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A) 'more power, commercial potential, plan does not add up'
6 Aug 06 - 60 items
B) 'Your Human Rights'
3 Aug 06 - 50 items
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01: UK
02: World
03: Europe
04: Events
05: Middle East
06: Afghan hijack ruling
07: Working Group on Refugee Children
08: ‘Positive Futures? Current asylum policy and its impact on
asylum seekers in Scotland’
09: Seeking Asylum Alone: Unaccompanied and Separated Children and
Refugee Protection
10: Resolving the Liberal Paradox: Citizen Rights and Alien Rights
in the UK
11: How to cancel or change your subscription to www.frankslist.info
Lead: - 'more power, commercial potential, plan does not add up'
Reid calls for migration debate
"We have to give the Immigration and Nationality Directorate more
power
Mr Reid also highlighted his proposal for an independent committee
to advise on the optimum level of immigration.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/5250396.stm
ID card fee could make government a profit
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,176-2300775,00.html
Brown to let shops share ID card data
Opponents warn that linking police databases with the private sector to
beat crime will lead to a 'surveillance state' and a big assault on
privacy.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1838315,00.html
ID plans: powers set to widen
Gordon Brown is considering exploiting the commercial potential of the
proposed ID scheme in order to fund a massive expansion of the
programme, it was reported last night.
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article1216000.ece
ID card plan does not add up, say MPs
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,17129-2298746,00.html
Science and Technology Committee: Sixth Report - Identity Card
Technologies: Scientific Advice, Risk and Evidence
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200506/cmselect/cmsctech/1032/103202.htm
6 Aug 06
Gays flee Iraq as Shia death squads find a new target
Evidence shows increase in number of executions as homosexuals plead for
asylum in Britain.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,1838222,00.html
Sayed Hashemi
http://www.ncadc.org.uk/Newszine73/sayed.html
New migrants take students' summer jobs
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-2300740,00.html
Immigrant detectors cost £4m but have never worked
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/08/06/nimmi06.xml
Let slip the blogs of war ...
New plays inspired by online diaries include one woman's story of life
in strife-torn Iraq
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1838273,00.html
Ceasefire hopes rise as thousands march in London
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article1215981.ece
Peace, can Blair deliver?
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/focus/story/0,,1838227,00.html
The voices of the innocent must be heard above the din of war
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1838217,00.html
Postcards from the edge: Wish you were here, Mr Blair?
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article1215973.ece
5 Aug 06
Reid to change asylum law after court defeat on Afghan hijackers
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/legal/article1214539.ece
Blair admits to cabinet splits over his support for Bush on Israel
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/article1212769.ece
Who's the extremist?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1837631,00.html
Thousands to march in support of immediate ceasefire
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article1214551.ece
It's called peace support at home. The troops here know it is a war
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,175-2299451,00.html
Soldiers' families launch party
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Politics/iraq/story/0,,1837762,00.html
4 Aug 06
Reid loses Afghan hijack ruling
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/5244936.stm
Asylum policy: radical rethink needed
http://www.insidehousing.co.uk/news/article.aspx?articleid=1447917
Group wants to help refugees remain in the UK
http://www.bucksfreepress.co.uk/news/community/display.var.862973.0.group_wants_to_help_refugees_remain_in_the_uk.php
ID card plan does not add up, say MPs
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,17129-2298746,00.html
Peace activist Wolfgang is elected on to Labour NEC committee
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article1212789.ece
02: World
Afghanistan's 'Hell'
The new desert camp in an unforgiving Taleban heartland
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/5245238.stm
Australia: Sydney confronts 'barbarism' of Guantanamo
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/australasia/article1214510.ece
Cubans defiant in face of US plan for regime change
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,175-2299546,00.html
Russia reignites old feud with Japan
Snub from Moscow stirs 500-year-old conflict over disputed islands.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/russia/article/0,,1837843,00.html
Sri Lanka: Thousands of Muslims flee fierce fighting in Sri Lanka
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/article1214508.ece
US troops face 'war crimes' claim
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/5246424.stm
US slaps 'WMD' sanctions on firms
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/5247350.stm
03: Europe
EU launches marine border squad
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/5244796.stm
04: Events
‘Positive Futures? Current asylum policy and its impact on
asylum seekers in Scotland’
August 12, 2006
Show Racism the RED Card - Walker United
A Family Fun Day Celebrating the Diverse nature of Walker and the Region
Venue: Walker Central Football Club
Time: 10am till 4pm
http://www.equality-ne.co.uk/readevent.php?id=1309
Flyer:
(PDF)
http://www.equality-ne.co.uk/pdf/1309_Walker+Event+reci+14th+July+for+12th+Aug.pdf
27th September 2006
The event will focus on New Asylum Model and provide
an update of the new legislation, what can be expected when
it arrives in Scotland and a variety of workshops on the issues
currently facing asylum seekers and refugees in Scotland.
This event is for members, stakeholders and practitioners and full
details and a downloadable booking form can be accessed at:
http://www.scottishrefugeecouncil.org.uk
05: Middle East
US, France agree UN Lebanon text
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/5248868.stm
Bush gives way over peace deal
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,1838348,00.html
Hizbollah kills eight on bloody day for Israel
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article1212771.ece
Traumatised and afraid - 300,000 children who want to go home
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article1212793.ece
Slaughter in Qana
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/fisk/article1215967.ece
Gaza strikes 'kill Palestinians'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/5247566.stm
Israel holds Palestinian Speaker
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/5249528.stm
Front line
Life in an Israeli kibbutz metres from the Lebanese border
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/5247486.stm
Gaza crisis
Living under a military campaign and severe financial crisis
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/5245482.stm
The underground voice of Hezbollah that Israel is still unable to
silence
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,175-2299863,00.html
Israeli bomb attack kills 33 as aid effort suffers
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article1214552.ece
Hezbollah unleashes rocket storm to defy 'security zone' onslaught
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,174-2298536,00.html
A terrible thought occurs to me - that there will be another 9/11
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/fisk/article1214522.ece
06: Afghan hijack ruling
S & Ors v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2006] EWCA Civ
1157 (04 August 2006)
http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2006/1157.html
Reid loses Afghan hijack ruling
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/5244936.stm
Reid to change asylum law after court defeat on Afghan hijackers
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/legal/article1214539.ece
Afghanistan's 'Hell'
The new desert camp in an unforgiving Taleban heartland
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/5245238.stm
07: Working Group on Refugee Children
IASFM has co-organised a working group on refugee children, together
with Jill Rutter from the London Metropolitan University. The report
will be available on this website soon.
http://www.iasfm.org/activities/workinggroups.html
08: ‘Positive Futures? Current asylum policy and its impact on
asylum seekers in Scotland’
27th September 2006
The event will focus on New Asylum Model and provide
an update of the new legislation, what can be expected when
it arrives in Scotland and a variety of workshops on the issues
currently facing asylum seekers and refugees in Scotland.
This event is for members, stakeholders and practitioners and full
details and a downloadable booking form can be accessed at:
http://www.scottishrefugeecouncil.org.uk
09: Seeking Asylum Alone: Unaccompanied and Separated Children and
Refugee Protection
Seeking Asylum Alone: Unaccompanied and Separated Children and Refugee
Protection in the U.S., U.K. and Australia reports coming soon.
US report
(PDF)
http://www.humanrights.harvard.edu/conference/Seeking_Asylum_Alone_US_Report.pdf
US Executive Summary
(PDF)
http://www.humanrights.harvard.edu/conference/US_Executive_Summary.pdf
Human Rights at Harvard
http://www.humanrights.harvard.edu/
Refugee and Immigrant Children Alone in the United States
http://www.womenscommission.org/projects/detention/unacc.shtml
The Women's Commission has produced a new film that orients
unaccompanied alien children to their court proceedings in the United
States:
"What Happens When I Go to Immigration Court?"
http://www.hklaw.com/cst/womenscommission.asp
User's guide:
http://www.womenscommission.org/pdf/kidsvideo_guide.pdf
Story of an unaccompanied child:
http://www.womenscommission.org/projects/detention/JP%20speech%20071806.shtml
10: Resolving the Liberal Paradox: Citizen Rights and Alien Rights
in the UK
Working paper
(PDF)
http://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/PDFs/workingpaper31.pdf
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01: UK
02: World
03: Middle East
04: National Pilot Project: provision for unaccompanied children
Safe Case Transfer
05: How to cancel or change your subscription to www.frankslist.info
Lead: - 'Your Human Rights'
'Your Human Rights’ is a series of four plain English, non-technical
guides focusing on the practical relevance of human rights in the UK.
They are written directly for people living with mental health problems,
disabled people, older people and refugees and asylum seekers who are in
situations where they may need information on their human rights. They
will also be useful for people working with these groups, or people who
would like to know more about the impact of human rights on these
groups.
http://www.bihr.org/publications5.html
3 Aug 06
Battle over - Sakchai stays
http://www.shetland-news.co.uk/pages/news%20stories/08_2006/battle_over_-_sakchai_stays.htm
Unions and MPs urge amnesty for illegal migrants
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/homeaffairs/story/0,,1835980,00.html
More young Britons pin their hopes on a better life abroad
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,173-2296565,00.html
Visa confusion leads to tribunals
http://www.hospital-doctor.net/hd_news/hd_news_article.asp?ID=16937&Section=News
Bleak picture in memo
Secret memo from UK Ambassador to Iraq says civil war is likely outcome
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2297362,00.html
'Imagine seven million Britons sitting in shelters for 22 days'
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,173-2297135,00.html
Response to Asylum and Immigration Tribunal ruling on Zimbabwe
http://www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/news/2006/aug06/relea0806_1.htm
Zimbabwe asylum-seekers can be sent back after ruling on persecution
risk
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2296806,00.html
+
Full-text: Asylum and Immigration Tribunal ruling
AA (Risk for involuntary returnees) Zimbabwe CG [2006] UKAIT 00061
(Word doc)
http://www.ait.gov.uk/practice_directions/documents/00061_ukait_2006_aa_zimbabwe_cg1.doc
Armed forces chief warns of more British deaths in Afghanistan
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article1211288.ece
Blair admits cabinet divisions
PM says cabinet colleagues have doubts about his refusal to call for
ceasefire in Israel-Lebanon conflict.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Politics/foreignaffairs/story/0,,1836524,00.html
Hizbullah steps up rocket attacks
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,,1836509,00.html
01: UK
2 Aug 06
Judge’s ‘sympathy’ as he sends down immigrant robber
"You were in a desperate situation. You were not getting any benefit and
you could not live in accommodation with your wife and you were
basically destitute.
http://www.thisislocallondon.co.uk/news/headlines/display.var.861014.0.judges_sympathy_as_he_sends_down_immigrant_robber.php
Innocent goes all the way to parliament
http://www.irr.org.uk/2006/august/tc000003.html
Angela Patterson - Back in the Wars
http://www.ncadc.org.uk/archives/filed newszines/newszine 64/angela
patterson.htm
Pastor who used illegal immigrants as slave labourers is sent to jail
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/crime/article1209747.ece
Asylum Newsletter - Yorkshire and Humberside
http://www.refugeeaccess.info/default.asp?step=4&pid=25
Access to Funding - August 2006
http://www.refugeeaccess.info/default.asp?step=4&pid=71
Blair returns to growing backlash on Lebanon
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Politics/foreignaffairs/story/0,,1835538,00.html
1 Aug 06
02: World
Australia: Outrage over prison ship plan for illegal immigrants
http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1125742006
China: Authorities close down Century China website
http://www.guardian.co.uk/china/story/0,,1836469,00.html
Congo DR: We are ready for war, rebels warn Kabila
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/africa/article1211290.ece
Cuba; The Big Question: Has Cuba benefited or suffered under Fidel
Castro's 47-year rule?
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article1211259.ece
India: Law brings hope for child workers who face rape, violence and
abuse
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,173-2296827,00.html
Iranian woman awaits stoning decision
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article1211299.ece
Iraq: US commander warns of Iraqi civil war
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,1836729,00.html
Iraq: Massacre evidence is found
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,173-2296738,00.html
Korea North: 'Thousands' dead in N Korea flood
http://www.guardian.co.uk/korea/article/0,,1836506,00.html
Nigeria: The Swamps of Insurgency: Nigeria’s Delta Unrest
http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?l=1&id=4310
Sri Lanka: Heavy fighting forces out Sri Lanka ceasefire monitors
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/article1211285.ece
03: Middle East
190 Hizbullah rockets hit Israel
http://www.guardian.co.uk/syria/story/0,,1835529,00.html
Peacekeeping force 'could be agreed soon'
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article1211303.ece
How Israel's gung-ho leaders turned victory into calamity
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1835778,00.html
Help save the children, victims of war
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article1211289.ece
The refugees' fury will be felt for generations to come
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1835121,00.html
Israel: IDF inquiry into Qana a whitewash
http://news.amnesty.org/index/ENGMDE150732006
A little democracy is a dangerous thing - so let's have more of it
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1835808,00.html
Can the American vision of democracy help to find a lasting peace in the
Middle East?
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,173-2296536,00.html
New European movements
http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,,1836693,00.html
04: National Pilot Project: provision for unaccompanied children
Safe Case Transfer
National Pilot Project - Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children - Safe
Case Transfer
Note: The young people in this 'pilot were given the choice to participate
and they agreed to being dispersed. It is now being proposed that
the 'pilot' should become the model for a UK wide dispersal system,
but critically children would be dispersed on a 'NO CHOICE' basis,
without any legislative or regulatory mandate.
Six Month Pilot Evaluation (Commissioned in 2001)
33 page PDF
http://www.adss.org.uk/publications/guidance/safecaseevaluation.pdf
Policies & Procedures
Following criteria to be met prior to transfer:
• Ready for transfer in 10-14 days.
• Assessed as needing section 20 Children Act (1989) support.
• Gender – Male.
• Age range - 16 years to 17 years 6 months.
160 page PDF
http://www.adss.org.uk/publications/guidance/safecasetransfer.pdf
London Asylum Seekers Consortium
""negotiate a strategy for the safe case transfer of UASC from
London to local authorities in the Regions.
http://www.westminster.gov.uk/communityandliving/ethniccommunities/asylumseekers/aboutus.cfm
"routinely placed in unsupported or low level supported
shared housing under s17" (2005)
'unaccompanied children formal con-sultation' - 5 Apr 06 - 4 items
http://www.asylumpolicy.info/con-sult.txt
Unaccompanied Asylum-seeking Children: The response of social work
services (2005)
These findings generally reinforce the value of providing Sec 20
accommodation and support
As other studies have found, many older teenagers were routinely placed
in unsupported or low level supported shared housing under s17 after
only a basic assessment. During the early phase of the study, in
particular, reliance for initial placements on hotels or other emergency
accommodation was not uncommon.
(PDF)
http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/swrdu/Publications/asylum_summary.pdf
National Pilot Project - Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children - Safe
Case Transfer
Policies & Procedures
(PDF)
http://www.adss.org.uk/publications/guidance/safecasetransfer.pdf
Six Month Pilot Evaluation
(PDF)
http://www.adss.org.uk/publications/guidance/safecaseevaluation.pdf
Pilot commissioned 2001
Looked-after young people: Councils may be forced to offer housing
services (Aug 06)
http://www.ypnmagazine.com/news/index.cfm?fuseaction=full_news&ID=11172
This "evaluation" is somewhat aimed at introducing a UK wide
dispersal system for children looked after by local authorities
under Section 20 of the Children Act (1989) and having entitlement
to local authority support up to age 24 under the Children
(Leaving Care) Act 2000. However, the young people who 'agreed'
to be dispered from Kent to Greater Manchester volunteered to do.
The plan that is now being discussed is to disperse children
across the UK on a NO CHOICE basis, even though there is no
explicit legislative or regulatory mandate allowing this.
This National Pilot research was also undertaken and finished
before the 2003 'Hillingdon judgement' and LAC 13 circular, as
detailed below. (save for 2006 amendments)
Croydon director backs review of asylum provision for unaccompanied
children
"The Home Office wants the cost of supporting unaccompanied minors to be
cut. But the Refugee Children's Consortium, a group of charities
including The Children's Society and Barnardo's, is concerned that this
is the main driver behind the plans.
An initiative similar to the safe case transfer model, which involves
the transfer of full responsibility for an unaccompanied asylum seeker
from one council to another, is expected to feature in the new plans.
27 July 2006
http://www.communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2006/07/27/55119/Croydon+director+backs+review+of+asylum+provision+for+unaccompanied.html
Notes: For a number of years local authorities had been acting
unlawfully and only helping children seeking asylum alone
with basic housing and finance and little else. Added to dispersing
them across the UK via the commissioning of for profit private
providers who have little or no history of supporting children.
This was facilitated by the argument that children particularly
aged 16 to 17 only needed discretionary help under Section 17
of the Children Act (1989). However, in 2003 2 court cases and
an associated local authority circular specifically said:
Local Authority Circular LAC (2002) 13
"...where a child has no parent or guardian in this country, perhaps
because he has arrived alone seeking asylum, the presumption should be
that he would fall within the scope of section 20
http://www.asylumsupport.info/childreninneed.htm
and
At the heart of the Council's case is its contention that these four
claimants were not provided with accommodation under section 20 of the
1989 Act, (The Children Act 1989) they were merely provided with
services under section 17 of the Act.
http://www.asylumsupport.info/everychildmatters.htm
Which meant that as with other children in the UK, children seeking
asylum alone are entitled to support under the Children
(Leaving Care) Act 2000:
http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts2000/20000035.htm
Their complaint is that the defendant owed and still owes duties to them
under the Children (Leaving Care) Act 2000 ("the 2000 Act") and has
failed to discharge those duties.
http://www.asylumsupport.info/everychildmatters.htm
Court case:
B, R (on the application of) v London Borough of Merton [2003] EWHC
1689 (Admin) (14 July 2003)
"However, on 13 February 2003 the Defendant determined that he was
aged at least 18.
But, if he is under 18, and is in need, he is owed a duty under Part III
of the Children Act 1989 by the local authority in whose area he is, including
a duty under section 20 of that Act, to provide him with accommodation.
In these proceedings the Claimant seeks the judicial review of that
determination.
The Defendant must reconsider the age of the Claimant."
http://www.asylumsupport.info/ageassessment.htm
Some further background:
Local Authority Support to Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Young People -
report from Save the Children (PDF) (January 2006)
Changes since the Hillingdon Judgement (2003)
In 2003 there were a number of legal and policy developments that
provided some clarity on the social services entitlements of
unaccompanied children and young people.
The two key ones (access details below) were the Hillingdon judgement
and Local Authority Circular (2003) 13 (subsequently referred to as LAC
13 in this report). They made explicit the level of support that was
expected of local authorities for unaccompanied children and young
people.
This support includes the following:
- All unaccompanied children should, on arrival, be supported under
Section 20 of the Children Act (1989) until an assessment has been
completed.
- Based on assessment of need, most unaccompanied children, including
16- and 17-year-olds, should be provided with Section 20 support.
- The majority of unaccompanied young people will be entitled to leaving
care services.
•Section 17 (which generally provides less care and support than Section
20) can be used to accommodate unaccompanied children in exceptional
circumstances.
This report looks at how 18 local authorities have tried to implement
the Hillingdon judgement and LAC 13 and highlights the gaps in support
to unaccompanied young people that continue to exist.
(PDF)
http://www.savethechildren.org.uk/scuk_cache/scuk/cache/cmsattach/3788_Local_authority_support_to_UASC_report.pdf
Note:
Hillingdon judgement details below
Guidance on accommodating Children in Need
Local Authority Circular LAC (2002) 13
"This Circular will remain in effect until further notice.
"...where because of their immigration status the Children Act provides
their only lawful means of support in this country. In such cases the
child's being without a family or responsible adult in this country
would appear to trigger a duty under section 20(1),
http://www.asylumsupport.info/childreninneed.htm
Court case: Hillingdon judgement
The Queen on the application of Helen Berhe, Yorsmame Kidane, Wahdat
Munir, Albertina Ncube (claimant) v The London Borough of Hillingdon
(defendant) - Secretary of State for Education and Skills (interested
party)
"Their complaint is that the defendant owed and still owes duties to
them under the Children (Leaving Care) Act 2000 ("the 2000 Act")
http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts2000/20000035.htm
and has failed to discharge those duties.
At the heart of the Council's case is its contention that these four
claimants were not provided with accommodation under section 20 of the
1989 Act, (The Children Act 1989)
http://www.hmso.gov.uk/acts/acts1989/Ukpga_19890041_en_1.htm
they were merely provided with services under section 17 of the Act.
In my judgment, the defendant's argument is mere sophistry, based upon a
distinction without a difference.
In these circumstances, it does not do any violence to the statutory
language, to the policy underlying Part III of the Act or to elementary
common sense (our emphasis) to say that the claimants were indeed being
"looked after" by the defendant.
For these reasons, all four applications succeed...
The claimant is in priority need within the meaning of Article 4 of the
Homelessness (Priority Need for Accommodation) (England) Order 2002
http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si2002/20022051.htm
Reference: Guidance on accommodating Children in Need and Homelessness
Guide
http://www.asylumsupport.info/childreninneed.htm
Full text of court case:
http://www.asylumsupport.info/everychildmatters.htm
Cold comfort: The lottery of care for young separated refugees in
England
http://www.asylumsupport.info/publications/savethechildren/coldcomfort.htm
No longer cast adrift:
'Until now, Britain has had a two-tier system for dealing with
vulnerable young adults' - 'There has been one package of care for
British children and another for asylum seekers'
http://society.guardian.co.uk/societyguardian/story/0,7843,1043182,00.html
Local Authority Support to Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Young People -
report from Save the Children (PDF) (January 2006)
Changes since the Hillingdon Judgement (2003)
(PDF)
http://www.savethechildren.org.uk/scuk_cache/scuk/cache/cmsattach/3788_Local_authority_support_to_UASC_report.pdf
Ringing the Changes: The impact of guidance on the use of Sections 17
and 20 of the Children Act 1989 to support unaccompanied asylum seeking
children (January 2005)
(PDF)
http://www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/downloads/RingingthechangesJanuary2005.pdf
Report: Separated Children in the UK (August 2001)
(PDF)
http://www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/downloads/rc_reports/sep_children.pdf
Report: Where are the Children?
(PDF)
http://www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/downloads/rc_reports/where_children.pdf
Article 3: United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989)
"In all actions concerning children, whether undertaken by public or
private social welfare institutions, courts of law, administrative
authorities or legislative bodies, the best interests of the child shall
be a primary consideration. "
Welfare of the child.: Children Act (1989)
"the child's welfare shall be the court's paramount consideration"
Welfare of child and consideration of his views: Children (Scotland) Act
1995
"with respect to a child the welfare of that child throughout his
childhood shall be their or its paramount consideration"
C) 'The inquiry, strong state, the clock, systematically failing'
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02: World
03: Middle East
04: New Migrants' Rights Network established
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Lead: - 'The inquiry, strong state, the clock, systematically failing'
Treatment of Asylum Seekers Call for Evidence
The inquiry will consider any significant human rights concerns
relating to the conditions of life for asylum seekers and failed
asylum seekers in the UK, focusing in particular on those relating to:
(i) access to accommodation and financial support;
(ii) the provision of healthcare;
(iii) treatment of children;
(iv) the use of detention and conditions of detention and
methods of removal of failed asylum seekers
(v) treatment by the media.
Memoranda of evidence addressing any or all of the above matters should
be submitted to the Committee by 29 September 2006.
http://www.parliament.uk/parliamentary_committees/joint_committee_on_human_rights/jchr_press_notice_05_06_no__46.cfm
Ministers lose terror law appeal
Earlier this year, Mr Justice Sullivan ruled that control orders on six
suspects were so strict that they broke Article 5 of the European
Convention on Human Rights, which outlaws indefinite detention without
trial.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/5236246.stm
New book: Standing on the Shoulders of Fascism: from immigration control
to the strong state
"..state apparatus has been significantly strengthened. Identity cards,
the so-called anti-terrorist legislation and the development of Anti
Social Behaviour Orders as a form of social control are all
manifestations of the move to a strong state. And this has been
accompanied by a plethora of further immigration restrictions
http://www.trentham-books.co.uk/pages/shoulders.htm
Flyer:
(Word doc)
http://www.asylumpolicy.info/shoulders.doc
Scruitny of Bills and Counter-Terrorism Policy and Human Rights
Forthcoming publication
http://www.parliament.uk/parliamentary_committees/joint_committee_on_human_rights/jchr_press_notice_05_06_no__48.cfm
Report: Working against the clock: inadequacy and injustice in the
immigration fast track system
Bail for Immigration Detainees (BID) presents evidence from a week of
Harmondsworth fast track appeals heard in March 2006, and discloses
fresh evidence about the scale of the injustice in the fast track
obtained by BID under the Freedom of Information Act.
The Government argues that safeguards are built into the fast track. The
findings of this research demonstrate that these safeguards do not exist
in practice or are systematically failing.
42 page PDF (July 06)
http://www.biduk.org/pdf/Fast%20track/BIDFasttrackReportFINAL.pdf
+
Report: Summary
(PDF)
http://www.biduk.org/pdf/Fast%20track/BIDFastTrackExecSumFINAL.pdf
+
Report press release:
(Word doc)
http://www.biduk.org/pdf/press/BID%20fast%20track%20press%20release%201%208%2006.doc
01: UK
1 Aug 06
Croydon director backs review of asylum provision for
unaccompanied children
http://www.communitycare.co.uk//Articles/2006/07/27/55119/Croydon+director+backs+review+of+asylum+provision+for+unaccompanied.html
African musicians refused entry to Britain
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article1207646.ece
Lesbians lose their battle for foreign marriage to be legalised
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,171-2293571,00.html
Court's denial of lesbian marriage condemned
Couple's vows in Canada not recognised in Britain
Government to pursue £25,000 costs for test case
http://www.guardian.co.uk/gayrights/story/0,,1834671,00.html
Reid loses control orders appeal
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Politics/terrorism/story/0,,1835021,00.html
Testing the Limits of Tolerance
http://www.blink.org.uk/pdescription.asp?key=12116&grp=47&cat=191
Need a Polish plumber? Dip in the melting pot
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,171-2293267,00.html
Will Israel's gamble put Blair in the firing line?
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,171-2293844,00.html
Beckett criticised for 'lacklustre' Middle East performance
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,171-2294009,00.html
Looked-after young people: Councils may be forced to offer housing
services
http://www.ypnmagazine.com/news/index.cfm?fuseaction=full_news&ID=11172
Teacher's fear over Lebanon
http://www.buckinghamtoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=718&ArticleID=1655976
Four British soldiers killed
Three UK soldiers killed in Afghanistan and one in southern Iraq.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/afghanistan/story/0,,1834807,00.html
No 10 'rebuffed ceasefire call'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/5234590.stm
31 Jul 06
Protection, not prison, for children
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,,1833704,00.html
Call for trafficking teams at all ports
http://www.communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2006/07/31/55161/Call+for+trafficking+teams+at+all+ports.html
Plea to Home Office: Don't split family up
http://www.theargus.co.uk/the_argus/news/NEWS4.html
The UPW/CWU Involvement In The Grunwick Dispute
http://www.cwu.org/news.asp?step=3&NID=1468
Same sex couple lose marriage laws challenge
http://www.liberty-human-rights.org.uk/press/2006/same-sex-couple-lose-marriage-laws-challenge.shtml
MP breaks Tory line on immigration
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,17129-2293673,00.html
Married To Misery
http://www.theasiannews.co.uk/news/s/215/215730_married_to_misery.html
Concern over child fingerprints
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,170-2292621,00.html
Hysteria aside, Labour must lead the immigration debate
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/homeaffairs/comment/0,,1833948,00.html
Immigrants beaten up in gay night spot
http://www.sundaylife.co.uk/news/story.jsp?story=700435
What's at stake in the Battle of Brick Lane
http://comment.independent.co.uk/columnists_a_l/johann_hari/article1205985.ece
Birkenhead MP calls for end to mass immigration
http://icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100regionalnews/tm_objectid=17476326%26method=full%26siteid=50061%26headline=birkenhead%2dmp%2dcalls%2dfor%2dend%2dto%2dmass%2dimmigration-name_page.html
We need to talk numbers on immigration
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,24391-2291266,00.html
Blair sticks to his script over ceasefire as the backlash begins
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article1205996.ece
Man wanted for Rwanda genocide living in Britain
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article1206022.ece
Suicide in Basra: The unravelling of a military man
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article1204986.ece
02: World
CrisisWatch No: 36, 1 August 2006
http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?l=1&id=4296
Tenerife tourists help migrants
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/5230586.stm
Afghans speak out on foreign troops in their country
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/4989456.stm
Australia: Papuan asylum seeker wins case and visa
http://www.theage.com.au/news/National/Papuan-asylum-seeker-wins-case-and-visa/2006/08/01/1154198106901.html
China builds vast bunker complex 'in case of attack'
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,170-2292665,00.html
Congo DR: After decades of war, millions of Congolese seize chance to
vote
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/africa/article1205966.ece
Cuba without Castro
http://www.guardian.co.uk/cuba/story/0,,1834922,00.html
Iran given a month to comply or face UN sanctions
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,171-2293860,00.html
Iran's treatment of dissidents under scrutiny after former student
leader dies in prison after hunger strike.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/iran/story/0,,1834620,00.html
Iraq shaken by fresh wave of violence
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,1834982,00.html
Iraq: Number of Iraqi refugees from violence swells
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=worldNews&storyid=2006-07-31T185114Z_01_L31810428_RTRUKOC_0_UK-IRAQ.xml&src=rss
Sierra Leone: Women need rights and protection
http://news.amnesty.org/index/ENGAFR510092006
Sri Lanka's ceasefire is over, say Tamil Tigers
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/article1207601.ece
US: Study Finds Wide Disparity in Asylum Denial
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-5983707,00.html
03: Middle east
The king of fairyland will never grasp the realities of the Middle East
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1834389,00.html
Israel steps up ground offensive
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/5233842.stm
Hungry, thirsty and confused, they emerge from their ruined shelters
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,171-2293725,00.html
We can't bear pictures of the dead. Hezbollah want to see nothing else
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,171-2293538,00.html
Hezbollah shows its authority as mob raids UN
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,170-2292917,00.html
For Israel, the shooting goes on but so does the weeping
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1834540,00.html
After the siege, the panic to flee devastation
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,,1835041,00.html
Lebanon and Israel: Amnesty urges immediate ceasefire as War Crimes
continue
http://www.amnesty.org.uk/news_details.asp?NewsID=17049
White flags, not a legitimate target
http://hrw.org/english/docs/2006/07/31/isrlpa13882.htm
France proposes UN peace plan as Lebanon issues call for help
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,170-2292912,00.html
Carnage in Qana as 60 die in air strike on 'militant village base'
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,170-2292920,00.html
Israel halts air strikes after 37 children die
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,170-2292953,00.html
04: New Migrants' Rights Network established
The MRN has marked out three priority areas for its work in the
coming months. These are:
Working out a grassroots response to the possibility of a regularisation
(amnesty) policy for people without residence permits.
Mapping the ways in which immigration-related policies are dealt with in
the various government departments, and by regional and local
government, and amongst key NGOs (the 'Opportunity Map').
A policy focus on primary health care services to migrants.
MRN conference planned for November 2006
http://www.smartgroups.com/message/readmessage.cfm?gid=1256290&messageid=3899
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