Hard Evidence: how has press coverage of immigration changed?
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Public Accounts Committee calls removals of foreign national offenders "dysfunctional"
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Parliamentary Committee releases highly critical report on the Home Office's handling of the removal of foreign national offenders
Human Rights Watch: Asylum seekers face dire conditions in Calais
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A recent visit to Calais finds asylum seekers and migrants living in destitution and experiencing police harassment and abuse
Case Comment: McCarthy (C-202/13) (Grand Chamber)
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Catherine Taroni, EUtopia Law
Home Office changing the process for making further submissions on asylum and human rights cases
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UKVI announces that from 26 January 2015 all further submissions must be submitted in person in Liverpool
Women for Refugee Women report details the humiliation and dehumanisation of detainees at Yarl's Wood
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New report details the damaging psychological effects of detention at Yarl's Wood immigration detention centre on female asylum seekers
Afghan interpreters granted permission to challenge UK resettlement restrictions
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Court grants permission for Afghans to argue that Government's failure to provide resettlement scheme on par with Iraqi interpreters is discriminatory
UNHCR: Conflicts in the Middle East and Africa push displacement to record high in 2014
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UNHCR's Mid-Year Trends report says 5.5 million people newly displaced and 1.4 million new refugees in first half of 2014
UN Special Rapporteur to officially criticise Government over refusal to allow visit to Yarl's Wood immigration detention centre
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The Guardian says Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women will censure Government for preventing her from inspecting Yarl's Wood
Happy New Year 2015: Freedom from Torture's 30th anniversary year starts now
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Freedom from Torture
Home Affairs Select Committee releases latest report on the work of the Home Office's Immigration Directorates
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Committee Chairman, Keith Vaz, says immigration system has "left A&E and has entered intensive care"
ECJ: UK rules requiring visas for non-EU family members of EU citizens travelling to UK infringe EU law
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Court of Justice of the European Union releases judgment in McCarthy and Others v Secretary of State for the Home Department
International Migrants Day Statement
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Guy Ryder, ILO, and Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, OHCHR
Detention Action: Court of Appeal rules policy of detaining asylum seekers for 'quick processing' of their appeals is not lawful
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Court finds Home Office policy on detaining asylum seekers during their appeals is not sufficiently clear and transparent
Ed Miliband says Labour will "control immigration with fair rules"
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Labour leader uses speech in Great Yarmouth to outline party's approach to immigration ahead of next year's election