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Documenting rights violations as endured by humans subjected to hostile border regimes to ensure justice and accountability through casework and litigation.
On the 18th September the UK government attempted to remove an unaccompanied child from Afghanistan to France under its sordid ‘one in one out’ scheme.
His removal was stopped as he was boarding the plane.
His removal was stopped as he was boarding the plane.
September 22, 2025 at 4:27 PM
On the 18th September the UK government attempted to remove an unaccompanied child from Afghanistan to France under its sordid ‘one in one out’ scheme.
His removal was stopped as he was boarding the plane.
His removal was stopped as he was boarding the plane.
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🚨EVENT POSTPONED🚨
Unfortunately due to the planned tube strikes, our upcoming event with @gardencourtlaw.bsky.social and @humansforrights.bsky.social to launch our report on the criminalisation of people seeking asylum has been postponed.
The rescheduled date is Thursday 9th October, 6:30-7:45pm
Unfortunately due to the planned tube strikes, our upcoming event with @gardencourtlaw.bsky.social and @humansforrights.bsky.social to launch our report on the criminalisation of people seeking asylum has been postponed.
The rescheduled date is Thursday 9th October, 6:30-7:45pm
September 4, 2025 at 1:24 PM
🚨EVENT POSTPONED🚨
Unfortunately due to the planned tube strikes, our upcoming event with @gardencourtlaw.bsky.social and @humansforrights.bsky.social to launch our report on the criminalisation of people seeking asylum has been postponed.
The rescheduled date is Thursday 9th October, 6:30-7:45pm
Unfortunately due to the planned tube strikes, our upcoming event with @gardencourtlaw.bsky.social and @humansforrights.bsky.social to launch our report on the criminalisation of people seeking asylum has been postponed.
The rescheduled date is Thursday 9th October, 6:30-7:45pm
We have joined RAMFEL and 53 organisations to demand Yvette Cooper extend family reunion rights to those resettled under Afghan schemes. This is a vital step to fix the harm caused by the data breach, which exposed families to renewed risk from the Taliban. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
www.independent.co.uk
August 6, 2025 at 10:50 AM
We have joined RAMFEL and 53 organisations to demand Yvette Cooper extend family reunion rights to those resettled under Afghan schemes. This is a vital step to fix the harm caused by the data breach, which exposed families to renewed risk from the Taliban. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
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After more than seven months, the Home Office is going to start processing Syrian asylum and settlement applications again. New country guidance being published today questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-stat...
Written statements - Written questions, answers and statements - UK Parliament
Information from UK Parliament on written questions & answers, written statements and daily reports.
questions-statements.parliament.uk
July 14, 2025 at 11:26 AM
After more than seven months, the Home Office is going to start processing Syrian asylum and settlement applications again. New country guidance being published today questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-stat...
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🚨We have published a NEW REPORT sharing the experiences of children from our All4One youth group who were wrongly treated as adults by the Home Office.
These children arrived in the UK alone seeking asylum, were declared “significantly over 18” at the border and sent alone to adult asylum hotels.
These children arrived in the UK alone seeking asylum, were declared “significantly over 18” at the border and sent alone to adult asylum hotels.
New Report - “This system destroys you”: Children trapped in adult asylum hotels by the Home Office - GMIAU
Our new report on children who have been wrongly sent to adult asylum hotels by the UK Home Office.
gmiau.org
July 9, 2025 at 8:44 AM
🚨We have published a NEW REPORT sharing the experiences of children from our All4One youth group who were wrongly treated as adults by the Home Office.
These children arrived in the UK alone seeking asylum, were declared “significantly over 18” at the border and sent alone to adult asylum hotels.
These children arrived in the UK alone seeking asylum, were declared “significantly over 18” at the border and sent alone to adult asylum hotels.
Ahead of the French-UK summit we with
@refugeeaction.bsky.social @jcwi-uk.bsky.social @camcrag.bsky.social @crossborderforum.bsky.social
and others have signed a statement 'condemn[ing] unequivocally the continued violence and securitisation' at the border www.crossborderforum.org/july-2025-fr...
@refugeeaction.bsky.social @jcwi-uk.bsky.social @camcrag.bsky.social @crossborderforum.bsky.social
and others have signed a statement 'condemn[ing] unequivocally the continued violence and securitisation' at the border www.crossborderforum.org/july-2025-fr...
www.crossborderforum.org
July 8, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Ahead of the French-UK summit we with
@refugeeaction.bsky.social @jcwi-uk.bsky.social @camcrag.bsky.social @crossborderforum.bsky.social
and others have signed a statement 'condemn[ing] unequivocally the continued violence and securitisation' at the border www.crossborderforum.org/july-2025-fr...
@refugeeaction.bsky.social @jcwi-uk.bsky.social @camcrag.bsky.social @crossborderforum.bsky.social
and others have signed a statement 'condemn[ing] unequivocally the continued violence and securitisation' at the border www.crossborderforum.org/july-2025-fr...
Children at the UK-France border are facing relentless violence.
In 2024, more children were killed on the border than in the previous four years combined.
A new report by @ProjectPlayFrance is dedicated to them. It highlights the realities children on our border face. 👇
In 2024, more children were killed on the border than in the previous four years combined.
A new report by @ProjectPlayFrance is dedicated to them. It highlights the realities children on our border face. 👇
July 1, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Children at the UK-France border are facing relentless violence.
In 2024, more children were killed on the border than in the previous four years combined.
A new report by @ProjectPlayFrance is dedicated to them. It highlights the realities children on our border face. 👇
In 2024, more children were killed on the border than in the previous four years combined.
A new report by @ProjectPlayFrance is dedicated to them. It highlights the realities children on our border face. 👇
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Over the past 2 years, we've warned repeatedly that moving men seeking asylum in the UK to Wethersfield causes them profound & long-lasting harm.
Instead of closing the site urgently, the govt plans to extend its use — it's disgraceful.
We need #CommunitiesNotCamps
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Instead of closing the site urgently, the govt plans to extend its use — it's disgraceful.
We need #CommunitiesNotCamps
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Asylum sites to be expanded as ministers bid to end hotel use
Chancellor Rachel Reeves pledged to stop using taxpayer-funded hotels to house asylum seekers by 2029.
www.bbc.co.uk
June 16, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Over the past 2 years, we've warned repeatedly that moving men seeking asylum in the UK to Wethersfield causes them profound & long-lasting harm.
Instead of closing the site urgently, the govt plans to extend its use — it's disgraceful.
We need #CommunitiesNotCamps
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Instead of closing the site urgently, the govt plans to extend its use — it's disgraceful.
We need #CommunitiesNotCamps
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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🔴 #Gaza
Yesterday morning, our office in Deir al-Balah was hit in a drone strike.
The location was clearly marked and registered with the Israeli authorities - it should never have been targeted.
This is a blatant violation of international humanitarian law.
Yesterday morning, our office in Deir al-Balah was hit in a drone strike.
The location was clearly marked and registered with the Israeli authorities - it should never have been targeted.
This is a blatant violation of international humanitarian law.
June 11, 2025 at 4:16 PM
🔴 #Gaza
Yesterday morning, our office in Deir al-Balah was hit in a drone strike.
The location was clearly marked and registered with the Israeli authorities - it should never have been targeted.
This is a blatant violation of international humanitarian law.
Yesterday morning, our office in Deir al-Balah was hit in a drone strike.
The location was clearly marked and registered with the Israeli authorities - it should never have been targeted.
This is a blatant violation of international humanitarian law.
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Disturbing and powerful new report on how people who cross the Channel including many children are criminalised.
We continue to call for #SafeRoutes for people seeking sanctuary 🧡
We continue to call for #SafeRoutes for people seeking sanctuary 🧡
June 11, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Disturbing and powerful new report on how people who cross the Channel including many children are criminalised.
We continue to call for #SafeRoutes for people seeking sanctuary 🧡
We continue to call for #SafeRoutes for people seeking sanctuary 🧡
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From yesterday: New report finds that children continue to be prosecuted for arriving across the Channel | Sonia Lenegan
New report finds that children continue to be prosecuted for arriving across the Channel - Free Movement
A new report from Humans for Rights Network, Oxford Border Criminologies, Refugee Legal Support and Captain Support UK, "I told them the truth" looks at the
freemovement.org.uk
June 5, 2025 at 3:10 PM
From yesterday: New report finds that children continue to be prosecuted for arriving across the Channel | Sonia Lenegan
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Who are the "illegal migrants" we hear so much about? Here's one: a scared 17-year-old boy, locked up while looking for safety.
A lot is said about people migrating irregularly, but if you want to really understand, read this from @humansforrights.bsky.social
www.humansforrights.org/i-told-them-...
A lot is said about people migrating irregularly, but if you want to really understand, read this from @humansforrights.bsky.social
www.humansforrights.org/i-told-them-...
June 7, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Who are the "illegal migrants" we hear so much about? Here's one: a scared 17-year-old boy, locked up while looking for safety.
A lot is said about people migrating irregularly, but if you want to really understand, read this from @humansforrights.bsky.social
www.humansforrights.org/i-told-them-...
A lot is said about people migrating irregularly, but if you want to really understand, read this from @humansforrights.bsky.social
www.humansforrights.org/i-told-them-...
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The UK's asylum housing system is broken, cruel & unjustifiably costly.
People seeking safety in the UK are still forced to live in hotels and the ex-military site, RAF Wethersfield, for prolonged periods of time, pushing them towards despair & even suicide. 🧵
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
People seeking safety in the UK are still forced to live in hotels and the ex-military site, RAF Wethersfield, for prolonged periods of time, pushing them towards despair & even suicide. 🧵
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Inside one hotel, the high price paid by taxpayers and as...
Hundreds of people given rooms in London have no idea when they can leave or what awaits them outside
observer.co.uk
June 5, 2025 at 8:51 AM
The UK's asylum housing system is broken, cruel & unjustifiably costly.
People seeking safety in the UK are still forced to live in hotels and the ex-military site, RAF Wethersfield, for prolonged periods of time, pushing them towards despair & even suicide. 🧵
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
People seeking safety in the UK are still forced to live in hotels and the ex-military site, RAF Wethersfield, for prolonged periods of time, pushing them towards despair & even suicide. 🧵
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
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Thank you to @jakerichardsmp.bsky.social who sits on the Home Affairs Select Committee for raising the vital issue of refugee children being wrongly placed in adult asylum hotels. Many refugee children we and @helenbamber.bsky.social. @humansforrights.bsky.social work with are wrongly judged adult.
June 4, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Thank you to @jakerichardsmp.bsky.social who sits on the Home Affairs Select Committee for raising the vital issue of refugee children being wrongly placed in adult asylum hotels. Many refugee children we and @helenbamber.bsky.social. @humansforrights.bsky.social work with are wrongly judged adult.
June 3, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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Excited to see our report featured in @bmj.com!
Our joint report with @msf.org calls for the closure of RAF Wethersfield, where the High Court found survivors of trafficking, torture, and violence were unlawfully housed.
Read more 👇 bmj.com/content/389/...
#CloseWethersfield #CommunitiesNotCamps
Our joint report with @msf.org calls for the closure of RAF Wethersfield, where the High Court found survivors of trafficking, torture, and violence were unlawfully housed.
Read more 👇 bmj.com/content/389/...
#CloseWethersfield #CommunitiesNotCamps
Healthcare charities call for the closure of controversial asylum seeker facility
A report by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and Doctors of the World UK (DOTW) has called for the closure of Wethersfield, a site that houses male asylum seekers, because of its unsuitability and the “...
bmj.com
May 20, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Excited to see our report featured in @bmj.com!
Our joint report with @msf.org calls for the closure of RAF Wethersfield, where the High Court found survivors of trafficking, torture, and violence were unlawfully housed.
Read more 👇 bmj.com/content/389/...
#CloseWethersfield #CommunitiesNotCamps
Our joint report with @msf.org calls for the closure of RAF Wethersfield, where the High Court found survivors of trafficking, torture, and violence were unlawfully housed.
Read more 👇 bmj.com/content/389/...
#CloseWethersfield #CommunitiesNotCamps
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NEW REPORT 📣 Our teams have been visiting RAF Wethersfield residents. Our report reveals what happens when people seeking safety are put into mass asylum camps by the UK government: immense harm.
Please share #CommunitiesNotCamps #CloseTheCamps
www.doctorsoftheworld.org.uk/news/the-uk-...
Please share #CommunitiesNotCamps #CloseTheCamps
www.doctorsoftheworld.org.uk/news/the-uk-...
The UK Government must close Wethersfield asylum camp - Doctors of the World
For over one year, Doctors of the World, in partnership with Médecins Sans Frontières, ran a primary healthcare mobile clinic outside the main gates of the former RAF base at Wethersfield.
www.doctorsoftheworld.org.uk
May 13, 2025 at 2:55 PM
NEW REPORT 📣 Our teams have been visiting RAF Wethersfield residents. Our report reveals what happens when people seeking safety are put into mass asylum camps by the UK government: immense harm.
Please share #CommunitiesNotCamps #CloseTheCamps
www.doctorsoftheworld.org.uk/news/the-uk-...
Please share #CommunitiesNotCamps #CloseTheCamps
www.doctorsoftheworld.org.uk/news/the-uk-...
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📣 High Court ruling on asylum claim withdrawals & support termination protects asylum seekers 📣
Irena Sabic KC & Alex Grigg of our #ImmigrationLaw Team acted for MAH in the High Court, instructed by Bahar Ata, Katie Nelson & Ana Isabel Hart of @duncanlewiss.bsky.social.
More 🔽
tinyurl.com/bde3nfsu
Irena Sabic KC & Alex Grigg of our #ImmigrationLaw Team acted for MAH in the High Court, instructed by Bahar Ata, Katie Nelson & Ana Isabel Hart of @duncanlewiss.bsky.social.
More 🔽
tinyurl.com/bde3nfsu
March 25, 2025 at 4:18 PM
📣 High Court ruling on asylum claim withdrawals & support termination protects asylum seekers 📣
Irena Sabic KC & Alex Grigg of our #ImmigrationLaw Team acted for MAH in the High Court, instructed by Bahar Ata, Katie Nelson & Ana Isabel Hart of @duncanlewiss.bsky.social.
More 🔽
tinyurl.com/bde3nfsu
Irena Sabic KC & Alex Grigg of our #ImmigrationLaw Team acted for MAH in the High Court, instructed by Bahar Ata, Katie Nelson & Ana Isabel Hart of @duncanlewiss.bsky.social.
More 🔽
tinyurl.com/bde3nfsu
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In under 24 hours, Israel has massacred over 400 people in Gaza — including 174 children.
Words of condemnation ring hollow.
The UK government must end ALL arms sales, trade & diplomatic ties with a state facing genocide charges at the ICJ & leaders under ICC arrest warrants.
Words of condemnation ring hollow.
The UK government must end ALL arms sales, trade & diplomatic ties with a state facing genocide charges at the ICJ & leaders under ICC arrest warrants.
March 18, 2025 at 4:28 PM
In under 24 hours, Israel has massacred over 400 people in Gaza — including 174 children.
Words of condemnation ring hollow.
The UK government must end ALL arms sales, trade & diplomatic ties with a state facing genocide charges at the ICJ & leaders under ICC arrest warrants.
Words of condemnation ring hollow.
The UK government must end ALL arms sales, trade & diplomatic ties with a state facing genocide charges at the ICJ & leaders under ICC arrest warrants.
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🚨Launched today!
Our report, #ADecadeOfHarm, uncovers:
❌Shocking new findings about the impact of immigration detention on women seeking safety,
❌and the extremely concerning gaps between Home Office policy and practice.
Find out more👇
www.refugeewomen.co.uk/decade-of-ha... 1/🧵
Our report, #ADecadeOfHarm, uncovers:
❌Shocking new findings about the impact of immigration detention on women seeking safety,
❌and the extremely concerning gaps between Home Office policy and practice.
Find out more👇
www.refugeewomen.co.uk/decade-of-ha... 1/🧵
Women for Refugee Women : A Decade of Harm: Survivors of gender-based violence locked up in immigration detention
New research uncovers the extremely concerning gap between Home Office policy and practice in immigration detention centres.
www.refugeewomen.co.uk
March 18, 2025 at 10:45 AM
🚨Launched today!
Our report, #ADecadeOfHarm, uncovers:
❌Shocking new findings about the impact of immigration detention on women seeking safety,
❌and the extremely concerning gaps between Home Office policy and practice.
Find out more👇
www.refugeewomen.co.uk/decade-of-ha... 1/🧵
Our report, #ADecadeOfHarm, uncovers:
❌Shocking new findings about the impact of immigration detention on women seeking safety,
❌and the extremely concerning gaps between Home Office policy and practice.
Find out more👇
www.refugeewomen.co.uk/decade-of-ha... 1/🧵
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🚨 In a judgment today, the High Court has found that the government acted unlawfully in accommodating three victims of trafficking, torture & other extreme human cruelty in the asylum camp at RAF Wethersfield.
www.helenbamber.org/resources/la...
www.helenbamber.org/resources/la...
March 14, 2025 at 3:40 PM
🚨 In a judgment today, the High Court has found that the government acted unlawfully in accommodating three victims of trafficking, torture & other extreme human cruelty in the asylum camp at RAF Wethersfield.
www.helenbamber.org/resources/la...
www.helenbamber.org/resources/la...
In a significant ruling today, the High Court of Justice has found that the Home Secretary acted unlawfully and in breach of her duties under the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 by accommodating three vulnerable asylum seekers - TG, MN, and HAA - at RAF Wethersfield.
March 14, 2025 at 2:41 PM
In a significant ruling today, the High Court of Justice has found that the Home Secretary acted unlawfully and in breach of her duties under the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 by accommodating three vulnerable asylum seekers - TG, MN, and HAA - at RAF Wethersfield.
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Staggering failures of child protection here, and "well, some of them might not have been trafficked" scarcely seems much of a response
Why do some asylum seeker children go missing?
More than 50 asylum-seeking children who went missing in Kent over six years are unaccounted for.
www.bbc.co.uk
March 14, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Staggering failures of child protection here, and "well, some of them might not have been trafficked" scarcely seems much of a response
🚨 Children who come to the UK alone in hope of finding protection need specialist support. But our new report w/ the Refugee & Migrant Children's Consortium shows that hundreds continue to be wrongly treated as adults & placed at risk in adult accommodation or criminalised 1/3🧵
March 4, 2025 at 11:41 AM
🚨 Children who come to the UK alone in hope of finding protection need specialist support. But our new report w/ the Refugee & Migrant Children's Consortium shows that hundreds continue to be wrongly treated as adults & placed at risk in adult accommodation or criminalised 1/3🧵
In response to the Border Security, Asylum & Immigration Bill introduced by the UK government on 30 Jan, along with Border Criminologies (@vickytaylor.bsky.social)
we issued a briefing on the criminalisation provisions related to irregular arrival: www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/news...
we issued a briefing on the criminalisation provisions related to irregular arrival: www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/news...
www.law.ox.ac.uk
February 21, 2025 at 4:09 PM
In response to the Border Security, Asylum & Immigration Bill introduced by the UK government on 30 Jan, along with Border Criminologies (@vickytaylor.bsky.social)
we issued a briefing on the criminalisation provisions related to irregular arrival: www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/news...
we issued a briefing on the criminalisation provisions related to irregular arrival: www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/news...