Anti-Deportation Campaigns  - August 2016

ILPA Immigration Information Service Update Issue 71

Positive Change to Home Office Family Reunion Policy

The Degrading Restriction on an Asylum Seeker’s Right to Work


Anti-Deportation News  - August 2016

Stop Conflating "Refugee", "Illegal Immigrant" And "Immigrant"

Illegal UK Entry Arrests Surpass 27,000 In Three Years

Calais Chief Wants New Migrant Border Deal With UK

Amina Al-Jeffery: 'Locked Up' Woman Must be Allowed to Return to the UK

Scotland: New Guidance Issued to Housing Staff Working With Refugees

Migrant Mothers at US Detention Centre Suspend Hunger Strike ‘Due To Threats’

Non-Implementation of ECtHR Judgments: Our Shared Responsibility

Australia to Close Manus Island Asylum Centre

UK Inquest Reveals Brutality of Immigrant Detainee’s Death

Refugee Refused Nnaturalisation on Good Character Grounds

Trump Proposes 'Extreme Vetting' For Immigrants to U.S.

6000 Migrants Sue Germany Over Delayed Asylum Requests

50% of Immigrants Held in US 'Priority' Program Have No Criminal Conviction

Revealed Scale of Abuse of Children in Australian Offshore Detention

UN Human Rights Chief Deplores Mass Executions in Iran

Uganda: Minister's Remarks Against LGBTI People Amount to Advocacy of Hatred

Uganda: Police Attack LGBTI Pride Event

Australia: Appalling Abuse, Neglect of Refugees on Nauru

The Breaking Down of the EU Convention On Human Rights, and the UK’s Responsibility

‘New Charter For Cruelty’ At UK Immigration Detention Centres

Dozens of Asylum Seekers Crammed Into Single Home Office Property

Easy Prey: Criminal Violence and Central American Migration

Charities/High Street Names That Used Benefits Claimants as Free Labour

Seriously Ill Detainee Was Shackled Hours Before He Died


Legal - UK - Commons/Lords  - ECtHR/European Union -August 2016

Court of Session Reduces May's Rejection of Tamil Tiger's Asylum Application

Security Situation in Iraq Entails A Real Risk If Applicants Returned

UKHO: Asylum Policy instruction - Sexual Orientation in Asylum Claims

Changing the Terms of Immigration Bail

Judicial Review Guide 2016

New Home Office API on Gay Asylum Claims: Not Fit For Purpose

 Asylum Policy Instruction Sexual Orientation in Asylum Claims Version 6.0

Judicial Review Succeeds - SSHD Failed to Have Adequate Regard to the New Material

Home Office - New Guidance Processing Children’s Asylum Claims

UKHO CIG: Ethiopia: People of Mixed Eritrean/Ethiopian Nationality

UKHO CIG: Somalia: Women Fearing Gender-Based Harm And Violence

UKHO CIG Ukraine: Background Information, Including Actors of Protection and Internal Relocation



Continuing Conflicts that Create Refugees – International Crisis Watch July 2016

Deteriorated Situations: South Sudan, Mali, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Kashmir, Armenia, Turkey, Syria

Improved Situations: None

Outlook August 2016 - Conflict Risk Alerts, South Sudan - Resolution Opportunities None


Important Tools for Anti-Deportation Campaigners - August 2016


1) Amnesty International Report 2014/15: State of the World's Human Rights

2) Anxious Dictators, Wavering Democracies, Freedom of the World 2016

3) UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office (UKFCO) Human Rights and Democracy Report for 2015

4) State of Religious Freedom World Wide

 

Useful Reports/Current Immigration Statistics

Self-Harm January through March 2016

Self-Harm January through December 2015

Self-Harm January through December 2014

Deportation/DetentionAsylum Q2 April/May/June 2016

Deportation/Detention/Asylum Q1 2016

Deportations/Detention/Asylum Q4 - 2015

Deportations - Detention - Asylum Q3 - 2015

Deportations - Detention - Asylum Q2 - 2015

Deportations - Detention - Asylum Q1 - 2015


25 Deaths Across the UK Detention Estate - Suicide/Murder/Undetermined