UNHCR legal observations Nationality and Borders Bill
“It is fundamentally at odds with the Government’s avowed commitment to upholding the UK’s international obligations under the Refugee Convention.” Read UNHCR’s full…
Tag: Refugees
UK’s detention and forced removal of Afghans in recent years and what the UK Government must now do
A Twitter thread by Bella Sankey, Director of @DetentionAction My organisation @DetentionAction has supported tens of Afghans in detention in recent years. The…
Countries That Make Weapons of War Foment Migration But Refuse Refugees
Reuters reports that during Sunday’s Mass, Pope Francis scolded countries that produce weapons for wars fought elsewhere and then refuse to take in…
Today in Parliament
Today in Parliament Liberal Democrat MP for Edinburgh West, Christine Jardine, again asked the government to lift the ban for asylum seekers from…
Africa Future – Asylum Seekers, Refugees and A Desire for Education
Refugee Week Community event – 29 June 2019 One month… one community event – what is happening in Glasgow among different communities? Sam…
Passing
“You don’t look gay” is a common phrase some lesbian and gay people hear, and it can be irritating for lesbian and gay…
A New Home
In Jamaica, it is illegal to be homosexual. The interviewee who I spoken with explained to me on how the gossip can spread…
'It is not a migrant crisis. It is a moral crisis'
Theresa May’s government has declared a handful of English Channel migrants a ‘major incident’. Diane Taylor writing in The Guardian says, don’t be fooled by the…
UK Refugees Face Homelessness Within Weeks of Getting their Asylum Decision
British Red Cross new report finds that newly recognised refugees in the UK are left on a cliff edge, facing almost inevitable destitution….