General information - August 2018

Home Office Attempts to Deport Families ‘Harmful’ to Children and ‘Often Ineffective’

CCRC Refers For Appeal the Travel Document Conviction of Ms F

HO Paid Bonuses to Private Firm That Detained and Removed Citizens

Call For Immigration Exemption in UK's Data Protection Act to be Scrapped

Immigration Rules in UK More Than Double in Length

Cuts to Migrant Projects Fuel Local Tensions, Warns Report

Germany Mulls Year of National Service for Young People and Migrants

Shaw Report on Immigration Detention: A Review  

Hungary: Asylum Seekers Denied Food

Asylum Seekers' 20-Year Wait For Home Office Ruling

Abuse Victims Increasingly Denied Right to Stay in UK

Are the Home Office Reluctant to Deal With the Issue of Forced Marriage?

US and Mexico Child Deportations Drive Extreme Violence and Trauma

State Racism: Policing, Institutional Collusion and Justice

Govan Law Centre Adds New Case to Challenge Serco Glasgow Evictions

The Enemy Between Us: How Inequality Erodes Our Mental Health

“Supply Shock” as Fewer EU Citizens Come to the UK as a Result Of Brexit

Racist Trump Plans to Exclude 20 Million Migrants From Citizenship

Chowdhury v UK: Interim Relief Granted by European Court of Human Rights

CBI: Control Immigration, but Keep Workers Coming to the UK

Ireland: More Than 500 Asylum Seekers Granted Work Permits

Charter Flights (Escorts and Removals) Q2 April/May/June 2018 inclusive

Brazil: Economy is Society’s Servant, Not Its Master

Guardian View on the UK and Child Refugees: Unfair, Unlawful, Inhumane

Home Office Unlawfully Nullifies British Citizenship In Hundreds Of Cases


Legal Articles - UK - Commons/Lords  - ECtHR/European Union - August 2018

UK Ancestry Visas: 5 Common Questions

CPIN: Turkey: Kurdish Political Parties

CPIN Sudan: Return of Unsuccessful Asylum Seekers

CPIN Sudan: Return of Unsuccessful Asylum Seekers



Continuing Conflicts That Create Refugees - August 2018

Deteriorated Situations: Cameroon, Somalia, Côte d’Ivoire, Mali, Pakistan, Nicaragua, Haiti, Israel/Palestine, Iraq, Yemen

Conflict Risk Alerts: Zimbabwe, Israel/Palestine, Yemen

Improved Situations: Eritrea, Ethiopia, Philippines

?Resolution Opportunities: Eritrea, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Zimbabwe, Yemen

In July, fighting rose between Israel and Hamas and could quickly escalate into a new Gaza war, while in Yemen, as violence intensified on several fronts, a UN plan offered hope that a battle for Hodeida city could still be averted. Al-Shabaab stepped up attacks in Somalia, Cameroon’s Anglophone conflict spread to new areas, and tensions rose within Côte d’Ivoire’s ruling coalition. Violence marred elections in Pakistan and disrupted voting in Mali. Zimbabwe’s first general election since former President Mugabe’s ouster went largely peacefully; wide endorsement of the results could pave the way for the country’s recovery, but their rejection could spark turmoil. Violent protests erupted in southern Iraq over poor services and unemployment, and in Haiti over a proposed hike in fuel prices. Deadly clashes between protesters and pro-government forces in Nicaragua continued with hundreds now reported killed. On a brighter note, Ethiopia and Eritrea took further steps to cement peace, South Sudan’s warring leaders agreed to share power, and in the Philippines, the Bangsamoro Organic Law, a long-awaited step to implement peace in Mindanao, was finally signed into law.

Source: Crisis Watch, https://is.gd/JVNDCr


Essential Tools for Asylum Seekers/Un-DocumentedMigrants/Immigrants/Anti-Deportation Campaigners 2018

US Country Reports on Human Rights Practices

The annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices – the Human Rights Reports – cover internationally recognized individual, civil, political, and worker rights, as set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international agreements. https://www.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/

See also US: International Religious Freedom ReportsTrafficking-in-Person ReportsU.S. Treaty ReportsUniversal Period Review; and the Advancing Freedom and Democracy Reports.

State of the World’s Human Rights - Amnesty International Report 2017/18

UNHCR Protection Manual- as of January 2018

HRW World Report 2018: Demagogues Threaten Human Right



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