UK: Rwanda Bill Moves a Step Closer to Adoption as Rwandan President Casts Doubt on the Scheme and UNHCR Questions its Legality, More Migrants Die Trying to Cross the Channel, Asylum Accommodation Set to Be Excluded from New Legislation Covering Safety of Social Housing
MPs have approved the Rwanda bill at third reading but the Rwandan President has suggested that the UK’s efforts to implement the scheme cannot go on indefinitely and the UNHCR has called it incompatible with international law. Five migrants have died while trying to...
UK: Government’s Claim On Clearance Of Asylum Backlog Widely Criticised, Questions Over Prime Minister’s Commitment To Rwanda Scheme Amid Preparation for Next Steps, New Details Emerge About The Death Of The Asylum Seeker On The Bibby Stockholm Barge And Humanitarian NGOs Start Medical Programme At UK Asylum Centre, UK’s Efforts to Decrease Boats Crossings Criticised By French Court, Home Office Report Fails To Include Any New Safe And Legal Routes
The Government’s claim to have cleared the backlog of legacy asylum applications has been widely criticised. The roommate of the asylum seeker who died on the Bibby Stockholm in December 2023 has described unbearable conditions on the barge, and two humanitarian NGOs...
UK: Controversial Rwanda Bill Passes Second Reading Amid Concerns; Death of Asylum Seeker on a Barge & Another Asylum Seeker Crossing the Channel Embody Country’s Inhumane Migration Policies; The Government Uses “Harmful, Unnecessary and Ethical” Age Assessment Methods
The controversial Rwanda bill passes its second reading and will go to committee stage in the new year amid concerns. The death of an asylum seeker housed on the Bibby Stockholm Barge renews critiques about “prison-like” conditions in Home Office accommodation amid...