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The top Court in London granted an appeal to a charity which challenged the Court's decision that the government's plans to send asylum seekers to Rwanda while their status...
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Turkiye and Rwanda have agreed to boost cooperation and bilateral relations in the field of security, defence industry, culture, economy and education, Anadolu News Agency reports. "Today, we signed...
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A district council in Devon has voted to investigate renting a cruise ship to house refugees and homeless people. The council says that demand for public housing has been...
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January 6, 2023
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Anadolu Agency
With its controversial Rwanda asylum scheme, under which asylum seekers are sent to the East African nation as their applications are processed, the UK is not the first to...
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December 25, 2022
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Sanja Skov Vedel
The policy, which involves Britain forcibly sending tens of thousands of migrants to Rwanda in an alleged effort to tackle the record number of refugees and asylum seekers arriving in the UK on small boats, has been mired by controversy.
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Asylum seekers in the UK who will be deported to Rwanda as part of the government's controversial deportation scheme include victims of torture and human trafficking, a critical report...
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The number of migrants arriving in Britain in small boats hit a record for a single day yesterday, as the rise in dangerous journeys across the English Channel continues...
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Over 20,000 people have already crossed the English Channel in small boats this year with at least 607 people arriving on Saturday alone. Saturday was the third time the...
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The UK Ministry of Defence has released figures that reveal more than 18,000 refugees have crossed the English Channel this year. On Saturday, 337 people crossed on ten boats and the Monday before that...
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Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak have both pledged to pursue further Rwanda-style deals if they win the Conservative Party leadership race in early September. In a ten-point plan published...
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The UK's border security agency has likely been "counter-productive" in dealing with migrants and refugees' crossing the English Channel in small boats, a review has found. In the independent...
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Twenty-one QCs have added their names to a list of public figures who oppose the government's controversial scheme to deport refugees who arrive in the UK to Rwanda for...
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The UK's High Commissioner to Rwanda warned against the government's plan to send refugees to Rwanda, documents presented at a High Court hearing yesterday revealed. Kigali has been "accused...
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Turkiye has slammed plans by the British prime ministerial candidate, Liz Truss, to send refugees to the country from the UK, as Ankara continues to deal with the strain...
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A group of UK MPs have said that there is "no clear evidence" that the government's Rwanda project will result in less Channel crossings. "Threats of being put on...
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The British government is set to introduce a new Bill on Wednesday to empower courts to make the final decision on the removal of asylum seekers to Rwanda and...
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Britain is pressing ahead with a policy to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda, despite a last-minute intervention by the European Court of Human Rights that stopped the first plane...
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A UN human rights expert, on Friday, urged the United Kingdom to halt plans to transfer asylum seekers to Rwanda, expressing grave concern that the arrangement violates international law,...
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Britain has no plans to leave the European Convention on Human Rights, but the Strasbourg court which enforces it overstepped its powers in blocking the deportation of asylum seekers...
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British Home Secretary, Priti Patel, defended the government's Rwanda deportation policy in a statement to Parliament on Wednesday, after the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) blocked the first...
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Asylum rights are human rights!
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Britain's first scheduled flight taking asylum seekers to Rwanda was set to depart on Tuesday, with the government warning that anyone who avoided it through last-minute legal challenges would...
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Asylum seekers sent from filthy, dangerous Libyan detention centres to Rwanda say their new quarters are a huge improvement but they still want to reach Europe – raising questions...
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June 14, 2022
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Amelia Smith
An appeal court judge has refused to stop a Home Office flight carrying asylum seekers from the UK to Rwanda from leaving this evening. Yesterday, the Court of Appeal...
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London courts will hear two last-minute legal challenges to block the British government's policy to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda before the first removal flight scheduled to leave tomorrow, Reuters reports....
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Human Rights Watch has written an urgent letter to the Home Secretary urging the government to rescind their plan to expel people seeking asylum in the UK to Rwanda....
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The British government's controversial plan to send migrants arriving illegally in Britain to Rwanda is unsafe and irrational, lawyers seeking an injunction to stop the first planned deportations told...
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Human rights groups said they had today submitted papers at the High Court in London to get an injunction to halt next week's planned deportation of asylum seekers from Britain to Rwanda, a...
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Fifteen Syrians have been served with a removal notice informing them they will be sent to Rwanda under British Home Secretary Priti Patel's controversial new deportation scheme. Syrians. It's...
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British Home Secretary Priti Patel has served the first group of refugees crossing the English Channel with an official notice that they are "under consideration" for relocation to Rwanda...
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Turkiye's women diplomats have played an important role in building political, economic and cultural relations with African countries in the last 20 years, Anadolu News Agency reports. Turkiye has...
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The Pan African Palestine Solidarity Network (PAPSN) has accused the African Union (AU) of flouting its foundational values by upholding Apartheid Israel's observer status. In a statement issued yesterday the...
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