General Information February 2024 Humanitarian Workers Face Deportation From Israel After Freeze On Visas Tell your MP: Stop Electronic Monitoring of Asylum Seekers/Migrants Shamima Begum Loses Bid to Regain UK Citizenship "No Such Thing As Justice Here": Criminalisation of People Arriving to the UK on 'Small Boats' Sunak’s Asylum Laws Trapping 55,000 People in ‘Perma-Backlog Foreign Criminals to be Offered Deportation Instead of Prosecution Mental Health Challenges Faced by Asylum Seekers and Refugees Home Secretary Sacks Borders Watchdog Via Zoom After Clash Achieving Racial Justice at Inquests Closure of UK Family Scheme for Ukrainians Described as ‘Cruel’ Move Changes to the Destitute Domestic Violence Concession Home Secretary Confirms “Pause” On Processing Asylum Claims How to Apply For Leave to Remain as a Victim of Domestic Violence Teenage Asylum Seeker Secures Permission to Challenge Illegal Migration Laws Drastic Erosion of Women’s Rights in Afghanistan Continues Home Office Clarifies Position on Inadmissible Asylum Claims Pontins Served ‘Unlawful Act Notice’ Over Discrimination Against Irish Travellers Rwanda Plan Fundamentally Flawed, Parliamentary Report Warns EDM 377: ICJ Ruling on Gaza and the UK’s Duties Under the Genocide Convention Government Backs Down on Removing Safety for Asylum Seeker Accommodation The Silent Serial Killer: 391 Deaths In 25 Years at the UK Border UN Secretary-General: End ‘Abhorrent Practice’ of Female Genital Mutilation We Really Should Talk About the Word “Should” - Shouldn’t We? UK’s Coming Election and the Politics of Immigration: Five Key Themes Rishi Sunak’s Small Boats Plan - Home Office Deems Turkey Unsafe France: Migrant Children Sleep in the Street in Marseille 30,000 UK Asylum Seekers on Bail Under Rwanda Deportation Threat Continuing Conflicts That Create Refugees - February 2024 Twenty Deteriorated Situations – A Remarkably High Number: Burundi - Rwanda - Korean - Peninsula - Papua New Guinea - Ecuador - Venezuela - Türkiye - Israel/Palestine - Jordan - Syria - Iraq - Yemen - Iran - Comoros Islands - Mozambique - Somalia - Somaliland - Burkina Faso - Mali - Niger Conflict Risk Alerts: Haiti, Israel/Palestine, Lebanon, Syria,Yemen Resolution Opportunities: None The monthly conflict tracker highlights five conflict risks, four of which underscore the threat of a major conflagration in the Middle East. Israel’s relentless attacks on Gaza – which have killed more than 27,000 people in four months – continued unabated and could wreak further death and destruction unless mediation efforts deliver a ceasefire. A truce could offer respite and aid for the almost two million displaced Gazans fending off famine and disease. Junta leaders in Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso announced their immediate withdrawal from the regional bloc Economic Community of West African States, marking a major setback for regional integration. Our tracker assessed one improved situation in Guatemala . The transfer of power took place as planned, with Bernardo Arévalo assuming the presidency after months of relentless efforts to block the August election result and a turbulent inauguration. Aside from the scores of conflict situations we regularly assess, we tracked significant developments in the Comoros, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Papua New Guinea. Source: Crisis Group. https://shorturl.at/iyEHN
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