Two years ago, London announced the Migration and Economic Development Partnership (MEDP), now referred to as the UK-Rwanda Asylum Partnership, which stated that asylum seekers in the UK would be sent to Rwanda before their cases could be heard. The national Rwandan asylum system would then consider their need for international protection. In November 2023,…
“You cannot legislate facts out of existence,” said UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk, calling on the UK Government to reconsider the bill in light of recent reports raising a range of concerns. “It is deeply concerning to carve out one group of people, or people in one particular situation, from the equal protection…
“We are deeply concerned at reports that unaccompanied asylum-seeking children are going missing and are at high risk of being trafficked within the UK,” the three experts, or Special Rapporteurs, said in a statement. Local authority responsibility They said that instead of being housed in hotels, children should be placed in the care of…
In Britain, a government plan to house political asylum seekers on floating residences was developed. The government confirmed that 500 migrants would be housed in floating accommodation off the coast of Dorset. The Interior Ministry says the 200-room ship called the Bubby Stockholm will be much cheaper than hotels. According to the government, accommodation of…
Kuwait’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs building, file photo More than 5,400 people living in Kuwait applied for asylum in other countries. According to a report by the Kuwaiti think tank Arab Gulf Center for Education and Research, most of the asylum seekers are Bedouins. 120,000 Bedouins live in Kuwait, and asylum seekers include citizens of…
If adopted, the new bill would deny the right to seek refugee protection to people arriving irregularly in the UK, such as those risking their lives to cross the English Channel in small boats. Instead, these asylum-seekers would face detention and deportation, without having their individual circumstances examined. “This would be a clear breach of…
“We welcome the timely action taken by Switzerland to suspend the children’s return to Bulgaria, in compliance with the Committee’s request for interim measures,” said Ann Skelton, a member of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC). “We also welcome the decision to reassess these children’s situation and their risk of being exposed…
