Weekly News Round-up by the Refugee Archive

UK News

The Independent (26/03/2010): Ministers are exaggerating the terrorist threat, say MPs

The Daily Telegraph (26/03/2010): Immigrants and asylum seekers face driving licence ban

Refugee Council (25/03/2010): Support for asylum seekers to increase by 1%

The Independent (26/03/2010): Leading article: The time has come for an overhaul of our terror laws

BBC News (25/03/2010): Driving rules tightened for failed asylum seekers

IRR News (25/03/2010): Concerns about abuse by UKBA contractors vindicated

Refugee & Migrant Justice (24/03/2010): RMJ statement on Dame Anne Owers, Chief Inspector of Prisons unannounced inspection of Yarl’s Wood

Refugee Council (24/03/2010): Report states detention ‘unnecessary’ for children at Yarl’s Wood

BBC News (24/03/2010): Children held unnecessarily at Yarl's Wood - inspector 

Refugee & Migrant Justice (23/03/2010): Welcome to the UK: ‘welfare interviews’ by UK Border Agency putting children seeking asylum at risk

IRR News (18/03/2010): 'This country I came to for refuge for peace ...'

Human Rights Watch (18/03/2010): UK: Interrogation Policy Appears to Permit Complicity in Abuse of Detainees

The Daily Telegraph (17/03/2010): Migrant drivers charged higher insurance

Human Rights Watch (17/03/2010): This is Britain’s chance to uphold the Olympic ideal

UKBA (17/03/2010): Refugees' route to settlement


World News

The Independent (26/03/2010): Face to face with Pakistan’s most wanted

BBC News (26/03/2010): UN welcomes Pakistan's move on Afghan refugees

The Daily Telegraph (26/03/2010): David Miliband: Israeli cloning of British passports was 'intolerable' 

The Guardian (25/03/2010): Migrants feel the chill as the French clamp down

The Guardian (25/03/2010): Can Labour 'out-nasty' the Tories on asylum?

Human Rights Watch (25/03/2010): Impossible Choices for Iraqi Refugees in Lebanon

Human Rights Watch (25/03/2010): Tajikistan: Don’t Return Asylum Seeker to Kyrgyzstan

The Guardian (24/03/2010): A non-toxic immigration debate

The Guardian (24/03/2010): Yarl's Wood detained baby for 100 days, damning report reveals

Human Rights Watch (24/03/2010): Bangladesh: Allow Photo Exhibit of Crossfire Killings

Human Rights Watch (24/03/2010): Cambodia: New Regulations Fail Refugees

Human Rights Watch (24/03/2010): Ethiopia: Repression Rising Ahead of May Elections 

Amnesty International (24/03/2010): Malaysia must end abuse of migrant workers
  - See also: Trapped: The exploitation of migrant workers in Malaysia - report summary (ASA 28/006/2010)

BBC News (24/03/2010): Malaysia accused of migrant worker abuse by Amnesty 

Human Rights Watch (24/03/2010): Tunisia Tries to Silence Human Rights Watch

Human Rights watch (24/03/2010): Iran: New Coordinated Attack on Human Rights Groups

UKBA (24/03/2010): New centre opens in Calais to combat border crime

The Guardian (22/03/2010): Three Yarl's Wood doctors investigated over healthcare failings

BBC News (22/03/2010):  Somali refugees told to leave Mogadishu airport 

Migrants' Rights Group (22/03/2010): MRG welcomes report to the Human Rights Council by the UN expert on minorities

BBC News (20/03/2010): Western Sahara activist 'beaten' after talking to BBC 

The Guardian (20/03/2010): Court allows judicial review over Yarl's Wood detention

The Independent (19/03/2010):  New secret agent rules delayed 'after falling foul of torture laws'

BBC News (19/03/2010): Swiss investigate death of Nigerian asylum seeker 

Refugees International (18/03/2010): Iraq: Hill Event Sheds Light on Humanitarian Crisis

BBC News (18/03/2010): Iraq: Key facts and figures 

Human Rights Watch (18/03/2010): Madrid needs to stand up for the forgotten children of Tenerife

Human Rights Watch (17/03/2010): Bangladesh: Hundreds Held One Year After Massacre

BBC News (17/03/2010): Australian coroner finds asylum boat blast 'deliberate' 

Human Rights Watch (17/03/2010): Human Rights Watch Memorandum for the Resumed Eighth Session of the International Criminal Court Assembly of States Parties

BBC News (16/03/2010): Sad return for Serbia's failed asylum seekers

The Guardian (16/03/2010): Artists and academics regularly refused UK entry, say campaigners

The Guardian (16/03/2010): English language schools plan legal challenge on tightening of visa rules

Human Rights Watch (16/03/2010): Human Rights Watch Interactive Dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Burma

Human Rights Watch (16/03/2010): Serbia: 9 Arrested for Kosovo War Crimes

ICRC (16/03/2010): ICRC president has talks with new European commissioner for humanitarian aid

News Stories - Updated 01 March 2010

News Stories - Updated 01 March 2010

Yarl's Wood

The Guardian Online (01/03/10): Legal challenge over Yarl's Wood women

Bristol No Borders (01/02/10): Yarl’s Wood Hunger Strike Continues – Interview with Striker

The Guardain Online ([28]/02/10): Yarl's Wood immigration centre faces abuse claims

The Guardian Online (28/02/10): Immigration bosses to be quizzed after asylum seekers were 'beaten' by guards


General Stories - UK

BBC News (01/03/100: Big rise in Afghan child migrants 

The Guardian Online (28/02/10): Tories caught up in new immigration storm

The Guardian Online(28/02/10): For the record

The Guardian Online (27/02/10): Our borders are porous. Why can't our politicians admit the problems of immigration?

The Daily Telegraph (27/02/10): One in ten students at suspect colleges

The Daily Telegraph Online (27/02/10): Islamic radicals 'infiltrate' the Labour Party

IRR News (26/02/10): Segregation policy for foreign national prisoners condemned

The Guardian Online (26/02/10): Huge rise in unresolved asylum cases revealed

BBC News (26/02/10): UK Border Agency asylum case target 'unachievable' 

The Daily Telegraph Online (26/02/10): British citizenship figures: inattention, incompetence or design?

The Guardian Online (26/02/10): The BNP's appeal to those left behind

The Guardian Online (26/02/10): Women fast-tracked to asylum denial

BBC News (26/02/10): 'Health tourists' face crackdown under new proposals

BBC News (25/02/10): UK immigration from Eastern and Central Europe falls

The Daily Telegraph Online (25/02/10): Latvians workers heading for Britain hits record high

The Daily Telegraph Online (25/02/10): Woolas admits even his children have suffered from immigration

Human Rights Watch (23/02/10): UK: ‘Fast Track’ Asylum System Fails Women.
See Also: The 69-page report, “Fast-Tracked Unfairness: Detention and Denial of Women Asylum Seekers in the UK”

Human Rights Watch (23/02/10): Women fast-tracked to asylum denial


General Stories - World

The Daily Star (01/03/10): ISPR clarifies media reports on CHT violence


BBC News (01/03/10): Karadzic defends Bosnian Serb 'holy' cause at trial


BBC News (28/02/10): Somali militants 'block UN food aid'

BBC News (27/02/10): Building the first 'Palestinian settlement' 

Human Rights Watch (24/02/10): A reform-minded government should end abuses against migrant workers

Human Rights Watch (24/02/10): The Burden is on Thais to Re-think Their Migrant Strategy
See also: From the Tiger to the Corcodile.

Human Rights Watch (24/02/10): Slow Progress on Rights in Kosovo

BBC News (25/02/10): Rwanda country profile


Torture

The Daily Telegraph Online (01/03/10): Sir Ian Blair's deal with Islamic radical

The Daily Telegraph Online (01/03/10): Guantanamo: £30m torture case bill for taxpayers

The Daily Telegaph Online (26/02/10): Gordon Brown: Britain is not involved in torture

The Daily Telegraph Online (26/02/10): Security services' 'dubious record' over Binyam Mohamed criticised by top judge