Foreign National Rough Sleepers Penalised Under the UK’s Revised Immigration Rules
On 22 October 2020, the UK Government’s Home Office Department published a Statement of Changes (‘SoC’) to update ...
Immigration and Asylum
Pakistan: Discriminatory rules preclude Afghan refugee children from attaining secondary education
In 2012, the Board of Secondary Education in Karachi (BSEK), made it mandatory for ninth grade students to possess ...
Unaccompanied migrant minors and ‘protective custody’ practices in Greece: light at the end of the tunnel?
The high number of unaccompanied migrant minors detained in ‘protective custody’ in police station cells and ...
Forced hysterectomies in detention: Immediate and long-term responses to ICE abuse needed
On September 14, 2020, Project South and whistleblower Dawn Pooten filed a complaint with the US Department of ...
Brutality and false imprisonment – welcome to the UK!
On 8 June, BBC One aired a gripping drama based on the real life story of Anthony Bryan, one of the Windrush ...
Request for UN Inquiry into Italy’s role in the Torture of Migrants and Refugees Pulled-Back to Libya
Human rights violations of migrants and refugees intercepted in the Central Mediterranean, and detained in Libya, ...
Problems with prevailing defences for the repurposing of apartheid-legacy laws to discriminate against non-citizens
In 1964, the apartheid regime in South Africa introduced a new requirement for non-citizens seeking entry into the ...
COVID-19 and the Curious Case of Continued Detention of ‘Foreigners’ in India
On 13 April 2020, the Supreme Court of India ordered that ‘foreigners’ who had been detained for at least two years
The Need for Empathy: Understanding India’s COVID-19 Lockdown (with Kalpana Kannabiran)
"The question really, for me, is not so much one of the degree of deference that courts should grant the State, but
U.S. Department of Justice Creates Office to Denaturalize Immigrants
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced last month that it had created a standalone denaturalization section
The Impact of COVID-19 on World’s Refugees
While official responses to the novel COVID-19 have focused on domestic impacts of the virus, we cannot overlook ...
The Human Right to Belong: Indigenous rights and sovereignty in Australia
In 2019, the Minister of Immigration tried to deport two Aboriginal men from Australia. One was born in Papua New ...
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