General Information March 2024 With 783 Million People Going Hungry, A Fifth of all Food Goes to Waste 63,000 Migrant Deaths in 10 Years - Fleeing More Lethal Than Ever Institute of Race Relations - Informing the Struggle for Racial Justice Nine More Asylum Seekers Died In First Half of 2023 Than Home Office Disclosed Immigration: Role of Primary Legislation Role of the Immigration Rules Any Home Secretary has Massive Power to Control Immigration Lords’ Further Defeat of Rwanda Bill Delays Final Vote Past Easter Challenge to Home Office Policy of GPS Tagging Migrants Government Told by High Court to Keep “Rather Basic Point” in Mind When Advising on Redactions Appellant Keeps British Nationality After Court Of Appeal Overturns Dishonesty Finding JUSTICE: Way Forward for EU Settlement Scheme Home Office Food Provision Leaving Some Asylum Seekers Malnourished Statement of Changes HC 590: Salary Thresholds Increased, Shortage Occupation List Gone Home Office to Accept Calls for Inquiry Into Asylum Seeker Centre ‘Dysfunctional’ Home Office in Need Of Reform, Sacked Borders Watchdog Says “Near Breaking Point”: Urgent Changes Needed To Support Victims Of Modern Slavery HO Must Release Data on Five People Who Died inAsylum-Seeker Accommodation Asylum Report Reveals Mishandling of Cases, Secret Ministerial Directions Babies Born to Refugees After Their Grant of Status ‘No Passport’ Case Sent To Crown Court Lords Pass Five Amendments to Rwanda Bill in Heavy Defeat For Rishi Sunak Number of Asylum Refusals and Homeless Refugees Skyrocket A “Difficult to Understand” First-tier Tribunal Decision Costs of the UK-Rwanda Partnership Government GPS Tagging of Migrants Breached Data Protection Law Rwanda Plan to Cost UK £1.8m for Each Asylum Seeker Permission To Challenge ‘Horrific’ Living Conditions at Asylum Accommodation Continuing Conflicts That Create Refugees - March 2024 Deteriorated Situations: Ukraine Mozambique Democratic Republic of Congo Guinea Senegal Haiti Chad South Sudan Israel/Palestine Lebanon Pakistan Papua New Guinea Burkina Faso Conflict Risk Alerts: Israel/Palestine Lebanon Yemen Resolution Opportunities: None - Improved Situations: None Conflict in Focus: Ukraine Israel killed thousands more Palestinians in Gaza – bringing the death toll since 7 October to over 30,000 – and continued to restrict aid, which could plunge over half a million into famine. Israel threatened an all-out attack on Rafah in March, which could kill or again displace a huge proportion of the 1.5 million people seeking refuge there unless a ceasefire currently under negotiation can avert the offensive. CrisisWatch Identified Thirteen Deteriorations In February. Notably: Ukraine’s forces withdrew from the embattled town of Avdiivka in Donetsk region after months of heavy Russian bombardment. The retreat marked a significant setback for Kyiv as its forces felt the sting of waning U.S. support and momentum swung toward Moscow (see this month’s Conflict in Focus). Aside from the scores of conflict situations we regularly assess, we tracked significant developments in Moldova, Papua New Guinea, Senegal and South Africa. Source: Crisis Group, https://www.crisisgroup.org/crisiswatch
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