- Our joint influence and impact with peers and MPs
- Community picnics at the end of “Healing” Refugee Week
- After the government forces through the Nationality & Borders Bill we fight on…
- Celebrities & refugees take to the Thames to urge MPS to ‘vote to protect not punish refugees’
- MPs: Vote for protection not punishment for refugees
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Refugee law starter pack
Just getting started on refugee law and issues? Here are some of our explainer blog posts.
What is the legal definition of a “refugee”?
15th June 2021
Refugee family reunion: a user’s guide
20th March 2019
Why sticking to the Refugee Convention still matters
1st April 2021
How to claim asylum in the UK
29th August 2018
Asylum myths
There are lots of myths out there about asylum and refugees. Here are some of our posts dealing with common misconceptions.
Myth buster: “memories of trauma are engraved on the brain”
21st June 2016
Myth buster: “a truthful account remains consistent”
23rd February 2016
Why do the “migrants” in Calais want to come to the UK?
31st July 2015
Does the policy of deterring asylum seekers actually work?
18th March 2021
The problem with “credibility” as a concept in asylum cases
10th March 2021
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Top organisations working with refugees
- Guardians of the Refugee Convention. As you would expect, the UNHCR website is a mine of resources on refugee law and protection issues.
- Founded in 1951, the year the Refugee Convention was adopted, this is the semi-official lobbying group on refugee issues in the UK
- An international network of volunteers who research vital information to support people fleeing war, violence, persecution and grave threats with claiming their right to asylum.
- One of the foremost campaigning groups in the UK, Asylum Aid runs some fantastic projects, particularly on gender and asylum
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Upper Tribunal dives into the Refugee Convention exclusion clauses
The signatories of the Refugee Convention thought that some people didn’t deserve protection on account of having committed particularly heinous crimes. They therefore introduced “exclusion clauses”, found at Article 1F of the Convention. Ac ...
13th May 2022New statement of changes to the Immigration Rules: HC 17 (Borders Act)
The Home Office has published a new statement of changes to the Immigration Rules (HC 17). It is largely focused on changes to the asylum system following the passage of the Nationality and Borders Act 2022 and the agreement with Rwanda to export refu ...
12th May 2022The Rwanda refugee deal is a distraction from the real issues in the asylum system
The government has invested huge political capital into its refugee deal with Rwanda. Equally immense resources of time and energy will also no doubt be ploughed into getting a few unfortunate refugees on a plane there at some point. This is a monumen ...
9th May 2022Useful case from Court of Justice of the European Union on Palestinian refugees
In C-349/20 NB and AB v Secretary of State for the Home Department, the Court of Justice of the European Union has again addressed the question of when Palestinian refugees are entitled to refugee status under EU law. This is the fourth major judgment ...
6th May 2022Upper Tribunal reiterates high threshold in Article 3 cases
In HA (expert evidence, mental health) Sri Lanka [2022] UKUT 111 (IAC) the Upper Tribunal considers whether the removal of a Sri Lankan man with mental health difficulties would violate Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights. Article 3 p ...
4th May 2022Channel “pushbacks” policy abandoned
The Home Office has withdrawn its “pushback policy” which purported to set out a plan to return migrant boats in the English Channel to France. The climbdown follows recent skirmishes over expert evidence and disclosure — see [2022] EWHC 517 ...
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