Three demonstrations - No Forced returns to Iraq All
removals to Kosovo - have been suspended as of 18th
March 2004
(This information was accurate at time of posting, you will need
to check with the Home Office on any given day to see if the suspensions
are still in force.)
UNHCR
Say - No Forced returns to Iraq
UNHCR has issued new guidance to governments on the treatment of
Iraqi asylum seekers, requesting a continued ban on forced returns
- including rejected cases - to all parts of Iraq until further
notice. UNHCR is also recommending that all Iraqi asylum seekers
continue to be granted some form of temporary protection.
Families
of dead migrants granted Spanish citizenship
José María Aznar, Spain’s Prime Minister, announced
on Friday 12th March that the illegal immigrants who perished in
the attacks would be given Spanish nationality posthumously. It
will also be granted to their immediate families. The gesture of
solidarity was prompted by the certain knowledge that immigrants
living in the less prosperous outskirts of Madrid were on the trains
of death.
The Times 13/03/04
Cambridge Bail Circle - Oakington
reception centre
Are you considering
visiting immigration detainees? - everything you
need to know
European Coordination for Foreigners’ Right
to Family Life
Continuing conflicts
Nepalese
army 'kills 500 rebels' The Guardian 22/03/04
Afghan
minister's killing sparks violence The Independent 22/03/04
War? Disaster?
Lost contact with your family abroad?
Anti-Deportation Campaigns - March 2004
Don't Deport Christian Selu Umeyaka!
Hassan Nejad must stay!
Solidarity with the Iranian/Kurdish
Hunger Strikers
Ay
Family
Stop
the deportation of Omar Boubeker!
Omar arrived in the UK in October 1998 from Algeria, where he had
been tortured by the authorities because of his membership of the
Front Islamique du Salut.
Dimitrievski Family are 'Here to Stay'
- Beneficiaries of the Amnesty
Backgound: Dimitrievski
Family Campaign
Jims
Family are here to stay - beneficiaries of the recent Amnesty
Visagina
Church Congregation - 113 plus are 'Here to Stay'
Tis the gift to be simple, 'tis the gift to be free,
'Tis the gift to come down where we ought to be,
And when we find ourselves in the place just right,
'Twill be in the valley of love and delight.
Shaker hymn late 18th century
Detention
Anger
over extension to Dungavel The Herald 17/03/04
Annual Report for Lindholme Immigration Removal Centre
Independent Monitoring Board download
as PDF file.
Other
views March 2004
Gone
west - The harsh reality of Ukrainians at work in the UK
Report by Trade Union Congress Tuesday
Scandal
of coerced sterilisation of Romani women
By Jenny Bourne IRR News 3 March 2004, 4:00pm
As evidence emerges of gross violations of Roma rights - women are
being sterilised without their informed consent - Roma leaders like
Rudko Kawczynski of the Roma National Congress are asking why Brussels
did not make better conditions for the Roma a condition for the accession
of the ten central and eastern European countries to the EU in May.
Germany's
refugee politics and its deadly consequences: 1993 to 2003 Statewatch
News online
European Council of Refugees and Exiles (ECRE’s)
Recommendations to the Justice and Home Affairs Council on the “Safe
Third Country” concept
Download as Word doc
Home Office Press Releases
First
Refugees arrive under new scheme
Reference: 129/2004 - Date: Monday 22nd Mar 2004
The first refugees to be offered protection in the UK under a new
legal route administered by the United Nations High Commission for
Refugees have arrived in Sheffield, Home Secretary David Blunkett
confirmed today.
UNHCR
Sudan:
humanitarian crisis in Darfur deteriorating, UN agencies say
UNHCR
races to transfer Sudanese refugees as border raids increase
12/03/04
Amnesty
International
Iraq:
One year after the war the human rights situation remains critical
One year after the war on Iraq was launched, the promise of improved
human rights for Iraqi citizens remains far from realized, concludes
a new report by Amnesty International.
Home Office Press Releases
March 2004
Blunkett welcomes law to end female genital
mutilation
Do
we need more Economic Migrants?
Media
items - immigration/migration/legislation March 2004
See also Google
and Moreover
news feeds.
EU
accord will end 'asylum shopping' The Times 31/03/04
Asylum
proposal violates basic rights Black Britain 30/03/04
EU's
'safe country' asylum plans attacked The Guardian 30/03/04
Migrants
in bonded labour trap Guardian 29/03/04
Living
in fear: my week with the hidden asylum seekers Observer
28/03/04
Memo
traps migrant row minister Sunday Timew 28/03/04
Roots
of conflict run deep in Kosovo New York Times 24/03/04
Toll
rises in Sudan's quiet war Christian
Science Monitor 25/03/04
Somalis
yearn to escape anarchic lives for jobs and peace in UK
The Guardian 25/03/04
Colombia:
Congress must reject charter for human rights violators
Amnesty 24/03/04
Rich
countries woo highly skilled migrants BBC News Onlin24/03/04
The
Internally Displaced People of Nepal Alert net 23/03/04
Kosovo:
Mob-rule Kosovo risks partition Sunday Times 21/03/04
Burnt-out
Serbs driven into exodus from Kosovo Sunday Independent
21/03/04
Fortress Britain's War on "Economic Migrants" Counterpunch
10/03/04
Ethnic
killings send Kosovo towards war The
Times 19/03/04
Bitterness
and tragedy strike again in the cradle of the Serbian state
The Independent 19/03/04
Hatred
runs deep after 600 years of conflict The Times 19/03/04
Burning
churches, ruined homes and ethnic hatred. Are the Balkans set to
explode again?
'Glasgow
Three' Vow to Fight On The Scotsman 19/03/04
Same-sex
marriages accepted by UK immigration? gay.com 18/03/04
The
NHS must not 'weed out' refugees The Guardian
18/03/04
Fourteen
dead as ethnic violence sweeps Kosovo The Guardian
18/03/04
Sudanese
refugees flee killer militias The Guardian 18/03/04
Sudan:
Darfur atrocities continue, encouraged by the government
Amnesty 17/03/04
No
backdated benefits for refugees icnewcastle 17/03/04
Kurds'
plight grips Scotland The Guardian 17/03/04
Labour
U-turn on asylum Bill Telegraph 16/03/04
Falconer
to back down over asylum-seekers' appeals Independent
15/03/04
Glasgow:
City is UK capital for refugees The Scotsman 15/03/04
Minister
misled Commons on immigration Sunday Times 14/03/04
Even
with equality, Afghan women still must escape Sunday
Telegraph 14/03/04
Asylum
laws under fresh attack BBC News 11/03/04
Failed
asylum seekers scale wall BBC 09/03/04
Humanitarian
Situation Critical in Uganda All Africa.com 09/03/04
Blunkett
Accused of 'Unlawful' Fast-Track Asylum System The
Scotsman 09/03/04
Minister
embarrassed by immigration claims The Guardian 09/03/04
Migrant
workers tell of fear and suffering The Guardian 09/03/04
Sudanese
Refugees Allege Ethnic Cleansing in Homeland VOA News
08/03/04
Huge
rise in racist attacks The Herald 08/03/04
Turning
the racist tide The
Herald 08/03/04
‘I
just feel I am living in a prison cell’
The
Herald 08/03/04
Racism
here is worse than in South Africa The
Herald 08/03/04
An
empty sort of freedom The Guardian 08/03/04
Detention
camps to halt asylum seekers in east Sunday Times 07/03/04
Lid
blown on migrant cover-up Sunday Times 07/03/04
Execution
threat for hunger strikers facing deportation Sunday
Herald 07/03/04
'Sometimes
you have to risk death to live...' Sunday Herald 07/03/04
This
legal Ruritania The Observer 07/03/04
Cross-party
plea for hunger-strikers The Times 06/03/04
Hunger
strikers refuse treatment BBC News 04/03/04
A
constitutional crisis of the Government's making The
Telegraph 05/03/04
Woolf
fury at asylum curb on courts The Telegrph 04/03/04
Ministers
and judges on collision course over asylum, says Woolf
The Independent 04/03/04
Ministers
are breaking the law, say judges The Times 04/03/04
Lottery
group was cavalier with cash The Times 02/03/04
Immigration
Wars The Guardian 02/03/04
Backbench
revolt over asylum shake-up The Times 02/03/04
Labour
MPs in asylum revolt The Guardian
02/03/04
MPs
rebel over asylum-seeker curbs The Independent 02/03/04
Non-EU
partner, family migrants 'must integrate' Expatica
1st March 2004
Here's
an immigration story you are unlikely to read in other newspapers,
and don't hear too often from the Government The Independent
02/03/04
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