General information July 2021
Continuing Conflicts That Create Refugees - July 2021
Four Out of Five Rejected Trafficking Claims Were Overturned in UK Last Year
Asylum Queue Nine Times Longer Than 10 Years Ago
Migrants Seeking Asylum who Arrive in the UK Without Permission Facing Jail
Asylum Seekers Still Without Cash Cards Five Weeks After Botched Contract Transfer
Priti Patel’s New Borders Bill - Xenophobic, Anti Refugee/Asylum Seeker
Home Secretary Must Bring Back Asylum Seeker She Deported
Immigration Tribunal Can Reject Expert Evidence
We’ve Had Enough of Home Office Harassment at Immigration Reporting Centres!
Stop Zimbabwe Deportation Flights – Sheffield Protest Friday 16 July
Mental Capacity and the Immigration System
Crowdcast: Inequalities in Access to the Covid Vaccine in the UK
Most GP Surgeries Refuse to Register Undocumented Migrants Despite NHS Policy
Parliament Consider 103,440 Signatures Calling for Amnesty for Undocumented Migrants
Analysis: Borders Bill and the Refugee Convention
Charity Launches Legal Challenge Against UK’s Foreign Aid Cuts
Briefing: Nationality and Borders Bill, Part 3 (Criminalising Asylum Seekers)
Delaying Family Reunion for Temporary Refugees Violates Article 8
UK Deportation Flight to Zimbabwe Takes Off Just One-Third Full
With the Nationality and Borders Bill UK is Choosing Cruelty Over Morality
Gay Rugby Player Wins Five-Year Battle Against Deportation to Kenya
Asylum Camp Staff Were Working Illegally, Inspectors Say
How the NHS Charging System is Failing Survivors of Domestic Abuse
Judicial Review Bill to Abolish Most Migrant Appeals
Home Office Refuses to Explain Secret Sham Marriage Algorithm
Displaced Talent Visa: Helping Refugees Apply For UK Work Permits
Continuing Conflicts That Create Refugees - July 2021
Deteriorated Situations: Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Sudan, Eswatini, Afghanistan, Nicaragua, Peru, Yemen, Libya
The Taliban sustained their major offensive in Afghanistan, seizing more than 50 district centres, mostly in the north and north east, and killing hundreds of Afghan security forces personnel. Tensions increased in Libya between rival armed coalitions, and the Islamic State launched its first attack since May 2020, killing six fighters aligned with Field Marshal Haftar. Suspected jihadists carried out their deadliest attack in Burkina Faso since 2015, killing 160 and displacing thousands. Peru’s closely contested presidential poll fuelled tensions as right-wing supporters rejected the official results, amid calls for the military to intervene. Violent anti-monarchy protests broke out in Eswatini as demonstrators clashed with security forces, reportedly leaving scores dead.
CrisisWatch Warns of One Conflict Risk in July. - In Yemen, after intensifying their military campaign in Marib governorate in the past few weeks, the Huthis could soon launch an all-out offensive that might trigger mass displacement and cut off energy supplies.
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