Shamima Begum and The Humpty Dumpty Supreme Court
On 26 February 2021, the Supreme Court refused permission for Shamima Begum to return to the UK. The Supreme Court ...
Immigration and Asylum
The ‘Death to Asylum’ Rule: United States’ Evisceration of Women’s Rights under the Refugee Convention
The United States’ (‘US’) new Rule on processing asylum applications, which was to take effect from 10 January ...
The ‘Death to Asylum’ Rule: United States’ Evisceration of Women’s Rights under the Refugee Convention
The United States’ (‘US’) new Rule on processing asylum applications, which was to take effect from 10 January ...
President Biden and the War on Children
On entering office last week, President Joe Biden was greeted by an in-tray unprecedented in US history: a global ...
B and C v. Switzerland: Assessing the Risk of Ill-Treatment against LGBTIs in Deportation Cases
On 17 November 2020, the European Court of Human Rights (the Court) delivered B and C v. Switzerland, a case ...
UK’s ‘no notice’ immigration policy unlawfully interfered with the right to access to justice, holds Court of Appeal
Until March 2019, the UK operated an immigration policy – set out in Chapter 60 of the General Instructions to ...
Communalisation of Citizenship Law: Viewing the Citizenship (Amendment) Act 2019 Through the Prism of the Indian Constitution
The Citizenship Amendment Act breaches the right to equality and assaults the secular character of Indian ...
A Review of the Credibility Assessment in Hong Kong’s Torture Claim Regime
Since 2014, Hong Kong has conducted its asylum process through the Unified Screening Mechanism. The process ...
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 ...
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 ...
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