‘complete overhaul’ of asylum policy and abandonment of Rwanda deal
24 Nov 2022 Press release
