General Information - November 2022
Just four Afghan Refugees Resettled in UK Since Fall of Kabul
Home Office Ignored Warnings on Diphtheria Weeks Before Manston Outbreak
‘Fundamentally Flawed’ Proposal to Discriminate Against Albanian Migrants
Should the Home Office be Abolished?
Appeal From the Special Immigration Appeals Commission Must be Heard in England
Procedural Errors Should be Remitted Back to the Same Court!
Home Office Research Report on Why Asylum Seekers Come to the UK
Strategic Litigation: More Harm Than Good?
Calendar of Racism and Resistance Monday 22nd November to Sunday 27th November
Government Responds to Joint Letter on the Rights of Modern Slavery Victims
More Than 50,000 Migrants 'Die In Search of a Better Life'
Manston Detention Facility Emptied After Legal Action Against Home Secretary
Racist Home Office Contractor Mitie Banks Millions in Profits
Only 8% Of Deportation Appeals Allowed on Human Rights Ground Only
Petition - Protect our NHS. Tell Rishi Sunak No More Cuts
Home Office “Failure of Governance” In Migrant Phone Seizure Litigation
Reducing Distress When Working With Children in the Asylum Process
ECHR Orders Belgium to House Homeless Asylum Seekers
Asylum Seekers Backlog Reaches 122,206 - Hundreds Waiting Over 5 Years
Asylum Seeker In SERCO Run Hotel On 12th Day Of Hunger Strike - (14th November)
Asylum Briefing: Representing Palestinian Refugees
(There is no independent state of Palestine and therefore no such thing, in legal terms, as Palestinian nationality.)
Home Office Guidance on Refugee Family Reunion Applications Unlawful
Failed Asylum Seeker’s False Identity Conviction Quashed
Asylum Seekers Surviving on ‘One Meal a Day’ as Cost of Living Spirals
A Year On: Only 4% of People Seeking Asylum Have Received a Decision
UK Pinching 1 in 4 of its Nurses From Countries With Desperate Shortages
UK People Seeking Asylum Forced to Live on £8.24 a Week
Abdul Mateen Omar Ali - Immigration Detention Was Unlawful
Crisis In Legal Aid Provision Leaving Asylum Seekers in LImbo
Understanding the Home Office’s Problem With Asylum Decisions
Record High Referrals for Potential Victims of Modern Slavery
Abdul Mateen Omar Ali - Immigration Detention Was Unlawful
Stronger Action Needed to End ‘Legal Limbo’ of Statelessness
Priti Patel Warned of Security Risks Before Attack on Asylum Centre
Unnoticed Expansion of Electronic Surveillance in UK Immigration Control
Deadly Border Policies - 5,684 Deaths - January 2021 to September 2022
EDM 512: Proposed Re-Opening of Haslar and Campsfield IRC’s
Continuing Conflicts That Create Refugees - November 2022
Deteriorated Situations: Syria, Djibouti, Myanma,r Democratic Republic of Congo, Sudan, Chad, Ukraine.
Conflict Risk Alerts November: Pakistan, Yemen, Somaliland Ethiopia
Ethiopia’s federal and Tigray leaders met in South Africa for urgent peace talks. Absent an immediate cessation of hostilities; military offensives could result in mass atrocities against Tigray’s civilians in the coming weeks.
The postponement of Somaliland’s presidential election risks turning a months-long dispute over the electoral calendar into a broader crisis as the opposition has vowed it will not recognise incumbent President Bihi after 13 November.
Political tensions escalated in Pakistan as former Prime Minister Imran Khan began a protest march set to reach the capital Islamabad in early November, which could lead to further violent unrest.
In Yemen, the UN-mediated truce remained stuck in limbo after warring parties failed to agree to an extension, raising the risk of Huthi regional attacks and a return to front-line fighting.
Serious Conflicts throughout October
Intercommunal clashes erupted in Sudan’s Blue Nile state, killing hundreds and forcing thousands more to flee.
In Chad, authorities violently repressed countrywide protests against the extension of the transition period to civilian rule, leaving at least 60 dead and hundreds more injured.
Resistance forces in Myanmar staged deadly attacks on the regime, which clashed heavily with the Arakan Army in Rakhine State and Karen armed groups in the country’s southeast.
Russia stepped up its offensive in Ukraine by launching a series of strikes on cities and civilian infrastructure, which appear aimed at worsening living conditions as winter approaches.
In Syria’s northwest, Hei’at Tahrir al-Sham’s (HTS) advance into areas under the control of Türkiye-backed groups led to deadly clashes, upsetting the fragile status quo and risking a broader escalatory cycle of violence.
Resolution Opportunities for November: None
Source: International Crisis Group: https://rb.gy/uerrfx