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New House of Commons Library briefing on accommodation and financial support for asylum seekers

Latest news

Date of publication

04 February 2015

Summary

Updated research briefing with a summary of asylum support arrangements and recent scrutiny reports

Foreign nationals who pose a threat to national security may not be deported to Algeria because of human rights – Court of Appeal

Blog post

Date of publication

02 February 2015

Written by

Rosalind English, UK Human Rights Blog

UNHCR continues to recommend that asylum seekers should not be returned to Greece

Latest news

Date of publication

02 February 2015

Summary

New UNHCR report finds Greece has improved its asylum system but serious problems remain and Governments should refrain from returning asylum seekers

ECJ: Integration obligation on long-term third-country national residents is not contrary to EU law if proportionate

Latest news

Date of publication

28 January 2015

Summary

Advocate General Szpunar rules Council Directive 2003/109 does not prohibit the introduction of integration measures for third-country nationals

Home Office's further submissions changes delayed after Liverpool council legal challenge

Latest news

Date of publication

26 January 2015

Summary

Government delays introduction of new requirement for failed asylum seekers submitting fresh claims to travel to Liverpool

Hard Evidence: how has press coverage of immigration changed?

Blog post

Date of publication

26 January 2015

Written by

Alex Balch, University of Liverpool

Public Accounts Committee calls removals of foreign national offenders "dysfunctional"

Latest news

Date of publication

20 January 2015

Summary

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

Latest news

Date of publication

20 January 2015

Summary

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)

Blog post

Date of publication

19 January 2015

Written by

Catherine Taroni, EUtopia Law

Home Office changing the process for making further submissions on asylum and human rights cases

Latest news

Date of publication

15 January 2015

Summary

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

Latest news

Date of publication

14 January 2015

Summary

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

Latest news

Date of publication

13 January 2015

Summary

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

Latest news

Date of publication

09 January 2015

Summary

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

Latest news

Date of publication

05 January 2015

Summary

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

Blog post

Date of publication

01 January 2015

Written by

Freedom from Torture