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Human rights and refugee campaigners are calling on the Home Office to be transparent about the numbers of asylum seekers who die in its care by…

Among the crowded shelves of Sacred Heart hardware store in Crowborough, there is a gap on the wall where the kitchen knives used to be displayed.As…

The UK has joined some of Europe’s hardline governments in calling for human rights laws to be “constrained” to allow Rwanda-style migration deals with third countries…

Shabana Mahmood’s radical plans to overhaul the asylum system could cause “unintended consequences” such as increased homelessness among people seeking refuge and growing case backlogs, Whitehall’s…

new video loaded: Trump’s New Crackdown on Asylum SeekersHamed Aleaziz, our immigration reporter, describes the sweeping changes the Trump administration has made that affect asylum seekers…

Gaps in official migration statistics are hampering public debate and policy decisions including on cases relating to human rights laws, according to a leading thinktank.The University…

Thousands of refugees are facing a growing homelessness crisis, according to a network of more than 100 organisations across the UK who say homelessness has more…

There has been a sevenfold increase in serious incidents at an immigration detention centre near Gatwick airport, a watchdog report has revealed.There were 28 serious incidents…

The outcome for those involved in military coups can be unpredictable at the best of times. In Ussu’s case, he was captured and tortured before making…

“My son says ‘I miss you, when am I seeing you?’ Sometimes I lie to give him false hope. There’s a growing detachment there, because he…