UK Migration Newswire Archive
Jackie B. belongs in South Wales
17-11-2006 13:31
Jackie B. (not real name) and her child MThis young woman is a torture and rape victim, who was accepted by the Immigration Appellate Authority as a 'believable witness'. However her appeal was refused in 2005 on the grounds that even though she was suspected of being an LRA (Lord's Resistance Army) member and a torture and rape victim, she would not be in danger of persecution if she was returned to another part of Uganda, such as Kampala.
Australias "Guantanamo" on remote Xmas Island
17-11-2006 05:31
The 1200 bed centre, is said to cost more than $300million...
CALL FOR ACTION: MIGRANT WORKERS DEMAND JUSTICE
14-11-2006 15:38
This is the big push forward to demand Justice for Cleaners: an international campaign for the right of cleaners to organise within ISS - one of the worlds biggest multinational Cleaning Companies.
DEPORTATION OF LESIBAN TO PERSECUTION
13-11-2006 23:50
Racist Home Office deports lesiban to Uganda, know for its 'well documented record of persecuting' its gay and lesiban community using legislation, banning same sex relationships, inherited from british colonial rule.READ ALL ABOUT IT – UK-Portuguese newspaper launched in Thetford, Norfolk
13-11-2006 09:16
Indymedia-film about Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon
13-11-2006 00:12
These days a new indymedia-film concerning the situation of palestinian refugees in Lebanon was released.Last ditch attempt to stop deportation of young lesbian
12-11-2006 00:20
A last ditch attempt to stop Faridah Kenyini being deported is being organised by Tyneside Community Action for Refugees (TCAR). We are asking people to take phone/fax action and if you live in the Heathrow area, to leaflet at the airport on Monday afternoon.Full article | 1 addition | 4 comments
Asylum Seekers - The long walk
09-11-2006 14:32
Destitute asylum seekers in Nottingham now have to travel to Loughborough to report -under threat of arrest if they don't.Would you support a campaign to highlight (and hopefully overturn) this policy?
Outrage as Home Office deport 7yr old despite knowing her mother was in the UK
08-11-2006 17:10
Viva La Chance!
07-11-2006 12:24
The solution to the problem cannot be curfews and tear gas.. Profit and power are set above social peace. Who is really responsible when the villa surrounded by barbed wire is charred one morning?Full article | 1 addition | 2 comments
They have biometrics in Poland already...!
07-11-2006 02:22
I just visited Poland and they have biometrics already(I did not manage to get a photo of a one)
Defend Halima and 6-month-old Bailey Jr. - Monday 13 Nov, 9am
07-11-2006 00:46
NOISE DEMO! Friday 10th November! Dallas Court!
06-11-2006 23:06
Detainee Support Training Day
05-11-2006 14:37
No Borders London Detainee Support Group are holding a training day on Saturday 11th November @ LARC, 62 Fieldgate Street, 12noon - 5pm.Two men murdered in Sri Lanka after they have been deported from UK
03-11-2006 16:38
Deportations to Sri Lanka to continue, according to Liam Byrne, the Immigration Minister.CALL OUT ON THE 4TH OF NOVEMBER: STOP FASCISM IN RUSSIA!!!
03-11-2006 14:54
fascist pogroms and masacra could happen tomorrow in Russian cities, we need international solidarity!!!!United Kingdom:Failure in immigration policy?
03-11-2006 12:30
Democracy and Human RightsBeatings and Sugar Plums: New Labour's War on the Kurds
02-11-2006 16:17
Early morning on September 5th security guards burst into the sleeping quarters of Colnbrook detention centre in west London. The guards had come to take thirty two Iraqi Kurdish men away. Barefoot, handcuffed, with the guards swearing at them, the thirty two were taken to RAF Brize Norton. Their threatened forced deportation to Arbil in northern Iraq was imminent. In response, one man slit his throat and up to fourteen others took overdoses or cut themselves in a desperate attempt to avoid "removal". One eye witness described the scene at the holding area at the airport as "carnage with blood on the walls".(1) The Kurds knew the danger of returning to Iraq. They had fled the country years before because of that danger.
Thousands of migrant cleaners are on strike in Houston
02-11-2006 14:01
Houston USA: Justice for Janitors campaign needs your active support NOW.Thousands of migrant cleaners are on strike in Houston, the 4th most important city in the US - and Bush territory.