From chris_strafford at hotmail.com  Tue May  2 15:27:29 2006
From: chris_strafford at hotmail.com (Chris Strafford)
Date: Tue, 02 May 2006 15:27:29 +0000
Subject: [noborders-brum] Save Ryton
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From noidea at riseup.net  Wed May  3 22:11:15 2006
From: noidea at riseup.net (noidea at riseup.net)
Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 15:11:15 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [noborders-brum] May 18th Benefit gig - Genoa legal defence
Message-ID: <2453.noidea.1146694275.squirrel@mail.riseup.net>


Hi all

 Italian activists are coming to the UK to show a film and raise funds
for Genoa legal defence. Activists are still being dragged thru the
Courts and need funds.

The Spotted Dog pub has been booked Thursday 18th may 7pm onwards.
Films, music, food...

More details and flier to follow.


noi





From noborders-brum-contact at aktivix.org  Fri May  5 12:00:32 2006
From: noborders-brum-contact at aktivix.org (noborders-brum-contact at aktivix.org)
Date: Fri,  5 May 2006 13:00:32 +0100
Subject: [noborders-brum] Fwd: Leeds No Borders Tour of Asylum Shame -
	TOMORROW
Message-ID: <1146830432.445b3e6073483@www.aktivix.org:443>



----- Forwarded message from Stuart Hodkinson <stuart.hodkinson at gmx.net> -----
    Date: Fri, 05 May 2006 11:56:01 +0100
    From: Stuart Hodkinson <stuart.hodkinson at gmx.net>
Reply-To: Stuart Hodkinson <stuart.hodkinson at gmx.net>
 Subject: Leeds No Borders Tour of Asylum Shame - TOMORROW
      To: leedssocialcentre at yahoogroups.co.uk,
commonplacecinema at yahoogroups.com, commonplaceannounce at lists.riseup.net,
Mailing List for IMC Leeds <imc-leeds at lists.indymedia.org>,
leedsnoborders at lists.riseup.net

Yes, folks, it's finally upon us:

LEEDS NO BORDERS PRESENTS...

SATURDAY 6 MAY (12pm midday): GUIDED TOUR OF LEEDS ASYLUM SHAME

Come to Leeds to visit the places, companies and people that repress, 
exploit and benefit from asylum seekers in Leeds.

A guided tour of the causes of refugee flows (War, Militarism, 
Capitalist Globalisation), the detention and control of asylum seekers 
(police, security firms), the destitution of migrants (job centres, 
social welfare, housing, health), the injustice of immigration laws 
(immigration office) and the deportation of failed asylum seekers 
(airlines).

You will get a very beautiful map of the 'other' Leeds from the 
perspective of the asylum seeker.

Venue: Meet 12 noon OUTSIDE LEEDS TOWN HALL, The Headrow, Leeds, LS1 3AD

The tour:

12pm: Assemble at Leeds Town Hall;

12.30pm: Leeds Register Office, Asylum Marriage Shame: PHOTO OPP, BRIDES 
IN DRESS

12.45pm: Leeds Crown and Magistrates Court, Detention Shame: home to 
Global Solutions Ltd

1pm: Leeds General Infirmary ? Asylum healthcare shame

1.15pm: Hilary Benn MP?s Office ? UK trade, development, foreign policy 
shame

1.30pm: Morrisons ? Asylum Voucher Shame

1.45pm: Housing Office, Headrow

1.55pm: Job Centre, Eastgate, 35 Eastgate, Leeds LS2 7RE

2pm: Millgarth Police Station

2.30pm: First Choice Travel, Albion Street, LS1 6HX

2.45pm: Armed Forces Careers Information Offices

3pm: City Square ? final rally and candlit vigil for deaths in detention

AND THEN:

- SATURDAY 6 MAY (7pm-late): NO BORDERS BENEFIT NIGHT

Four to the Floor - Leed's classic DIY night, bring your 4 favourite 
tunes - on vinyl or cd and if your name is pulled you get to play those 
tracks!!! Guarenteed eclecticness!!! The Commonplace Cafe and Bar will 
be open serving a variety of food and drinks. All money raised to help 
support destitute asylum seekers and those fighting deportation.

Venue: the Common Place social centre, 23-25 Wharf St, LS2 7EQ 
(http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?lat=53.7956&lon=-1.5377&scale=5000&icon=x)


More information: tash_gordon at yahoo.co.uk

----- End forwarded message -----





From chris_strafford at hotmail.com  Fri May  5 21:57:03 2006
From: chris_strafford at hotmail.com (Chris Strafford)
Date: Fri, 05 May 2006 21:57:03 +0000
Subject: [noborders-brum] Save Ryton! 13/05/2006
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From frank.corrigan at asylumpolicy.info  Mon May  8 07:07:03 2006
From: frank.corrigan at asylumpolicy.info (asylumpolicy.info)
Date: Mon, 8 May 2006 09:07:03 +0200
Subject: [noborders-brum] 103 items - weekly digest up to 23/04/06
Message-ID: <f34843338aedae37151542aca50590ae@hovercraft.yourmailinglistprovider.net>

103 items - weekly digest up to 23/04/06
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>>>>   103 items - weekly digest up to 23/05/06


Index
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[A] 'Liberty and the state, creeping authoritarianism'
     23 Apr 06 - 79 items

[B] 'our gates'
     21 Apr 06 - 79 items

[C] 'Civil wars, hidden victims of the West's war on terror'
     19 Apr 06 - 3 items

[D] How to cancel or change your subscription to asylumpolicy.info


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[A] 'Liberty and the state, creeping authoritarianism'
     23 Apr 06 - 79 items

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03: Overseas NHS doctors 'betrayed'
04: The Emergence of Super-Diversity in Britain
05: How to cancel or change your subscription to asylumpolicy.info

    
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Lead: - 'Liberty and the state, creeping authoritarianism'

This all-powerful government is prone to creeping authoritarianism
History shows majority rule is no guarantee against tyranny.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1758766,00.html

Blair savages critics over threat to civil liberties
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/politics/story/0,,1759485,00.html

Liberty and the state - a debate that had to happen
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,,1759581,00.html

01: UK

23 Apr 06

Focus: The child who came in from the cold
This girl did everything right on arriving in Britain but still the Home
Office wanted to deport her.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-2147706,00.html

Graduate's case illustrates asylum system 'lottery', say campaigners
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&xml=/news/2006/04/23/nasylum23.xml

'Economic elixir': East Europeans are breathing new life into Britain
Migrant workers help keep inflation and interest rates low and are set
to add ?4bn to GDP next year
http://news.independent.co.uk/business/news/article359534.ece

Why it?s not just the political chameleons who are turning green
"...many Tory candidates would rather he were talking about asylum and
immigration
http://www.sundayherald.com/55339

Rich list shows wealthiest flocking to live in Britain
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article359656.ece

Labour U-turn over ID card medical details
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,176-2147744,00.html

British Library sets sights on the East
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1759306,00.html

Bush admits he offered Blair way out of the Iraq conflict
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/politics/story/0,,1759322,00.html

Army pleads for more troops after Afghanistan firefight
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,176-2147806,00.html

Gadaffi sued by 160 victims of IRA
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/politics/story/0,,1759494,00.html

The dangerous disaffection that succours the BNP
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,,1759462,00.html

Indians apply to UK universities in caste wars
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-2148001,00.html

22 Apr 06

Twelve arrested over park attack
Twelve people have been arrested by police investigating what they have
described as an unprovoked attack on an Iranian asylum seeker.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tyne/4933394.stm

Families in fear
Britain's Nepalis are afraid for their loved ones at home.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4935006.stm

New refugee centre opens in city
Asylum seekers and refugees will be offered more help in Nottinghamshire
thanks to the expansion of support services in the area.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/nottinghamshire/4933922.stm

British woman 'too thin' for Australian citizenship
http://www.guardian.co.uk/immigration/story/0,,1758964,00.html

Pygmies highlight plight of rainforest in music tour
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Arts/news/story/0,,1758908,00.html

We live in changed times. The Euston group, alas, does not
A manifesto of the 'pro-war left' is a cry of pain and an argument about
ownership of a corpse
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1758763,00.html

Exposed: BNP's campaign of lies
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article359444.ece

How your PC can save democracy
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,175-2146212,00.html

Hodge blamed for increase in far-right's support
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article359446.ece

Paranoia, poverty and wild rumours - a journey through BNP country
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/farright/story/0,,1758974,00.html

21 Apr 06

Asylum urged for gay Iranian refugees
http://uk.gay.com/headlines/9864

Asylum student and family still being held
http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/news/5051298.shtml

Actor in September 11 movie says denied entry to US
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=entertainmentNews&storyID=2006-04-21T150204Z_01_L21587625_RTRUKOC_0_UK-BRITAIN-IRAQ-ACTOR.xml&archived=False

20 Apr 06

Explanatory Memorandum to the Statement of Changes in Immigration Rules
laid on 20 April 2006 (HC 1053)
This Statement of Changes in Immigration Rules revokes the existing
provision of the right for European Economic Area (EEA) nationals and
their family members to apply for permission to remain indefinitely
under United Kingdom domestic law under certain conditions given in
paragraphs 255 to 257 of the Immigration Rules.
http://www.ind.homeoffice.gov.uk/ind/en/home/laws___policy/immigration_rules/explanatory_memorandum11.html

02: World

Angola: From politics of disorder to politics of democratisation?
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/33686

Australia in Solomon crisis talks
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4933118.stm

Australia-Indonesia relations threatened
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4931608.stm

China's enemy within: The story of Falun Gong
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/article359443.ece

Chinese artists cross the red line
http://www.guardian.co.uk/china/story/0,,1758994,00.html

Colombian rebel ambush kills 17
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4933196.stm

India: Senior BJP leader shot in India
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/4933102.stm

Iran?s president recruits terror master
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,176-2147683,00.html

Iraq names new prime minister
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,176-2147872,00.html

Nepal protesters back on streets
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/4932894.stm

Nepalese protesters dismiss King's pledge of democracy
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/article359438.ece

Nepalis scorn king's offer
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,1759402,00.html

Nepal protesters storm into city
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/4932894.stm

Sudan: Darfur relief operation close to collapse, warns UN
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sudan/story/0,,1758959,00.html

US: Ivy League students avoid shady business of protest
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,175-2146319,00.html

US: Many Immigrants at Mercy of Translators
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-5773370,00.html

Zimbabwe: Robert Mugabe invites whites to lease back farmland
http://www.guardian.co.uk/zimbabwe/article/0,,1759033,00.html

03: Overseas NHS doctors 'betrayed'


Migrants ruling leaves trainee doctors jobless
http://www.guardian.co.uk/immigration/story/0,,1755743,00.html

Overseas NHS doctors 'betrayed'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4928954.stm

London Doctors Protest Immigration Rules
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-5772596,00.html

Doctors in visa rules protest
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1812144.html?menu=

Ending training for overseas Commonwealth doctors raises serious issues
about the UK?s commitment to English speaking countries linked to
Britain
http://www.iasuk.org/C2B/PressOffice/display.asp?ID=307&Type=2

JCWI Statement In Support Of The Overseas Doctors' March To The UK
Department Of Health
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=41991

New work permit rule 'will hit O&G'
http://www.hospital-doctor.net/hd_news/hd_news_article.asp?ID=16712&Section=News

New visa rule stops non-EU doctors training in the UK
http://www.personneltoday.com/Articles/2006/04/21/34983/New+visa+rule+stops+non-EU+doctors+training+in+the+UK.htm

Will 193 doctors be sent home?
http://new.eveningnews24.co.uk/content/news/story.aspx?brand=ENOnline&category=News&tBrand=ENOnline&tCategory=news&itemid=NOED21%20Apr%202006%2011%3A39%3A09%3A307


05: The Emergence of Super-Diversity in Britain

Diversity in Britain is not what it used to be. Some thirty years of
government policies, social service practices and public perceptions
have been framed by a particular understanding of immigration and
multicultural diversity.
http://www.compas.ox.ac.uk/publications/wp-06-25.shtml


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Lead: - 'our gates'

Strangers at our gates
The latest report by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees makes grim
reading, but for novel reasons.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,,1756994,00.html

UN is right - UK must take more responsibility on asylum seekers
http://www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/news/2006/apr06/relea0406_3.htm

UNHCR warns against 'asylum fatigue' in new report
http://www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/news/2006/apr06/curr0406_3.html

U.N. refugee agency launches "The State of the World's Refugees"
http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/news/opendoc.htm?tbl=NEWS&id=4445f6334

01: UK

21 Apr 06

Clarke warns of alienation fears
...the next election, says the home secretary...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4928914.stm

As the genocide in Darfur goes on, chaos and killing spread to Sudan's
neighbours
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/africa/article359112.ece

Ireland's War of Independence: The chilling story of the Black and Tans
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/ulster/article359132.ece

20 Apr 06

Arun Raj Kunwar Must Stay
http://www.ncadc.org.uk/archives/filed
newszines/oldnewszines/newszine36/kunwar.html

The tragedy that followed Hillary Clinton's bombing of Iran in 2009
In retaliation, suicide bombers trained by Tehran massacred civilians in
Tel Aviv, London and New York
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1757027,00.html

How the BNP is gaining ground in Barking with a campaign of lies and
distortions
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article358775.ece

Hunger strike ends at Haslar
http://www.portsmouthtoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?sectionid=458&articleid=1454858

Deportation reprieve for asylum seeker student
http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/hi/news/5051238.html

End degree of confusion over talented Merita
http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/lo/opinion/7022813.html

Blair and Straw at odds over US action in Iran
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article358778.ece

UK migration figures up 50%
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1757862,00.html

One in eight of world's asylum seekers in UK
http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=595692006

British student jailed for 15 years in Iraq
Briton who claims he was on a humanitarian mission to Iraq has been
jailed for 15 years for passport violations.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,1757302,00.html

Northern Ireland's divided classrooms are changing
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1757053,00.html

UK transplant patients go to China for organs from executed prisoners
http://www.guardian.co.uk/china/story/0,,1757220,00.html

19 Apr 06

'Patriotic' Oxford graduate wins deportation plea
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1756305,00.html

Gross injustice
http://www.thisisleicestershire.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=132938&command=displayContent&sourceNode=132547&contentPK=14354904&folderPk=77483

BNP exploit racist fears and 'Christian country' claims
http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/content/news_syndication/article_060419bnp.shtml

Targeting the sex traffickers
http://www.yorkshiretoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=104&ArticleID=1450812

Making progress
Wounded Iraqi orphan Ali Abbas settles in well to new life in UK
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4923324.stm

>From Belfast to Bilbao
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1756790,00.html

Lords no more - Indian courts abandon 'colonial hangover'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/4923930.stm

Ireland's dispossessed are real threat to Celtic Tiger
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,172-2140480,00.html

18 Apr 06

Migrants ruling leaves trainee doctors jobless
http://www.guardian.co.uk/immigration/story/0,,1755743,00.html

Confronting empty hatred
http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,,1755556,00.html

Human rights sanctions blocked
China and Russia last night thwarted a year-long diplomatic drive by
Britain to impose United Nations sanctions on the perpetrators in of the
violence in the Darfur province of Sudan.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,171-2138685,00.html

Stop this shambles
http://www.blackpooltoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=62&ArticleID=1449529

Haslar hunger protest is in third day
http://www.portsmouthtoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?sectionid=455&articleid=1449973

Numbers Of Asylum Seekers In Region Fall
http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=145365&command=displayContent&sourceNode=145191&contentPK=14350969&folderPk=83726


02: World

UN alarmed over 'asylum fatigue'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/4919746.stm

Human rights concerns may sour US-China summit
http://www.guardian.co.uk/china/story/0,,1757239,00.html

UN Human Rights Council: New website to monitor candidates' human rights
records
http://news.amnesty.org/index/ENGIOR400122006

Secret archives of Holocaust to be opened after 60 years
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,173-2142206,00.html

Safeguards for refugees under threat
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyid=2006-04-19T141800Z_01_L18415852_RTRUKOC_0_UK-BRITAIN-REFUGEES.xml&src=rss

Saddam Hussein  Saddam 'signed death order'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,1756765,00.html

Belgium: Far-right boss to help immigrants
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4919888.stm

Burundi: Journalists and human rights monitors under attack
http://www.amnesty.org.uk/news/press/16960.shtml

China's silence boosts tyrants
http://hrw.org/english/docs/2006/04/19/china13227.htm

China 'using prisoner organs for transplants'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/china/story/0,,1756808,00.html

Dubai censor cuts scenes of labour abuse from 'Syriana'
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article359115.ece

US: Chinese leader silenced
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2144268,00.html

Colombia: Death squad allegations threaten to derail Bush's last Latin
ally
Colombia's leader denies using death squads to wipe out opponents
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article358339.ece

E Timor police 'torture suspects'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4925122.stm

Iran 'will cut off hands of aggressors'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/iran/story/0,,1756130,00.html

Israel/Occupied Territories: Last chance for two states
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,1756263,00.html

Japan blinks in island showdown
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,174-2145046,00.html

Nepal: UN condemns Nepal rally killings
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/4927556.stm

Nepal protesters take to the streets despite strict curfew
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/4926856.stm

Nepal?s Crisis: Mobilising International Influence
http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?l=1&id=4073

Nepal: Call for targeted sanctions
http://www.amnesty.org.uk/news/press/16959.shtml

Nepal braced for fresh protests
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/4929102.stm

Nepal: Last stand of a monarchy
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/article359123.ece

Nigerian militant car bomb attack
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4925576.stm

Pakistan Taleban vow more attacks
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/4927872.stmhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/4927872.stm

Russia: Two Gypsies shot as Russian race attacks continue
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1755598,00.html

Somaliland is a beacon of stability in Africa but lack of international
recognition is holding it back
http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,,1756801,00.html

Solomon Islands PM sworn in amid violence
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1757931,00.html

Spain: Sanctuary burning stokes fears of Islamophobia
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1755600,00.html

Sudan: Darfur 'too deadly for aid work'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4926234.stm

Tibet is given giant statue of Mao
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/article358344.ece

US: Georgia to cut migrants' benefits
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4918826.stm

US reveals Guant?namo names
http://www.guardian.co.uk/guantanamo/story/0,,1757618,00.html

US: Some Immigrants Reject Notion of ?Earned? Citizenship
http://www.zmag.org/content/newstandard.cfm?itemid=3070

US detains 1,200 illegal migrants
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4928764.stm

US: Chinese leader silenced
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2144268,00.html

04: Events

Saturday 22nd April
Torture & ?Security? Agencies in the ?War on Terror?
Seminar on the complicity of ?security? agencies in global torture,
including extraordinary rendition, Saturday 22nd April 2006, 1pm to
5.30pm. Sponsored by: Human Rights & Social Justice Research Institute,
Campaign Against Criminalising Communities, Garden Court Chambers, the
Muslim Parliament, Statewatch, Redress and Haldane Society of Socialist
Lawyers
(PDF)
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2006/apr/uk-torture-security-seminar.pdf


05: Passport - Renew for freedom

Renew for freedom" campaign launched - urging people to get a new
passport now to avoid the fingerprinting ID card for 10 years.
http://www.renewforfreedom.org/support.html

Source: http://www.statewatch.org


06: Torture & ?Security? Agencies in the ?War on Terror?

Seminar on the complicity of ?security? agencies in global torture,
including extraordinary rendition, Saturday 22nd April 2006, 1pm to
5.30pm. Sponsored by: Human Rights & Social Justice Research Institute,
Campaign Against Criminalising Communities, Garden Court Chambers, the
Muslim Parliament, Statewatch, Redress and Haldane Society of Socialist
Lawyers
(PDF)
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2006/apr/uk-torture-security-seminar.pdf


07: Freedom of speech and a debate on the merits of ethnic monitoring

This week the Catalyst website has articles on freedom of speech and a
debate on the merits of ethnic monitoring.
http://www.catalystmagazine.org/

The war on terror and the new 'speech crimes'
A lunchtime seminar exploring the impact of new anti-terrorist
legislation on freedom of speech.
http://www.irr.org.uk/2006/april/rw000020.html

Chinese leader is silenced by the sound of free speech
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,174-2144268,00.html

08: Doctors? march to the Department of Health on Friday 21 April
11.30am

Migrants ruling leaves trainee doctors jobless
http://www.guardian.co.uk/immigration/story/0,,1755743,00.html

Overseas NHS doctors 'betrayed'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4928954.stm

JCWI statement in support of the overseas doctors? march to the
Department of Health on Friday 21 April 11.30am

Overseas doctors in the UK are planning to march to the Department of
Health in protest at changes introduced with the points-based
immigration system earlier this year. The changes mean EEA nationals
will be given preference over non-EEA doctors in applying for vacancies.
These non-EEA doctors had been permitted to enter the UK before the
introduction of the points system and had been told that they could
apply for hospital vacancies in the UK. Up to 15,000 overseas doctors
may be affected by the rule changes.
  
Tauhid Pasha, Legal and Policy Director of the Joint Council for the
Welfare of Immigrants, said

?The treatment of non-EEA overseas doctors is disgraceful and defeats
the objectives of the new points-based immigration system. The
Government?s reasoning for the points-based system was to send a clear
message around the world that the UK values skilled migrants and to set
a fairer system for giving people the right to work in the UK based on
the skills that they can offer

?Yet here we have a whole group of highly skilled people already in the
UK  who are left in limbo having been told that EEA applicants will be
given preference over them by the NHS hospital trusts. Many non-EEA
nationals  will feel discriminated against and poorly treated,
particularly as overseas doctors from outside Europe have a  tradition
of contributing to the provision of our hospital treatment which is as
old as the NHS itself.

?We support the overseas doctors in their call  on the Department of
Health to review the application of the rules to non-EEA doctors already
in the UK to seek work and to consider making transitional arrangements
for this group. It should be remembered that many   from developing
countries, relative to their earning potential  at home,  will have
incurred considerable expenses for sitting the  tests to work as a
doctor in the UK and travelling here to apply for vacancies.?

For more information on the march please contact the co-ordinator Dr
Satheesh Mathew (consultant paediatrician)  on 0797 1843316

http://www.jcwi.org.uk/news/news.html

Doctors in visa rules protest
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1812144.html?menu=

Ending training for overseas Commonwealth doctors raises serious issues
about the UK?s commitment to English speaking countries linked to
Britain
http://www.iasuk.org/C2B/PressOffice/display.asp?ID=307&Type=2


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The State of the World's Refugees 2006
Human displacement in the new millennium
http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/template?page=publ&src=static/sowr2006/toceng.htm

Millions of refugees are hidden victims of the West's war on terror,
warns UN
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/article358573.ece

Civil wars create new crisis despite number of refugees falling to
lowest level for 25 years
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[A] 'harsh dispersal laws'
     7 May 06 - 65 items

[B] 'children and young people, transitions, best practice'
     5 May 06 - 8 items

[C] 'knee-jerk, failures, Double Punishment'
     4 May 06 - 65 items

[D] 'talking to press'
     2 May 06 - 71 items

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Lead: - 'harsh dispersal laws'

Asylum seeker loses home battle
A Turkish Kurd who sought asylum has lost a High Court battle to be
allowed to settle in Suffolk with his family.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/4974412.stm

Related item:

               Safe Case Transfer 

Euphemism for: 

               No choice dispersal 

Also known as: 

               'harsh dispersal' without a legal basis?

Note: 

Legislative basis for no choice UK wide dispersal of 
children looked after by local authorities: None

Reference:

Scheme for minors declared a success ... ?
http://www.communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2006/03/30/53395/Scheme+for+minors+declared+a+success.html


01: UK

7 May 06

Surveillance society: The DNA files
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/crime/article362543.ece

Voluntary ID card details
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,176-2168373,00.html

Charles Clarke leaves Home Office 
"Mr Clarke may feel harshly judged today but for his anti-speech and ID
card laws and for instituting punishment without trial, our children may
judge him even more harshly tomorrow."
http://www.liberty-human-rights.org.uk/press/2006/clarke-leaves-home-office.shtml
+
Home Secretary Sacked! - There should be dancing in the streets
http://www.ncadc.org.uk/newszine70/charlesclarke.html

Children as young as three may already be racists, says Ouseley
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article362562.ece

Bigots, racists and worthless buffoons - so why do they keep getting
elected?
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1769483,00.html

BNP fascist gains ? a disaster for all who value democracy
http://www.naar.org.uk/newspages/060505.asp

To hell and back
The remarkable Fateless is the most outstanding feature film so far
about Nazi concentration camps
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,1769261,00.html

Come back and help us, Poland begs its people
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,1769349,00.html

Anti-migrant party leader hires Poles
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-2168653,00.html

For God and country?
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,176-2155558,00.html

City agonises over slavery apology
Passions are running high in Bristol over whether it should say sorry
for its past.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1769448,00.html

Attorney General calls for Guantanamo to close
Lord Goldsmith risks row with White House by denouncing detention centre
as 'unacceptable'.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/politics/story/0,,1769383,00.html
+
Guant?namo ruling: Response from Amnesty International and Amani
Deghayes
http://www.amnesty.org.uk/news/press/16996.shtml

For the sake of humanity, I urge you to see United 93
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1769591,00.html

The Washington connection: Did Bush stick the knife into Jack Straw?
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article362559.ece

Basra on the brink of exploding
Deadly attack on helicopter and violent riots show threat facing British
forces is escalating in southern Iraq
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article362537.ece

British actor stole to save Iraqi family
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,176-2168446,00.html

'Make me PM and I'll let parliament decide on going to war'
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/politics/story/0,,1769382,00.html

You see, we can see off these threats to our liberties
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1769398,00.html

The new kid in the barrio
On the eve of Hugo Chavez's visit to Britain, Peter Beaumont travels to
Caracas and asks if the Castro-loving, Bush-hating, Venezuelan President
is a revolutionary democrat or a dictator in the making.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,1769146,00.html

6 May 06

Winners and losers on day of ministerial merry-go-round
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article362349.ece

Komar Family Belong to Sheffield
http://www.ncadc.org.uk/newszine70/Komar.html

5 May 06

Welsh backs refugee fight
http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=676792006

?Please don?t kick my husband out of UK?
http://www.flintshirestandard.co.uk/titlesites2/detail.asp?storyid=749&officeid=7

Church could lose its asylum grant
http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/hi/news/5051831.html

Campaigners plan unique guided tour to 'Leeds, the city of asylum shame' 
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2006/05/339828.html

Eight arrested over fight in city
Eight people have been arrested in Edinburgh during an operation in the
west of the city involving police and Home Office immigration
investigators.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/4978302.stm

Charles Clarke  Clarke sacked in cabinet reshuffle
Clarke replaced by John Reid
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1768253,00.html

Clarke and the law muddle
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,174-2165470,00.html

European Christian Churches Protest Against Legal Restrictions on
Immigrants
http://www.christiantoday.com/news/church/european.christian.churches.protest.against.legal.restrictions.on.immigrants/1135.htm

Penniless Poles seek shelter in hostels for the homeless
http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=675042006

Guidance: Communicating with immigrant workers
http://www.foodproductiondaily.com/news/ng.asp?id=67483-workers-guidance-northwest-food-alliance

One-sided reporting that is delaying an end to the killing
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1767858,00.html

Why it takes a TV series to draw attention to Darfur
After 180,000 deaths, American news media leave the story of Sudan to
celebrities and ER.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sudan/story/0,,1768104,00.html
+
Congo's tragedy: the war the world forgot
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/africa/article362215.ece

Britain calls for trust fund to help blockaded Palestinians
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article362152.ece
+
US 'blocks' Palestinian aid plan 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4976368.stm

Livingstone to host lunch for Chavez
http://www.guardian.co.uk/venezuela/story/0,,1767556,00.html
+
How Morales took on the oil giants - and won his people back
http://www.guardian.co.uk/oil/story/0,,1768920,00.html

Afghan dangers ahead
http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,,1767769,00.html

Taleban tell British to expect a river of blood
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,174-2165731,00.html

Remembering Bobby Sands
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/ulster/article362092.ece

Guantanamo inmates not entitled to UK help, court rules
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/legal/article362081.ece

4 May 06

SOAS Students take on SODEXHO
http://www.labournet.net/antiracism/0605/sodexho1.html

Asylum Support Service Makes Appeal for Calm
http://www.thisishull.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=136730&command=displayContent&sourceNode=136541&contentPK=14426267&folderPk=79656

Refugees' Red Cross Role
http://www.thisisleicestershire.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=132384&command=displayContent&sourceNode=133130&contentPK=14423633&folderPk=77458

A Helping Hand For War Zone's Traumatised Young
http://www.thisisplymouth.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=133464&command=displayContent&sourceNode=133158&contentPK=14424623&folderPk=78031

3 May 06

Stars back campaign for Chilean
http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/61271.html

Black communities must respond to the Equalities Review to reject it
The government's Equalities Review Interim Report must be rejected as a
flawed and dangerous analysis on equalities in general and racism in
particular.
http://www.naar.org.uk/newspages/060503.asp

02: World

UN envoy calls for 'litre of water per day' for people in world's
poorest countries
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=18381&Cr=LDC&Cr1=

Study: Many Nations Harsher on Immigrants
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-5802157,00.html

The end of global child labour is 'within our reach', says UN agency
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/article362145.ece

Albania takes Guantanamo Uighurs 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4979466.stm

Bolivia wins first round of gas battle after Brazil backs down
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article362292.ece

Congo's tragedy: the war the world forgot
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/africa/article362215.ece

Egypt: Troops Smother Protests, Detain Activists
http://hrw.org/english/docs/2006/05/06/egypt13319.htm

Indonesia: Terrorism in Indonesia: Noordin?s Networks
http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?l=1&id=4092

Iran: Top Scholar Detained Without Charge
http://hrw.org/english/docs/2006/05/05/iran13312.htm

Ireland: Footballer's life in a Dublin limbo
Officials fear human rights backlash if a soccer-playing Sierra Leone
asylum seeker is deported
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,1769450,00.html

Irish families forced to flee from Zimbabwe
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,176-2168640,00.html

Sri Lanka: Tigers tear each other apart
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,1769335,00.html

Iraqi police 'killed 14-year-old boy for being homosexual'
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article362151.ece

Israel/Occupied Territories: Prime minister pins his colours to 'new
look' Israel
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,,1768061,00.html

Israel/Occupied Territories: Five dead as Israelis strike Gaza 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4978486.stm

Korea South: Thousands of riot police in bloody eviction for US base --
photos and resources
http://news.amnesty.org/index/ENGASA250042006

Russia bullies Europe
http://www.guardian.co.uk/russia/article/0,,1768066,00.html

Russia's Nazis launch wave of racist attacks
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,176-2168434,00.html

Sudan: Rebels sign Darfur peace deal after two years of talks
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sudan/story/0,,1768900,00.html

Sudan: Annan presses Sudan on UN force 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4979510.stm

Sudan: UN rights chief paints grim picture of worsening Darfur crisis
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=18367&Cr=Sudan&Cr1=Darfur

Sudan: Peace Deal Must Deliver on Darfur Aid 
http://hrw.org/english/docs/2006/05/05/sudan13321.htm

Trinidad and Tobago: Unlawful police killings must not go unpunished
http://www.amnesty.org.uk/news/press/16998.shtml

US: Dream or disaster?
Are immigrant workers good or bad for the US economy? 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4968398.stm

US: Bush tells immigrants to learn English
http://mathaba.net/0_index.shtml?x=536935

US: Korean sex slaves take refuge in U.S.
Group first to be granted status since 2004 law relaxed conditions
http://edition.cnn.com/2006/US/05/06/nkorea.refugees.ap/index.html

03; Europe

04: Events

Wednesday, 31st May 2006
New Workshop on Providing Education & Training to Refugees and Asylum
Seekers
EMPOWER, 81 St.Vincent St, Glasgow
http://www.scottishrefugeecouncil.org.uk/noticeboard/Education_Workshop

Asylum destitution in Scotland:
Govan Integration Network open meeting
Thursday 11 May, 1pm - 4pm, Pearce Institute, Govan
http://www.govanha.org.uk

Thursday 11th May 2006 
Colombian peace community leader in London (11th and 12th May)
- Public talk organized by
PBI and Peace Direct.    Venue: St Ethelburga's Centre
for  Reconciliation and Peace, 78 Bishopsgate, London,
EC2N 4AG. Time: 7 p.m
http://www.peacebrigades.org/colombia.html

Friday 12th May 2006 
Colombian peace community leader in London (11th and 12th May)
- Public talk organized by PBI
and Amnesty International.  Venue: Amnesty
International UK, The Human Rights Action Centre 17-25
New Inn Yard, London, EC2A 3EA. Time: 7 p.m
http://www.peacebrigades.org/colombia.html


05: Terrorism in UK law

Our submission to the review on the definition of terrorism in UK law 
http://www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/publications/pub007.htm#definition_terrorism


06: Swansea to Newport walk

Walk between Quaker Meeting House in Swansea to the AsylumTribunal in
Newport, to raise money for Asylum Justice and Welsh Refugee Council's
Hardship Fund.Whole walk about 60 miles.First walk Sunday April 30,
Margam area. Then 7 May, circular walk from Bryngarw Country Park.21 May
Taff Ely Ridgeway, near Llantrisant.
http://www.refugeeweek.org.uk/InYourArea/Wales/Events/


07: Job - Coordinator at Peace Brigades International

http://www.peacebrigades.org/jobs.html


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'Child first, migrant second: Ensuring that every child matters'
Feb 06
(PDF)
http://www.ilpa.org.uk/publications/ilpa_child_first.pdf

'Working with children and young people subject to immigration control:
Guidelines for best practice'
Nov 2004
(PDF)
http://www.ilpa.org.uk/publications/ilpa_child_first.pdf

Guidance for Social Workers, Personal Advisers and their Managers
working with unaccompanied asylum seeking children (UASC).
72 page Word doc (final version Feb 06)
http://www.asylumpolicy.info/transitions.doc
Source: http://www.adss.org.uk

Age Assessment. Joint Working Protocol between Immigration and
Nationality Directorate of the Home Office (IND) and the Association of
Directors of Social Services (ADSS) (Publications/Guidance
(PDF)
http://www.adss.org.uk/publications/guidance/ageassessment.pdf

Children: Asylum Policy Instruction
Appril 06
http://www.ind.homeoffice.gov.uk/ind/en/home/laws___policy/policy_instructions/apis/children.html

No Place for a Child campaign
http://www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/supportus/campaigns/detention.htm

Local Authority Support to Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Young People
report from Save the Children (January 2006)
(PDF)
http://www.savethechildren.org.uk/scuk_cache/scuk/cache/cmsattach/3788_Local_authority_support_to_UASC_report.pdf

Children's Legal Centre website area for the Refugee and Asylum Seeking
Children's Project.
http://www.childrenslegalcentre.com/Refugeeandasylumseekers


[C] 'knee-jerk, failures, Double Punishment'
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Lead: - 'knee-jerk, failures, double punishment'

The real Home Office failures
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,,1765297,00.html

Clarke accused over 'knee-jerk' response
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article361829.ece

The failure is systemic, and the system is Blair's
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1766027,00.html

Sex And Drugs And Immigration Control The Double Punishment And Deportation Of Black Prisoners
6 page Word doc
http://www.asylumpolicy.info/double.doc

Will firing Charles Clarke bring order to Home Office chaos? Not a
chance
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,172-2162223,00.html

Deportation plans are bad practice
http://www.liberty-human-rights.org.uk/press/2006/deportation-plans-bad-practice.shtml

01: UK

4 May 06

Is a refugee from Pinochet the victim of a witch-hunt?
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article361834.ece

Blanche, Irina & Parrell Must Stay
http://www.ncadc.org.uk/newszine70/Blanche.html

Same-sex couples forced into exile from US flock to Britain
http://www.guardian.co.uk/gayrights/story/0,,1766934,00.html
+
U.S. Immigration Law Inhumane to Same-Sex Couples
New Immigration Reforms Must End Discrimination against Lesbians, Gays
http://hrw.org/english/docs/2006/05/02/usdom13290.htm

'We won't be treated as well in America'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/gayrights/story/0,,1766951,00.html

Government move is the latest in a series of assaults on civil liberties
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article361815.ece

3 May 06

Mansoor Hassan's case returns to court
http://www.nuj.org.uk/inner.php?docid=1323

The price of freedom
In many countries honest journalism can be fatal
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,172-2162336,00.html

Moving with the times
EU expansion brought fears of an influx of cheap Polish builders. Not so
anymore
http://www.guardian.co.uk/immigration/story/0,,1766658,00.html

Doctors consider legal action against the Government
http://www.iasuk.org/C2B/PressOffice/display.asp?ID=311&Type=2

Cardinal suggests UK amnesty for illegal immigrants
http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/content/news_syndication/article_06053migrant.shtml

Victims of a colonial injustice
http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,,1766665,00.html

Soldiers 'allowed Iraqi boy to drown'
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/legal/article361580.ece

An open-ended operation?
British troops could be bogged down in Afghanistan for decades
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/richard_nortontaylor/2006/05/no_exit_from_kabul.html

BBC news 'favours Israel' at expense of Palestinian view
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,172-2162459,00.html

New course on being British
http://www.blyth-wansbecktoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=1115&ArticleID=1466680

Williard `not safe' in Zimbabwe - lawyer
http://www.thisisbournemouth.co.uk/dorset/poole/news/POOLE_NEWS_NEWS0.html

2 May 06

Warning on threat to doctor numbers
http://www.thisisnorthscotland.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=149664&command=displayContent&sourceNode=149490&contentPK=14411957&folderPk=85696

Detainees despair in unit 'like prison'
http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/city/2006/05/02/e5bdc9e2-9917-4003-8510-529c79cede7d.lpf

Fight Against Deportations
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2006/05/339492.html

Migrant workers not exploited ? expect more hype when Bulgaria and
Romania join the EU
http://www.iasuk.org/C2B/PressOffice/display.asp?ID=310&Type=2
+
Changing status, changing lives? The socio-economic impact of EU
Enlargement on low wage migrant labour in the UK
http://www.compas.ox.ac.uk/changingstatus/index.shtml

City refuses refugees a free television
http://icbirmingham.icnetwork.co.uk/mail/news/tm_objectid=17019811%26method=full%26siteid=50002%26headline=city%2drefuses%2drefugees%2da%2dfree%2dtelevision-name_page.html

Why I may have to give myself up
http://icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100regionalnews/tm_objectid=17021225%26method=full%26siteid=50061%26headline=why%2di%2dmay%2dhave%2dto%2dgive%2dmyself%2dup-name_page.html

BBC 'must improve Mid-East view'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4964702.stm

Protesters jeer mayor on asylum
http://www.manchesteronline.co.uk/men/news/s/212/212002_protesters_jeer_mayor_on_asylum.html

Call a terrorist a terrorist, BBC told
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Media/site/story/0,,1765864,00.html

1 May 06

Report: Tyneside May Day - Asylum Seekers Demand the Right to Work
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2006/04/339224.html

02: World

The Big Question: Is Sri Lanka again on the brink of civil war?
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/article361318.ece

CrisisWatch No: 33, 1 May 2006
http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?l=1&id=4088

This high-octane rocket-rattling against Tehran is unlikely to succeed
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1766032,00.html

Tsunami warning in Pacific
Warning for New Zealand and Fiji after magnitude 8.0 quake in Tonga.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/naturaldisasters/story/0,,1766743,00.html

25% of world's children underweight
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1765755,00.html

Bolivia's military seizes gas fields
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1765601,00.html

Congo DR: UN denounces human rights violations in Katanga
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=18341&Cr=democratic&Cr1=congo

France reviews immigration rules
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4964472.stm

Iraq hit by another wave of violence
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article361816.ece

Italy: Migrants land on Italian island
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4969822.stm

Kashmir: 35 Hindus shot dead in Kashmir
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,171-2160284,00.html

Korea North tops censorship league
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1766868,00.html

Pakistan's power shift
http://www.guardian.co.uk/pakistan/Story/0,,1766252,00.html

Russian racism 'out of control'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4969296.stm

Sudan tops 'failed states index'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4964444.stm

Sudan: Stark warning at the Darfur talks
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4967990.stm

US warns of tough Iran resolution
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4965264.stm

US: 1M Immigrants Skip Work for Demonstration
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,,-5793666,00.html

US: Immigrants Try to Extand Boycott Momentum
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-5794357,00.html

US: Millions mark America's 'day without immigrants'
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article361313.ece

US: Human rights group claims immigration law discriminates gay couples
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/view.php?id=1347

US: Drive for strict US immigrant law
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4968906.stm

US accused of creating ?climate of torture? - report to UN Torture
Committee
http://www.amnesty.org.uk/news/press/16994.shtml

03: Europe

EU halts Serbia talks over Mladic
http://www.guardian.co.uk/eu/story/0,,1766637,00.html

Europe puts sanctions at top of UN's Iran agenda
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,172-2162192,00.html

ECRAN weekly update
28 April 2006

In this ECRAN weekly update you will find information on:

Council of the European Union
Migration poses main challenge to EU in terms of security - Austrian
Interior Minister; Council calls for increase in the use of joint return
flights; Council conclusions on improved operational cooperation on
joint return operations by air; Council conclusions on strengthened
practical cooperation
European Parliament
No single model for integration Frattini tells European Parliament
ECRE
EU needs to play a greater role in the global protection responsibility-
ECRE; Launch of ECRE?s ?Agenda for Change? for Europe?s role in refugee
protection; ECRE calls for sharing for expertise, information and best
practice in order improve asylum procedures
UNHCR: UNHCR highlights problems faced by refugees at Slovak-Ukrainian
border; UNCHR urges European Commission to avoid lowest common
denominator on asylum
MISCELLANEOUS: New report on practical cooperation on country of origin
information

Read in full: Word version
http://www.ecre.org/Update/Weekly%20Update%2028%20April%202006.doc
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04: Events

Invitation to NCADC Annual General Meeting
http://www.smartgroups.com/message/readmessage.cfm?gid=1256290&messageid=3646

4th July 2006
Integration of Migrants: Engaging Employers, Unions and the Voluntary
Sector
http://www.compas.ox.ac.uk/events/future_conferences_events.shtml


05: The sound of hope

The sound of America's protesters is the sound of hope.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,,1766020,00.html


06: Revolution in the Andes

Evo Morales went for a characteristically theatrical gesture when he
sent in troops to seize Bolivia's natural gas fields, pipelines and
refineries on May Day.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,,1766019,00.html


07:  Failed States Index 2006

We are pleased to present the second annual Failed States Index. Tens of
thousands of articles from global and regional sources were collected
from May to December 2005 using Thomson Dialog.
http://www.fundforpeace.org/programs/fsi/fsindex2006.php?column=rank&#


08: Children - Asylum Policy Instruction

Updated April
(PDF)
http://www.ind.homeoffice.gov.uk/ind/en/home/laws___policy/policy_instructions/apis/children.Maincontent.0001.file.tmp/Children%20d%201304061.pdf


09: Asylum, migration and human rights ? an interdisciplinary conference

This major interdisciplinary conference will be an attempt to make a
paradigm shift in the understanding of the relationship between human
rights, asylum and migration.

Date: 20th - 21st September 2006

http://www.ncl.ac.uk/niassh/humanrights/events.htm


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Lead: - 'talking to press'

Detainee 'beaten' after talking to press
http://www.guardian.co.uk/immigration/story/0,,1764967,00.html

01: UK

1 May 06

New JRF study reveals UK employers prefer migrants for low waged and
precarious jobs unacceptable to UK workers
http://www.jrf.org.uk/pressroom/releases/010506.asp

Central and East European migrants in low wage employment in the UK
http://www.jrf.org.uk/knowledge/findings/socialpolicy/0226.asp

May Day Virtual Sit-In!
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2006/05/339270.html

Solidarity isn't nostalgia, it's a necessity for our times
Only by organising the new workforce across companies and national
borders can we win social justice and equality
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1764913,00.html

30 Apr 06

Archbishop urges 'anti-fear vote'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4960258.stm

IAS supports the churches firm stand
http://www.iasuk.org/C2B/PressOffice/display.asp?ID=309&Type=2

Rough guide to British history
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,175-2156657,00.html

It's time to sort out immigration
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2088-2157870,00.html

Clarke quit? Make him stay and rebuild a wrecked Home Office
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,176-2158080,00.html

Bisher Al-Rawi's terrifying journey from public-school to Camp Delta
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/legal/article360788.ece

We may have to bomb Iran
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,176-2157918,00.html

Sarandon tells of Iraq death threat
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1764628,00.html

The price of sparkle is child slavery
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,1764531,00.html

29 Apr 06

Gift of refuge...for refugees
http://icteesside.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0001head/tm_objectid=17010466%26method=full%26siteid=109975%26headline=gift%2dof%2drefuge%2d%2d%2dfor%2drefugees-name_page.html

City's march to support refugees
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/nottinghamshire/4957776.stm

Citizenship guide fails its history exam
http://www.guardian.co.uk/immigration/story/0,,1764292,00.html

Payout to owners of art stolen by Nazis
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article360900.ece

28 Apr 06

Teesside asylum seekers travel to London
http://icteesside.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0001head/tm_objectid=17001256%26method=full%26siteid=109975%26headline=as%2da%2dyoung%2drefugee%2dlife%2dcan%2dbe%2dvery%2ddifficult%2d%2d%2dwe%2dneed%2dto%2dfeel%2dprotected-name_page.html
        
Inside the Guantanamo system
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2155370,00.html

'Quick death is preferable to slow death'
http://www.irr.org.uk/2006/april/ha000033.html

>From deterrence to criminalisation
http://www.irr.org.uk/2006/april/ha000032.html

Read my lips ? no attacks on Iran
Three months ago world leaders were heading for agreement on action. Not
any more
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,6-2155115,00.html

Australian 'tortured and beaten' by British soldiers
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/legal/article360667.ece

Beware the hypocrisy of international allegiances
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1763193,00.html

27 Apr 06

Publication of the 2nd Annual Report of the Independent Monitor of
Certification of Claims as Clearly Unfounded Under Section 94 of the
Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002
http://www.ind.homeoffice.gov.uk/ind/en/home/news/press_releases/publication_of_the0.html

Sixty-eight racist murders since Stephen Lawrence
http://www.irr.org.uk/2006/april/ha000031.html

02: World

A battle for oil could set the world aflame
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1764542,00.html

Armageddon? Great, bring it on
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,170-2159211,00.html

Pressure grows for Darfur peace
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4957242.stm

West to seek UN action on Iranian bomb threat
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2157163,00.html

US brands Iran enemy No 1
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1764104,00.html

China: 40 years on, the Cultural Revolution comes full circle
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/article361184.ece

China pays for boy, 15, killed after 1989 arrest
http://www.guardian.co.uk/china/story/0,,1765013,00.html

Colombia: Civilians could be forced to live next to human rights
abusers, warns Amnesty
http://www.amnesty.org.uk/news/press/16979.shtml

Congo DR anger at Uganda 'raid'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4955830.stm

East Timor: Violence erupts at E Timor rally
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4953574.stm

France's Sarkozy defends law over xenophobia charge
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=worldNews&storyid=2006-04-27T123841Z_01_L27626962_RTRUKOC_0_UK-FRANCE-IMMIGRATION.xml

France: Protests mount against French draft immigration bill
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=worldNews&storyid=2006-04-29T170127Z_01_L29444905_RTRUKOC_0_UK-FRANCE-IMMIGRATION.xml

India: The next Gandhi: I'll make India better off than Britain
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,176-2157949,00.html

Iran 'has ignored UN deadline'
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2156395,00.html

Iran in maps
Find out more about the people, land and infrastructure
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/middle_east/06/iran_maps/html/default.stm

Iraq 'could become haven for terror'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,1764154,00.html

Iraq : Billions wasted in Iraq, says US audit
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,1765048,00.html

Nepal: Legacy of insanity
Path from a royal massacre to anti-monarchy protests
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/4953816.stm

Nepal's parliament reconvenes
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1763920,00.html

Nepal: Maoists declare ceasefire after success of protests
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1763126,00.html

Nepalese PM sworn in by king
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/4959312.stm

Pakistan: Musharraf insists: I'm not George Bush's poodle
http://www.guardian.co.uk/pakistan/Story/0,,1763499,00.html

Poland recalls Hitler-Stalin pact amid fears over pipeline
http://www.guardian.co.uk/eu/story/0,,1765054,00.html

Russian Federation: Leaders' gun battle threatens Chechen stability
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1763101,00.html

Russian Federation: In the torture cell of Chechnya's tyrant
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,176-2157911,00.html

Sri Lanka: Refugees facing bleak future as Tigers hit back
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/05/01/wsri01.xml&sSheet=/news/2006/05/01/ixworld.html

Sri Lanka: After the bombs
Residents and Tamil Tigers react to Sri Lanka air raids
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/4955938.stm

Sri Lanka rebels 'kill renegades'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/4959416.stm

Sri Lanka: Amnesty calls for respect for human rights as violence
escalates
http://www.amnesty.org.uk/news/press/16980.shtml

Sri Lanka: Cycle of violence brings Sri Lanka to edge of war
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/article360824.ece

Sudan: Darfur food rations cut in half
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4954096.stm

Sudan accepts Darfur peace deal but rebels dig in
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/africa/article361180.ece

Sudan: Darfur peace hopes collapse
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sudan/story/0,,1765047,00.html

Sudan: Tales of fear and loss: Refugees in Darfur tell their stories
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/help/3681938.stm

Thailand: King halts Thailand's troubles
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Observer/world/story/0,,1764534,00.html

Thailand: Investigate Krue Se Mosque Raid
http://hrw.org/english/docs/2006/04/28/thaila13284.htm

US says Iran top terror sponsor
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4955430.stm

US protesters stage one-day boycott over immigrant bill
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,1765065,00.html

U.S. immigrants set for massive rallies
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=worldNews&storyid=2006-05-01T073738Z_01_N30434140_RTRUKOC_0_UK-USA-IMMIGRATION.xml&src=rss

US: Immigration reform could cost you
With nationwide protests set for Monday, a look at what restrictions on
immigrant labor could cost Americans.
http://money.cnn.com/2006/04/28/smbusiness/immigration_reform_prices/index.htm

US war costs 'could hit $811bn'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4955418.stm

US: An invisible army of workers strikes for the right to be seen
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,175-2156514,00.html

US: Raid Rumors Fuel Fear Among Immigrants
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-5788703,00.html

03: Europe

EU warns Serbia on Mladic arrest
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4955376.stm

04: Events

02/05/2006
Housing & Settlement Information Day for Asylum-seekers and Refugees
Knightswood Community Centre, 201 Alderman Road
Know you rights when you receive a positive decision! Time: 10am - 3pm
Lots of information and advice on housing and welfare, money, furniture,
befriending, etc. Buffet...
http://www.scottishrefugeecouncil.org.uk/noticeboard/Housing_event

11/05/2006
Asylum Destitution in Scotland: Public Meeting
Pearce Institue, 840 Govan Road, Glasgow
Time: 1pm - 4pm "Building a humanitarian support network and lobbying
for an end to asylum destitution" Govan Integration Network is hosting
an open meeting to discuss ways...
http://www.scottishrefugeecouncil.org.uk/noticeboard/Destitution_meeting


Tuesday May 23rd, 7.30-9.30 pm,
Public Meeting in Oxford - "Destroying Minds at Public Expense"
Oxford Town Hall
http://www.closecampsfield.org.uk/events.html

17th June 2006.
Medact AGM and Conference
Global inequality and climate change; confronting the problem
120 Belsize Lane, London NW5 5BA
http://www.medact.org/article_about_medact.php?articleID=466


[E] 'Trade Union Conference Against Immigration Controls'
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>>>> 'Trade Union Conference Against Immigration Controls'

Help Build The National Trade Union Conference Against Immigration
Controls

               Planning meeting Saturday July 15th
               1-5.30, Cross Street Chapel
               Cross Street, Manchester


The No-One Illegal pamphlet ?Workers Control not Immigration Controls?
has already been sponsored by several trades council and trade union
branches ? and has been endorsed by the general secretary of NAFTHE.

The pamphlet, (copy below) along with unions such as the NUJ and NAFTHE,
adopts a position of total opposition to controls. In  arguing for this
position it goes beyond the justified support for all campaigns against
deportations and detentions. It  also examines how controls directly
affect trade unionists. In particular it  looks at:

-Employer sanctions. This is the transformation of employers into spies
  for the Home Office by criminalising them for employing undocumented
  labour

-Trafficking ? how to oppose traffickers whilst fighting for the
  absolute right to remain of those subject to trafficking

-Defiance not compliance ? how the relationship between welfare
  provision and immigration status means that health, benefit and social
  workers are being placed in the role of immigration control enforcers

-The right to work of all irrespective of immigration status. At the
  moment asylum seekers are prohibited from working

-Alternatively the right of undocumented labour not to be treated as
  slave labour. For instance the latest legislation allows those detained
  in removal centres to work ? without minimum wage protection.

-How trade unions  should recruit workers irrespective of immigration
  status and  should fight both for the equality of wages/conditions of
  all workers and for the regularisation  of those presently without full
  immigration status.

-How certain jobs, particularly within the civil service, are only open
  to those with full immigration status.

-The strange position of immigration officers who are themselves often
  in trade unions (in particular the PCS) and whose role is to detain and
  deport other workers.

No One Is Illegal: 16 Wood St, Bolton BL1 IDY,  email info at noii.org.uk  
web http://www.noii.org.uk  


Pamphlet  (full text below)
********

Download original 31 page PDF version
http://www.asylumpolicy.info/workerscontrol.pdf


Workers Control Not Immigration Controls
________________________________________

A programme for Trades Unions proposed by No One Is Illegal

?NATFHE welcomes the publication of this pamphlet to stimulate debate in
the trade union movement on this vital issue?
Paul Mackney, General Secretary, NATFHE ? The University & College
Lecturers Union, April 2006

This pamphlet is sponsored by the following Trades Councils:

Bolton ? Bury ? Oldham ? Oxford ? Stockport ? Tameside
Waltham Forest ? and the following Trades Union Branches
Bolton Unison ? Bolton NUT ? Ilford & Romford AMICUS


Introduction
____________

No immigration controls in the workplace!

The well known phrase ?workers of the world unite? does not mean ?only
workers with the correct immigration status? unite. It means all workers
both here and internationally. The function of immigration controls is
to ensure the absolute reversal of this principal. It is to ensure the
global division and antagonism between workers.This is divide and rule
based on the crudest nationalism and racism. Workers? unity means
getting rid of controls. This may seem unrealistic, fantastic and
utopian. It would certainly require an enormous political upheaval.

Some unions have indeed at some times adopted resolutions in opposition
to controls in principle and in so doing have effectively accepted the
slogan No One Is Illegal. This has been the result of the
self-organisation of those threatened by controls ? organising either
within the unions or through anti-deportation campaigns.

- - - - - - - - -
The 1989 NALGO (the predecessor of UNISON) conference demanded the
abolition of all controls. In the same period NAPO (the probation
workers union) adopted a similar position. In the recent period the 2005
conference of NAFTHE (workers in higher education) passed a resolution
committing the union to ?support the right of any person to come and
live and seek employment in the UK for whatever reason?. The 2006 NUJ
(journalists) conference passed a resolution ?to campaign for a policy
of opposing all immigration controls and to promote the right to free
movement, together with equal rights for all residents of whatever
nationality?
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The programme that dare not speak its name
__________________________________________

However opposition to controls in their totality has with rare
exceptions become the programme that dare not speak its name. Instead
another and opposite orthodoxy is dominant in the labour
movement. This is the demand for ?fair? or ?benign? or ?compassionate?
controls. And meeting this demand would not require a political
upheaval. It would require a miracle. By their very definition controls
are inevitably, unjust and malign. It is the idea that controls can be
non-racist or fair that is unrealistic. There cannot be equal
opportunities immigration control.

Most of the reasons why there cannot be ?fair? controls are really
transparent and don?t require much reflection. First, the initial
legislative controls, the 1905 Aliens Act, were based on that most
primitive of racisms, anti-Semitism, and were directed against Jewish
refugees fleeing Tsarist Russia. Second, the next wave of controls,
starting with the 1962 Commonwealth Immigrants Act, were directed at
black people(this itself being in some ways anticipated as early as 1925
in a Coloured Alien Seamen Order requiring the enforced registration
with the police of ?coloured? seafarers). None of this is much of an
advert for the idea that controls can be turned inside out and rendered
?non-racist?. Third, controls are anyhow based on the vilest nationalism
? the idea that the right to come to or stay in the UK should be a
reserved only for members of a privileged club who somehow have managed
to acquire the franchise. This is why there should be opposed both the
present work permit scheme and also the proposed new scheme based on a
points system for workers. Fourth, controls can never, by any definition
or redefinition, be ?fair? to those excluded by them. Fifth, the very
first control on peoples? global movement prior to legislation was
slavery out of Africa ? which again was hardly susceptible of being
rendered benign or compassionate.

All this is obvious. What is less obvious, because less known, is that
controls are in fact a result of successful fascistic agitation. The
1905 Act was largely the result of agitation by an organisation now lost
(suppressed) to history ? the British Brothers League. The 1962 Act
followed quickly on the so-called Notting Hill riots (actually racist
white riots) of 1958 which were organised by fascist groups such as
Oswald Mosley?s Union Movement. The idea that a political construct such
as immigration restrictions which are a product of fascistic activity
can somehow be sanitised and rendered harmless simply does not make
sense. It is equivalent to arguing that all that is wrong with
fascist groups like the British National Party is that they are
?unfair? and we ought to fight to make them non-racist. As the saying
goes ? a leopard can?t change its spots.


Workplace immigration controls
______________________________


The fact that the destruction of controls would require a huge political
movement ? maybe even a revolution ? is not a statement of pessimism. It
does not imply any acceptance of controls until the day of complete
deliverance. Rather it is a statement that all criticisms of control,
all demands made against particular controls, should be on the basis of
opposition to restrictions in principle ? on the basis that No One Is
Illegal! Within this political framework trade union agitation becomes
crucial.

This is because of something often ignored ? namely immigration controls
come into conflict with union organisation on a daily basis at the
workplace. Immigration laws are a total system - they are about internal
controls as well as exclusion and deportation. In particular most
welfare entitlements ( social housing, non-contributory benefits,
hospital treatment) are dependent on immigration status as is the right
to work itself. As a consequence of this total system it is inevitable
that controls regularly and directly impinge upon workers in the course
of their employment or their union activities. Of course trade unionists
should oppose controls in every context in which they arise ? such as
detentions and deportations ? because in every context in which they
arise they are a manifestation of racism. However the need for trade
union involvement goes well beyond this and extends into the heart of
the employment relationship itself.


A danger to all workers
_______________________

Immigration controls are a danger to all trade unionists. ? including
those workers with full immigration status. One of the functions of
immigration control is to undercut the wages and conditions of all
workers by transforming migrant labour and labour without any
immigration status into a non-unionised low-waged workforce unprotected
by labour legislation. Which is why there is a need to fight for the
regularisation of immigration status, for full
unionisation and for equality of wages and conditions for all. In the
past the trade union movement has, unfortunately, often been in the
forefront of agitating for controls. For instance the very first
controls ? the 1905 Aliens Act aimed at Jewish refugees ? was preceded
by the TUC demanding controls. Again in the 1950s and 1960s the TUC
supported controls against black commonwealth workers.

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But it should be remembered that though some unions regrettably
supported the 1905 Act yet other unions even then opposed immigration
laws on principle. In 1895 these mainly Jewish trade unions produced a
pamphlet against controls ? A Voice From The Aliens ? which persuaded
some English trade unionists to reject controls. This has been
reproduced on the No One Is Illegal website.
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Today the labour movement has once again begun to change its position,
to begin to take a critical position towards the present laws ? and
again this is due to a great extent to the resistance and
anti-deportation campaigns of those threatened by controls. Today it is
possible to once again open up the whole debate. It is possible to start
to challenge the very existence of controls


:: Part one
   For a trade union action programme against controls


Closing down Immigration controls
_________________________________

What has to be faced up to is that it is now utterly inadequate to give
lip service to the appalling cruelty inflicted by immigration control.
What has to be acknowledged is that controls cannot be sanitised on a
case by case basis ? no more than a tiger can be tamed by the extraction
of tooth by tooth.

Trades unions are central here. For instance would any union tolerate
its members as part of their job contract being made to impose quotas
for job opportunities or housing opportunities or health treatment or
welfare support on black people? We assume not. However in effect
immigration controls, by linking entitlements to immigration status,
impose quotas on the undocumented in respect to virtually all welfare
provision. Indeed asylum seekers have been removed totally from the
welfare state and are now subject to a new poor law administered by the
?welfare wing? of the Home Office ? the National Asylum Support Service
(NASS). This a poor law based on maintenance at 70% of income support
level, forced dispersal throughout the country and eviction onto the
streets for rejected asylum seekers. And all this is administered by
trade unionists.

Trade unions in this country are still very powerful. If the labour
movement had the political will it could pull the plug on immigration
controls and close them down. This is precisely because many of the
crucial sectors that enforce immigration control are heavily unionised.
Proper use of this trade union organisation could make controls
unworkable.

This is clearly the case at the epicentres of controls. The
administrative nerve centre of immigration restrictions is the
Immigration and Nationality Directorate based at Lunar House in Croydon.
A few years ago the system was almost brought to its knees
when the computer system malfunctioned. Imagine what a strike would
achieve in combating the racism of controls!

Another organisational base of immigration control is at airports. Trade
union action at airports could effectively stop deportations by refusing
to service or fly planes carrying passengers being expelled.

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In Germany an organisation known as Deportation Class has campaigned
against Lufthansa Airlines to prevent deportations. Law experts of the
German pilots? association ?Cockpit? have declared that it is illegal to
deport human beings who are brought into the airplane in shackles.
According to their opinion, the captain should refuse to participate in
such a deportation, due to the risk of criminal proceedings against
himself. Accordingly, ?Cockpit? call all their members to make sure
before take-off that anybody in the process of being deported is staying
voluntarily inside the airplane. The international pilots? association
also considers it to be a prerequisite that the person in question is
?willing to travel?. There are examples of pilots and air crew in the UK
refusing to fly out deportees
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No One Is Illegal!
__________________


In all other areas of the law it is the activity that is unlawful. Under
immigration controls it is humanity that is reduced to being unlawful.
The phrase ?No One Is Illegal? means what it says. It does not mean only
some people are legal. It goes beyond fighting just for asylum-seekers.
Asylum-seekers are only the latest of the unwanted to be demonised. In
the past it was immigrants, those wanting to settle here, often seeking
to join their family. Or else it was migrants, those wanting to work
here. And these groups are still unwanted. In the future it will be some
other group. Today?s lawful presence will be tomorrow?s unlawful
presence. None of this law has anything to do with morality. It has all
to do with politics and power. As Martin Luther King once said ?Never
forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal?. Which is again
why we proclaim No One Is Illegal. This means fighting for whoever wants
to come or stay irrespective of their motive.


The political language of controls
__________________________________


Controls are not a ?natural? phenomenon. They are a result of political
activity. Immigration law is not god-given. It is the result of
political agitation. Everything about immigration controls is political
- including language. And this applies to the language of those affected
by controls. How should these be described? It is Bob Dylan who sang
?pity the poor immigrant? But terms such as immigrant, migrant or
refugee are quite inadequate collectively in describing all those at the
mercy of controls. This is not because other groups are presently
affected, such as students. It is not because in the past yet other
categories were the victims, for instance after the Russian revolution
it was members of the Communist Party and from the mid 1920s it was
black seafarers. It is not even because in the future hitherto unthought
of groups will be affected. It is also because those possessed of proper
immigration documents are carved up into a hierarchy depending on the
conditions of stay, length of stay, whether employment is restricted
during stay and rights (or lack of them) to benefits. And those granted
the documents of permanent settlement are attacked vicariously through
immigration controls by the denial of family members to join them. Under
the 2006 Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act even the holy grail of
citizenship becomes revocable with ease. It is at these points that
documents themselves become pointless. Which is why those resisting
controls have claimed for themselves the political language of the
undocumented or the sans papiers. This is the language which unites all
those subject to controls. All other language divides them.


:: Part two
   The proposed programme


Defiance not compliance!
________________________

The vast majority of workers within the welfare sector join that sector
with the motivation to help other people. However the implementation of
internal controls is only possible through the active co-operation of
these workers, these trade unionists, who find themselves having to
determine welfare provision on the basis of immigration status.

But it is precisely this role which presents a weak link in the whole
chain of controls. Individual or even groups of workers would be exposed
to victimisation if they tried to break this link without union backing.
However internal controls could be brought to a halt by public sector
workers organised in their unions. Public sector unions ? based in, for
example, the health, local authority and welfare benefit sectors -
should adopt a policy of non co-operation and non-implementation of
internal controls by supporting their members in refusing to ask
questions as to immigration status and by refusing to pass on
information to the Home Office. Workers within each relevant sector ?
for instance local authority housing workers ? should start to organise
rank and file groups within their unions where these issues could be
discussed, debated and acted on.

Under pressure of campaigns by the undocumented there has been the start
by unions of adopting a policy of defiance.

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The 2005 UNISON Health Workers Conference resolved to ?support health
workers in refusing to monitor or provide information on asylum seekers
to government bodies?. Workers in other sectors are also moving towards
a position of defiance. For instance under section 9 of the 2004
legislation rejected asylum seekers with children can be evicted from
National Asylum Support Service administered accommodation if they
persist in fighting their case and refusing to return to the country
from which they fled. One consequence of this is that children may end
up taken from their
parents by social services and placed in care. UNISON North West
Regional Council has condemned this as abduction not in the interests
of the child but of immigration control and has voted to support any of
its members who defy implementing section 9. Even the professional body
The British Association of Social Workers has said it expects social
workers ?to strongly resist the implementation of this brutal power?.
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As a result of these threats by organised workers ? themselves
stimulated by various anti deportation campaigns ? there is a serious
possibility the government will withdraw from implementing section 9 as
such.


No workplace raids!
___________________

Workplace swoops by the police and immigration service are now a regular
occurrence. Factories, fast food places, garages, nursing homes and
hotels are the frequent subject of raids in the search for undocumented
workers. As early as 1980 and after a series of raids the Transport and
General Workers Union and the General and Municipal Workers Union issued
a joint statement saying that black workers had ?have to carry at all
times their papers proving their right to live and work here. This is a
situation more reminiscent of the apartheid system in South Africa than
of Great Britain? (Guardian July 7th).

It is a matter of obvious concern to all trade unionists if co-workers
are dragged from the workplace by the immigration service. A basic trade
union demand should be that employers ban the immigration service or
those acting on their behalf, such as the police, from entering the
premises.

No employer sanctions!
______________________


The Tory?s 1996 Asylum and Immigration Act represented a direct attack
on workers? organisation and workers? unity. It penalised (fined) bosses
for employing workers without the ?correct? immigration status ? without
the correct documents. These are the undocumented workers of popular
imagination and the laws are
known as employer sanctions. These laws have been significantly
strengthened by Labour?s 2006 Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act
which allows for on the spot civil penalties as an alternative to
criminal procedures. Employer sanctions are completely reactionary.
They require workers to disclose their immigration status to their
employer. They transform the bosses into agents of immigration control.
They bring immigration control into the workplace. They drive a wedge
between ?lawful? and ?unlawful? workers. They point the finger at all
undocumented workers. They weaken trade union organisation by creating
a pariah class of workers without immigration status who have to
conceal their identity.

Employer sanctions are part of the grand plan for Fortress Europe. As
long ago as 1976 the European Commission produced a draft directive ?On
the harmonisation of laws in the Member States to combat illegal
migration and illegal employment?. This called for employer sanctions.
Such sanctions now exist in all the main centres of industrial might.
They were introduced into the USA in 1986 in the Immigration Control and
Reform Act. They are part of the internationalisation of immigration
controls. They point to a future where worker surveillance extends
further into the workplace and where the undocumented worker is subject
to a Big Brother regime. When the European draft directive was debated
in parliament in June 1977, Gwnyth Dunwoody MP pointed out that there
had been suggestions by the European Commission that ?the wages council
and factory inspectors should be used as a method of checking...
immigrants?.

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The TUC did oppose employer sanctions when first introduced in 1996 and
all labour movement bodies should follow this.
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However this TUC opposition was not always the case. As long ago as 1978
the House of Commons Select Committee on Race Relations and Immigration
pointed out the TUC was in favour of such laws. Two justifications are
normally given by union leaders for employer sanctions. These reasons
are quite contradictory. The first justification is that workers without
immigration status somehow weaken trade union negotiated work place
conditions (see the TUC?s Hotel and Catering Industry Committee in its
minutes of April 1978). This is
exactly the same argument used historically to justify immigration
control on all workers whether ?authorised? or not - namely that cheap
imported labour undermine wages and bargaining positions. The other
justification is that employer sanctions somehow protects undocumented
immigrant workers by preventing their exploitation (see the General
Council?s Statement on Immigration and Racism issued at the 1990
conference in response to a NALGO resolution against controls in
principle). However it is a very strange way of protecting exploited
workers by transforming their bosses into stool-pigeons for the
immigration service who can then deport these same workers!


Solidarity not sanctions!
Better pay and conditions for all!
__________________________________


In essence employer sanctions are about snatching, penalising and
expelling undocumented workers. They are not about attacking bosses. The
figures show this. In June 2005 the Home Office produced a so-called
?Regulatory Impact Assessment? on the then Immigration, Asylum and
Nationality Bill. This shows that, for example, in 2004 there were 1098
?successful operations? (i.e. raids) by the immigration service which
resulted in the arrest of 3332 workers ? but only the successful
prosecution of 8 employers! In the previous year only one boss was
successfully prosecuted ? but 1779 workers arrested, removed from the
workplace and presumably deported. No equality here.

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Recently one section of the trade union movement has again recognised
the danger of employer sanctions on the shop floor. In December 2005 it
was widely reported that at least one branch of the retail giant ASDA
had been demanding that Asian employees produce their passports ? and
that their names had been read out publicly over the store tannoy asking
for their documents. The workers union, the GMB, denounced this. This
denunciation should be the start of a campaign against employer
sanctions..
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Trade union strength and organisation does not rest on the arrest and
deportation of workers. It rests on solidarity. It rests on preventing
the exploitation of workers without immigration status
by organising those workers in unions and campaigning with them against
deportation and for the regularisation of their stay in this country.
The labour movement should refuse to accept the definition of workers
into ?lawful? and ?unlawful?. Instead unions should campaign under the
slogan of No Worker Is Illegal

Low wages are not fought by making employers into immigration spies.
They are fought by unionising all workers to fight together for better
conditions irrespective of their immigration status. Equality and
improvement of wage rates, health and safety conditions, holiday,
sickness and redundancy entitlements ? these all have to be fought for
irrespective of immigration status.

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A recent, December 2005, massive example of this was the action in Eire
against the attempt to by the Irish Ferry company to import Baltic
workers at a wage rate below the minimum standard. This was met by trade
union action ? unfortunately abandoned before final victory - including
the occupation of one ferry, the prevention of another sailing and a
demonstration of 100000. Union leaflets were printed in Latvian and
Lithuanian, welcoming the migrant workers and demanding equality of
rates and conditions for all irrespective of immigration status.
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In 2002 the TUC produced a pamphlet, Migrant Workers a TUC Guide. This
should be in the hands of every shop steward both because of the clarity
of its legal explanations and because of its encouragement to organise
in defence of the undocumented ? both in the workplace for better
conditions and against deportations. It gives many examples of support
for migrant workers to attain better working conditions. For instance:

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?Its (the Transport and General Worker?s Union) most recent successful
campaign involved Chinese workers at the New Diamond restaurant in
London?s Soho. The workers worked long hours without a break. They
received no compensation if they had an accident at work. They were
never given a payslip and had no holidays. Health and safety standards
were very low. After a recruitment campaign, workers at the restaurant
took industrial action when four members of the union were dismissed.
They
successfully picketed the restaurant while lodging their claims at an
employment tribunal. The employers were forced to settle, paying a
significant sum of money to the four workers?
The TGWU has also taken the initiative in recruiting cleaners ? many of
whom are migrant workers ? and in November 2005 organised a Justice For
Cleaners picket outside the Deutsche bank against poverty wages. The
same union has sponsored a Tube Cleaners Support Group. This has already
had one victory in forcing Metronet Rail (London underground) to
withdraw from its contract with the Blue Diamond cleaning company which
had been paying its often undocumented workers at below agreed wage
levels.
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All this is modelled on the vibrant Justice For Janitors campaign in the
USA where the Service Employees International Union is fighting for the
rights of janitors without immigration status. It is clear from all this
that even if there is ever achieved a situation of no controls then
there will still have to be laws protecting and actions defending the
rights and conditions of migrant workers and those who they have come to
join. This is just the same as the need to equalise the rights of, for
instance, part time or temporary workers ? a situation which in any
event many of the undocumented find themselves ? alongside full time or
permanent workers.


Control of gangmasters not undocumented workers!
________________________________________________


In February 2004 there occurred the tragic scandal of the death by
drowning of 19 Chinese cockle gatherers in Morecambe Bay after being
trapped by rising tides. The cockle pickers had been employed and
exploited by gangmasters ? these being basically employment gangsters or
pimps who either themselves hire or hand on workers to other
contractors. By July 2004 there was enacted the Gangmasters (Licensing)
Act ? the speed of enactment not being unrelated to the international
publicity given to the tragedy. The Act provides for a compulsory
registration scheme for gangmasters within the agricultural and shell
fish and associated processing and packaging sectors. There had in fact
been control of gangmasters within agriculture since laws passed in 1867
? which were repealed by Labour in 1965. The new legislation should be
supported if it saves
lives and prevents super-exploitation. Indeed at least one union, the
GMB, has called for the legislation to be extended across the board to
all industry.

However as Virgil, the classical Roman poet, wrote ? Beware the Greeks
bearing gifts. It would seem that the Chinese workers who died were
without immigration status ? which made them doubly vulnerable to the
gangmasters. The cross-party support in the parliamentary debate of 9
February 2004 for the gangmaster legislation presented it as though it
is were a way of preventing the exploitation of other economically
vulnerable undocumented workers by preventing them staying in the
country! Like the same spurious justifications given to employer
sanctions this again stands reality on its head. The way to provide
protection and prevent super exploitation caused by vulnerability
through lack of immigration status is to get rid of the cause of the
vulnerability ? immigration controls and the whole concept of
immigration status. However the Home Office appears to be hoping that
registered gangmasters will not only not employ the undocumented but
will in some way act as yet another arm in tracking them down and
reporting them. And of course any future cockle gatherers without
appropriate documents whose lives might be discovered to be in danger
will not be allowed to remain but will be forcibly deported.

Similar deportations are already happening and the labour movement is
turning a blind eye to them. In April 2004 over twenty undocumented East
European workers were subject to raids and arrests in Cheetham,
Manchester and elsewhere. The General Secretary of the Transport and
General Workers Union welcomed this as disrupting the work of
gangmasters ? though no gangmaster was reported as being arrested.
Instead the BBC?s report was headed ?Illegal workers face deportation?.
As is asked by Shakespeare in King Lear ? ?Which is the justice? Which
is the thief?? The thieves are the exploitative gangmasters and the
racist Home Office. The justice is with the workers of whatever
nationality. The only principled and effective trade union position is
for gangmasters to be regulated within the context of the right to
remain ?the regularisation ? of all those workers without status, of the
end to employer sanctions and of the dismantling of immigration
restrictions themselves.


No slave labour!
For the right to work!
______________________

The ultimate exploitation of the undocumented and the most extreme
undermining of trade union cohesion is the reduction of those without
immigration status to a position of actual slavery. Indeed the TUC in
its pamphlet Overworked, Underpaid and Over Here, published in 2003,
drew attention to the ?slavery or forced labour? of those undertaking
undocumented work. And this position has now been given statutory
confirmation courtesy of section 10 of the 2004 Asylum and Immigration
Act.

Section 10 represents the most extreme example yet of internal controls.
It makes housing and other poor-law support for certain refugees to be
made conditional on undertaking ?community services?. These are refugees
whose claim has been rejected by the Home Office but are unable to
return home because of circumstances beyond their control ? because they
are stateless or ill or (paradoxically in the case of a rejected asylum
application) the country of return is too dangerous. Section 10
transforms asylum-seekers into slaves. It makes their labour compulsory,
as refusal to participate will mean deprivation of housing and other
support. When the Act was being debated in its committee stage in the
House of Lords (15 June 2004), Lord Rooker encouraged voluntary sector
groups to get involved in tendering to NASS for this slave labour. He
also suggested that this compulsory refugee labour could be used for the
maintenance of the refugee?s own accommodation ? which is a way local
authorities and private companies could get otherwise run-down
unlettable properties updated for free.

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There has been successful resistance to the implementation of section
10. In Liverpool the YMCA tendered for the scheme. But after outrage was
expressed by the undocumented and their supporters the tender was
withdrawn.
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The paradoxical flip side of this slave labour scheme is that asylum
seekers awaiting a determination of their refugee application are
normally prohibited from exercising another basic trade union right ?
the right to work. This leads to further impoverishment and pushes the
undocumented into the hands of exploitative bosses. Trade
unions need to resist the implementation of section 10, to be alert to
the employment of slave labour and to the existence of rogue employers.
And they should fight for the right to work for all irrespective of
immigration status.

This reduction of those without immigration status to slave labour has
now taken a new twist. They are to become the equivalent of prison
labour. The latest Asylum, Immigration and Nationality Act allows one
class of person the ?privilege? of being allowed to work. This is those
detained in a removal centre and waiting deportation. Soon it may be
compulsory labour. In the meantime the new law exempts this work from
the national minimum wage. This clearly needs to be opposed not least
because it undercuts national wage levels.

No employment restrictions based on nationality status!
_______________________________________________________


Immigration controls often operate in ways that are hidden to everyone
except those discriminated against by them. An example of this is the
law making eligibility for employment within various branches of the
civil service dependant upon having British citizenship. The origins of
this go far back into history and are an anachronism. The exclusion can
be found in the Act of Settlement of 1700. It was reproduced as long ago
as the 1919 Aliens Restriction (Amendment) Act ? in the wake of post war
anti-German, anti-Jewish and anti-Communist hysteria. And all this law
still exists today with some amendments. Whenever there has been an
attempt to repeal it then its defenders have used the most reactionary
arguments. In a parliamentary debate of 14 May 2004 the Tory MP Eric
Forth said ?At least at the moment we should be able to sleep in our
beds at night in the secure knowledge that all sorts of suspicious
aliens have not inveigled their way into our governmental system and
into the civil service?.

This prohibition on employment ? this time based on nationality ? is yet
another way that workers are split through the use of nationalism and
needs to be opposed by the trade union movement.


No to traffickers!
Yes to rescuers!
_________________

Trafficking in humanity for financial gain is once more just another
form of pimping. This the case whether or not the trafficking is part of
a supply chain to the sex industry. Indeed trafficking cannot be reduced
to the sex trade and also provides cheap, vulnerable labour to other
more conventional sectors. Some of the recent immigration control laws
contain new criminal offences in relation to this trade in human cargo.
Section 145 of the 2002 legislation outlaws trafficking for purposes of
prostitution and section 4 of the 2004 legislation extends this to
trafficking for exploitation generally with a surprisingly wide
definition of ?exploitation? ? including the provision of any service
through ?force, threats or deception?. Irrespective of these specific
issues, there have been general provisions since the 1971 Immigration
Act against ?assisting illegal entry and harbouring?.

Given the disreputable nature of trafficking for gain then should trade
unionists support all legislation designed to suppress the trade? The
answer is no! Once again as in the case of gangmasters - beware the
politicians bearing gifts. In particular beware laws demonising
traffickers which are part of, and included in, far wider legislation
designed to further control the entry of the undocumented.
Anti-trafficking measures are being used to prevent the migration of
people who are driven by poverty and persecution to move country.

Three situations need to be distinguished. First is trafficking which
involves trickery or violence or lack of any consent ? which is
essentially trans-national kidnapping. In September 2005 there was much
publicity given to the discovery in Birmingham of 19 women from East
Europe who were being forcibly imprisoned in a brothel after being
deceived into coming to the UK by traffickers. Sex by clients in this
situation is in effect rape. The prosecuting and outlawing of the
traffickers should be supported by everyone. At the same time the
victims of such forced trafficking should be given the absolute right to
remain ? not, as at present, being liable to deportation. Criminalising
the victims of trafficking is racist, hypocritical and cruel. Again we
should ask ? Which is the justice? Which is the thief? At the moment the
British government is not even prepared to give its signature to the
extremely limited European Convention on Action Against Trafficking in
Human Beings ? which allows for temporary residence for those
trafficked. Moreover global trafficking in some form could continue even
after the abolition of controls ? just as it existed, for instance in
the guise of the white slave trade, before controls. And measures will
be necessary to prevent this where violence or deception is involved.
However the super-exploitation that results today from trafficking ? not
least the blackmailing and threats of exposure by the traffickers on
those they smuggle here ? is frequently the consequence of immigration
controls themselves and can only be solved or ameliorated by the
dismantling of controls. And it should never be forgotten that the
biggest trafficker of people without their consent is the Home Office ?
whose deportation programme is far in advance of that of the private
dealers in people misery.

The second situation is smuggling of people for profit ? but where those
being smuggled consent to this as the only way of exiting the country of
origin and entering the UK. This is a disgusting trade. However given
the existence of immigration controls it is a life-line to those who
wish to exercise their fundamental human right to freedom of movement.
The prevalence of smuggling for profit will only end when immigration
controls end. Until then outlawing it will only cut off the means of
escape to those who want to flee their country of origin.

The third situation is the rescuing of the impoverished and the
persecuted. Trade unionists should oppose the criminalisation of those
who out of political consciousness or family solidarity help to ease the
entry of the undocumented. Indeed trade unions should actively encourage
and sponsor and aid this free movement. ?Underground railways? providing
rescue and freedom, or at least safety, ? such as existed for slaves
escaping the plantations of the American south or for some Jews trapped
in Nazi Europe ? need to be developed in the twenty first century for
those trapped in persecution or poverty or who wish to otherwise migrate
for reasons of their choice.


No deportation or intimidation of trade union activists through
controls!
_________________________________________________________________________

The potential for immigration controls to be divisive and undermine
workers unity is almost infinite.

Controls can be used to create disunity by intimidating trade union
activists who have not got a secure immigration status. There have been
several examples of trade unions actively fighting to defend members
against such threats.

- - - - - - - - -
It is also now a legitimate trade union practice to support members
under threat of deportation. For instance UNISON, and its forerunner
NALGO, has consistently and actively campaigned against the deportation
of its members since it successfully fought in the early 1980?s the
threatened deportation of Mohammed Idrish, a worker from Birmingham. In
the mid 1980s UCATT, the building workers union, organised a lunch-time
walk out from Manchester town hall as part of the victorious defence of
one of its members, George Roucou, who was employed by the council?s
direct works and was under threat of deportation. The National Union of
Journalists is presently fighting to stop the removal of Mansoor Hassan
? a campaigning writer who has exposed the practice of so-called ?honour
killings? in Pakistan.
- - - - - - - - -

In some ways times have moved on. The militancy of the undocumented
community both in the workplace and on the streets, both against working
conditions and against deportations, has forced the TUC to acknowledge
there are real issues here.

- - - - - - - - -
The TUC pamphlet, Migrant Workers a TUC Guide makes it clear that ?trade
unions have a role to play in assisting migrant workers who have been
subject to negative decisions by the immigration authorities?.
- - - - - - - - -

Likewise this TUC pamphlet expresses support for campaigns against
deportations ? and it provides examples of the attempt to deport people
who happen to be trade unionists and examples of trade union support
against their deportation. For instance:

- - - - - - - - -
?RC was one of the many migrant domestic workers who joined the TGWU
through its involvement with the migrants? organisation Kalayaan. In
1998 she was detained and was about to be deported when the union found
out. It was able to make immediate representations to the government,
reminding it that at the very time it was in the process of announcing
that it was going to regularise the position of migrant workers like
her. The union?s intervention was successful and she was allowed to
stay?
- - - - - - - - -

However none of these threatened deportations described above were a
response to trade union activity as such. Nonetheless as long ago as the
Alien Restriction Act of 1919 it was made a criminal offence for a
non-British citizen to ?promote or attempt to promote industrial unrest
in any industry in which he has not been bona fide engaged for at least
two years?. Conviction of such an offence could lead to a recommendation
of deportation by the court. This provision is now another piece of the
forgotten and hidden history of immigration control. It was aimed at
both trade unionists and Communists and was enacted in the middle of the
anti-communist hysteria following the Russian revolution. Once again
Jewish workers were its main and intended victims. It was successful in
weakening trade union organisation.

On the one hand there were actual deportations of trade union militants.
The Stepney Trades Council Annual Report for 1919/1 920 records that:
?The government policy to crush Trades Union and Labour organisations of
the alien population by means of the Alien Restriction Order and the
action of the government in arresting and deporting Trade Union
officials where no case can be made, has been a matter of grave concern
to this Council. The organisation of alien workers has not been an easy
task and the position of every trade unionist was threatened by the
government policy which made it a criminal offence for an alien to take
part in the industrial movement?.

On the other hand the very existence of this legislation served to
intimidate some Jewish workers from trade union activity. In a
parliamentary debate of October 22nd 1919 Colonel Wedgewood, an
opponent of this law, said: ?I understand that there are numerous
officials of Jewish trade unions in the East End, most of which unions
are affiliated with the local trade and labour councils, and the
officials are already resigning from their posts as secretaries and
from the trade and labour councils because they are afraid that, by
being on the trades and labour councils, they may involve themselves on
a charge of promoting or attempting to promote industrial unrest?.


Trade union activists today
___________________________

This power to prosecute and deport for promoting industrial unrest is
still law. It has never been repealed, though it apparently has not been
used since the 1920s. However under the 1971 immigration Act the Home
Secretary can initiate deportation procedures on so-called ?conducive to
public good? grounds. This provision can potentially be used against
trade union militants and on at least one occasion has been so used.

- - - - - - - - -
In 1974 Franco Caprino, an Italian worker in the catering industry, was
arrested and threatened with deportation on the grounds that his
presence in the UK was not conducive to the public good. He had been
active in unionising migrant workers in the catering trade ?
particularly those coming from the underdeveloped areas of Southern
Europe. A successful campaign against deportation was fought by the
Franco Caprino Support Committee and with the support of Franco?s union,
the Transport and General Workers Union.
- - - - - - - - -

Unionise the undocumented
? rethink the unionisation of immigration officials!
____________________________________________________


Unity is strength. At the moment many undocumented workers are isolated,
atom ised and vulnerable ? vulnerable to deportation as well as
exploitation by rogue employers. This vulnerability could be broken down
through trade union organisation. Trade unions should embark on a
deliberate policy of recruitment of the undocumented. This must include
the active recruitment of those without immigration status. Unions
should cooperate between themselves in this membership drive and not
enter into competition for recruits ? a
competition which could further divide undocumented workers. And those
workers without full or any immigration status must be given full union
membership not (as in some unions) just associate or second class
membership. Unions must reject in every sphere the whole divisive
distinction between ?legal? and ?illegal?. They must fight for the
regularisation of status of all they recruit ? as part of a policy of
support for everyone, union members or not, under threat of deportation
and as part of a policy of opposition to controls in principle.

The flip side to this is the present unionisation of immigration
officers. Many immigration officers are in their own scab outfit, the
Immigration Service Union, which is not affiliated to the TUC. The ISU
is essentially an in-house union which operates as a wing of the Home
Office itself ? as such it is an enemy of the undocumented and should be
treated as such.

However other officers are organised in the immigration branch of PCSU
?the Public and Commercial Service Union. PCSU is a legitimate, mass
union affiliated to the TUC. This obviously raises a fundamental
question of principle ? should a union be organising people whose
function is to harass, detain and deport the undocumented? There could
arise, there may have arisen, a situation where one PCSU member is
deporting another PCSU member. The PCSU normalizes immigration controls
by regarding workers within the immigration service as ?ordinary?
employees undertaking ordinary employment. This is made clear in the
November 2003 edition of the union?s Journal. The General Secretary,
whilst condemning ?prejudice? against asylum-seekers, compliments union
members in the immigration service as undertaking a ?professional job?
to which the PCSU ?has given and will continue to give 100% support?.
The December 2005 issue of its journal attacked those clauses in the
then Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Bill which allow private
companies to search vehicles at sea and air ports for people without the
?correct? immigration documents. However this was not based on any
principled objection to controls. It was not based on solidarity with
the undocumented. Rather it was based on the protection of members? jobs
? members who ?prevent illegal people and materials entering the country
by searching vehicles quickly and professionally?.

The PCSU Immigration Staff Branch does not view its main, or any
purpose, as representing a challenge to controls. Its main concerns are
the everyday conditions of its members. In expressing these concerns,
the PCSU inevitably legitimizes the politically illegitimate. In its
written evidence to the 2002 House of Commons Home Affairs Committee
report on Asylum Removals, it expresses ?discontent with the system for
removing failed asylum-seekers?, but it does this not from the
perspective of the refugee but rather ?on the basis of improving the
working conditions of members of the union?. It offers no principled
objection to controls or their implementation; rather it criticizes the
Home Office?s ?business plan? and ?the setting of unrealistic targets?.
The latter term refers to the forced and potentially violent removal of
human beings. In November 2005 the PCSU virtually acted as a scab outfit
in respect to a protest in Glasgow by asylum-seekers and their
supporters who protested outside and inside NASS offices in Glasgow. The
union condemned this as being antagonistic to the ?health and safety? of
its members. There was no consideration given to the health and safety
of those undocumented who exist without welfare and in a state of
destitution before facing detention and deportation. There was no
consideration given to joint actions of solidarity with the asylum
seekers.

What position should be taken on this? What should be done? In many ways
the problem here is similar to the problem of unionisation of workers in
industries which progressive wings of the labour movement opposes ? such
as arms manufacture. Without immigration controls the work of
immigration officers would not exist. There is an obvious conflict here
between job security and fighting racism. However unions which claim
opposition to racism cannot simply ignore this contradiction. One way
forward would be to refuse to unionise, and to refuse to give labour
movement recognition to the unionisation of, immigration officers and
all other workers within the Immigration and Nationality Directorate of
the Home Office. This would be one possible principled position. The
problem however is that because of internal controls and in particular
the link between immigration status and welfare entitlement then it
could be said ?we are all immigration officers now?. Members of other
unions ? for example UNISON, the local government union - are at present
continually collusive with controls.

Indeed it is a measure of the far-reaching nature of controls that
non-unionisation of those enforcing them directly or indirectly would
lead to a decimation of trade union membership.

So another suggested better way forward is that all members of all
unions (such is the expansive nature of controls) should be recruited on
the basis that their union is in support of non co-operation with all
aspects of control and will guarantee to provide full union defence,
legal and political, of all members victimised for non co-operation. Of
course from the reality of today?s politics this might seem fantastic ?
but today?s trade union politics is that there can be ?fair? controls
and this is what is really fantastic.


For full civic rights!
For the right to vote!
______________________


The racism of internal control goes beyond the factory floor. It goes
beyond linking welfare entitlements to immigration status. It extends
into the most fundamental of democratic rights ? the right to vote. The
basic rule is that only people with a British (or Irish) nationality
have the right to vote in the UK ? for parliamentary, local and European
elections. Commonwealth citizens have the right to vote but can only
vote in local elections if they have permanent stay here. European Union
citizens are permitted to vote only in local and European elections.
Everyone else is voteless. So even if voting could change matters, the
undocumented are undemocratically excluded from the system. They share
this exclusion with convicted prisoners and certain people judged
mentally unfit ? all constitute an unholy trinity in the eyes of the
British state.


:: Part three
   A proposed model trade union
   resolution and action programme
   against controls

(A) This trade union organisation;

(1) NOTES the existence of immigration control legislation which deports
individuals, divides families and prevents the entry of asylum-seekers.

(2) CONDEMNS this legislation as racist.

(3) CONSIDERS all immigration controls to be intrinsically and
inevitably racist. Immigration laws were introduced in this country in
1905 in order to keep out. Jewish refugees from Eastern Europe. These
laws were then used to exclude the victims of Nazism. In the second half
of the century controls targeted black people. They now target all the
undocumented ? in particular, but not only, migrants (those coming to
work), immigrants (those coming for settlement) and refugees.

(4) OBSERVES immigration law is unique. It is a result of fascistic
agitation. The 1905 Act was the result of activity by the proto-fascist
British Brothers League. The post-war legislation followed the 1958
Notting Hill ?race riots? provoked by Oswald Mosley?s fascists.
?Non-racist? or ?fair? immigration controls are impossible.

(5) REGARDS immigration controls as divisive of trade union and labour
organisation by splitting workers into ?legal? and ?illegal? and
?British? and ?foreign?

(6) WELCOMES the self-organisation of all those threatened by
immigration controls

(7) VIEWS employer sanctions as the most divisive form of immigration
control. They turn the bosses into agents of immigration control in the
workplace ? by criminalising the employment of undocumented labour.

(8) OPPOSES the linking of entitlements (including the right to vote) to
immigration status along with the establishment of the National Asylum
Support Service and its administering of a new
poor law for asylum seekers. The latter exists outside the welfare
state with the help of local authorities which collaborate with the
forced dispersal scheme.

(9) IS CONCERNED trade unionists are used to enforce both immigration
controls and internal immigration controls ? e.g. in hospitals, benefit
agencies and local authority housing departments where entitlements are
linked to immigration status.

(10) IS APPALLED BY the forced trafficking of human being. We support
the right of people to freely come to the UK by any means necessary and
we support the right to remain of those trafficked.

(B) This trade union organisation

RESOLVES to contest all immigration controls and internal controls and
to
(1) Actively embark on a recruitment drive of all workers irrespective
of their immigration status

(2) Fight for the right to work and for equality of conditions and pay
at not below minimum wage levels for all workers irrespective of
immigration status ? and an end to both compulsory labour and also to
all links between employment opportunity and nationality status.

(3) Support all members or non-members threatened by immigration
controls or refused welfare entitlements because of their immigration
status.

(4) Defend all members who refuse to implement immigration or internal
controls.

(5) Encourage the self-organisation of those threatened by controls

(6) Support all campaigns against deportation or detention and
fight for the right to come & stay (regularisation) of everyone.

(7) Support campaigns for the restoration of entitlements for all
irrespective of status.

(8) Oppose employer sanctions.

(9) Oppose any attempt by the Immigration Service to enter the
workplace in order to arrest, detain and deport workers.

(10) Campaign for the right to vote in all elections for everyone
living in the UK irrespective of immigration status

CALLS UPON the TUC and this union regionally/nationally to adopt the
above.


Campaigns against deportations, detentions, lack of adequate or any
welfare ? these are now part of the everyday struggles of refugees and
all others threatened by immigration controls. As a result the issue of
immigration control is now a live one within the trade union and wider
labour movement.

Support for anti-deportation campaigns and passing resolutions against
aspects of control are now correctly seen as legitimate trade union
activity. Some unions, such as NAFTHE (teachers in higher education),
have adopted policies which are in effect against controls in principle.

The aims of the present pamphlet are four-fold. First to show that there
cannot be such an animal as fair or just, or benign or reasonable or
non-racist controls. All controls are by their nature oppressive and
racist. Second it is to show that immigration controls effect trade
unions and trade unionists in the workplace. There are a whole series of
issues which hitherto have largely gone unaddressed by both campaigners
against controls and by trade unions but which are detrimental to all
workers. Trade union resolutions and activities need to get beyond
generalities and address these. Third we highlight examples of good
trade union practice. Fourth we present a model trade union resolution.
Altogether this amounts to a trade union programme of opposition to
controls.

No One Is Illegal is an organisation of people who have been fighting
immigration controls for many years. By definition immigration controls
are global and we have links internationally with other organisations of
the undocumented. We thought it important, and continue to think it
important, to highlight why controls need to be opposed in their
totality. With this aim we have already produced a Manifesto against
controls. This and our other literature and activity can be found on our
web site.

Contact details;
NOII
c/o Bolton Socialist Club, 16, Wood Street, Bolton, BL1 1DY Web:
http://www.noii.org.uk
Email: info at noii.org.uk

This trade union programme is being distributed without charge (or by
voluntary donation). However No One Is Illegal is only able to produce
material because of the donations we receive. If you or your
organisation wish to make a donation please send a cheque payable to ?No
One Is Illegal? to the address below.
This pamphlet has been sponsored by various trade union bodies. We
welcome further sponsorship for our activities ? in particular for a
planned conference for trade unionists on the issues raised in the
pamphlet.
Where possible we would be happy to provide a speaker for your branch.
Our web site is www.noii.org.uk. Our email is info at noii.org.uk Our
address is No One Is Illegal c/o Bolton Socialist Club, 16 Wood St,
Bolton BL1 1 DY.
Cover photograph is by Jaggi Singh. It is taken from the
No One Is Illegal/World Without Borders June 2005 march in Canada from
Montreal to Ottawa
Pamphlet published May Day 2006


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>>>> 'TUFR, May 1 boycott, One step forward ? two steps back'

:: May 1 immigrant boycott aims to "close" U.S. cities

Pro-immigration activists say a national boycott and marches planned for
May 1 will flood America's streets with millions of Latinos to demand
amnesty for illegal immigrants and shake the ground under Congress as it
debates reform.

Such a massive turnout could make for the largest protests since the
civil rights era of the 1960s, though not all Latinos were comfortable
with such militancy, fearing a backlash in Middle America.

"There will be 2 to 3 million people hitting the streets in Los Angeles
alone. We're going to close down Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, Tucson,
Phoenix, Fresno," said Jorge Rodriguez, a union official who helped
organise earlier rallies credited with rattling Congress as it weighs
the issue.

More
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyid=2006-04-28T050016Z_01_N26224260_RTRUKOC_0_UK-USA-IMMIGRATION.xml

:: Australia: One step forward ? two steps back

Amnesty International calls for an immediate halt to proposed
legislation to punish asylum seekers arriving by boat
http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGASA120022006

:: May Day March in Manchester

sea of red flags will flutter to the sound of Samba drums in the
streets of Manchester on Monday as trade unions and other labour
organisations celebrate international workers' day.

To ensure that this year's May Day has a truly global feel, the march
and rally are being organised by TUFR (Trades Unions for Refugees).
Asylum seekers, refugees and their supporters will be marching alongside
trade unionists from Manchester and other North West towns and cities.

The march, which is supported by Manchester Trades Union Council, starts
at 12 noon from All Saints' Park in Oxford Road and will be led by 10
drummers from the Rhythms of Resistance Samba Band.

It will finish with a rally in Albert Square where speakers  include the
Lord Mayor of Manchester, Councillor Azfal Khan, trades unionists, and
organisations representing refugees and asylum seekers.

Jeremy Dear, General Secretary of the National Union of Journalists, and
Matt Wrack, General Secretary of the Fire Brigades' Union, are both
backing the march and rally and will send messages of support.

Bob Pounder, secretary of Trades Unions for Refugees and a member of the
National Union of Journalists, says:

'May Day is international workers' day and we thought it was important
to include those workers who have been forced to flee their own
countries and seek asylum in Britain.  We wanted to show solidarity with
them.  

'Trades Unions for Refugees has been set up by workers in Manchester and
we hope it will eventually grow into a strong national organisation.'

For more information, please ring

Bob Pounder  078375 58036


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From shiar at riseup.net  Wed May 10 16:09:37 2006
From: shiar at riseup.net (Shiar)
Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 09:09:37 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [noborders-brum] [Fwd: notes from no borders gathering in march]
Message-ID: <1202.shiar.1147277377.squirrel@mail.riseup.net>


Hi all,

here are finally the notes made at the no borders gathering on 11th/12th
march.  sorry they are so late, I only received the notes from one of the
workshops last week and another is still missing.  obviously the workshop
about the day of action in april is a bit out of date, but the rest are
still useful.

The notes that are still missing are from the workshop on detainee
support/visiting so if anyone else took notes from this it would be good to
have them.

cheers
sara.



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From noidea at riseup.net  Fri May 12 00:43:44 2006
From: noidea at riseup.net (noidea at riseup.net)
Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 17:43:44 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [noborders-brum] 20th May Supporto Legale benefit gig
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Hi all,

Forwrd to anyone u can think of....

FUNDRAISER FOR GENOA DEFENCE FUND
UK tour - see
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/birmingham/2006/05/340036.html
flyer to follow

Sat 20th may 06
The Spotted Dog, 104 Alcester Street, Digbeth.
doors open 7pm, ?2/conc. before 10, ?4/conc. after 10.

8pm the  Film "Legitimate Defense" documents the latest legal action
against police violence arising from the 2001 demonstrations against the
G8.
introduced by two members of Supporto Legale (over from Italy) plus
discussion. https://supportolegale.org

Plus
from 10
Live Bands and local DJs  inc:
eastfield - urban punk; the heels - brum ska
Skinny; dodgygreg
+ guests

(V) Food available




From chris_strafford at hotmail.com  Fri May 12 09:59:58 2006
From: chris_strafford at hotmail.com (Chris Strafford)
Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 09:59:58 +0000
Subject: [noborders-brum] What Is Solfed? Meeting tonight (12/05)
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From shiar at riseup.net  Mon May 15 02:26:59 2006
From: shiar at riseup.net (Shiar)
Date: Sun, 14 May 2006 19:26:59 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [noborders-brum] Minutes of Birmingham NoBorders meeting - 11.5.2006
Message-ID: <1255.shiar.1147660019.squirrel@mail.riseup.net>


Minutes of Birmingham NoBorders meeting - 11.5.2006


1. Solihull demo on 26th May

Following last month?s demo
(http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/birmingham/2006/04/339083.html),
it was proposed to make it a regular event, on the last Friday of every
month. Birmingham Anti-Racist Campaign (ARC), who had organised a similar
demo last November (http://www.asirt.org.uk/news/iraqis2.htm), have
expressed their willingness to be onboard.

Shiar is to do a new leaflet, similar to the one we had last time. Nellie
have arranged to put it up in various places such as the Refugee Council,
hostels etc. Alex is gonna do some placards with slogans like: ?asylum
rights are human rights?, ?Stop the destitution of asylum seekers?,
?Defiance not compliance? etc. Would be nice also to have some chalk.
People are encouraged to bring whistles, pots, pans and any noise-making
stuff. Shouldn?t also forget to bring some sticky tape or anything to hold
the banners in place.

Last demo had a focus point (the hunger strike), so it would be good to
have something like that each time. For this one, we can still read out
some updates on the situation in Colnbrook, but it was agreed that the
main theme would be non-compliance.

For future demos, we can have yellow shirts (like those worn by
immigration officers) and do some creative stuff there. Also to widen the
network of participants, especially uni students.

2. Vouchers

As you probably already know, asylum seekers on Section 4 support get
vouchers instead of cash. These are only valid in designated chains and no
change is given. A good way of helping them overcome this demeaning and
discriminatory scheme is to exchange vouchers for cash with ?normal
people?. We?ve already been doing that with a few asylum seekers, but we
need more people willing to take vouchers.

Last Saturday a ?50 worth of vouchers was exchanged at the Food not Bombs.
That was really good, but we need to keep that up. A good way of doing
that is to get asylum seekers with vouchers to come down themselves and
interact with people. We also need a leaflet (Shiar to do that over the
weekend). There?s gonna be a feature up on Indymedia about this soon.

3. Refugee week

Which is gonna be soon, in June. Although a good opportunity for refugees
and asylum seekers to reach out and make their voices heard, there are a
lot of issues and problems surrounding it. For example, it?s partly funded
by the Angel group, which?s one of UK?s biggest asylum housing providers
known for evicting people, bad conditions etc; any serious political stuff
is suppressed or compromised etc. etc. So, it would be good to do some
positive stuff in order to politicise it more and highlight the important
issues. Some of the suggestions were:
- Write a critique of the Refugee Week. A proposed title was: ?Smile for
the week and to hell with you for the rest of the year?;
- Do a leaflet to be distributed during the week;
- Write a letter to Celebrating Sanctuary (who orgnaise the event) about
the Angel funding (Alex to do this next week).

There is also gonna be the Refugee Sleep-out, organised by ARC. We, as
NoBorders, could do some screenings (which?s what Indymedia did last year)
? apart from participating, of course ;-)

4. Magical Mistry Tour

We?re gonna do a ?tour? of the border regime during the week. It has been
done before in Glasgow, Manchester, Sheffield and elsewhere, and has
proven very successful, as an action, in many respects
(http://makebordershistory.org/tour.php). Some of the ?tourist
attractions? on the list are: the Council, the Refugee Council, British
Airways, Job Centre, Registry Office, Tesco, Labour Club etc. A complete
list will be posted soon. We need to do a map/leaflet.

5. Fundraiser:

Finally :-) we?ve agreed to do one on Friday, 30 June (at the end of the
Refugee Week that is), under the slogan ?Party Without Borders?. We still
need to sort out the venue (Skate Park? Squat?) and do some flyers.



-- 
Shiar




From shiar at riseup.net  Mon May 15 07:16:39 2006
From: shiar at riseup.net (Shiar)
Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 00:16:39 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [noborders-brum] Minutes of Birmingham NoBorders meeting -
 11.5.2006
In-Reply-To: <1255.shiar.1147660019.squirrel@mail.riseup.net>
References: <1255.shiar.1147660019.squirrel@mail.riseup.net>
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I know we've agreed that the main theme this time would be non-compliance,
but i was just thinking that perhaps it should be the weekly reporting.
Recently they've changed the rules so that all asylum seekers now, as far
as I know, have to travel every week to Solihul to sign on. It used to be
every month. Of course no one is paid for travel expnses. So, apart from
the humiliation and hardship that the this reporting embodies, it further
contributes to the systematic impoverishment of asylum seekers.

I think this is more urgent now, as a demand, than non-compliance. What do
other people?

-- 
Shiar

from the minutes:
> Last demo had a focus point (the hunger strike), so it would be good to
> have something like that each time. For this one, we can still read out
> some updates on the situation in Colnbrook, but it was agreed that the
> main theme would be non-compliance.






From shiar at riseup.net  Mon May 15 08:30:25 2006
From: shiar at riseup.net (Shiar)
Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 01:30:25 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [noborders-brum] demo leaflet
Message-ID: <1270.shiar.1147681825.squirrel@mail.riseup.net>


Attached is a leaflet for the Solihull demo. If anyone has access to a
printer, please print as many as you can (size A4).

Cheers,

-- 
Shiar
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From noidea at riseup.net  Thu May 18 23:25:37 2006
From: noidea at riseup.net (noidea at riseup.net)
Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 16:25:37 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [noborders-brum] Reminder Sat - Supporto Legale Benefit gig
Message-ID: <2876.noidea.1147994737.squirrel@mail.riseup.net>

A reminder of the forthcoming birmingham date on the ''supporto legale''
UK tour. Please get there, if u can,  for the "political bit" starting at
8, i'm sure it will be informative, interesting and inspiring. The members
of Supporto Legale have come over from Italy specially for this tour. They
have already been badly let down in London, no-one turned up to open up
the venue...

see  http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2006/05/340036.html

Sat 20th may 06
The Spotted Dog, 104 Alcester Street, Digbeth.
 the legal support team - 'supporto legale' will be doing a benifit / info
evening at the spotted dog - digbeth. Doors will open at 7pm, annd events
will kick off with a series of short films. This will be followed at
around 8 with film and discussion about the trials that are still
continuing to this day.

Support and assistance for the Genoa Segreteria Legale, the Cosenza trial
and events in Naples in 2001 is still going on.

>From 10, Live Bands appearing will include:
Eastfield - urban p(U)nk
The heels - bhaM ska back

& DJs inc:

Skinny
Dodgygreg
and special guest BOB

Admission is ?2/c*. before 10, and ?4/c*. after, plus donations please!

*Asylum seekers.homeless welcome.
Genova Digbeth





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From: frank.corrigan at asylumpolicy.info (asylumpolicy.info)
Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 10:19:04 +0200
Subject: [noborders-brum] 207 items - weekly digest up to 21/05/06
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>>>>   207 items - weekly digest up to 21/05/06


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[A] 'sickness at the heart'
     21 May 06 - 67 items

[B] 'Soft targets, Hundreds, consigned to certain death'
     19 May 06 - 55 items

[C] 'things start to get ugly, Can Human Rights Survive?'
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03: Europe
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05: America's Great Wall
06: Observatory on CIA rendition
05: Calls for Guantanamo closure
07: Destroying Minds  At Public Expense
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Lead: - 'sickness at the heart'

Official 'targeted asylum seeker'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/5001324.stm

Revealed: 'sex-for-asylum' scandal at immigration HQ
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/politics/story/0,,1779772,00.html

Dawute: 'I'm going to make love to you'
During the course of a 90-minute meeting with James Dawute, a chief
immigration officer with the IND based at Lunar House in Croydon, Tanya
was wearing a concealed microphone and hidden camera. The tape is in
parts inaudible and the picture is sometimes obscured.
Read transcript:
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/politics/story/0,,1779783,00.html

'Sex for asylum' video clip
Watch a clip of chief immigration officer James Dawute's meeting with an
18-year-old asylum seeker. (1:20)
http://download.guardian.co.uk/sys-video/Observer/video/2006/05/20/asylum.wmv

A sickness at the heart of our immigration service
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,,1779858,00.html

Home Office is lost in scribble
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-2190152,00.html

01: UK

21 May 06

Making a model British citizen
How do we weld together our disparate nation? Try ID cards and cut back
welfare for immigrants
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,176-2189519,00.html

The fantasy is over, we must partition Iraq and get out now
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,176-2189971,00.html

Nurse exodus leaves Kenya in crisis
Poor pay and lack of jobs are forcing workers to abandon their country's
health service to seek work in the UK.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,1779773,00.html

Producers urge unions to assist socialist hero film
http://www.sundayherald.com/55783

Army officers set up union to vent war anger
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,176-2190144,00.html

Police give illegals an easy escape
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-2190145,00.html

Forget about targets - and decide what really matters
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,,1779596,00.html

20 May 06

Cleaners 'had Visas'
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=17106268%26method=full%26siteid=94762%26headline=cleaners%2d%2dhad%2dvisas%2d%2d-name_page.html

Reid 'misled public over illegal immigrants'
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article548995.ece

Amnesty call over illegal workers
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/5000678.stm

Asyslum Seekers Seeking Justice not Hand-Outs
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2006/05/340992.html

Home Office migrants row deepens
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4999610.stm

Exit route for allies after new Iraq deal
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2188863,00.html

British first for Anne Frank photos
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,175-2188487,00.html

'Torture threat' to cleric Qatada
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4999594.stm

We have mutated into a surveillance society - and must share the blame
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1779270,00.html

New law could hand out life sentences for Iraq deserters
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article548953.ece

19 May 06

I can't face a life without my family
http://icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100regionalnews/tm_objectid=17103884%26method=full%26siteid=50061%26headline=i%2dcan%2dt%2dface%2da%2dlife%2dwithout%2dmy%2dfamily-name_page.html

Moderator slams raids on asylum seekers
http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=745482006

Home Office inquiry into cleaners
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4999610.stm

Jobs boost at immigration centre
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/4998556.stm

02: World

Human Rights Council: No More Business as Usual
http://hrw.org/backgrounder/un/un0506/

JRS refugee news bulletin from around the world
  English (n. 193)
http://www.jesref.org/dispatch/index.php?lang=en&sid=530

African boat people, a tourists' must-see
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-2189775,00.html

UN official meets Burma's Suu Kyi
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/5000306.stm

Afghanistan gripped by worst fighting since 2001
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/article549507.ece

Burundi: Free Expression Under Threat
http://hrw.org/english/docs/2006/05/19/burund13413.htm

Chile: Don?t Let Fujimori Flee From Justice
http://hrw.org/english/docs/2006/05/19/chile13421.htm

Colombia power grid attacked
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/5001442.stm

Iraqi parliament approves Cabinet
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/5000016.stm

Iraq's hidden war
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,1779414,00.html

Iraq: Ethnic cleansing takes hold in Iraq
Across central Iraq, there is an exodus of people fleeing for their
lives as sectarian assassins and death squads hunt them down
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article548945.ece

Iraq: New dawn for Iraq marked by bloodshed
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,1779779,00.html

Ireland: Afghan Asylum-Seekers Threaten Suicide
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-5833117,00.html

Ireland; Church deal falters in asylum crisis
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,1779796,00.html

Irish police surround Afghans in cathedral
http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article548923.ece

Irish police end Afghans' protest
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/5000202.stm

Israel/Occupied Territories: Assassination attempt ignites Gaza
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,1779718,00.html

Montenegrins look set to choose independence from Serbia to advance
their EU membership hopes
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,175-2188517,00.html

Netherlands: Secrets and lies that doomed a radical liberal
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,1779723,00.html

Senegal: U.N. Calls for Trial of Ex-Chad Dictator
http://hrw.org/english/docs/2006/05/19/senega13415.htm

Sierra Leone: March for women's access to justice
http://news.amnesty.org/index/ENGAFR510072006

Sudan: Release Darfur Rights Defender
http://hrw.org/english/docs/2006/05/19/sudan13420.htm

Sri Lanka refugees feared drowned
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/5000726.stm

Syria: Free Activists Detained Over Petition
http://hrw.org/english/docs/2006/05/20/syria13425.htm

Turkish PM criticises army chief
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/5000990.stm

Ugandan Baptists prepare radical refugee rescue plan
http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/content/news_syndication/article_060519uganda.shtml

US plan for Mexican barrier sparks neighbours' anger
http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=745042006

US agents shoot driver on border
http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=748992006

US: At last, America has an official language (and yes, it's English)
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article548909.ece

US: Quakers condemn Bush hard-line immigration stance
http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/content/news_syndication/article_060519afsc.shtml


03: Europe

EU outlaws Tigers as terrorists
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,175-2188529,00.html


04: Events

7.00-9.30 pm Tuesday 23rd May 2006
Destroying Minds  At Public Expense

Public meeting  7.00-9.30 pm Tuesday 23rd May 2006
The Assembly Room, Town Hall, St Aldates, Oxford.


There is now overwhelming evidence that detention inherently damages
mental health - even of people who were previously in robust mental
health.
Organised by the Campaign to Close Campsfield: Phone: 01865 726804 or
01865 558145; Email: info at closecampsfield.org.uk;

http:// www.closecampsfield.org.uk

05: America's Great Wall

Panic builds up behind America's Great Wall
Call it the Great Wall of America. Last Wednesday, the Senate voted to
add 370 miles of it to the US-Mexico border, together with another 500
miles of vehicle barriers. The vote wasn?t close: the wall passed by 83
votes to 16.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,176-2189510,00.html


06: Observatory on CIA rendition

Statewatch launches a new "Observatory" on CIA "rendition"
http://www.statewatch.org/rendition/rendition.html


06: Calls for Guantanamo closure

A prisoner uprising at Guantanamo was reported by US military as the UN
watchdog on torture called for its closure
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2188705,00.html

Guantanamo guards attacked
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4998928.stm

Breaking point: Inside story of the Guantanamo uprising
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article549504.ece

U.N. Torture Committee Critical of U.S.
http://hrw.org/english/docs/2006/05/19/usdom13418.htm

USA: Guant?namo reports worrying
http://news.amnesty.org/index/ENGAMR510802006


07: Destroying Minds  At Public Expense

Public meeting  7.00-9.30 pm Tuesday 23rd May 2006
The Assembly Room, Town Hall, St Aldates, Oxford.


There is now overwhelming evidence that detention inherently damages
mental health - even of people who were previously in robust mental
health.
Organised by the Campaign to Close Campsfield: Phone: 01865 726804 or
01865 558145; Email: info at closecampsfield.org.uk;

http:// www.closecampsfield.org.uk


08: France: councillors vow to "hide" pupils threatened with deportation

Campaigners defy Sarkozy plan
French parents and councillors vow to "hide" pupils threatened with
deportation
http://www.guardian.co.uk/france/story/0,,1779427,00.html


[B] 'Soft targets, Hundreds, consigned to certain death'
     19 May 06 - 55 items

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Lead: - 'Soft targets, Hundreds, consigned to certain death'

Immigration: Mother consigned to certain death by harsh new rules
A young mother fell ill and died on a visit to Britain - an innocent
victim of the hysteria over so-called health tourism
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article485917.ece

'Soft targets' picked on for deportation, say refugee campaigners
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article485919.ece

Hundreds of Aids sufferers face deportation
It is inhumane to deport somebody to certain death.
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article548098.ece

01: UK

19 May 06

Britain's human rights record attacked in EU report
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article548097.ece
+
MEPs evaluate EU actions on human rights in the world
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/expert/infopress_page/015-8235-138-05-20-902-20060512IPR08070-18-05-2006-2006-true/default_en.htm

Not too round, not too precise: that's why 11,000 is a magic number
Official statistics for immigration and affordable homes are meaningless
and merely serve as comfort blankets.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1778540,00.html

Pakistan 'sheltering Taliban'
British colonel's outburst follows multiple terror attacks in
Afghanistan.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/afghanistan/story/0,,1778443,00.html

Probe after immigrant cleaners held
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Politics/homeaffairs/story/0,,1778728,00.html

Offer amnesty to illegal immigrants
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?menuId=1588&menuItemId=-1&view=DISPLAYCONTENT&grid=P8&targetRule=0#head5

We have no reason to stay in Basra and ought to pull out
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1778541,00.html

Israel detains British aid worker held at checkpoint
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,,1778669,00.html

Loach sees Irish civil war drama as lesson on Iraq
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,174-2187189,00.html


18 May 06

Self-harm and self-harm prevention in detention centres
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/about-us/freedom-of-information/released-information/3163-self-harm-detention-centre?view=Html

Repeal of Section 9 could increase use of asylum detention
http://www.communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2006/05/18/54066/Repeal+of+Section+9+could+increase+use+of+asylum+detention.html

Asylum seeker injured in jump from second floor
http://www.guardian.co.uk/immigration/story/0,,1777255,00.html

New hope for pastor's bid to stay in UK
http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/news/5052392.shtml

Department of Sin in a spin
http://www.guardian.co.uk/immigration/story/0,,1777419,00.html

Gay Asylum ? a pressing issue
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/view.php?id=1515

In memory of Manuel Bravo
http://www.irr.org.uk/2006/may/ha000021.html
+
The Manuel Bravo Project
Legal Advocacy for People Seeking Asylum
http://www.manuelbravo.org.uk/
+
Project Proposal: Manuel Bravo Project
(Word doc)
http://www.manuelbravo.org.uk/Manuel%20Bravo%20Project%20Proposal%20May%202006.doc

We'll send prisoners back to 'unsafe' countries, says Blair
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2185727,00.html

10 years to remove illegal immigrants, says minister
http://society.guardian.co.uk/asylumseekers/story/0,,1777998,00.html

Labour fails to shake off 50 years of vulnerability on immigration
issues
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,17129-2185728,00.html

Big Brother immigration service is not the answer
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?menuId=1588&menuItemId=-1&view=DISPLAYCONTENT&grid=P8&targetRule=0#head4

Tory leader says Blair is 'in paralysis over illegal immigrants'
http://news.scotsman.com/politics.cfm?id=737712006

17 May 06

Asylum seeking children have difficulties accessing services
http://www.communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2006/05/17/54022/Asylum+seeking+children+have+difficulties+accessing.html

New immigration rules 'deleterious to patient care'
http://www.rcplondon.ac.uk/news/news.asp?PR_id=314

Political targeting of the Human Rights Act is the real danger to our
security
http://www.liberty-human-rights.org.uk/press/2006/targeting-human-rights-act-is-real-danger-to.shtml

Fears of our foreign docs
http://www.oldhamadvertiser.co.uk/news/s/213/213092_fears_of_our_foreign_docs.html?rss=yes

Stena denies 'cheap labour'
http://icnorthwales.icnetwork.co.uk/news/regionalnews/tm_objectid=17091327%26method=full%26siteid=50142%26headline=stena%2ddenies%2d%2dcheap%2dlabour%2d-name_page.html

Firms 'fuel illegal immigration'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4990626.stm

02: World

100 dead in Afghan attacks
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/0,,362455,00.html

Babies are booming export in the land of 5m orphans
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,174-2187461,00.html

Prodi condemns Iraq war
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,1778041,00.html

Annan warning over Iran 'crisis'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/iran/story/0,,1778020,00.html

Egyptian security forces beat up pro-reform protesters
http://www.guardian.co.uk/egypt/story/0,,1778426,00.html

France: MPs back French immigration bill
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4990962.stm

Israel/Occupied Territories: Israel should face sanctions
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,1778713,00.html

Israel/Occupied Territories:Family Reunification Ruling Is
Discriminatory
http://hrw.org/english/docs/2006/05/18/isrlpa13403.htm

Montenegro referendum Independence campaign confident of victory.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/serbia/article/0,,1778508,00.html

Nepal to strip King of his power
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,174-2187251,00.html

Russian police target far right
http://www.guardian.co.uk/russia/article/0,,1777120,00.html

Somalia: Is US using enemy to fight a proxy war?
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,174-2187524,00.html

Spain seeks EU help on migrants
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4993004.stm

Spain: Hundreds of refugees intercepted
http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/62313.html

Sweden: Uzbek Dissident?s Arrest Sign of Failed EU Policy
http://hrw.org/english/docs/2006/05/18/sweden13408.htm

Turkey: Thousands protest at murder of secular Turkish judge
http://www.guardian.co.uk/turkey/story/0,,1778448,00.html

US: Teen Accused of Sign Theft May Be Deported
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-5828458,00.html

US: Films on Guant?namo and Iraq face war of cuts
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,1777136,00.html

US poised to open talks on peace deal with North Korea
http://www.guardian.co.uk/korea/article/0,,1778432,00.html

US: An American idea shatters
The reawakening of a virulent nationalism is tearing apart Bush's
conservative coalition
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1777104,00.html


03: Europe

Voluntary return handbook
(PDF)
http://www.ecre.org/publications/ECRE%20Vol%20Ret%20Handbook%20051.pdf

?Social rights should be recognised as human rights? : Remarks by Thomas
Hammarberg, Commissioner for Human Rights, to the seminar to mark the
tenth anniversary of the Revised European Social Charter, Strasbourg
https://wcd.coe.int/ViewDoc.jsp?id=995347&BackColorInternet=99B5AD&BackColorIntranet=FABF45&BackColorLogged=FFC679


04: Events

20 May 2006
Conference of the Churches Refugee Network
http://www.irr.org.uk/2006/may/fq000023.html

Saturday 27th May 2006
HIV/AIDS Conference
11.00am to 5.00 PM
Come one, come ALL!
You are all invited to join us
French Speaking African General Council
Blackfriars Settlement
1-5 Rushworth Street    London  SE1 0RD
Link:
French Speaking African General Council
http://www.yourlondon.gov.uk/community/CVSD_FullDetails.jsp?catid=15&rowStart=301&id=15884

Saturday 10 June 2006
Scottish Detainee Visitors Fundraiser
Saturday 10 June 2006
Music from:
Scott MacDonald
Michael Simons
Craig Campbell
8-11pm
Doors open 7pm
St.Helen?s Hall, Langside Avenue, Glasgow
Tickets ?5 on the door
Refugees and asylum seekers free
http://www.sdv.org.uk


05: Britain's human rights record attacked in EU report

Britain's human rights record attacked in EU report
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article548097.ece

Political targeting of the Human Rights Act is the real danger to our
security
http://www.liberty-human-rights.org.uk/press/2006/targeting-human-rights-act-is-real-danger-to.shtml

Annual Report on Human Rights in the World 2005 and the European Union's
policy on the matter
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/file.jsp?id=5286032

MEPs evaluate EU actions on human rights in the world
The EU is a staunch advocate of human rights, inside and outside Europe.
But does it practice what it preaches? In a resolution evaluating the
annual EU report on human rights in the world in 2005, MEPs have a close
look at specific EU actions in the world and find room for improvement.
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/expert/infopress_page/015-8235-138-05-20-902-20060512IPR08070-18-05-2006-2006-true/default_en.htm




[C] 'things start to get ugly, Can Human Rights Survive?'
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Lead: - 'things start to get ugly, Can Human Rights Survive?'

Judgment day
Britain must leave the ECHR if no change can be agreed
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,542-2181955,00.html

Blair faces a tricky legal position
At a time when the government is desperately seeking "renewal", certain
ministers and their advisors may hope that attacking civil libertarians
will prove just how in touch and on the ball they are. But it is a
dangerous game. Promise what you legally can?t deliver, and people
eventually notice. And on a subject as volatile as asylum, that?s when
things start to get ugly.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,28009-2182742,00.html

Response to attacks on the Human Rights Act
http://www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/news/2006/may06/relea0506_3.htm

Human rights law 'could change'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4988756.stm

Ignorant opposition
The prime minister is undermining public confidence in the rule of law
and the judiciary.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1775566,00.html

Let's not allow the battle of a Biro and an octopus to ruin an inspiring
Act
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,22369-2181879,00.html

Human Rights Act under fire
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,171-2181778,00.html

Blair leads the attack on his own human rights laws
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,171-2182125,00.html

Human Rights Act will not be axed, says Falconer
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article484130.ece

PM calls for 'rebalancing' of civil liberties debate
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1775422,00.html

Can Human Rights Survive?
http://www.cambridge.org/uk/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521685524

Falconer defends Britain's commitment to human rights
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Society/crimeandpunishment/story/0,,1776540,00.html

Report: Human rights protection in Europe: the Fundamental Rights Agency
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200506/ldselect/ldeucom/155/15502.htm

01: UK

17 May 06

BMA fights discrimination against overseas doctors
http://www.bma.org.uk/ap.nsf/Content/PR-BMA+fights+discrimination+against+overseas+doctors+-+17+May+2006

Officals 'haven't faintest idea' of immigrant count
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2183874,00.html

'no Point' In Chasing Migrants
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=17089211%26method=full%26siteid=94762%26headline=%2dno%2dpoint%2d%2din%2dchasing%2dmigrants%2d-name_page.html

Critical acclaim
The opportunity to have your bright ideas and hard work in public
services recognised is now here
http://society.guardian.co.uk/publicservicesawards/story/0,,1776140,00.html

16 May 06

Under-fives are fingerprinted
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/f0ee558c-e478-11da-8ced-0000779e2340.html

BMA warns NHS trusts may be discriminating against foreign doctors
http://www.personneltoday.com/Articles/2006/05/16/35407/BMA+warns+NHS+trusts+may+be+discriminating+against+foreign.htm

MPs shocked by fresh immigration revelations
http://www.guardian.co.uk/immigration/story/0,,1776214,00.html

Simon Hughes supports gay refugee plight
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/view.php?id=1493

Exiled Journalist & Family Facing Deportation
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2006/05/340692.html

Medical Foundation makes headlines!
http://www.torturecare.org.uk/articles/news/806

Migrant work
Feeding facts into the immigration debate
http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/research/workinprogress/story/0,,1775426,00.html

EU states 'may offer reactor'
Britain, France and Germany discuss plans to offer Iran reactor in
exchange for halt to uranium enrichment.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/iran/story/0,,1776213,00.html

Reporting Sri Lanka
The pressures on the BBC 'to stop being so biased'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/4986748.stm

15 May 06

Award chance after pupils' refugees fight
http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/hi/news/5052170.html

Asylum toddlers get fingerprinted
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4773005.stm

Mansoor Hassan & Family Campaign
http://www.smartgroups.com/message/readmessage.cfm?gid=1256290&messageid=3673

Poles apart of charity boom
http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=724232006

Transcript: Extraordinary Rendition: complicity and its consequences
(PDF)
http://www.justice.org.uk/images/pdfs/PhilippeSands15May2006.pdf

Deported for Fare Dodging
http://www.voice-online.co.uk/content.php?show=9176

Gypsies and Irish Travellers inquiry report published
http://www.cre.gov.uk/gtinquiry

Rejected ally says Britain cut off aid like an old colonial master
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,170-2180961,00.html

Immigrant may have fallen from under lorry
http://www.portsmouthtoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?sectionid=455&articleid=1503405

Iraq: Two British troops killed at end of bloodiest week
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,170-2180931,00.html
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Return Of The Death Squads - Iraq's Hidden News
http://www.zmag.org/sustainers/content/2006-05/06pilger.cfm

Trust me, I'm a junior doctor: is asylum an excuse to ignore suffering?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/main.jhtml?xml=/health/2006/05/15/hjuniord15.xml&sSheet=/health/2006/05/15/ixhfeatures.html

Tory councillor switches to BNP over Cameron list
http://www.guardian.co.uk/guardianpolitics/story/0,,1775059,00.html

12 May 06

Sri Lankan Bishop Boycotts UK Over Visa Policy
http://www.christiantoday.com/news/south-asia/sri.lankan.bishop.boycotts.uk.over.visa.policy/335.htm

02: World

Bodies of African immigrants pile up around sunbathers
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/story.jsp?story=691269

Protracted refugee situations: Millions caught in limbo, with no
solutions in sight
http://www.un.org/events/tenstories_2006/story.asp?storyID=2600

Perceptions of the "Unpeople"
http://www.zmag.org/sustainers/content/2006-04/26chomsky.cfm

Where is the global outcry at this continuing cruelty?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1774765,00.html

Memorial planned for gay Holocaust victims
http://www.guardian.co.uk/gayrights/story/0,,1775806,00.html

When two poor countries reclaimed oilfields, why did just one spark
uproar?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1775561,00.html

Afghanistan?s New Legislature: Making Democracy Work
http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?l=1&id=4108

Australia: Child rape dossier may force U-turn on law for Aborigines
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,172-2184093,00.html

Brazil gripped by fear as gang riots spread
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article484995.ece

China: Mao casts long shadow over China
http://www.guardian.co.uk/china/story/0,,1775808,00.html

China: Blogger jailed for backing elections
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,172-2183839,00.html

China: Memorandum on ?re-education through labour?, former detainees and
experts available for interview
http://www.amnesty.org.uk/news/press/17002.shtml

China marks Cultural Revolution
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4984924.stm

Egypt finds democracy can wait
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldbriefing/story/0,,1775860,00.html

Egypt: Police Assault Demonstrators, Journalists
http://hrw.org/english/docs/2006/05/12/egypt13370.htm

India: Violence feared in Indian caste row
http://www.guardian.co.uk/india/story/0,,1776450,00.html

Iraq: Two British troops killed at end of bloodiest week
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,170-2180931,00.html

Iraq: Gays flee as religious militias sentence them all to death
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,172-2183948,00.html

Iraq: Sistani renounces fatwa on gays
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article485024.ece

Ireland: Archbishop questions sanctuary of asylum seekers at cathedral
http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/content/news_syndication/article_060516asylum.shtml

Israel/Occupied Territories: 'Racist' marriage law upheld by Israel
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article484122.ece

Rwanda: Hundreds Illegally Detained in Former Warehouse
http://hrw.org/english/docs/2006/05/12/rwanda13369.htm

Serbia cannot escape curse of Mladic
http://www.guardian.co.uk/yugo/article/0,,1776459,00.html

Spain will urge Africa to stem immigrant tide
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1775670,00.html

Sudan: Darfur rebels turn on each other
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sudan/story/0,,1776383,00.html

Thailand: 'They cut off his hands and feet and he bled to death'
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,170-2180762,00.html

US: 10,000 US troops to be sent to Mexican border
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1775671,00.html

US names all 759 Guantanamo Bay prisoners
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article485476.ece
+
Full list of Guantanamo detainees
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article485410.ece

United States to renew ties to Libya after more than 25 years
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/article485047.ece

Venezuela considers fighter jet deal with Iran
http://www.guardian.co.uk/venezuela/story/0,,1776219,00.html

West Papua?s forgotten asylum seekers
http://www.newint.org/features/west-papua-2006/index.html

03: Europe

EU entry requires more work from Balkan states
http://www.guardian.co.uk/eu/story/0,,1776205,00.html

5 May 2006

In this ECRAN weekly update you will find information on:

Council of the European Union
Declaration for Partnership for Security with EU neighbours; Draft
common manual for Immigration Liaison Officers online
European Council
EU-Africa migration conference to be held this autumn

European Commission
Niger not on Commissioner Frattini's safe country of origin list
proposal; European consular centres in third states to process asylum
applications; EU-Russia Readmission Treaty published
European Parliament
National and European Parliamentarians disagree on the implementation of
common immigration policy

ECRE
ECRE General Secretary calls for Europe to help strengthen refugee
protection in regions of origin
UNHCR: UNHCR raises concern over Danish amendments to immigration laws
MISCELLANEOUS: Amnesty stresses the importance of human rights
protection in EU-ACP dialogue on migration

Read in full: Word version
http://www.ecre.org/Update/Weekly%20Update%205%20May%202006.doc
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04: Events


05: US - Speech on Immigration

Mexico warns US over troops on border
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=731892006

President Bush Addresses the Nation on Immigration Reform
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/05/20060515-8.html

Immigration Quotes
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-5824296,00.html

Immigrant Rights
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=30&ItemID=10261

National Guard and Immigration: What Next
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-5826339,00.html

Immigration
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=30&ItemID=10267

Immigrant Movement
http://www.zmag.org/sustainers/content/2006-05/05kolhatkar.cfm

10,000 US troops to be sent to Mexican border
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1775671,00.html

Bush posts troops at Mexican border to appease Right
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,170-2180771,00.html

Senate Bypasses Security for Immigration
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,,-5826895,00.html


06: Defeating Racial Hatred pack

Defeating Organised Racial Hatred information pack
PDF
http://www.cre.gov.uk/downloads/Defeating_organised_racial_hatred.pdf

Safe Communities Initiative
http://www.cre.gov.uk/about/sci_index.html


07: Babies and Toddlers: trial of identity biometrics

Asylum toddlers get fingerprinted
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4773005.stm

A Home Office department is fingerprinting under-fives, and may include
babies, in a biometrics ID scheme. The trial ends the department?s
technological taboo on enrolling very young children in identity checks.
http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2006/05/16/215954/Toddlers+used+in+trial+of+identity+biometrics.htm


08: The age of the plural city: when we are all minorities

The number of plural cities - cities where no one ethnic group holds the
demographic majority - is increasing around the world. This emerging
issue for race relations is yet to receive due attention both
domestically in the UK and on the global stage, the Commission for
Racial Equality (CRE) alerts.
http://www.cre.gov.uk/Default.aspx.LocID-0hgnew0dq.RefLocID-0hg00900c008.Lang-EN.htm


09: Conderence report - An asylum policy and legislation update

Conderence report: Working with change, meeting the challenge: An asylum
policy and legislation update
http://www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/refugeecouncil/training/conferences.htm#policy


10: Report: Illegal Migrants - proposals for a common EU returns policy

Illegal Migrants: proposals for a common EU returns policy
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200506/ldselect/ldeucom/166/16602.htm


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Lead: - 'Hmm," I thought, sinister - certain certainty is certainly... '

The Afghan fiasco: why a certain certainty is certainly being missed
Hmm,? I thought. ?And what if some Jews had escaped from Auschwitz and
hijacked a plane and flown to England? And did we always return to the
USSR refugees who had seized the means of their transport in order to
escape?
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,175-2178119,00.html

What is (was) an Afghan jet doing at Stansted?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/theissues/article/0,,240884,00.html

Stanstead hijacking - when will the Government accept defeat?
http://www.ncadc.org.uk/newszine70/stanstead.html

Blair 'to amend human rights law'
"...plans to change the act were "sinister".
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4770231.stm

When will this abuse of human rights end?
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1774400,00.html

Afghan Decision: Government Sets Itself Above The Rule Of Law
"The government?s reaction to this has been to lash out at individual
judges, a reaction that has no place in a democratic society that
respects the rule of law.
(Word doc)
http://www.asylumpolicy.nfo/afghancases.doc

Human rights law 'may be changed'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4768259.stm

Basic freedoms are being lost in the human rights circus
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,176-2179499,00.html

Judge lifts Afghans' identity ban
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,175-2178062,00.html

Confusion in court ? it?s the messy matter of whose human rights you
want to guard today, m'lud
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,176-2179506,00.html

Leak reveals Blair attack on human rights law
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/politics/story/0,,1774399,00.html

Human Rights Act exposes government failings
This hostility to the Human Rights Act rests on the myth that it
empowers criminals at the expense of law-abiding citizens; in fact, it
protects citizens from abuse by the state.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,,1774416,00.html

Cameron threatens to scrap Human Rights Act
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article364647.ece

01: UK

14 May 06

Church of England damns Labour on asylum and poverty
The criticisms come in a leaked report called Faithful Cities, due
to be published on May 22. The document accuses the government of
trying to use deprivation as a way of deterring refugees
from seeking asylum status.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,176-2179592,00.html
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Church calls for joined-up approach to help victims of human trafficking
http://www.cofe.anglican.org/news/pr4206.html

Invasion by Poles hits 'lazy' Britain
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,176-2179440,00.html

Mental health crisis hits UK troops
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1774418,00.html

Should we apologise for the wrongs of the past?
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1774389,00.html

Japanese minister ignores slave labour claims by British PoWs
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,1774310,00.html

Think Jamaica is bad? Try Nigeria ... ' How Diane Abbott enraged a
community
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/politics/story/0,,1774634,00.html

13 May 06

Greek minister urged to quit over 'abduction' of Pakistani immigrants
The migrants claim that they were interrogated by Greek and British
agents over their links with Pakistanis in Britain.
http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article364615.ece

British troops tell of battle for downed helicopter
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,176-2179404,00.html

Blair is one of the bad guys in Russia?s new War and Peace
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,176-2179260,00.html

It's territory not religion, stupid
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,176-2179450,00.html

Wanted for genocide
http://www.guardian.co.uk/rwanda/story/0,,1773993,00.html

British spy who defied Gestapo brutality to the end
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,175-2177934,00.html

The Chagos islanders
Decades of boneheaded inhumanity and transatlantic subservience on the
part of the British government were exposed this week by a high court
decision in London.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,,1773915,00.html

Regulation of the press
A not so modest proposal
http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,,1773912,00.html


02: World

Growing network of arms brokers and transporters fuelling killings,
rape, and torture
http://news.amnesty.org/index/ENGPOL300132006

Without foreign chancelleries and Hollywood?s finest, can Darfur peace
deal succeed?
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/34136

Belgium: Immigrants told to pass language test
http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=720012006

China risks new row over bishop
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4769501.stm

France: Thousands Protest French Immigration Bill
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-5820525,00.html

Germany: Seven awards to German Stasi film
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4768055.stm

Indonesia villagers defy volcano
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4769489.stm

Iran rejects talks 'under threat'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4768865.stm

Iran: No threats and no Israel: Iran lays down terms ahead of nuclear
talks
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article447800.ece

Iraq's 'ragtag' army units start fighting among themselves
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article447806.ece

Russian bear is back - and this time it's gas-powered
http://www.guardian.co.uk/russia/article/0,,1774040,00.html

Russian federation: Beslan pupils fall victim to Putin vendetta
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,176-2179262,00.html

Sri Lanka: Tamil Tigers sink peace hopes with suicide raid at sea
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,175-2177962,00.html

Sudan: Children forced into Darfur death squads
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,176-2179263,00.html

Syria Takes Welcome Action on Iraqi Palestinians
http://hrw.org/english/docs/2006/05/12/syria13372.htm

US: Bush to Speak on Immigration Monday
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-5817529,00.html

US: Dueling Protests Mirror Immigration Divide
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-5818217,00.html

US: Bush may deploy troops to Mexico border in immigration crackdown
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article447780.ece


03: Europe

Latin America's oil rebels rebuff EU
http://www.guardian.co.uk/oil/story/0,,1773997,00.html

EU slams Tigers over sea attacks
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/4768329.stm

The emergence of a European security-industrial complex
http://www.irr.org.uk/2006/may/ha000016.html

04: Events


05: The new utopians

Ch?vez is a threat because he offers the alternative of a decent society
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1773908,00.html

Chavez to ignore PM on UK trip
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4769387.stm

Chavez offers oil to Europe's poor
Venezuelan President promises fuel to the needy and proclaims 'final
days of the North American empire' before visit to Britain today.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,1774649,00.html

For many, Hugo Ch?vez's celebrity is evidence of a revival of the
utopian impulse. The former Mexican foreign minister Jorge Casta?eda
links Latin America's recent lurch leftward to a new kind of utopianism.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1773901,00.html

Details of President Hugo Ch?vez visit to London
http://www.london.gov.uk/view_press_release.jsp?releaseid=8043


06: Can you sing, rap or dance?

Do you want to be a pop star?

We are a looking for refugees and asylum seekers between the ages of 16
and 25 to be members of a new boy-band.

You will get professional training, the chance to record a song, and the
opportunity to perform live on stage.

This could be the start of your music career!

Auditions Begin In May

For more information please call:
0800 031 9750
(Calls to this number are free of charge)

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[B] 'landmark court victory'
     12 May 06 -  70 items

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Lead: - 'landmark court victory'

Islanders take first steps home after a landmark court victory
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,174-2176622,00.html
+
Bancoult, R (on the application of) v Secretary of State for Foreign &
Commonwealth Affairs [2006] EWHC 1038 (Admin) (11 May 2006)
Conclusion
For these reasons the claimant succeeds. We invite counsel to draw up
the appropriate order.
http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Admin/2006/1038.html

Judges dismiss 'repugnant' attempts to deny Chagos islanders their home
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/legal/article364324.ece

Britons held at Guantanamo Bay win right to sue their captors
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article363604.ece

Afghan Hijackers Win U.K. Refugee Status
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-5812938,00.html

Government "abused power" over Afghan hijackers
http://news.viewlondon.co.uk/Government_abused_power_over_Afghan_hijackers_17113872.html

Judge attacks government for not following procedures in Afghan cases
http://www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/news/2006/may06/relea0506_1.htm

Response to government plan to appeal court decision
http://www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/news/2006/may06/relea0506_2.htm

01: UK

12 May 06

Children should not be the victims of gender wars
It sanctioned the movement of hundreds of children to often miserable
lives in Australia in the 1950s. We recall how young children have been
removed from jailed mothers by an insensitive prison system. The state,
over-confident about protecting children's best interests, typically
makes a serious mistake in children's policy every generation.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1773130,00.html
+
Empty Cradles - "150,000 children had in fact been deported from
children's homes in Britian"
http://www.asylumsupport.info/publications/corgi/emptycradles.htm

Now is the time to get a Chinese education, Britons told
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,174-2176104,00.html

Storming of the British embassy
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,174-2176246,00.html

The sex war's new frontline
We fight for equality, yet balk at the first death of a woman in action
in Iraq.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1773098,00.html

Britain's colonial adventures: The truth about Gordon of Khartoum
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article364318.ece

New call by lecturers for Israeli academic boycott
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1773018,00.html
+
Monday marks the 58th anniversary of the founding of Israel in 1948 -
and the expulsion of Palestinians from their land. With millions still
living under occupation or in exile
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,1773020,00.html

11 May 06

Asylum deport family win reprieve
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/lancashire/4760835.stm

Colnbrook's despair - able young men driven to suicide
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2006/05/340280.html
+
Update on Colnbrook Hunger Strike
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2006/05/340154.html

In a Liverpool limbo
Shivakuru Selvathurai and his family have been waiting for an asylum
decision for four long years
http://www.communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2006/05/11/53905/In+a+Liverpool+limbo.html?key=ASYLUM

Evelyn & Bendicta belong to Wakefield
http://www.ncadc.org.uk/newszine70/evelyn.html

'Free Zimbabwe' Bristol Vigil
http://www.thezimbabwean.co.uk/viewinfo.cfm?id=1355

Is the Home Secretary's empire now too big to be effective?
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,27969-2167626,00.html

Sex Trafficking, Amnesty welcomes police raids in London and West
Midlands, but calls for protection for trafficked victims
http://www.amnesty.org.uk/news/press/17001.shtml

US rejects calls for Guant?namo closure
http://www.guardian.co.uk/guantanamo/story/0,,1772632,00.html

Britons held at Guantanamo Bay win right to sue their captors
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article363604.ece

Afghan hijackers stay in UK after ruling hits Home Office
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article363619.ece

19 women set free in raids on alleged sex traffickers
http://www.guardian.co.uk/crime/article/0,,1772195,00.html

New report reveals arms trade out of control as Amnesty members descend
on parliament calling for tough arms controls
http://www.amnesty.org.uk/news/press/16999.shtml

Chagos families win right to return
A group of British citizens evicted from the Chagos Islands 40 years ago
to make way for a military base win high court victory
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1772729,00.html

Slavery: Is it time for an apology?
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article363634.ece

Reid pledge on Afghan hijackers
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article363987.ece

10 May 06

Home Office Protest Spearheads UK IDAHO Events
http://www.ukgaynews.org.uk/Archive/2006may/1002.htm

Street actor opens asylum exhibition
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/212/212717_street_actor_opens_asylum_exhibition.html

Anger at overseas doctors' permit requirement
http://www.irr.org.uk/2006/may/ak000012.html

Seven-day welfare plan turned down
The government has rejected a recommendation to assess the welfare of
asylum-seeking children in detention after seven days.
http://www.communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2006/05/05/53769/Seven-day+welfare+plan+turned+down.html?key=ASYLUM

02: World

Those in power do not rule for ever: history will judge our presidencies
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1772607,00.html

First kiss the dictator, then slap his face
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,174-2176596,00.html

Afghan poppy farmers expect record opium crop and the Taliban will reap
the rewards
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/article363606.ece

Chad refugee crisis 'overlooked'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4760299.stm

Congo DR: New UN report documents abuses by police and army troops
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=18431&Cr=democratic&Cr1=congo

Egypt: Award-Winning Blogger Among New Arrests
http://hrw.org/english/docs/2006/05/09/egypt13337.htm

Egyptian trial of pro-reform judges halted after protests
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/africa/article364319.ece

Haiti after the Elections: Challenges for Pr?val?s First 100 Days
http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?l=1&id=4104

India: Victims of unrest
Thousands caught between Maoist rebels and Indian troops
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/4758713.stm

Israel/Occupied Territories: Emergency aid may be too little, too late
for Palestinians trying to survive a crisis
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article363793.ece

Italy: Extraordinary renditions: Collusion by Italian personnel in CIA
kidnapping
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2006/may/02italy-cia-rendition.htm

Lebanon: Hariri Tribunal Can Restore Faith in Law
http://hrw.org/english/docs/2006/05/11/lebano13344.htm

Morocco: Convictions Show Limits on Press Freedom
http://hrw.org/english/docs/2006/05/09/morocc13333.htm

Nepal: From People Power to Peace?
http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?id=4099&l=1

Russia: End Anti-Gay Violence, Permit Gay Pride Parade
http://hrw.org/english/docs/2006/05/08/russia13325.htm

Somalia: Amnesty International condemns child executing father?s killer
http://www.amnesty.org.uk/news/press/17000.shtml

Somalis flee as city battle rages
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4760605.stm

Sri Lanka:  'Dozens dead' in Sri Lanka clash
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/4762105.stm

Sri Lankan sea battle leaves 45 dead
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/article364333.ece

Sudan: Six-month delay for Darfur force
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1772013,00.html

Sudan: Peace Deal Must Deliver on Darfur Aid
http://hrw.org/english/docs/2006/05/05/sudan13321.htm

US spy agency 'monitoring calls'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4762623.stm

US: 56 Immigrants Locked in Freezer Truck
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-5814893,00.html

US immigration bill impasse eases
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4764027.stm

US: Bush may have crossed the line by tracking every US phone call
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,174-2176605,00.html

Vietnam: Fledgling Democracy Movement Under Threat
http://hrw.org/english/docs/2006/05/11/vietna13346.htm


03: Europe

EU: Foreign Ministers Should Resolve Taylor Issue
http://hrw.org/english/docs/2006/05/11/sierra13354.htm


04: Events

13 May 2006
*Benefit Concert In Support Of Asylum Seekers In Detention* this
Saturday
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2006/05/340160.html

18 May 2006 Birmingham ? 05 October 2006
?Emotional Wellbeing of Refugee Children and Young people?
http://www.harpweb.org.uk/content.php?section=events&#8834;=e1

24 May 2006
'Hearing Voices': Listening to asylum seekers and refugees
A meeting sponsored by the All Party Group of MPs on Asylum Seekers and
Refugees to launch the new report and best practice guide on mental
health services for asylum seekers and refugees.
Thatcher Room, Portcullis House, Westminster, London, SW1
http://www.irr.org.uk/2006/may/fq000014.html
+
Commission for Patient and Public Involvement in Health
http://www.cppih.org/index.html
+
Medical Justice Campaign
http://www.medicaljustice.org.uk


05: No Fortress Europe - Appeal

Join the campaign to shut down temporary holding centres for migrants in
Europe by signing this petition
http://www.no-fortress-europe.eu/


06: Exile Journalists News No: 2

EJNews provides news, comment and analysis on the right to refuge and
press freedom around the world. It is written by journalists who have
been forced to seek exile after facing persecution in their home
countries simply for doing their job.

Pdf version of the newsletter can be dowloaded from:EJNews, Issue Two,
May 2006
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Please email your comments to Forward at ejn at mediawise.org.uk or 0117
941 5890

1. New editor for EJNews

Amadu Khan has been appointed editor of EJNews. A refugee from Sierra
Leone, Amadu is a human rights journalist, poet and community
development expert.

2.  A victory for EJN - of sorts


When The People published an article (?Insult to our heroes?, Feb 26)
that described a migrant in Calais as ?asylum seeker?, a ?bogus asylum
seeker?, an ?illegal immigrant?, a ?refugee? ? and labelled him a ?vile
toerag? for good measure ? EJN complained to the Press Complaints
Commission.

3. Mansoor steps up asylum campaign

The two year long campaign to stop the deportation of EJN member Mansoor
Hassan is reaching a crucial legal stage. Supported by Tony Lloyd MP and
Jeremy Dear of the National Union of Journalists, Mansoor is making a
fresh application for asylum and human rights protection to the Home
Office?s Immigration and Nationality Directorate.

4.Xenophobia rules

The media has, quote properly, devoted extensive coverage to the fact
that the Home Office has let hundreds of criminals who should have been
deported at the end of their sentences stay in Britain.

5. Anti-deportation protesters cleared

Three protesters who participated in a peaceful dawn protest at the
Glasgow office of the Immigration Service have been cleared of charges
of breach of the peace.

6. Journalists need help to deal with trauma

There is a pressing need for trauma therapy centres to treat journalists
working in trouble-spots around the world, according to delegates at a
London meeting about post traumatic stress disorder in the media last
month.

7. EJN joins calls to defend free expression
The EJN will join activists and groups around the world that defend
freedom of expression at an international conference in Edinburgh. The
event, organised by the International Press Institute (IPI) to mark its
55th General Assembly will take place on May 27-30.

8. London?s media under scrutiny

Refugee organisations working in London met in the city on April 6 to
discuss coverage of refugees and asylumseekers by London-based media.

9. NUJ commits itself to supporting EJN

http://www.exiledjournalists.net/index.php?module=announce&ANN_user_op=categories&category=17&MMN_position=15:15
Tim Lezard, outgoing President of the National Union of Journalists, has
sent a strong message of support to the EJN.

10. Gearing up for International Refugee Day

International Refugee Day will take place on June 20 this year, and many
organisations are already starting to organise activities.

11. Research reveals extent of racism in media

Two pieces of research commissioned by the Commission for Racial
Equality conclude that racism is rife in the UK media.

A Mori poll asking people from ethnic minorities about careers in the
print media found that 21 per cent believe there is racism in the
profession.

12. Press review - Report rubbishes ?sex for visas? expose

When The Sun exposed what it called a ?sex for visas? scam at the
immigration office in Croydon, the Government quickly launched an
investigation.

13. Press review - ?Illegal asylum-seekers? return!

The tired, old and utterly meaningless phrase ?illegal asylum-seeker?
has made an unwelcome return to our newspapers. The Stoke Sentinel
(?Baths, lies, strikes and Mr Prescott?, April 3), the Glasgow Herald
(?Dawn-raids row brings changes to asylum system?, March 27) and ?
somewhat surprisingly ? The Guardian (?In the hysteria over illegal
asylum seekers, refugees like my Nepalese friend Tham are being let down
by the system?, March 24) all used the phrase in recent weeks.

14.Press freedom roundup

World Press Freedom Day was marked by journalists across the globe on
May 3. But just two days before, Uthyan, the largest Tamil-language
daily newspaper in Jaffna, Sri Lanka, was attacked by gunmen who killed
two media workers. Five armed men entered the paper?s main office and
opened fire on editorial staff, killing two staffers and wounding two
more.



15. Feature - Asylum: the truth and the lies

MediaWise Director MIKE JEMPSON reveals how the parts of the media
distorted a major global report on asylum-seekers and refugees.

There are fewer refugees in the world today than at anytime in the last
25 years, and the number is still falling. That was the positive message
of the United Nations? High Commissioner for Refugees, Antonia Guterres,
as he launched his new global report in London on April 19.

16. Feature - How I started Ireland?s most popular multicultural
newspaper

Abel Ugba is the founding editor of Ireland?s most popular multicultural
newspaper, Metro Eireann. As the paper celebrates its six anniversary,
he describes how he set it up.


07: Andijan Massacre: Eyewitness Testimony

Video interview transcript
http://hrw.org/english/docs/2006/05/09/uzbeki13329.htm

West urged to punish Uzbekistan
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4760509.stm

Uzbekistan: A Year Later, Still No Justice for Andijan
http://hrw.org/english/docs/2006/05/11/uzbeki13336.htm


08: EU urged to revise its Dublin II Regulation to protect refugees'
rights

The European Union?s Dublin II Regulation, which identifies the Member
State responsible for examining an asylum claim, needs substantial
revision to ensure that the rights of asylum-seekers and refugees are
respected, according to a UNHCR study
Word doc
http://www.asylumpolicy.info/dublin.doc

Report: The Dublin II Regulation. A UNHCR Discussion Paper ?, which
includes a number of case examples
(PDF)
http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/home/opendoc.pdf?tbl=RSDLEGAL&id=4445fe344


[C] 'enforced poverty'
     10 May 06 - 75  items

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Lead: - 'enforced poverty'

Church attacks Government's asylum policy
http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=691042006

Kirk concern over ?enforced poverty? of asylum seekers
http://www.churchofscotland.org.uk/news/nrga130506.htm

Kirk attacks 'forced poverty' policy of discouraging asylum seekers
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=693802006

Report: Human Rights, Racial Justice and Migration
Asylum Seekers
Asylum Policy: Dawn Raids
Destitution among Asylum Seekers
(Word doc)
http://www.asylumpolicy.info/kirk.doc
Source: http://www.churchofscotland.org.uk/

Church of Scotland Concerned by ?Enforced Poverty? of Asylum Seekers
http://www.christiantoday.com/news/church/church.of.scotland.concerned.by.enforced.poverty.of.asylum.seekers/1144.htm

01: UK

10 may 06

>From Derby to Darfur - Beckett's baptism of fire
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Politics/foreignaffairs/story/0,,1771363,00.html

Call for treaty to enforce weapons embargoes
http://www.guardian.co.uk/armstrade/story/0,,1771379,00.html

Murder of Catholic boy, 15, reveals a Northern Ireland divided as ever
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/ulster/article363125.ece

How arms have become a truly global business
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article363099.ece

Veteran protesters face jail under new anti-terror laws
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/legal/article363116.ece

Evidence against Qatada 'gained by torture'
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/legal/article363123.ece

British farmer building gallows for export to Africa
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/africa/article363097.ece

'Abusers' elected to human rights council
Britain won a seat on the newly created Human Rights Council of the UN
yesterday, but five countries identified as being among the world's
worst abusers also achieved membership.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article363095.ece

They should come out as imperialist and proud of it
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1771384,00.html

A tale of two breakfasts
Mugabe was not always the figure now depicted on the London stage as a
haunted depressive.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1771386,00.html

9 May 06

Migrant detention records blasted
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4752267.stm

Torture evidence used against Qatada, court hears
The case is an important first test of the British government's hopes of
deporting UK-based terrorism suspects to their countries of origin after
signing a series of diplomatic "no torture" agreements.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/terrorism/story/0,,1771017,00.html

Two tales of one incident at Colnbrook Removal Centre.
http://www.ncadc.org.uk/newszine70/colnbrook.html

Judges end five-year anti-war vigil outside parliament
http://www.guardian.co.uk/antiwar/story/0,,1770525,00.html
+
Demo v democracy
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,171-2171203,00.html

Peace protesters win battle against arms firm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/armstrade/story/0,,1770468,00.html

Beckett: No military action against Iran
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/article362991.ece
+
The Big Question: Is Iran developing a nuclear bomb, and if so, should
it be stopped?
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article362904.ece


8 May 06

The battle against racism
http://www.theherald.co.uk/features/61511.html

Blair's terrible legacy: UK troops dig in after killings
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article362710.eces

Drag death man still unidentified
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cambridgeshire/4750689.stm

Immigration list man spared jail
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/north_east/4750963.stm

Brian Haw loses Parliament protest case
It was announced today that Brian Haw has lost the latest round of his
fight to be allowed to protest in Parliament Square.
http://www.liberty-human-rights.org.uk/press/2006/brian-haw-loses-protest-case.shtml

Anti-immigrant UKIP leader hires Polish builders
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article362721.ece

>From sweetness and light to bloody ambushes: the British descent in
Basra
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,170-2170227,00.html

Anti-war protester dealt court blow
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Politics/iraq/story/0,,1770142,00.html

Nightmare world of suburban sex slaves
http://www.guardian.co.uk/crime/article/0,,1769962,00.html

The neocons strike again
The treatment of Jack Straw throws new and alarming light on the
dismissal of Robin Cook.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1769722,00.html

5 May 06

25.000 innocent people detained .../you have the newspapers you deserve
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2006/05/339661.html


02: World

If this is Ahmadinejad's bluff, it is bluff worth calling
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1771225,00.html

Washed up on the beach - hidden half of Africa's people smuggling
epidemic
As the world looks elsewhere, Somalis and Ethiopians are risking all to
get to the Middle East
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1771235,00.html

Morales is taking Bolivia out of the shadow of the US
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1769720,00.html

Australia intercepts more Papuans
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4752857.stm

Bosnia court holds genocide trial
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4756419.stm

Chad: Refugees too scared to go home despite Darfur deal peace
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/africa/article362673.ece

Egypt: Cairo clamps down on dissent
http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,,1770310,00.htmls

Egypt: When judges are beaten
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1771385,00.html

French tribute to slavery victims
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4756635.stm

India's hidden war
http://www.guardian.co.uk/india/story/0,,1770612,00.html

Iran: Tehran breaks silence with US to offer 'solutions'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/iran/story/0,,1770119,00.html
+
Russia says UN plan for Iran is 'first step to war'
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/article362745.ece

Iraqi government 'in days'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,1771080,00.html

Israel/Occupied Territories: Palestinians to get interim aid
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4756407.stm

Liberia sex-for-aid 'widespread'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4983440.stm

Puerto Rico protests
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4755069.stm

Somalia: Fighting rages in Somali capital
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4750171.stm

Somali militias battle
http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/africa/05/08/somalia.reut/index.html

Somalia: Battles between rival militias leave 84 dead
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1771233,00.html

Sudan: A small step in the desert
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sudan/story/0,,1769723,00.html

Thai court nullifies country's election results
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/article362798.ece

US: Images of a hidden America
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article362676.ece

US rejects Iran's letter
http://www.guardian.co.uk/iran/story/0,,1770635,00.html


03: Europe

EU plans crisis aid for Palestinians
http://www.guardian.co.uk/eu/story/0,,1769743,00.html

Draft Common Manual for Immigration Liaison Officers (ILOs) posted
abroad by the Member States of the European Union
(PDF)
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2006/apr/eu-draft-ILO-manual-8418-06.pdf

European Commission evaluation of on combating trafficking in human
beings
(PDF)
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2006/apr/com-traff-eval-187-06.pdf

Prejudice forms a new line between east and west
As gay people get greater rights in parts of EU, other countries
entrench bigotr
http://www.guardian.co.uk/gayrights/story/0,,1769781,00.html

Don't humiliate us, Bulgarians warn EU
http://www.guardian.co.uk/eu/story/0,,1770625,00.html

04: Events


05: Policing the peacekeepers

Tough new measures are needed to curb sex abuse by UN personnel
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,171-2171205,00.html

Children in Liberia Victims of Sexual Exploitation,
Study Finds
http://www.savethechildren.org/news/releases/release_050806.asp

Child sex-for-aid 'rife' in Liberia
http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/africa/05/08/liberia.abuse.reut/index.html


06: Non-refoulement under threat

Joint Redress/Immigration Law Practitioners Association (ILPA) Seminar
Matrix Chambers, 16 May 2006 (pdf)
(PDF)
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2006/may/redress-ILPA-seminar.pdf


07: Best & Worst Places to be a Mum

The State of the World's Mothers 2006 report
(PDF)
http://www.savethechildren.org/publications/SOWM_2006_final.pdf

A Mother?s Day Report Card: The Best? And Worst?Countries to Be a Mother
http://www.savethechildren.org/news/releases/release_050906.asp

Most Dangerous Day for Children
http://www.savethechildren.org/news/releases/release_050906_b.asp

Best & Worst Places to be a Mom
http://www.savethechildren.org/news/releases/release_050906.asp


08: Refugee Studies Centre - Update No.3

Word document version:
http://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/rsc_update_no3.doc


09: US - Web Site Questions Immigrant Stereotypes

Frustrated by the political rhetoric surrounding the illegal immigration
debate, a political consultant and a Web designer are launching an
Internet campaign aimed at shattering stereotypes about Latinos and
getting them involved.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-5807706,00.html

I am a Proud American
http://www.iamaproudamerican.com


10: People trafficking: upholding rights and understanding
vulnerabilities

The latest issue of Forced Migration Review (http://www.fmreview.org/)
(FMR 25) includes a major feature on People trafficking: upholding
rights and understanding vulnerabilities.
http://www.fmreview.org

European Commission evaluation of on combating trafficking in human
beings
(PDF)
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2006/apr/com-traff-eval-187-06.pdf



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Full report: Child First, Migrant Second:
             Ensuring that Every Child Matters
(PDF)
http://www.ilpa.org.uk/publications/ilpa_child_first.pdf

Launched today (Wednesday 10th May) at the House of Commons,
suggests that despite Government reassurances that every
child matters, children who are subject to immigration
control are systematically excluded from some of the
measures intended to deliver better outcomes for
children.

Immigrant children are children first and foremost

If children subject to immigration control are to receive the support
and protection intended for all children in the UK under the
Government?s framework for ensuring that Every Child Matters, they must
be treated as ?children first and migrants second?, according to the
Immigration Law Practitioners? Association (ILPA).

The evidence presented in ILPA?s policy paper Child First, Migrant
Second: Ensuring that Every Child Matters launched today (Wednesday 10th
May) at the House of Commons, suggests that despite Government
reassurances that every child matters, children who are subject to
immigration control are systematically excluded from some of the
measures intended to deliver better outcomes for children.

The paper argues that this problem is exacerbated by the recent
introduction of policies that encourage local authorities to exclude
migrant children from the provision of the Children Acts (1989 and 2004)
as part of the wider government objective of controlling immigration.
Social workers who are supposed to be protecting children are
increasingly being required to behave as if they are immigration
officers. The paper argues that these roles are ultimately incompatible.

ILPA?s policy paper sets out the implications of the current approach
for separated asylum seeking children, asylum seeking children in
families, trafficked children and young people, and children in private
fostering arrangements. It makes concrete and specific recommendations
for ensuring that each of these groups of children matter in policy and
practice.

Commenting on the launch of the policy paper Chris Randall, specialist
immigration lawyer and Chair of ILPA, said:

?While children are living in this country, they must be afforded equal
rights and treatment under UK law. We hope that this paper, and our
earlier publication Working with Children and Young People Subject to
Immigration Control: Guidelines for Best Practice, will help
practitioners working in the areas of both immigration and welfare to
understand their obligations towards this group of children and to
translate this understanding into the work they do.?

Dr Heaven Crawley, Senior Lecturer at the University of Wales Swansea
and author of the paper, said:

?There is growing evidence that children subject to immigration control
are treated as migrants first and foremost and that their rights and
needs as children either remain unidentified or else are ignored. This
evidence can be seen in the current treatment of children in the asylum
determination process, in the increasing number of disputes over the age
and entitlements of children and young people, in the use of detention
and child poverty as tools of immigration control, in the lack of proper
support for children in private fostering arrangements and in the
failure to identify and protect those who have been trafficked.?

?If every child living in the UK really matters, politicians, policy
makers and practitioners must ensure that the policies and practice of
immigration control are compatible with national and international
obligations towards children, who are one of the most vulnerable groups
in our society.?

Peggy Ray, Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year 2005 (Family) and UNICEF Child
Rights Lawyer of the Year 2001 wrote:

?It is a sad fact that the politicisation of the issue of asylum seekers
can lead to the special vulnerability of the children caught up within
the immigration system being disregarded. 
This policy paper deserves
the widest possible dissemination among not only social workers and
lawyers dealing with migrant children working within the immigration
system, but lawyers and all professionals working within the child
protection arena. ?

Notes for editors

ILPA?s policy paper Child First, Migrant Second: Ensuring that Every
Child Matters will be launched at an event hosted by Neil Gerrard MP and
Chris Randall, Chair of the Immigration Law Practitioners? Association
at the House of Commons (Committee Room 16) at 4pm on Wednesday 10th May
2006. The panel of speakers will include Dr Heaven Crawley, author of
the paper, Lin Homer, Director General of IND, Selam Kidane from the
British Agencies for Adoption and Fostering (BAAF) and a speaker from
'Resolution' (formerly the Solicitors Family Law Association). For
further information on the launch event please contact Elizabeth White
on 0207 251 8383 or email elizabeth.white at ilpa.org.uk

The policy paper can be downloaded at
www.ilpa.org.uk/publications/ilpa_child_first.pdf ILPA has also
published Working with Children and Young People subject to Immigration
Control: Guidelines for Best Practice (November 2004), which can be
downloaded at
www.ilpa.org.uk/publications/ilpa_working_with_children.pdf Both of
these publications have been funded by the Nuffield Foundation.

The policy paper makes a number of recommendations to ensure that
children subject to immigration control matter in UK policy and
practice, including the following:

- The UK?s Reservation to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
(CRC) should be removed and the immigration and asylum systems brought
into line with its guiding principles;

- The benefit of the doubt should always be given to individuals whose
age is disputed;

- A child focused asylum system should be established which includes
procedures that take into consideration the broken narratives of
children, the additional difficulties they have in expressing a coherent
account of their experiences, and child-specific experiences of
persecution;

- No child should be returned to his or her country of origin unless and
until it is clear it is safe to do so and there is evidence that he or
she will be properly supported on return;

- All separated children seeking asylum ? and indeed all children
subject to immigration control ? should be represented throughout any
legal proceedings by specialised representatives;

- Local authority care for separated children, including leaving care
arrangements, should be properly resourced by central government;

- A statutory guardianship system should be established for children who
are subject to immigration control;

- All children in the UK should have access to the same levels of
welfare and support regardless of their immigration status. Section 9
should not be implemented and ideally should be repealed;

- Children should not be detained for the purpose of immigration control
because of the negative physical, mental and educational consequences of
detention;

- Local Safeguarding Children Boards should be encouraged to include
representatives from the Immigration Service and the National Asylum
Support Service (NASS) where appropriate;

- Additional child protection officers should be stationed at major
ports of entry in order to identify potential victims of trafficking and
other children who need to be safeguarded from harm or abuse;

- Private fostering arrangements should be subject to a registration and
approval scheme.

For further information please contact:

Elizabeth White         0207 251 8383
Dr Heaven Crawley               07813 127121


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From Dejongh03n at aol.com  Tue May 23 16:30:09 2006
From: Dejongh03n at aol.com (Dejongh03n at aol.com)
Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 12:30:09 EDT
Subject: [noborders-brum] let us stand up against this segregation of our
	children, plse phone the school
Message-ID: <394.356928f.31a49291@aol.com>

 
i hope to raise an issue tonight about victoria park primary school  in 
smethwick, my youngest daughter was a pupil in 2003. i happened to visit a  friend 
who just showed me their application form, i do not remember all the  details 
of the form when my daughter was a pupil. at the bottom of the form  they have 
the following:  they have the usual details name, address, dob  etc and then 
at the end of the first page they turn into immigration  officers. they want 
to know the child's immigration status.
 
Immigration details:   (tick one)
Is the child:  1. Asylum Seeker ..........
                    2. Refugee  ..............
                     3. None of the above ...........
 
Are you supported by: NASS / Social Services Asylum support  (delete one)
 
Do you have an Eu Passport: Y/N (delete one)
Where was this issued  
.................................................................................................
 
 
i have phoned the school to complain, the head said as he did not have  the 
form in front of him he could not comment, he then said it is a standard  form 
prepared by LEA, he gave me the number and i have phoned them and they  say i 
should speak to the head of the school, when i told them he said i  should 
contact them, the lady then gave me another number, spoke to a lady  there, who 
accidently disconnected me, called back and then she gave me yet  another 
number, spoke to louise who believes i should have taken it up with  the school, 
informed her that i had and several other people, as she was not  sure who to 
put me through to, she then took down my name address and contact  number and 
promised to call me back tomorrow with the complaint procedure.  wish me luck!  
 
victoria park primary school tel: 0121 558  8701
number given by head: 0845 3582  200
number given by above dept: 0121 569  8100
number given by above dept: 0845 359  7510
 
looks like i am going to to be chasing my tail for some  time.


ps i have forwarded to some friends to phone the school if they can, all  
facist regimes have their beginings and we need to nip this one in the bud. i  
wonder what will come next after the above self appointed immigration  officers.

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From hugsnotwar at phonecoop.coop  Wed May 24 07:43:58 2006
From: hugsnotwar at phonecoop.coop (Steve & Tamsin Bache)
Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 08:43:58 +0100
Subject: [noborders-brum] 'Alternatives' Telford Meeting
Message-ID: <44740EBE.4030502@phonecoop.coop>

Local peace group, Wrekin Stop War, are inviting people from across 
Shropshire (and beyond) to attend a public meeting exploring themes 
connected to peace and the planet.

The meeting, entitled ?Alternatives? will be held at Christ Church Hall 
in Wellington from 2-5pm on Saturday 10 June 2006 and speakers include 
Bruce Kent from the Movement for the Abolition of War, together with 
representatives from the Food not Bombs collective and the No Borders 
Network.

A group spokesperson said,

?With our planet facing an uncertain future due to war, poverty and 
environmental destruction, we would like to invite people to join us for 
an afternoon of thought-provoking talks and open debate. We believe that 
replacing our current selfish and greedy system with a culture of 
co-operation and equality will lead to a brighter tomorrow for future 
generations and our planet.?

For more information or for directions to the venue, email: 
_wrekinstopwaradmin at blueyonder.co.uk 
<mailto:wrekinstopwaradmin at blueyonder.co.uk>_ or telephone/text: 07960 
736641. Details are also available from the group?s web site at 
_www.wrekinstopwar.org <http://www.wrekinstopwar.org/>_. The venue 
accessible to wheelchair users.


Also, please email me if you have any queries re the event or transport 
out to Telford.
Thanks,

Steve




From Dejongh03n at aol.com  Fri May 26 18:00:40 2006
From: Dejongh03n at aol.com (Dejongh03n at aol.com)
Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 14:00:40 EDT
Subject: [noborders-brum] Fwd: Please join us in - A Show of Solidarity
Message-ID: <3b0.2b00780.31a89c48@aol.com>

 
In a message dated 26/05/2006 18:07:16 GMT Daylight Time,  ncadc at ncadc.org.uk 
writes:

==========
 NCADC News Service
==========


Please join us in - A Show of Solidarity 


Saturday 3rd June 1.00-3.00 pm


End of New Street  - opposite the Bull/ outside Waterstones.


Join Birmingham Anti Racist Campaign (ARC) in a protest against  deportations 
and the inhumane treatment of asylum seekers. We hope all those  campaigning 
against deportation and in defence of refugees, asylum seekers and  migrant 
workers will join us. All refugee and asylum seekers groups are  welcome.


Bring placards, petitions, leaflets.


No to Detention and Destitution!


Stop the Deportations!


For the Right to Work!


For the Right to Stay!




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From eleanorhoad at hotmail.com  Wed May 24 14:08:40 2006
From: eleanorhoad at hotmail.com (eleanor hoad)
Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 14:08:40 +0000
Subject: [noborders-brum] recycling-can anyone help...
Message-ID: <BAY101-F17505DD06AECEA0C01F4A0B3980@phx.gbl>

Hello,

A brilliant way to get rid of your old junk!

I am doing a project with a load of troublesome kids in Tipton and am going 
to build some mutant scrap bikes and go karts with them. Does anyone have 
any useful bits of old bikes, wheels, frames, handlebars or anything even 
vaguely useful or interesting hanging about that they want to get rid of?

Can collect on Saturday morning this week. The first session is Saturday 
(27th) in the afternoon.

You can email back or call me on 07974 934 917. if not do you know anyone 
you might? feel free to forward this message.

Thanks Eleanor Hoad





From shiar at riseup.net  Sat May 27 00:42:18 2006
From: shiar at riseup.net (Shiar)
Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 17:42:18 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [noborders-brum] feature proposal: Asylum is not a crime
Message-ID: <3223.shiar.1148690538.squirrel@mail.riseup.net>


Hi,

I propose the following feature for Birmingham Indymedia's middle column.
It's not very great, but I don't really have time to sweat over it. If you
have any remarks, additions or whatever, please reply within 24 hours.

I've put it on the wiki so it would be easier for people to read:
https://docs.indymedia.org/view/Local/ImcBirminghamAsylumNotCrime

P.S. Can we please have the pics by tomorrow evening as well. Cheers

-- 
Shiar




From shiar at riseup.net  Sat May 27 12:52:19 2006
From: shiar at riseup.net (Shiar)
Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 05:52:19 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [noborders-brum] Minutes of NoBorders meeting 25.5.2006
Message-ID: <1259.shiar.1148734339.squirrel@mail.riseup.net>


First of all, it would be nice if more people were bothered to turn up to
meetings. When you don?t come to meetings, decisions are made by fewer
people, and the rest are kept as ?passive participants?, which?s not very
healthy, is it?

1. Solihull demo

We discussed some logistics and details, but they?re irrelevant now as the
demo has already taken place. There are, however, some lessons to be
learnt: We need to publicise it more beforehand; we need to organise what
we do there better (for example, more people confident to speak on
megaphone, chants, slogans etc.). Hopefully, next one (Thurs, 29th June)
will be much better, especially that it?ll be a national day of action
against reporting centres and will fall within the Refugee Week.

- I do apologise for not mentioning ARC on the leaflet. That was my
personal fault. Please add it to the leaflet before printing out new
copies for next month. Actually, it would be better to have a new one
altogether; one that focuses on the national day of action and the refugee
week ? Shiar.

2. Refugee Week

As agreed in the previous meeting, we are organising a number of
activities during the Week (see last meeting?s minutes), most notably the
Tour of Border Regime.

It was agreed to make the tour more interactive. In addition to the actual
?tourist attractions?, we could have creative, virtual locations, which
also solves the problem of not being able to walk to some of the places.
Suggestions included a virtual reporting centre and a detention centre
(cage or something like that). Details of how to materialise this need to
be discussed further.

To be done by next meeting:
- a letter to Celebrating Sanctuary about the Angel Group (Alex);
- a critique of the Refugee Week (Alex & Shiar);
- a leaflet to be distributed during the week (this could simply be a
short version of the critique);
- a map-leaflet for the tour (Shiar is working on it and will put it on
Make Borders History?s wiki soon).

3. Various

- Ask other groups and people for names of detainees to visit them in
detention.
- Raise awareness that people are entitles to travel expenses for
reporting to the immigration office (Nellie to double-check this).
- Sorry for the delay in doing the vouchers feature and leaflet. That was
basically due to technical problems with my Linux partition. They?ll be
ready very soon.
- We need to talk more about the politics of NoBorders and what we stand
for and against.


-- 
Shiar




From shiar at riseup.net  Wed May 24 21:45:15 2006
From: shiar at riseup.net (Shiar)
Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 14:45:15 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [noborders-brum] reminder of tomorrow's meeting
Message-ID: <2632.shiar.1148507115.squirrel@mail.riseup.net>


Just a quick, late reminder that we're having a NoBorders meeting
tomorrow, Thursday, at the MAC. It starts at 7:30pm.

Hope to see you there :)

-- 
Shiar




From noborders-brum-contact at aktivix.org  Mon May 29 10:59:10 2006
From: noborders-brum-contact at aktivix.org (noborders-brum-contact at aktivix.org)
Date: Mon, 29 May 2006 11:59:10 +0100
Subject: [noborders-brum] Fwd: Call to action on 22nd June - Stop deportation
Message-ID: <1148900350.447ad3fe46f62@www.aktivix.org:443>



----- Forwarded message from TCAR <tynesidecarn at yahoo.co.uk> -----
    Date: Sun, 28 May 2006 15:31:33 +0100 (BST)
    From: TCAR <tynesidecarn at yahoo.co.uk>
Reply-To: TCAR <tynesidecarn at yahoo.co.uk>
 Subject: Call to action on 22nd June - Stop deportation
      To: noborders-brum-contact at aktivix.org

Dear friends,


  We are writing to you from Tyneside Community Action for Refugees (TCAR) a
network of groups and individuals who have united to raise awareness of the
situation of people seeking asylum in the North East of England (see principles
listed at the bottom of this e-mail).
  TCAR is calling a national day of action against deportation during Refugee
Week. On 22nd June from 11am - 1pm we will be holding a BIG NOISE demo outside
our local immigration reporting centre and we invite you to hold a simultaneous
protest outsiede reporting centres across the country.


  Reporting centres are places of fear for asylum seekers as you are never sure
if you will come back out or if you will be detained and deported. Asylum
seekers are forced to sign like criminals even when they are homeless and have
no money to travel miles to the reporting centre. Now new rules are coming in
which will force asylum seekers to report by phone as well as by foot. Others
have been tagged like animals to make sure they don't escape inhumane
treatment.
  TCAR has been holding pickets of North Shields reporting centre since
February, providing solidarity to those going to sign and to protest against
deportation.  We are calling on all those who stand with us against forced
deportation to join us on 22nd June.
Lets break the silence around deportation! LETS MAKE SOME NOISE!

  Bring pots, pans, musical instruments, whistles or just yourselves!


  Please contact us if you are planning an event in your local area so we can
send messages of solidarity between ourselves. It would also be useful to share
printed information to prevent unneccessary duplication of effort. You can
e-mail this address or contact the secretaries, Matt (07886520116) or Annie
(07955517681).


Please forward this e-mail to your contacts.

Hope to hear from you soon,
Tyneside Community Action for Refugees

  TCAR is united around the following principles:  
  For:
  
   the right to asylum and for Britain to uphold it?s commitments under the
United Nations 1951 Geneva Convention.
   the right of asylum seekers to work. No to forced labour.
   a just and fair legal process for asylum seekers
   decent housing, income and welfare rights for all.
   the right of asylum seekers and their communities to self defence, for
example, for
   the right to physically resist being forced onto a plane, or to resist snatch
squads
  Against:
  
   the persecution of people on the grounds of race,  nationality,   religion or
political view point.
   the scapegoating and criminalisation of asylum seekers
   racist  immigration controls
   forced deportation
   detention of asylum seekers
   forced dispersal
   attacks on legal representation of asylum rights



TYNESIDE COMMUNITY ACTION FOR REFUGEES (TCAR)
		
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From phunkee at aktivix.org  Mon May 29 14:59:54 2006
From: phunkee at aktivix.org (phunkee at aktivix.org)
Date: Mon, 29 May 2006 15:59:54 +0100
Subject: [noborders-brum] The low-down on Councillor John Lines
Message-ID: <1148914794.447b0c6ad2291@www.aktivix.org>

Hey People,

Here are a couple of news stories about birmingham councillor John Lines.
As well as being convicted as a psychopathic neighbour from Hell and
massaging homeless statistics, Lines also claims to have 'cropped' luxury
items including licensed TVs from a housing deal for asylum seekers.

Does anyone know anymore about this claim?

phunkee

_________________________________________________________________________


http://icbirmingham.icnetwork.co.uk/mail/news/tm_objectid=17019811%26method=full%26siteid=50002-name_page.html

City refuses refugees a free television

May 2 2006

By David Bell, Birmingham Mail


A "NO luxuries" ban has been slapped on nearly 2,000 asylum seekers who have
jumped the queue for Birmingham city council homes.

Allegedly essential living aids - like a 20in colour TV with licence paid
- have been cropped from an accommodation agreement the city is about to
sign with the Home Office.

Cabinet housing chief John Lines is insisting that the 260 homes being
reserved for asylum seekers should be furnished only to basic standard.

The deal contrasts with those reached with private landlords who are
required to provide a licensed 20in colour TV, moisture resistant
flooring, electrical appliances and furnishings - including two ashtrays.

"There is no way that asylum seekers will be supplied with luxuries paid
for by the taxpayer that some of our 70,000 tenants can't afford," said
Coun Lines.
"The homes allocated for asylum seekers under the new deal with the
Government are not exactly salubrious and will be furnished with basic
essentials only.
There will certainly be no colour TVs with licences paid from council taxes."


For the past three years the city has taken 460 council homes out of
general use and reserved them for asylum seekers sent from the SouthEast
by Government agencies.

Around 200 of the flats have remained empty, with Whitehall paying rent to
the city.

The new "no frills" agreement covers only 250 homes for 600 asylum seekers -
half the previous number.

"I am not entirely happy to be signing up for this, but at least we have
halved the numbers," said Coun Lines. "And if I don't agree to it, the
Government will still disperse them to Birmingham anyway."

He said having to keep 200 homes empty while the city was faced with
thousands of families claiming to be homeless was a nonsense and a waste
of public money.

"Under the new agreement the number of asylum seekers has been halved. And
there will be no luxuries like colour TVs paid for from taxes."


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Housing boss was 'neigbour from hell'

Aug 15 2004

By Jeanette Oldham, Sunday Mercury


A leading Midland councillor fighting the scourge of neighbours from hell
was once convicted of battering the man next door with a wooden plank.

John Lines, 59, is the new Conservative head of housing at Birmingham City
Council.

A vital part of his ?42,000-a-year job is tackling anti-social behaviour by
council tenants who can make the lives of neighbours a misery.

But back in May 1983, Coun Lines was convicted of assaulting a businessman
in a row over a greenhouse.

The then fledgling councillor was fined ?200 by Birmingham magistrates,
who were told how he hit his elderly neighbour's son-in-law Thomas Denny
across the back with a stick.


He followed up the attack by holding Mr Denny by the throat on the ground.

The court heard how his victim suffered a bruised shoulder, headaches and
dizziness for a week after the attack.

Coun Lines was also bound over in the sum of ?100 to keep the peace for a
year.

Married Mr Lines became a councillor for Bartley Green in 1982 - and has
cut a colourful and controversial figure ever since.

He was nominated for mayor in 2000 but was rejected by Labour and Liberal
Democrats for being too right-wing for multi-cultural Birmingham.

But he was made cabinet member for housing when the Tories and Lib Dems took
control of the city council after 20 years of Labour rule at the local
elections in June.

Bragging that the council would issue so many Anti-Social Behaviour Orders
"they would be like confetti", he said recently: "People have a right to
be protected from the harassment of neighbours from hell.

"We will work together to ensure that the high level of anti-social
behaviour in Birmingham becomes a thing of the past."

Last night his victim admitted he was amazed that his attacker had been
given responsibility for tackling anti-social behaviour in the city.

Mr Denny, who runs his own office business, said: "My wife and I have seen
him on the local news talking about these issues.

"I don't consider him to be a very nice man. He attacked me when I went to
talk to him about my mother-in-law's greenhouse.

"She lived next door to John Lines in Bartley Green. She had let him put his
greenhouse in her garden but he put her through an awful time and in the end
she wanted nothing to do with him.

"I told him he had to move the greenhouse but he said the land was now his
and he was invoking squatters' rights.

"I told him he'd have to move it or I would, and I kicked the greenhouse.
I know that was provocative but I'd had enough of him by that stage.

"I walked off but he came after me and hit me over the head with a plank of
wood. I was on the ground barely conscious when he got on top of me and
started throttling me."

Mr Denny's wife Pam claimed that the councillor was sometimes abusive to her
elderly mother, Evelyn Foster.

"She was called names over the fence," she said. "Her bins were stuffed with
rubbish until they were overflowing. Old brake pads were pushed through her
letterbox.

"After the court case, things got worse. We moved my mother to a flat near
us but she died six months later. She had a heart problem and I think all
these problems contributed to her decline.

"In the end my mum was frightened even to go outside."

When challenged by the Sunday Mercury Coun Lines vehemently denied ever
harassing Mrs Foster.

"I looked after that woman," he said. "I did her garden, I did everything
for her. I'm very hurt by these accusations."

And the council chief insisted that he was the right man for the job
despite his conviction.

"What happened was 22 years ago and I have been punished for it," he said.

"I think my experience over the years, including the assault, has helped
to make me the best person for the job.

"I am going to ensure that our tenants get a better deal than people did 20
years ago. Lots of people make mistakes and I have made plenty over the
years.

"But I was just defending my property. I think everyone in Birmingham has
the right to do that.

"The anti-social behaviour units we now have help people sort out their
disputes before they get out of hand. Sadly they weren't about 20 years
ago."

jeanette_oldham at mrn.co.uk

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Homes chief urged to quit

Oct 26 2005

By Jonathan Walker, Birmingham Mail


BIRMINGHAM MPs demanded the resignation of a Birmingham cabinet member, as
they launched an unprecedented attack on the local authority in the House
of Commons.

Coun John Lines, the Cabinet Member for Housing, was accused of "hiding" the
problem of homelessness in the city.

Northfield MP Richard Burden (Lab Northfield) challenged him to prove
claims he was simply complying with Government policy - or stand down from
his ?42,247 cabinet job.

He was speaking in a Commons debate, accompanied by fellow Labour MPs Steve
McCabe (Hall Green), Lynne Jones (Selly Oak) and Gisela Stuart (Edgbaston).

Labour MPs claim tenants who are forced to leave their homes for legitimate
reasons are being denied help from the council - unless they fight the
eviction in court.


But Coun Lines (Con, Bartley Green) insists the authority is complying with
advice issued by the Government.



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     29 May 06 - 73 items

[B] 'failing, terror, damages, Torture, locked up, Amnesty attacks'
     26 May 06 - 82 items

[C] 'turning 18'
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Lead: - 'Life and death, petrified'

Do Van Ky - Life and death of a stowaway
The story of Do Van Ky, a Vietnamese man who came to Britain to earn
money for his sick brother, and who died under the wheels of a lorry on
the A1.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/immigration/story/0,,1784322,00.html

After four months at sea, ghost ship with 11 petrified corpses washes up
in Barbados
By March Spanish authorities claimed more than 1,000 had drowned.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1785108,00.html

01: UK

29 May 06

Out of Eden
This Indian Ocean paradise was once home to more than a thousand
contented British subjects. In 1966, Harold Wilson's government sold it
to the US in a secret, illegal deal and terrorised the population into
leaving.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,1784993,00.html

Group criticises refugee treatment
http://www.thisisleicestershire.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=132943&command=displayContent&sourceNode=132546&contentPK=14538439&folderPk=77456

Hotel Rwanda manager urges action in Darfur
http://books.guardian.co.uk/hay2006/story/0,,1785182,00.html

Lessons for the centre-left in how to be British
http://comment.independent.co.uk/columnists_m_z/andreas_whittam_smith/article621193.ece
About
Progressive Nationalism: Citizenship and the Left
Download full text PDF
http://www.demos.co.uk/progressivenationalism_pdf_media_public.aspx

Terror or error: is humanity on the eve of destruction?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Books/news/articles/0,,1785175,00.html

Curbs on migrant labour worry employers
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/0dc5f6e8-eeaf-11da-820a-0000779e2340,_i_rssPage=247a7efa-c8dc-11d7-81c6-0820abe49a01.html

3,000 UK troops are Awol since war began
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,170-2201471,00.html

Progressive nationalism isn't an oxymoron, it's a necessity
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1785119,00.html

28 May 06

Asylum is not a Crime
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2006/05/341525.html

Police investigate Observer 'sex-for-asylum' allegations
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1784667,00.html

Security firm told to guard standards
Global Solutions (GSL), which runs immigration detention centres and
prisons, has come under pressure to raise standards after a case
alleging breaches of human rights was upheld against it.
http://news.independent.co.uk/business/news/article620609.ece

Lunar House sex scandal escalates
http://www.croydonguardian.co.uk/news/localnews/display.var.769938.0.lunar_house_sex_scandal_escalates.php

At least 1,000 UK soldiers desert 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/5024104.stm

Amnesty to target net repression 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/5020788.stm

We urge the internet giants to defend free speech
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,,1784685,00.html

Today, our chance to fight a new hi-tech tyranny
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1784643,00.html

Home Office in meltdown
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,176-2200429,00.html

Not fit for purpose
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,176-2200319,00.html

27 May 06

'Sex for asylum' - the story updated
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/observer/archives/2006/05/26/sex_for_asylum.html#more

Wall of silence surrounds deportation decision
http://www.thisishull.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=136730&command=displayContent&sourceNode=136541&contentPK=14536929&folderPk=79656

Transsexual seeks ?2.5m damages after job demotion
Family moved to Britain to escape intolerance in US
http://www.guardian.co.uk/gender/story/0,,1784352,00.html

Thousands of academics oppose boycott of Israel
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Education/higher/news/story/0,,1784282,00.html

Galloway uses Cherie Blair in his defence
George Galloway defends his claim that it would be "morally justified"
for an Iraqi suicide bomber to kill Tony Blair.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Politics/otherparties/story/0,,1784290,00.html

Taliban rise again near UK troops 
http://www.guardian.co.uk/afghanistan/story/0,,1784304,00.html

The special relationship that squandered a noble cause
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1784204,00.html

02: World

Guantanamo hunger strike grows 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/5027860.stm

Pope Benedict to visit Auschwitz 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/5024324.stm

At the heart of evil, a German pope prays for Auschwitz dead
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,170-2201403,00.html

Afghanistan: Across the border, the Taliban rises again
http://www.guardian.co.uk/afghanistan/story/0,,1784304,00.html

Burma extends Suu Kyi detention
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/5022626.stm
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Aung San Suu Kyi: the Lady's not for turning
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/7days/story/0,,1784577,00.html

Chad: Sudanese Militia Massacre Chadian Civilians
http://hrw.org/english/docs/2006/05/24/chad13444.htm

East Timor: Uneasy peace
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1784229,00.html

East Timor: Nuns defy baying mob to protect victims of ethnic hate
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,170-2201132,00.html

East Timor: Violence spreads in Dili as gangs join uprising
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1784977,00.html

Indonesia: Death toll tops 3,500 as quake hits 
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/article620719.ece

Indonesia: Aceh Rights Court Must Address Past Abuse
http://hrw.org/english/docs/2006/05/26/indone13463.htm

Iraq: Marines accused of Iraq massacre
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,1784307,00.html

Iraq: Fresh evidence of 'executions' by US marines in Iraq
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Observer/world/story/0,,1784622,00.html

Israel/Occupied Territories: Israel jets bomb bases in Lebanon 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/5024482.stm

Israel/Occupied Territories: Punishment of Palestinians will create a
crucible of trouble for the world
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1784953,00.html

Mexico: Immigration Debate Impacts Mexican Race
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-5851352,00.html

Saudi Arabia: Guantanamo Detainees Return to Legal Limbo
http://hrw.org/english/docs/2006/05/26/saudia13469.htm

Somaliland: Time for African Union Leadership
http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?l=1&id=4131

Sri Lanka foes 'agree to talks' 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/5022982.stm

Sri Lanka refugees 'face risks'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/5027370.stm

US: 'Vigilantes' fence Arizona border
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/5025158.stm

U.S.: Investigate Taylor?s Son for Torture, War Crimes
http://hrw.org/english/docs/2006/05/25/liberi13467.htm

03: Europe

Rebranding plan for failed EU constitution
Support growing for name of the European constitution to be changed to
"basic law".
http://www.guardian.co.uk/eu/story/0,,1785206,00.html

Why is the EU Turning its Back on West Africa?
http://hrw.org/english/docs/2006/05/24/liberi13472.htm

European police foil traffickers
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/5026920.stm

04: Events

Saturday 10th June 2006
NCADC - AGM
12.00 noon - 5.00pm
All Souls Clubhouse
141 Cleveland Street
London
W1T 6QG
http://www.smartgroups.com/message/readmessage.cfm?gid=1256290&messageid=3708


Tuesday June 13 2006
Religion, politics and sexuality
What can history tell us about the boundaries of expression in the
Middle East now?
Event timings: 7pm: Doors open for drinks reception and private view of
the exhibition Word into Art: Artists of the Modern Middle East.
8-9.30pm: Forum in the BP Lecture Theatre
Venue: The British Museum, London WC1 (access via Great Russell Street
entrance)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/eventsandoffers/article/0,,1783105,00.html

24-25 June 
Diversity Matters conference: cultural diversity in children's
publishing
Queen Elizabeth Conference Centre in Westminster, London. 
More information and online > registration is available at 
http://www.artscouncil.org.uk/diversitymatters

11th July 2006
Central London
Working together to improve services for asylum seeking children
http://www.basw.co.uk/articles.php?articleId=473


05: Stop internet repression

Join the irrepressible.info campaign to show that the human voice and
human rights cannot be repressed. 
http://www.irrepressible.info/

Handbook for bloggers and cyber-dissidents 
http://www.rsf.org/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=542

New Amnesty 45th anniversary campaign tackles internet repression 
http://www.amnesty.org.uk/news_details.asp?NewsID=16970

World Press Freedom Day: Our annual survey and new list of predators
http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=17084

Blocked sites
How some nations are stopping people from freely surfing the web 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/5024874.stm

Web censorship: Correspondent reports 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/5024874.stm

Amnesty to target net repression 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/5020788.stm

Net censorship spreads worldwide
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4973114.stm


06: The viral video online revolution

Video flooded in from every corner of America to
http://www.Getdemocracy.com during the recent US immigration day strike.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/5020364.stm

Democracy Player.  Your internet television has arrived.
http://www.getdemocracy.com/

The viral video online revolution 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/5020364.stm


07: The children of Guantanamo

The 'IoS' reveals today that more than 60 of the detainees of the US
camp were under 18 at the time of their capture, some as young as 14
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article620704.ece


08: The massacre and the Marines

War crimes: My Lai is a lesson from history
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/article621253.ece

Marines accused of Iraq massacre
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,1784307,00.html

Fresh evidence of 'executions' by US marines in Iraq
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Observer/world/story/0,,1784622,00.html

US troops could face death penalty for what is seen as potentially the
worst war crime since Iraqi invasion
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article620720.ece

Marines and the 'massacre': a neighbour tells of aftermath
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,170-2201470,00.html


09: Working together to improve services for asylum seeking children

11th July 2006
Central London
http://www.basw.co.uk/articles.php?articleId=473
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7th June 2006
People Not Paperwork Conference
http://www.basw.co.uk/articles.php?articleId=472


10: Immigration Reporting Centres: National Update and Call-out

As the twice-monthly pickets of the Immigration Reporting Centre at
North Shields on Tyneside enter their sixth month, Tyneside Community
Action for Refugees (TCAR) has called for a national day of action
against reporting centres for the 22nd June, as part of Refugee Week.
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2006/05/341547.html


[B] 'failing, terror, damages, Torture, locked up, Amnesty attacks'
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Lead: - 'failing, terror, damages, Torture, locked up, Amnesty attacks'

Amnesty attacks Government over human rights
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article570934.ece

Amnesty International annual report 2006 published
http://www.amnesty.org.uk/news_details.asp?NewsID=16954

New figures reveal increase in number of children locked up in the UK
http://www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/news/2006/may06/relea0506_5.htm

No Place for a Child
http://www.noplaceforachild.org.uk/

UK attacked over terror flights
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/5017672.stm

Report: The UN Convention Against Torture (UNCAT)
Joint Committee on Human Rights
The prohibition on torture
The principle in Chahal v UK
The primary issues of concern raised by the UN Committee were:
Excessive use of force in the removal of asylum seekers.
Detention of those being held pending deportation
Diplomatic assurances against torture
This Report also covers one issue which was not raised by
the UN Committee. Since the review of the UK report by the
UN Committee in 2004, allegations that UK airports are being
used to facilitate extraordinary renditions of suspects being
transported to face torture abroad have generated considerable
public concern.
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/jt200506/jtselect/jtrights/185/18502.htm

New safeguards are needed to identify unfairly detained torture survivors if
the Government is to avoid further costly compensation orders, the MF warns.
http://www.torturecare.org.uk/articles/news/811

Torture victims awarded damages
The Home Secretary was ordered to pay damages to two asylum seekers
after the Home Office failed to ensure they received prompt medical
examinations.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cambridgeshire/5005112.stm

Judge damns refugees treatment
An indictment of the way Britain deals with victims of overseas
torture was delivered yesterday in a High Court case that revealed
how two people who bore scars from beatings with hot irons and steel
wire were placed in a detention centre and denied immediate medical attention.
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/legal/article570211.ece

The asylum process is failing too many women
Rape, honour crime, female circumcision - how can the system be so dismissive of such terrible persecution?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1780804,00.html

Amnesty attacks UK over torture
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/5008208.stm

It is absurd to calculate human rights according to a cost-benefit analysis
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1781508,00.html

One in four appeals now successful, show latest asylum figures
http://www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/news/2006/may06/relea0506_6.htm

Home Secretary must pay damages to asylum seekers
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,200-2191886,00.html

shocking number of children locked up in UK
http://www.savethechildren.org.uk/scuk/jsp/resources/details.jsp?id=4184&group=resources&section=news&fromgroup=news&newssection=newslibrary&subsection=details

Commission criticises government attack on human rights culture
(PDF)
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2006/may/nihr-human-rights-culture.pdf

01: UK

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Papers pinpoint law chief's change of heart over war
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,1783511,00.html
+
Public Authority: Legal Secretarial to the Law Officers
Summary: The Information Commissioner has served a single Enforcement Notice to resolve the issues arising from a number of similar complaints relating to disclosure of advice given by the Attorney General on the legality of military intervention in Iraq in 2003.
Full transcript of Enforcement Notice 22/05/06
http://www.ico.gov.uk/cms/DocumentUploads/Enforcment_Notice_22nd_May_2006.pdf
Appendix 6 Disclosure Statement
http://www.ico.gov.uk/cms/DocumentUploads/Appendix_6_Disclosure_Statement.pdf
Annex A Attorney General's Advice 07/03/03
http://www.ico.gov.uk/cms/DocumentUploads/Annex_A%20_AG_s_Advice_7_3_03.pdf
Annex B Statement by the Attorney General 17/3/03
http://www.ico.gov.uk/cms/DocumentUploads/Annex%20_B_Statement_by_the_Attorney%20_General_17_3_031.pdf
Annex C Memorandum by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office
http://www.ico.gov.uk/cms/DocumentUploads/Annex_C_Memorandum_by_the_Foreign_and_Commonwealth%20_Office.pdf

Goldsmith broke rules on disclosing Iraq war advice
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/legal/article601329.ece

Met criticised over cost of removing Iraq placards
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/crime/article601341.ece

25 May 06

Asylum seekers to stage protest
http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/hi/news/5052774.html

Asylum lawyers face threat to contracts
http://www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/breaking/view=newsarticle.law?GAZETTENEWSID=283666

Attorney General told to reveal Iraq advice information
The Attorney General's office was ordered today to disclose
information leading to his advice on the legality of invading Iraq in 2003.
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article584710.ece

Bishop of Chelmsford left stranded in Kenya in row over gay rights
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article571676.ece

Home Office chief echoes Reid's attack
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Politics/homeaffairs/story/0,,1783215,00.html

You made me feel human again...
http://iccoventry.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100localnews/tm_objectid=17130960%26method=full%26siteid=50003%26headline=you%2dmade%2dme%2dfeel%2dhuman%2dagain%2d%2d%2d-name_page.html

24 May 06

GCSE ordeal for asylum fight girls
http://www.portsmouthtoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?sectionid=680&articleid=1522665

Reid 'furious' over wrong figures
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/5013510.stm

No number of sackings can salvage this broken system
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1781665,00.html

Highlighting the mental health needs of child asylum seekers and refugees
http://www.irr.org.uk/2006/may/ha000025.html

Reid rings the changes at 'inadequate' Home Office
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article570958.ece

Dental nurse told to get married or leave the country
http://icberkshire.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0200berkshireheadlines/tm_objectid=17122783%26method=full%26siteid=50102%26headline=dental%2dnurse%2dtold%2dto%2dget%2dmarried%2dor%2dleave%2dthe%2dcountry-name_page.html

Immigrant rush to beat 'British test'
http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=768612006

Lib Dems stage mass passport renewal
Liberal Democrat MPs renew passports en masse - in protest at government plans for a compulsory identity database.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Politics/homeaffairs/story/0,,1782100,00.html

'Do not send your children here. We will kill them'
Taleban fighters' chilling message to Tony Blair
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,172-2194397,00.html

Told to leave UK after 70 years
http://www.northamptontoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=255&ArticleID=1522046

Wave of support for refugee Islan to stay in the UK
http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/swindonnewsheadlines/display.var.769552.0.wave_of_support_for_refugee_islan_to_stay_in_the_uk.php

Let us stay
http://www.lancashireeveningtelegraph.co.uk/news/pendlenews/pendleheadlines/display.var.769718.0.let_us_stay.php

Homer's immigration odyssey appears over
http://icbirmingham.icnetwork.co.uk/birminghampost/news/tm_objectid=17121827%26method=full%26siteid=50002%26headline=homer%2ds%2dimmigration%2dodyssey%2dappears%2dover-name_page.html

Police target anti-war protester and make off with banners
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/crime/article570949.ece

Granting of passports reaches record level
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,172-2194488,00.html

Trace your family history online
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_technology/article571325.ece

23 May 06

Immigration system unfit
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/5007148.stm

Father loses deportation fight
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_east/5010562.stm

Is Home Secretary John Reid sounding like Sybil Fawlty?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nickrobinson

New Minister of State for nationality, citizenship and immigration
http://www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/news/2006/may06/curr0506_1.htm

Reid makes abrupt ministry reshuffle in bid to gain control
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article570226.ece

Persons Granted British Citizenship, United Kingdom 2005
(PDF)
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs06/hosb0906.pdf

Asylum Statistics: 1st Quarter 2006 United Kingdom
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs06/asylumq106.pdf

Death to dysfunction
http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,,1780800,00.html

The Big Question: Is the Home Office too large and unwieldy to do its job properly?
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article570230.ece

Gay asylum group push for Iraqi protection
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/view.php?id=1554

Open Letter to NATFHE from Palestinian Academics Under Israeli Occupation
http://www.labournet.net/world/0605/pacbi1.html

Timeline of troubles at the IND
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/05/23/uimm.xml&sSheet=/news/2006/05/23/ixnews.html

Removal Of Failed Asylum Seekers Reaches Record High
http://press.homeoffice.gov.uk/press-releases/removal-failed-asylum-seekers

UK asylum applications up by 5%
http://icsouthlondon.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/nationalnews/tm_objectid=17117720&method=full&siteid=50102&headline=uk-asylum-applications-up-by-5--name_page.html

Police break up Parliament Square anti-war camp
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyid=2006-05-23T134914Z_01_L23795573_RTRUKOC_0_UK-BRITAIN-PROTESTER.xml&src=rss

Which is the real Iraq?
Blair's view: 'Iraqi people are able to write the next chapter of their history themselves'. Another view: At least 32 more die in attacks nationwide as sectarian violence spreads.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article570217.ece

02: World

Trouble spots threaten crisis
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,1782477,00.html

Human trafficking: Greed and the trail of death
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/africa/article571693.ece

Australian troops on standby as violence erupts in East Timor
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/article570930.ece

18,000 hungry children die each day
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,171-2191981,00.html

Moscow angered by US plan for 'star wars' bases in Europe to counter Iran threat
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article570954.ece

West's 'terror deceptions' rapped
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/5005754.stm

Amnesty attacks US 'disappearances'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,1781260,00.html

Burma: Smuggled pictures of refugees expose extent of human rights abuses in Burma
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/article570189.ece

Burmese refugee crisis heightens
Audio: Families are fleeing to Thailand as pressure on the junta grows, reports John Aglionby. (4min 30s)
http://download.guardian.co.uk/sys-audio/Guardian/audio/2006/05/23/0523aglionby.mp3

Burma: US wants Security Council briefing on Suu Kyi
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/article570250.ece

Burma: fear and repression
http://www.guardian.co.uk/burma/story/0,,1780878,00.html

East Timor awaits peacekeepers after weeks of violence
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1782240,00.html

Greek and Turkish planes collide
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/5008178.stm

Iraq arms 'leaking to insurgents'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/file_on_4/5006196.stm

Israel?Occupied Territories: Israel must halt the crisis among the Palestinians - for its own sake
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1781545,00.html

Italy: 500,000 immigrants 'legalised'
http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=778122006

Senegal 'seizes 1,500 migrants'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/5010102.stm

Serbia accepts Montenegro result
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/5009242.stm

Somaliland: Time for African Union Leadership
http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?l=1&id=4131

US: For 20 Years, Immigrants' Status Stalled
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-5840369,00.html

US immigration bill clears hurdle
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/5013232.stm

US: Republican Party divided by bitter immigration debate
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article601344.ece

03: Europe

EU hopes to refine 'safe country' asylum list in two weeks
http://www.eubusiness.com/afp/060524135514.b6exjqad

ECRE responds to proposal for EU common standards and procedures in Member States for returning illegally staying third country nationals
(PDF)
http://www.ecre.org/positions/Comretdir.pdf

04: Events

1. 00pm to 3. 00pm Saturday 27th May
Glasgow: No Dawn-Raids! - Right To Work For All!
1. 00pm to 3. 00pm Saturday 27th May
Meet at the Donald Dewar Statue
Buchanan Street
Glasgow City Centre
And afterwards for a rally at:
St Mungo?s Museum
2 Castle Street.
3. 00pm - 4. 00pm,
http://www.labournet.net/antiracism/0605/glasgow1.html

17th June
"We belong to Glasgow rally",
Glasgow Campaign to Welcome Refugees is calling the
"We Belong To Glasgow" Rally
at Brand Street, Ibrox, Glasgow on Saturday 17 June at 11am till 1.30pm
http://www.openborders.org.uk/


05: EU to deploy rapid reaction teams

EU force to stem African migrants
EU to deploy rapid reaction teams to deal with African illegal migrants trying to reach Spainish islands, say officials.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/eu/story/0,,1781721,00.html


06: Further and Higher Education Survey

Refugees and Asylum Seekers into Further and Higher Education Survey

As part of an AimHigher funded project, we are aiming to produce booklets for refugee and asylum seeker adults and children/unacompanied minors about accessing Further and Higher Education. Please help inform the content of these booklets by spending a few minutes completing this survey. Many thanks.
http://www.leedsmet.ac.uk/as/sss/quiz/reforgs.htm
Source: http://www.refed.org.uk


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'Child first, migrant second: Ensuring that every child matters'
Feb 06
(PDF)
http://www.ilpa.org.uk/publications/ilpa_child_first.pdf

'Working with children and young people subject to immigration control:
Guidelines for best practice'
Nov 04
(PDF)
http://www.ilpa.org.uk/publications/ilpa_child_first.pdf

Local Authority Support to Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Young People
report from Save the Children
Jan 06
(PDF)
http://www.savethechildren.org.uk/scuk_cache/scuk/cache/cmsattach/3788_Local_authority_support_to_UASC_report.pdf

Children's Legal Centre website area for the Refugee and Asylum Seeking
Children's Project.
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Government accused of draconian asylum treatment
In a bleak report from the Church of England the government is accused
of using 'destitution as a tool of coercion'.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/immigration/story/0,,1781050,00.html

Church anger over asylum poverty
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/5003498.stm
About:
Faithful Cities: A call for celebration, vision and justice
http://www.cofe.anglican.org/news/pr5406.html

Refugee Council backs Church's call on government to lead public opinion
on asylum
http://www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/news/2006/may06/relea0506_4.htm

Kirk attacks 'forced poverty' policy of discouraging asylum seekers
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=693802006
Report: Human Rights, Racial Justice and Migration
Asylum Seekers
Asylum Policy: Dawn Raids
Destitution among Asylum Seekers
(Word doc)
http://www.asylumpolicy.info/kirk.doc
Source: http://www.churchofscotland.org.uk/

Rich-poor divide a disgrace says church report
http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/content/news_syndication/article_060523faithfulcities.shtml

01: UK

22 May 06

Torture victims awarded damages
The Home Secretary was ordered to pay damages to two asylum seekers
after the Home Office failed to ensure they received prompt medical
examinations.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cambridgeshire/5005112.stm

We immigrants should withdraw our labour for a day
http://comment.independent.co.uk/columnists_a_l/yasmin_alibhai_brown/article549844.ece

Hope for asylum seekers
http://www.guardian-series.co.uk/news/stratfordnews/display.var.765146.0.hope_for_asylum_seekers.php

Reid reshuffles home office team
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/5006126.stm

Liam Byrne, the policing minister, is to move sideways to take over the
troubled immigration and asylum brief
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/homeaffairs/story/0,,1780757,00.html

Balanced immigration reform is vital
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,,1780202,00.html

Immigration: The government record
http://society.guardian.co.uk/asylumseekers/story/0,,1779886,00.html

Reid to be questioned on sex-for-asylum case
http://society.guardian.co.uk/asylumseekers/story/0,,1780437,00.html

Troop pullout 'in months'
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2191603,00.html

Blair flies to Bush's side to defend Iraq invasion
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article549821.ece

War crimes charges possible over shot Britons
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,170-2191183,00.html

02: World

Afghanistan: Dozens die in Afghan air strike
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/5003478.stm

China set to be largest economy
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4998020.stm

China: Web fury over Mao portrait sale
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/5004778.stm

China in 2026 bring bliss for all, or is disaster looming?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4773443.stm

Germans warned of neo-Nazi surge
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/5005472.stm

Iraqis in control 'by end of year'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Politics/iraq/story/0,,1780432,00.html

Iran's Jews struggle in the shadow of Holocaust denials
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article549814.ece

Italy considers immigrant amnesty
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/5005858.stm

Montenegro independence vote
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/5003220.stm

Tunisia expels Amnesty activist
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/5003972.stm

03: Europe

With Turkey in the club, Europe can forge a fresh engagement with Islam
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1780109,00.html

04: Events

Refugee Week Painting competition for 16-18 and 19-21
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From shiar at riseup.net  Tue May 30 14:43:30 2006
From: shiar at riseup.net (Shiar)
Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 07:43:30 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [noborders-brum] [Fwd: Re: Is it 22nd or 29th?]
Message-ID: <1186.shiar.1149000210.squirrel@mail.riseup.net>



---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
Subject: Re: Is it 22nd or 29th?
From:    "TCAR" <tynesidecarn at yahoo.co.uk>
Date:    Mon, May 29, 2006 10:26 am
To:      "Shiar" <shiar at riseup.net>
--------------------------------------------------------------------------

It's definitely the 22nd. We planned it to be in Refugee Week. Not sure
where "on" got their info from.
Matthew,

Shiar <shiar at riseup.net> wrote:
Have you seen this comment?
https://publish.indymedia.org.uk/en/2006/05/341547.html?c=on#c148697

cheers,

-- 
Shiar




TYNESIDE COMMUNITY ACTION FOR REFUGEES (TCAR)
Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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From shiar at riseup.net  Wed May 31 12:08:14 2006
From: shiar at riseup.net (Shiar)
Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 05:08:14 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [noborders-brum] Request for a meeting
In-Reply-To: <000a01c68490$37342880$05fea8c0@workgroup>
References: <1539.shiar.1149009309.squirrel@mail.riseup.net>
	<000a01c68490$37342880$05fea8c0@workgroup>
Message-ID: <51720.shiar.1149077294.squirrel@mail.riseup.net>

Dear Mr Jamil,

Birmingham No Borders is a grassroots, non-hierarchical group of
activists, who struggle against the border regime and immigration
controls, with all the suffering and injustices they impose on people. It
is, in that sense, different from NGO's and lobbying groups.

That also means I cannot really speak for everyone else or act as a
representative. Our decisions are made on a consensual basis.

However, you are welcome to attend our meetings (they are open to
everyone) and bring whatever suggestions, criticisms or ideas you've got.
The next one is on Thursday, June 8th, 7:30pm, at the Midlands Arts Centre
(in the cafe bit).

Thanks for your concern and hope to see soon,

Shiar


> Thanks for your message.
>
> I am interested in knowing more about NoBorders.  I learned about it from
> Indymedia. My own organisation is Community Resource & Information
> Service.
> We work with communities across Birmingham and provide a wide range of
> services including training, organising, research and capacity building.
> For
> the last 3 - 4 years we have been working with refugee groups and helped
> in
> setting the Birmingham New Communities Network (BNCN), an umbrella
> organisation that acts as a voice for and lobby on behalf of migrant and
> refugee groups and organisations in Birmingham.
>
> Regards.
>
> Jamil
>
> Dr Fathi Elsadig Jamil
>
> Community Resource & Information Service
>
> 200 Bunbury Road, Northfield
>
> Birmingham, B31 2DL.
>
> Telephone: (0121) 476 8705 / 477 0935
>
> Fax: (0121) 476 0288
>
> Mobile: 07900237277
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shiar [mailto:shiar at riseup.net]
> Sent: 30 May 2006 18:15
> To: Fathi Jamil
> Subject: Re: Request for a meeting
>
>
> Can I first ask what group you are referring to (I'm involved in so many
>
> things!), and where you heard that from?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Shiar
>
>
>> Dear Shiar,
>>
>> My name is Fathi Elsadig Jamil.  I work for a community organisation
>
>> called
>
>> Community Resource & Information Service that works with communities
>
>> across
>
>> Birmingham. I have recently heard about your group and am very much
>
>> interested in knowing more about what you do.  I am therefore writing to
>
>> ask
>
>> if we can arrange a short meeting at  a time of convenience for you to
>
>> tell
>
>> each other about what we do and see if there is any scope for
>> cooperation
>
>> and working together.
>
>> I would very much appreciate if you would e-mail me a suggested time or
>
>> phone me to discuss a mutually convenient time. I can also phone you if
>
>> you
>
>> e-mail me your phone number.
>
>> With best regards.
>
>> Yours sincerely,
>
>> Dr Fathi Elsadig Jamil
>
>> Community Resource & Information Service
>
>> 200 Bunbury Road, Northfield
>
>> Birmingham, B31 2DL.
>
>> Telephone: (0121) 476 8705 / 477 0935
>
>> Fax: (0121) 476 0288
>
>> Mobile: 07900237277
>

-- 
Shiar




From shiar at riseup.net  Wed May 31 15:58:18 2006
From: shiar at riseup.net (Shiar)
Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 08:58:18 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [noborders-brum] Request for a meeting
In-Reply-To: <000f01c684b0$12f69be0$05fea8c0@workgroup>
References: <51720.shiar.1149077294.squirrel@mail.riseup.net>
	<000f01c684b0$12f69be0$05fea8c0@workgroup>
Message-ID: <1157.shiar.1149091098.squirrel@mail.riseup.net>


We meet every 2 weeks on Thursday, at the same time and place.

> Thanks Shiar,
>
> I think that is very helpful. It is more useful to attend a meeting,
> listen
> and assess and then see if I can be of benefit or make any substantial
> contribution to the debate or actions of the group.  However, in
> principle,
> I am in agreement with the issue and think it is a worthwhile cause to
> fight
> for.
>
> I hope I will be able to attend on the 8th, but not sure because of
> several
> commitments this month. I would therefore be grateful if you can keep me
> informed about future meetings,
>
> With best regards.
>
> Dr Fathi Elsadig Jamil
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shiar [mailto:shiar at riseup.net]
> Sent: 31 May 2006 13:08
> To: Fathi Jamil
> Subject: RE: Request for a meeting
>
> Dear Mr Jamil,
>
> Birmingham No Borders is a grassroots, non-hierarchical group of
> activists, who struggle against the border regime and immigration
> controls, with all the suffering and injustices they impose on people. It
> is, in that sense, different from NGO's and lobbying groups.
>
> That also means I cannot really speak for everyone else or act as a
> representative. Our decisions are made on a consensual basis.
>
> However, you are welcome to attend our meetings (they are open to
> everyone) and bring whatever suggestions, criticisms or ideas you've got.
> The next one is on Thursday, June 8th, 7:30pm, at the Midlands Arts Centre
> (in the cafe bit).
>
> Thanks for your concern and hope to see soon,
>
> Shiar
>
>
>> Thanks for your message.
>>
>> I am interested in knowing more about NoBorders.  I learned about it
>> from
>> Indymedia. My own organisation is Community Resource & Information
>> Service.
>> We work with communities across Birmingham and provide a wide range of
>> services including training, organising, research and capacity building.
>> For
>> the last 3 - 4 years we have been working with refugee groups and helped
>> in
>> setting the Birmingham New Communities Network (BNCN), an umbrella
>> organisation that acts as a voice for and lobby on behalf of migrant and
>> refugee groups and organisations in Birmingham.
>>
>> Regards.
>>
>> Jamil
>>
>> Dr Fathi Elsadig Jamil
>>
>> Community Resource & Information Service
>>
>> 200 Bunbury Road, Northfield
>>
>> Birmingham, B31 2DL.
>>
>> Telephone: (0121) 476 8705 / 477 0935
>>
>> Fax: (0121) 476 0288
>>
>> Mobile: 07900237277
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Shiar [mailto:shiar at riseup.net]
>> Sent: 30 May 2006 18:15
>> To: Fathi Jamil
>> Subject: Re: Request for a meeting
>>
>>
>> Can I first ask what group you are referring to (I'm involved in so many
>>
>> things!), and where you heard that from?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Shiar
>>
>>
>>> Dear Shiar,
>>>
>>> My name is Fathi Elsadig Jamil.  I work for a community organisation
>>
>>> called
>>
>>> Community Resource & Information Service that works with communities
>>
>>> across
>>
>>> Birmingham. I have recently heard about your group and am very much
>>
>>> interested in knowing more about what you do.  I am therefore writing
>>> to
>>
>>> ask
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>>> if we can arrange a short meeting at  a time of convenience for you to
>>
>>> tell
>>
>>> each other about what we do and see if there is any scope for
>>> cooperation
>>
>>> and working together.
>>
>>> I would very much appreciate if you would e-mail me a suggested time or
>>
>>> phone me to discuss a mutually convenient time. I can also phone you if
>>
>>> you
>>
>>> e-mail me your phone number.
>>
>>> With best regards.
>>
>>> Yours sincerely,
>>
>>> Dr Fathi Elsadig Jamil
>>
>>> Community Resource & Information Service
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>>> 200 Bunbury Road, Northfield
>>
>>> Birmingham, B31 2DL.
>>
>>> Telephone: (0121) 476 8705 / 477 0935
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>>> Fax: (0121) 476 0288
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>>> Mobile: 07900237277
>>
>
> --
> Shiar
>
>


-- 
Shiar