Hussein Kasujja's 13 year
campaign for the right to stay
Desperately seeking safety
Locked behind barbed wire, subjected to intimate
body searches: is
this how Britain should treat children?
(Beriwan (14), Newroz (13), Dilovan (12) and Medya (8),
are spending their 349th day in detention)
Home Office puts misleading spin on own report
The Home Office, this week,
tried to present its new research on asylum-seeking in Europe as evidence
that its policies were working. But what the research actually says
is that attempts to deter asylum seekers through hardline measures
are unlikely to be effective.
Institute of Race Relations Thursday 26th June 2003
Afghanistan
refugee returns: 'Out of sight, out of mind'
Amnesty International on Monday
23 June 2003 singled out the UK, alongside Afghanistan's immediate
neighbours, for criticism for its policy of returning refugees to
Afghanistan.
The organisation said that
the security situation in Afghanistan had deteriorated in 2003, with
at least two thirds of the country now in a situation of "generalised
instability." There have been armed attacks on the security forces
in Kabul, local commanders continue to fight turf wars, civilians
are often killed, women and girls are forced to marry and property
is destroyed. More
> > >
Amnesty demands halt to forced repatriation of Afghans
Independent Tuesday 24th June 2003 Scottish MPs/ Amnesty International/Refugee
and Faith groups Voice Concerns over detention of families at Dungavel
Removal/detention centre.
"It is not an appropriate
setting for families and children who require school and education
and a normal life"
Shona Robison MSP
Robert
Brown MSP, has spoken about the plight of the Ay children Beriwan
(14), Newroz (13), Dilovan (12) and Medya (8), who are spending their
349th day in detention at the centre. He has condemned the treatment
of youngsters at the facility, insisting that the situation should
not be tolerated in a civilised society.
"One of the features
of our visit which we found still unsatisfactory is the length of
time that people are being detained." Tommy
Sheridan MSP
USA First National Survey of Children
in Immigration Detention Exposes Mistreatment, Lengthy Detentions,
Legal Barriers
Australian
Family Court Rules against Indefinite Detention of Children
In a more than welcome decision
on Thursday 19th June 2003 the Australian Family Court ruled against
the indefinite detention of children. Chief Justice Alastair Nicholson,
and Justice Stephen O'Ryan made the majority ruling that the court's
welfare jurisdiction extended to the protection of children in immigration
detention.
Judges were hearing an appeal
by two children aged 12 and 14 who at the time of the hearing were
still in detention with their parents. The children had filed the
action for their release in that their continued detention was harmful
to there welfare.The decision does not affect the parents. There
were 108 children in Australia's detention centres at the time of
the decision.
The Australian Government have lodged
an appeal against the decision and a stay against the family court
decision, which mean the children will remain in detention.
Download the Australian court judgement:
ChildrenOutofDetention.pdf
Meantime
back in the UK, the Ay children Beriwan (14), Newroz (13),
Dilovan (12) and Medya (8), are spending their 349th day in detention.
Beriwan, speaking to NCADC on Thursday 19th June said their family
life is at an all time low with everyone feeling the strain but was
glad to hear the news from Australia.For Neroz, Dilovan and Medya
their 13th, 12th and 8th birthdays were celebrated if celebrated is
the word in detention.
Ay Family
Must Stay
Try
telling a 14-year-old who lives behind razor wire that her 'home'
is not a prison
Germany
Calling: Nigerian Donny Ohia on hunger strike in deportation prison
No Forced Returns! - Defend Kurdish
and Afghani Refugees!
24 down - 181 to Go
USA:
Detained Asylum Seekers Suffer Psychological Setbacks, Study Finds
Secret
Balkan camp built to hold UK asylum seekers The
Observer Sunday June 15th 2003
Contracting authority European Commission,
on behalf of beneficiary country.
6. Contract description Croatia must ensure the basic conditions for
living, health and accommodation, legal and humanitarian assistance
of asylum seekers and recognized refugees. The Ministry of Interior
as the responsible body is planning to accommodate asylum seekers
in a new Asylum Home which provides this group with the aforementioned
basic conditions. Web
source > > >
Refugee
Council: Government makes U-turn on asylum policy
Wednesday 18th June 2003
U-turn
over Balkan camps for refugees The
Independent Wednesday 18th June 2003
UN
concerns over British asylum plans BBC News
Online Monday 16th June 2003
Q&A:
Offshore asylum camps
BBC News Online Monday 16th June 2003
" Campaigning is never a waste of time
and effort!"
"We feel that every Anti-Deportation campaign, whether successful
or not, highlights the in-humanity and social injustice of UK immigration
laws, and helps to educate and inform more people about the reality
behind the rantings of the racist media and politicians."
Tayyip Oruc
Campaign
"Refugees are the product of failure - the failure of states
and societies to promote peace, reconciliation, development and human
rights" Bishop Patrick O' Donoghue
Green
MEP Calls For Immediate Halt To Deportations
Asylum
Seekers on Hunger Strike at Margate 'Induction Centre
Stay
the Deportation of Tayyip Oruc
Home
Office to refuse legal representation for initial asylum interviews
According
to an article 'Asylum-seekers face cuts in bid to reduce legal aid
bill' in todays Independent the Lord Chancellor's Department, are
proposing to severely cut the amount of legal aid available to asylum
seekers. Five hours will be the maximum that an asylum seeker would
be entitled to.
Even more draconian, is the proposal
that asylum seekers will 'not' be allowed legal representation at
the 'initial' Home Office interview. This is particularly worrying
as this is the crucial interview and where things can go badly wrong
if the asylum claimant is not properly advised before and represented
at the interview.
Asylum-seekers
face cuts in bid to reduce legal aid bill The
Independent Online Friday 6th June 2003
Curbs
proposed on aid in asylum cases The
Guardian Online Friday 6th June 2003
Four Demos to Mark Refugee
Week 2003
Asylum
for Ali Serir
Support
Groups
USA:
Detention Endangers Health of Asylum Seekers Physicians
for Human Rights
Professsionals
say services for asylum seekers are failing communitycare.co.uk
29th May 2003
A
fair deal for refugees and asylum seekers communitycare.co.uk
22nd May 2003
Amnesty
International
Amnesty
International: No compulsory returns of asylum-seekers to Iraq
Home
Office Press Releases: June 2003
Iraq:
Asylum Decisions re-start-Voluntary Returns begins Home
Office press release 16th June 2003
Media
- articles on asylum/refugee/economic migrants/ issues : June 2003
Last minute 'stay
of execution' for asylum-seeker Sunday
Herald Scotland Sunday 29th June 2003
Judge
accuses Blunkett of 'weasel words' on asylum The
Independent Friday 27th June 2003
Tough
asylum laws 'boost trafficking' The
Guardian Tuesday 24th June 2003
America's
brutal, quiet war against immigrants Miami
Herald Monday June 23rd 2003
Amnesty
demands halt to forced repatriation of Afghans
Independent Tuesday 24th June 2003
Try telling a 14-year-old who lives behind razor wire that her 'home'
is not a prison
Buses
'to be detention cells' Sunday
Independent Sunday 22nd June 2003
Human
rights groups say scheme may be unlawful The
Independent Friday 20th June 2003
Blair
loses funding fight for refugee zones but will push on The
Independent Friday 20th June 2003
Europe's
asylum policy shameful, says UN The Guardian
Friday 20th June 2003
NI
public reject asylum seeker imprisonment Northern
Ireland on the Internet 16th June 2003
Q&A:
Offshore asylum camps BBC
News Online Monday 16th June 2003
UN
concerns over British asylum plans BBC
News Online Monday 16th June 2003
Secret
Balkan camp built to hold UK asylum seekers The
Observer Sunday June 15th 2003
The
scandal of Britain's asylum children Sunday
Independent 15th June 2003
'You
are living like an adult way before your time, and it's very difficult'
SI 15th June 2003
Secret
Balkan camp built to hold UK asylum seekers The
Observer Sunday June 15th 2003
Compulsory
or voluntarily return for asylum seekers and refugees from the UK
to Iraq?
EU
cuts funding for treatment of torture victims by third The
Independent June 12th 2003
Refugees
face identity papers law The
Independent Online Monday 9th June 2003
Asylum
seekers end hunger strike BBC
News Online Sunday 8th June 2003
Curbs
proposed on aid in asylum cases The
Guardian Online Friday 6th June 2003
Asylum-seekers
face cuts in bid to reduce legal aid bill Independent
Friday 6th June 2003
No
Haven for Refugees Fleeing Liberia War The
Guardian Wednesday 4th June 2003
Offshore
asylum centres to be tested The
Guardian Online Wednesday June 4th 2003
Zero
immigration 'not an option' BBC
News Online Tuesday 3rd June 2003
Scotland needs its
own policy on immigration Sunday Herald Sunday 1st June 2003 |
