Browsing: asylum

European ministers will this week discuss plans to send thousands of rejected asylum seekers to third-country hubs, the head of the continent’s human rights body has…

My friend Louise London, who has died of cancer aged 78, had an unshakable commitment to human rights, which she pursued as a solicitor on behalf…

Doctors who have been prevented from working in the NHS while they wait for asylum decisions are celebrating after the Home Office agreed to lift the…

I am writing in response to your article about immigration enforcement visits to restaurants (‘They singled out non-white, foreign-born workers’: the restaurants raided by Britain’s version…

Six students from Sudan and Afghanistan have accused the home secretary of racial discrimination and launched legal action to try to overturn a ban on them…

Shahira Sadat was thrilled. She had received an invitation to interview for the prestigious Chevening scholarship. “I cannot describe the joy I felt,” she says. “I…

The family of Liam Conejo Ramos, the preschooler whose detention sparked protests in January, has been denied asylum in the US by a federal immigration judge.Attorney…

A high court judge has halted the removal of an Eritrean trafficking victim to France under the UK’s “one in, one out” scheme, after raising concerns…

A residents’ group has lost its high court challenge against a Home Office decision to use an army training camp to house asylum seekers.Crowborough Shield, a…

Last December, a letter from the Home Office dropped through Maria’s door. When she read it, she screamed. At 68, she lives with her disabled partner,…