How do you make an asylum seeker in the UK feel even more scared, vulnerable and traumatised? Answer: Put them in a portacabin on a remote, bleak industrial estate right next to an Immigration Removal Centre. This is exactly what the Home...
Gay and lesbian asylum seekers in the UK may in the future face more obstacles related to their cases compared with other claimants. This is because of changes being made to immigration rules by the Home Office post-Brexit. ‘We are in uncharted...
A landmark ruling has seen a person granted refugee status on the basis of their non-binary gender identity for the first time. Equality activists have welcomed the judgement and hope it will make it easier for non-binary people to find a safe home...
A London charity which offered support to victims of the Grenfell Tower fire has been, and remains, institutionally racist. This is according to a report by the Tutu Foundation which provides mediation services and was commissioned to conduct a...
A new report has found that police stop and search targeted almost 68,000 people and vehicles in London in the three months from July to September 2020. It’s the first of a series of studies which analyses stop and search and has been published by...
A deal between the UK and France to try and stop asylum seekers crossing the Channel has come into effect on December 1st. The new agreement was signed a few days earlier by the Home Secretary, Priti Patel and the French Interior Minister Gerald...
The UK government is to end the funding of projects aimed at reducing the bullying of LGBT+ children in English schools. In another government U-turn, the decision contradicts an earlier promise to carry on investing in school initiatives to reduce...
As evidence of migration policy across Europe becoming increasingly hard-line, an asylum-seeking father is charged with endangering life. Fresh concerns have been raised about yet more obstacles being placed in the way of asylum seekers who head to...