A Selection of Recent Publications

New Publications

The Children’s Commissioner has recently published a new report entitled “The Children’s Commissioner for England's follow up report to: The arrest and detention of children subject to immigration control.”  A full report and an executive summary are available to download in PDF format as follows:

Full Report - The Children’s Commissioner for England's follow up report to: The arrest and detention of children subject to immigration control

Executive Summary - The Children’s Commissioner for England's follow up report to: The arrest and detention of children subject to immigration control (Executive summary)

 New Home Office statistics have just been released and details are available on the Home Office RDS What’s New website:

Control of Immigration: Quarterly Statistical Summary, United Kingdom - Fourth Quarter 2009
Also available: Supplementary excel tables
(25.02.10)

 A report from the Institute for the Study of European Transformations (London Metropolitan University) by Dr. Nick Mai and entitled “Migrant Workers in the UK Sex Industry Policy-Relevant Findings.”  The full report is available to download in full at:

 Migrant Workers in the UK Sex Industry Policy-Relevant Findings2.pdf

New UK Border Agency report by John Vine, the Independent Chief Inspector of the UK Border Agency entitled “Asylum: Getting the Balance Right? A Thematic Inspection: July – November 2009.”

Full details and downloads are available as follows:  http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/aboutus/workingwithus/indbodies/chiefinspector/

New Human Rights Watch Report:

Fast-Tracked Unfairness :Detention and Denial of Women Asylum Seekers in the UK

February 23, 2010

The 69-page report documents how women asylum seekers with complex claims are being routed into a system designed for much simpler claims. The women are held in detention largely for the UK’s administrative convenience, have very little time to prepare a legal case, and have only a few days to appeal if refused. But the claims often involve such sensitive and difficult issues as sexual violence, female genital mutilation, trafficking, and domestic abuse.

A Tough Road Home: Uprooted Irqis in Jordan, Syria and Iraq.  Produced by the International Rescue Committee. (February 2010).  Full details:  http://www.theirc.org/special-reports/iraqi-refugees

ICAR have recently published a new report entitled `Citizenship for Refugees in the UK: Key Issues and Research.  Published in February 2010 and available to download from the link below:

Citizenship for Refugees: http://www.icar.org.uk/download.php?id=603

A New Report produced by the Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement and  entitled: Resolving Iraqi Displacement: Humanitarian and Development Perspectives.  Available to download in PDF format as follows:

http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/Files/rc/reports/2010/0216_iraqi_displacement/0216_iraqi_displacement.pdf

New Web Resources

Audit Commission website on migrant workers
http://www.audit-commission.gov.uk/migrantworkers/

This website expands on the Audit Commission’s report Crossing Borders published in 2007, which looked at the varying impact that the increase in migration for work has had in different parts of England. The website includes additional and expanded case study material, with a particular focus on data issues and on engaging with migrant workers themselves. One of the case studies (no 11) looks at changes to Cumbria’s library service. (Source: Welcome To Your Library Digest – http://www.welcometoyourlibrary.org.uk/).

UNHCR Statistics Update:

We are pleased to inform you that updated statistics on monthly asylum
applications submitted in selected industrialised countries are now
available. The data, which include country totals as well as selected
countries of origin, cover the period from January to June 2008 and refer to
44 countries in Europe, North America, Asia and Oceania. The data have been
posted on the UNHCR Statistics website (www.unhcr.org/statistics) under
ASYLUM TRENDS.

Iraqis in Egypt Website:

Since the US led invasion of Iraq in 2003, almost 2.5 million Iraqis
have fled their homes to seek asylum in neighbouring countries.
Now Iraqis in Egypt brings you the first ever in-depth online resource
into one of these refugee populations. Close to 150,000 refugees from Iraq are now trapped in Egypt. They have little hope of integration and no home to return to.

Iraqis in Egypt:

We are an association of journalists, filmmakers, artists and researchers working together with the Iraqi community of Egypt to bring world attention to this unprecedented humanitarian crisis.

Visit iraqisinegypt.org now for the latest media releases, films, podcasts and more.
http://www.iraqisinegypt.org/. Contact us on: info@iraqisinegypt.org

IDMC: Interactive Senegal photo gallery

A photo gallery showing villages affected by internal displacement in Senegal's Casamance region is now available to view. Estimates of the number of people internally displaced in the region range between 10,000 and 70,000. Although armed attacks against civilians along the southern border with Guinea-Bissau were reported in the first few months of 2008, people have continued to return to their homes where possible.

The pictures, taken by photographer Martin Evans, show some of the challenges and successes of the villages' reconstruction. View the gallery
(Source: IDMC - http://www.internal-displacement.org/)

Posted in: Web Sites & Tools.

OHCHR Commitee Meeting Publications

Committee on Migrant Workers: Concluding Observations (8th session)

We are pleased to provide you herewith the sixth 2008 distribution of treaty body recommendations through the listserve administered by the Human RightsTreaties Branch, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. Please, do not reply to this message.

For your information, we attach the concluding observations adopted by the Committee on Migrant Workers at its 8th session, held from 14 to 25 April 2008. The documents are provided in their unedited version and in the original language of adoption. The final versions, in all six official languages of the United Nations, will be available on the Treaty Body Database of the website of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (http://www.ohchr.org).

Under the Convention on Migrant Workers, the Committee adopted concluding observations in respect of the following State parties:

Bolivia http://www2.ohchr.org/tbru/mwc/Bolivia.pdf

Syrian Arab Republic http://www2.ohchr.org/tbru/mwc/Syria.pdf


Full information relating to the session can be found at the following webpage:
http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/cmw/cmws08.htm

At its 9th session from 24-28 November 2008, the Committee will consider the report of El Salvador. Full information relating to the 9th session can be found at the following webpage:
http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/cmw/cmws09.htm

Human Rights Treaties Branch
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

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Decisions of the Human Rights Committee (Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights)

Dear Subscribers,

We are pleased to provide you herewith the seventh 2008 distribution of treaty body recommendations through the listserve administered by the Human RightsTreaties Branch, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. Please, do not reply to this message.

For your information, we attach the final decisions of the Human Rights Committee, adopted at its 92nd session, held in New York from 17 March to 4 April 2008, in respect of individual complaints presented under the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. The decisions are provided in the original language of adoption, with translations into additional languages to be found in due course on the Treaty Body Database of the website of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (http://www.ohchr.org).

In the following six cases, the Committee found, in its decision on the merits of the case, one or more violations of the Covenant.

Susser_v_Czech Republic http://www2.ohchr.org/tbru/ccpr/Susser_v_Czech_Republic.pdf
Rakhmatov_et_al_v_Tajikistan http://www2.ohchr.org/tbru/ccpr/Rakhmatov_et_al_v_Tajikistan.pdf
Lumanog_v_Philippines http://www2.ohchr.org/tbru/ccpr/Lumanog_v_Philippines.pdf
Lnenicka_v_Czech_Republic http://www2.ohchr.org/tbru/ccpr/Lnenicka_v_Czech_Republic.pdf
Hens_Corujo_v_Spain http://www2.ohchr.org/tbru/ccpr/Hens_Corujo_v_Spain.pdf
Babkin_v_Russian_Federation http://www2.ohchr.org/tbru/ccpr/Babkin_v_Russian_Federation.pdf

In the following three cases, the Committee found, in its decision on the merits of the cases, no violation of the Covenant.

Asensi_v_Spain http://www2.ohchr.org/tbru/ccpr/Asensi_v_Spain.pdf
Bauetdinov_v_Uzbekistan http://www2.ohchr.org/tbru/ccpr/Bauetdinov_v_Uzbekistan.pdf
Oubina_v_Spain http://www2.ohchr.org/tbru/ccpr/Oubina_v_Spain.pdf

In the following eleven cases, the Committee found the complaint to be inadmissible.

Ahmad_ Abdol-Hamid_v_Denmark http://www2.ohchr.org/tbru/ccpr/Ahmad_Abdol_Hamid_v_Denmark.pdf
Conde_v_Spain http://www2.ohchr.org/tbru/ccpr/Conde_v_Spain.pdf
Fernandez_v_Spain http://www2.ohchr.org/tbru/ccpr/Fernandez_v_Spain.pdf
Gougnin Karimov_v_Uzbequistan http://www2.ohchr.org/tbru/ccpr/Gougnin_Karimov_v_Uzbequistan.pdf
Kool_v_Netherlands http://www2.ohchr.org/tbru/ccpr/Kool_v_Netherlands.pdf
Korneenko_v_Belarus http://www2.ohchr.org/tbru/ccpr/Korneenko_v_Belarus.pdf
Londono Soto_et_al_v_Australia http://www2.ohchr.org/tbru/ccpr/Londono_Soto_et_al_v_Australia.pdf
Mazon Costa _v_Spain http://www2.ohchr.org/tbru/ccpr/Mazon_Costa_v_Spain.pdf
Schmidl_v_Czech_Republic http://www2.ohchr.org/tbru/ccpr/Schmidl_v_Czech_Republic.pdf
Stow_Gai_v_Portugal http://www2.ohchr.org/tbru/ccpr/Stow_Gai_v_Portugal.pdf
Subero_v_Spain http://www2.ohchr.org/tbru/ccpr/Subero_v_Spain.pdf


Further attached is the revised global Reporting Schedule setting out the State reports, received in the Secretariat and tentatively scheduled for consideration in 2008 and 2009, by treaty and session. The schedule, correct as of 5 May, is subject to change without notice.

http://www2.ohchr.org/tbru/Reporting_Schedule.pdf

Human Rights Treaties Branch
Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights


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