General information - April 2019


Anti-Deportation Campaigns  - April 2019



Anti-Deportation News  - April 2019

Home Office ‘Chaos and Incompetence’ Leads to Unlawful Detentions

Home Office Faces Legal Action Over English Test Cheating Claims

11 Charter Flights (Escorts and Removals) Q1 January/February/March 2019

9 Charter Flights (Escorts and Removals)  Q4 October/November/December 2018

V.M. v. the United Kingdom (no. 2) - Violation of Article 5 § 1

Brook House IRC Lock-in Challenge

Does A Residence Permit Enable You to Claim Public Funds in the UK?

Adult Dependent Relatives: 5 Common Questions

Fresh Asylum Claims Plunge After Home Office Insists Claimant’s Travel Hundreds of Miles

Migrant Workers Setting Records For Sending Money Home

Court Castigates Home Office Over Misuse of Immigration Law

Colnbrook (IRC) - Calm, With Caring Staff, But Too Prison-Like

Deportation: West Africa: Blocked Charter Flight

Court Rules Locking Out Glasgow Refugees From Their Homes Was Lawful

Hundreds of Children Seeking Refuge in UK Deported to ‘Unsafe’ Countries at Age 18

Judicial Review Granted for Vulnerable Victim  of Modern Slavery 

Government Immigration Database 'Deeply Sinister', Say Campaigners

Fund for Peace - Failed States Index 2019

Women Seeking Asylum: Safe From Violence In The UK?

Domestic Violence Concession

Home Office Limit on Support for Slavery Victims May Be Unlawful

NI: Revised UK Immigration Rules 'Against the Grain' of the Good Friday Agreement

JS and Others) v SSHD (Litigation Friends - Children)

CCRC Refer Case of Ms E to the Crown Court

Judge Rules £1 an hour Wages for Immigration Detainees are Lawful

Majority of Immigration Removals Called off People Wrongly Targeted


Legal Articles - UK - Commons/Lords  - ECtHR/European Union - April 2019

Deportation Orders Are Not Presumed Revoked After 10 Years, For Custodial Sentences of Less Than 4 Years

Settlement in the UK After 10 Years: An Overview

Asylum Research Consultancy Country of Information Update Vol. 193

Asylum Research Consultancy Country of Information Update Vol. 192

Asylum Research Consultancy Country of Information Update Vol. 191


Continuing Conflicts That Create Refugees - April 2019

Deteriorated Situations: Burkina Faso, Mali, Chad, Rwanda, Sudan, Uganda, Comoros Islands, Myanmar, New Zealand, Russia/North Caucasus, Venezuela, Israel/Palestine, Yemen, Algeria

Conflict Risk Alerts: Mali, Comoros Islands, Yemen, Algeria

Global Overview: March saw ethnic violence in central Mali rise in scale and frequency, risking escalation in April, and jihadist attacks intensified in Mali, Burkina Faso and Chad. Fighting flared in Yemen’s north and south as de-escalation in Hodeida stalled, jeopardising peace efforts. Retaliatory strikes between Israel and Hamas pushed both sides closer to war. In Myanmar, an ethnic Rakhine armed group ramped up attacks on security forces, and in New Zealand, a far-right extremist killed 50 Muslim worshippers in a terror attack. In Algeria, millions took to the streets as a risky transition got underway. Protests erupted in Comoros following disputed presidential elections; surged in the North Caucasus’s Ingushetia; and continued in Sudan despite hardened repression. Tensions between Uganda and Rwanda rose over Uganda’s alleged harassment of Rwandans, and Venezuela’s people faced nationwide blackouts amid heightened political polarisation. In a positive development in negotiations over Nagorno-Karabakh, a much anticipated summit saw Armenia and Azerbaijan commit to strengthen the ceasefire, improve communications and implement humanitarian projects.

Source: International Crisis Group, https://www.crisisgroup.org/crisiswatch


Essential Tools for Asylum Seekers/Un-DocumentedMigrants/Immigrants/Anti-Deportation Campaigners 2019

US Country Reports on Human Rights Practices

The annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices – the Human Rights Reports – cover internationally recognized individual, civil, political, and worker rights, as set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international agreements. https://www.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/

See also US: International Religious Freedom ReportsTrafficking-in-Person ReportsU.S. Treaty ReportsUniversal Period Review; and the Advancing Freedom and Democracy Reports.

State of the World’s Human Rights - Amnesty International Report 2017/18

UNHCR Protection Manual- as of January 2018

HRW World Report 2018: Demagogues Threaten Human Right



34 Deaths Across the UK Detention Estate - Suicide/Murder/Undetermined