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NCADC Newszine June 2006

Shaming destitution

UN criticises Home Office over refugees The Independent 28/06/06


Family Amnesty Exercise - revised criteria - very disappointing


Regularization: NCADC Where we stand

Regularization (Amnesties): recent figures
France: 152,000 (1998)
Greece: 397,000 (1998)
Italy: 308,000 (1998)
Spain: 700,000 (2005)
America: proposed 6,000,000

The Big Question: Should illegal immigrants be granted an amnesty in Britain?
Indpendent
An illegal immigration amnesty? BBC News 14/06/06
Amnesty plan for 500,000 illegal migrants The Telegraph 14/06/06
Amnesty 'not ruled out' for 570,000 immigrants The Times 14/06/06


UNHCR does not practice what it preaches - As good a day as any for a reality check
120 Immigration Detainees on Hunger Strike at Campsfield IRC

Anti-Deportation Campaigns -
Ilengela Ileo
Rahimi Family Must Stay! - Public Meeting

Begum Must Stay!
Friends of Adrian Stan
Elizabeth Must Stay in Manchester!
Adiza & Harnaik Must Stay
St Philips Vigil
Keep Victoria, Christiana, and Daniel Safe in Leeds Campaign


Anti-Deportation News -
NHS turns away failed asylum seekers with cancer The Guardian 29/06/06
Institute of Race Relations Conference 16th Sept. 2006 - Racism, Liberty and the War on Terror
Syria: Rejected asylum-seeker deported from UK sentenced to 12 years' imprisonment after unfair trial
Iranian woman spared by European rights court IR 23/06/06
Sex workers are a soft target in the asylum figures battle The Guardian 22/06/06
Immigration detention centres "unfit for children" New Scotsman 21/06/06
McWilliams slams decision to detain asylum seekers at Scottish centre UTV 20/06/06
Jesuit Refugee Service calls for alternatives to detention Catholic News 19/06/06
Campsfield: Detention centre faces 'explosive situation' The Telegraph 18/06/06
French immigration bill approved BBC 17/06/06
Thai immigrant 'is a soft target for Home Office' The Independent 15/06/06
Roma advocates sue the Danish Red Cross: Advocay Net 12/06/06
Yarl's Wood: Child welfare fears at immigration centre as key post remains vacant
£6m in bounties persuades asylum-seekers to go home The Times 06/06/06
Judge orders Home Office to free British ex-offender facing deportation The Guardian 06/06/06
French defy state child snatchers Observer 04/06/06
Deportation fears over Reid raids BBC 30/05/06
Italy: 500,000 immigrants to be 'legalised'


June 2006: Continuing conflicts that produce refugees:
Ten situations around the world deteriorated in May 2006

Generals tell Blair: reinforce Afghan mission The Times 01/07/06
Sri Lanka: 560,000 displaced people suffer effects of intensifying violence AI 29/06/06
Beyond Victimhood: Women's Peacebuilding in Sudan, Congo and Uganda ICG 28/06/06
Bangladesh: 22 Ahmadi families in danger AI 22/06/06
As elections near in DR Congo, Annan calls for end to intimidation UN News 23/06/06
DR Congo: Children Suffer Abuses Scoop 21/06/06
UN accused over Congo village massacre The Observer 18/06/06
Sri Lanka slides towards civil war as 50 die after Tigers' raid The Telegraph 18/06/06
Sri Lanka bombs rebels after bus blast kills 61 Alert Net 15/06/06
12 die as Somali leadership is racked by factional fighting The Indpendent 12/06/06
Iran: Religious Freedom House of Lords 08/06/06
The $100,000 note that won't buy a loaf of bread in Zimbabwe The Telegraph 07/06/06
Zimbabwe's Continuing Self-Destruction ICG 06/06/06
Chad: Back towards War? ICG 01/06/06
Afghanistan: Taleban kill 11 policemen and kidnap 40 others The Times 01/06/06
Zimbabwe: $100,000 banknote is enough to buy a loaf The Times 01/06/06

Somalia: Scared Mogadishu residents hide, fear more fighting Alert Net 26/05/06

Sri Lanka a Safe Haven?


UK asylum system making progress - not by our reading it isn't

"serious problems remain both in the quality of individual decisions [asylum claims determination] and the context in which they are made."


Family Amnesty - important update, please read carefully

Victims of Intolerance! - 'Asylum Madness' in the UK
The Sun, Daily Mail, Daily Express, Daily Star and their three Sunday stablemates - *News of the World, Mail on Sunday and Express on Sunday,' slammed by UNHCR report


Media -
Afghanistan crisis paves way for return of the Taliban The Telegraph 27/06/06
Charles Clarke's letter to the home affairs select committee The Guardian 27/06/06
Migrants made to wait extra year The Times 26/06/06
Study shows Glasgow teenagers oppose asylum seekers Scotsman 20/06/06
Many French seek to block deportations AP 19/06/06
Soft target The Guardain 09/06/06
Lindholme IRC: Asylum seeker rescued from prison blaze
Cash for asylum scandal hits Reid The Observer 04/06/06
Hundreds of child slaves sold into UK every year. Sunday Telegraph 04/06/06
Working the system The Times 01/06/06
Owers' 2003 deportation warning The Guardian 01/06/06

Last updated 17 August, 2006