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General information March 2014

Anti-Deportation Campaigns  -  March 2014

Yarls Wood Immigration Removal Centre Detainee Dies

Yashika Bageerathi

Surinder Singh - Immigration Route to Family Reunion


Anti-Deportation News  - March 2014

Beaten, Abused Paid £25 a Week: Plight of UK Domestic Workers
Illegal Immigrants & FNs 'Left in Detention for Years'
Immigration Figures to Drop 20,000 as UKBA 'Massage' Numbers
Foreign Nationals HMP Liverpool HMCIP Report March 2014
US Country Reports International Religious Freedom
US Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2013
Hunger Strike By 750 Immigrants At U.S. State Detention Centre
Law Overridden to Penalise Refugees
Fail And Prosper: How Privatisation Really Works
DR Congo:  [at Risk of Persecution and Warranting Protection]
10 Longest Recorded Lengths Of Detention @ 31st December 2013
Report Reveals 'Extensive' Violence Against Women in EU
Early Day Motion 1137: Baha'i Community In Iran


Continuing Conflicts that Create Refugees - March 2014

Early Day Motion 1173: European Parliament Resolution On Drones
Violence Against Communities In Colombia Seeking Land Restitution
Nigeria: More Than 600 Killed in the Last Two Months

10 actual or potential conflict situations around the world deteriorated and one improved in February 2014, according to CrisisWatch N°127 - Deteriorated Situations: Burundi, Central African Republic, Somalia, South Sudan, Nigeria, Thailand, Ukraine, Venezuela, Syria, Libya / Download the full report here: <> CW127.pdf


Legal - UK - Commons/Lords  - ECtHR/European Union - March 2014

ILPA's latest Immigration Update 58 + six new Information Sheets
Immigration: Deportation of Foreign Nationals
Early Day Motion 1212: Strip-Searching Of Children
Early Day Motion 1211: Invasion Of Iraq 2003
Early Day Motion 1209: Differential Visa Costs
Asylum Research Consultancy (ARC) COI Update Volume 75
Risk to Christians in China - Apparently None!
Colnbrook Immigration Removal Centre
Immigration: Detention [Nationals of DR Congo]
AAN (Veil) Afghanistan v. SSHD
Immigration Bill Committee (3rd Day)
Garden Court Chambers Immigration Law Bulletin - Issue 362
Pratima Das v. SSHD - (1) Mind (2) Medical Justice Interveners
Immigration Bill - Committee (2nd Day)
Asylum Research Consultancy (ARC) COI Update Volume 74
Garden Court Chambers - Immigration Law Bulletin – Issue 361
Immigration Bill - Committee (1st Day)
Immigrants Detainees [Sectioned Under Mental Health Act 1983]

Based on the National Offender Management Service (NOMS) returns list, there were 950 immigration detainees in prisons as at week commencing 16 December 2013.


Useful reports/current statistics

Immigration Statistics Quarter 4, October/November/December 2013

Essential Tools for Anti-Deportation Campaigners - Freedom House

UKBA: Notifying Change of Address, go here . . . .   -  Change of Legal Representative go here . . . .

Human Rights of Migrants in Irregular Situation

Seeking Economic Asylum is what Moves the World to Move

663 Years of Immigration Controls

Granted Asylum: Benefits Continue Until Status documents Received

Last updated 31 March, 2014