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The British government's contentious policy to stem the flow of migrants faces one of its toughest challenges this week as the U.K. Supreme Court weighs whether it’s lawful to send asylum ...
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer's government will retain a ban on asylum seekers being able to claim protections under modern slavery and other human rights laws, even as its ministers have ...
The number of asylum seekers living in Home Office hotels has risen 20 per cent since Labour took power - with the latest statistics showing there were 35,651 people housed as of 30 September.
Michael O’Flaherty, the Council of Europe’s commissioner for human rights, criticized the legislation for preventing asylum-seekers from asking the courts to intervene when they are they are threatened with being sent back to the countries they are fleeing.
Last week, Prime Minister Keir Starmer's government retained a Conservative ban on asylum seekers being able to claim modern slavery protections despite Starmer having said in the past it drove "a ...
However, the discriminatory application of Section 55 in this case was one example of how the UK government experienced the struggle between ensuring equality and non-discrimination in its treatment of asylum seekers, whilst also protecting citizen's rights and democracy when allocating resources for the people within its jurisdiction. [13]
The UK Home Office defines unaccompanied asylum-seeking child as "a person under 18, or who, in the absence of documentary evidence establishing age, appears to be under that age, is applying for asylum in his or her own right and has no relative or guardian in the United Kingdom." [3] All asylum-seekers in the UK are seeking refugee status ...
If the asylum seeker or migrant is about to be deported. Figures published for January – March 2008 by the Home Office [22] revealed the following: 2305 people were detained in "removal centres" in the UK under Immigration Act powers (this figure excludes those held in prisons) 1980 immigration detainees were male; 35 children under 18 were ...