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Newszine 31 - February - 2003

And that dismal cry rose slowly
And sank slowly through the air
Full of spirit's melancholy
And eternity's despair!
And they heard the words it said
Mikhail is dead, Mikhail is dead

In Remembrance Mikhail Bodnarchuk, born 1961
deceased Haslar Removal/Detention Prison, Friday 31st January 2003

National Coalition Meeting in Manchester February 2003

Cabinet Minister Excludes Asylum Seekers

Section 55 reinstated

Don't blame the judges

Zimbabwe Human Rights Petition

Section 55 suspended

Lynne Jones MP: Government must restore food and shelter for destitute refugees

Vacancies at NCADC

Asylum for Jean-Claude Mputu-Bola

Anzim Family Must Stay

Media HateWatch UK

High Court requests Home Office to restore benefits to Asylum Seekers

That's My Passport - Justice for Migrant Domestic Workers

Asylum Seekers on Hunger Strike at Haslar Removal Centre

More than 2 million people have left the UK for good!

"Detention kills" - Vigil in memory of Mikhail Bodnarchuk

In Remembrance of Mikhail Bodnarchuk

Haslar - a place of no return

France: Two deportation deaths in one month

Private security firms suggest new removals regime

Malaysia: "Migrant workers maybe sent to detention camps"


Parliament in February:
Refugee Doctors
EDM 653: Humane Treatment For Migrants With HIV

Legislation in February:
Suspension of Refugee Travel Visas        
Postal Asylum Applications Abolished
Jamaica - Vias regime imposed

Publications in Februay: (all documents in this section are either Word.docs or PDF files).

European Legal Action: Family rights defended by European Court    Don Flynn, JCWI

No One is Illegal - (Immigration Control And Asylum)         by Steve Cohen


Home Office PR
Driving forward asylum reform: Further measures to cut abuse

Home Office publications:
Asylum seekers in dispersal - healthcare issues
English language training for refugees in Londonand the regions
Home Office PR: Driving forward asylum reform: Further measures to cut abuse
Labour market outcomes and psychological well-being of ethnic minority migrants in Britain

Labour market performance of immigrants in the UK labour market
The local labour market effects of immigration in the UK


From the Media - articles on asylum and refugee issues for the month of February

MPs attack removal of Roma asylum seekers    The Guardian, Thurssday February 26th 2003

Minister bars asylum seekers from surgery     The Guardian, Wednesday February 26, 2003

Courts step in where MPs fear to tread    Leader, The Guardian, Monday February 24th 2003

The clampdown on asylum seekers echoes attempts to control domestic migrants in the past

Ministers must learn to respect their own human rights laws    The Independent, Thursday 20th February 2003

Asylum seekers win benefits ruling     BBC News Online Wednesday 19th February 2003

NHS imports staff from South Africa to cut waiting lists     The Guardian, Wednesday 19th February 2003

What happened next?      The Observer, Sunday February 16th 2003

NHS 'to recruit more refugees'     BBC News Online Sunday 16th February 2003

Afghan asylum seeker killed in Southampton         Institute of Race Relation, 12 February 2003

Judge urges asylum rule suspension       BBC News Online, Wednesday 12th February 2003

Officials ready to send hundreds of Kurds back to Iraq The Independent, Tuesday 11th February

Section 55:  Treatment of asylum seekers 'is inhumane'    The Guardian, Tuesday 11th February 2003

Refugee camps don't work       The Guardian, Monday 10th February 2003

Asylum rights evaporate          The Guardian, Monday 10th February 2003

Frenzied court battles over Somali deportations     USA Marylands Online Community 9th February 2003

Church criticises Blair asylum pledge    BBC News Online, Sunday 9th February 2003

Suicide at refugee centre sparks hunger strike       The Independent on Sunday, Sunday 9th February 2003

Australia: Refugee protest targets Ruddock         The Mercury, Australia, Saturday 8th Februay 2003

TB tests prove negative in pilot screening scheme       The Guardian, Friday February 7th 2003

Plans to return refugees to 'holding areas' in Eastern Europe    Independent, Thursday February 6th 2003

Safe havens plan to slash asylum numbers       The Guardian, Wednesday February 5th 2003

Shifting a problem back to its source            The Guardian, Wednesday February 5th 2003

Asylum workers could help London       BBC News Online, Tuesday, 4th February, 2003

Archbishop wades into asylum controversy                The Guardian, Moday 3rd February 2003

Doctors rebut scare stories on 'infectious' immigrants The Observer,  Sunday February 2nd 2003

'They raped me. If I return, they'll kill me'       Independent on Sunday 2nd February 2003

Don't debase the asylum debate        Leader, The Observer,  Sunday February 2nd 2003

On the asylum frontline          The Observer,  Sunday February 2, 2003

Britain gripped by populist campaigns against immigrants    IRR: Saturday 1st February 2003

 

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