From frank.corrigan at frankslist.info Mon Jun 4 08:12:27 2007 From: frank.corrigan at frankslist.info (Frank's List) Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2007 10:12:27 +0200 Subject: [noborders-brum] 'War, Young, secret, stranded, segregated, separated, survivors' - 3 Jun 07 - 65 items (approx) Message-ID: 'War, Young, secret, stranded, segregated, separated, survivors' Sent 4 Jun 07 - 65 items (approx) ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Frank's List - http://www.frankslist.info the asylum, immigration, conflict and rights information gateway Sign up, Send, Search and Suggest ? Sign up to Frank's List Email Newsletter ? Send News, Jobs & Events, for free, to all subscribers ? Search 380+ websites ? Suggest websites as sources of News, Jobs and Events @ http://www.frankslist.info ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ [01] Lead items [02] UK [03] Jobs [04] World [05] Europe [06] Events [07] Latest CrisisWatch Newsletter, 1 June [08] US - Refugee Roulette: Disparities in Asylum Adjudication [09] Legal notices: Privacy, User obligation and terms of use [10] How to cancel or change your subscription to Frank's List [01] Lead items: ---------- 'War, Young, secret, stranded, segregated, separated, survivors' Young are too long in Yarl's Wood http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/beds/bucks/herts/6710105.stm Great escape: survivors reveal horror of North Korean concentration camps http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/article2606393.ece Honoured at last: Aboriginal war heroes whose only reward was discrimination and prejudice http://news.independent.co.uk/world/australasia/article2606395.ece War hero gurkha wins visa u-turn http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article2606483.ece Let Britain's secret migrant societies emerge into the light http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,2094239,00.html Brown under fire over secrecy on ID costs http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,2094240,00.html Candidates pressure Brown over immigrants Gordon Brown faced mounting pressure yesterday from three of his potential deputies to consider an amnesty on illegal immigrants. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/06/01/nimm01.xml + Strangers into citizens campaign Early Day Motion 1371 Primary sponsor: Cruddas, Jon Signatures: 69 http://edmi.parliament.uk/EDMi/EDMDetails.aspx?EDMID=33150&SESSION=885 Thousands attend poverty protest Thousands of protesters have lined the banks of London's Thames in a major demonstration against global poverty. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6714975.stm NSPCC?s Response to 'Planning Better Outcomes and Support for Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children' (PDF) http://www.nspcc.org.uk/Inform/PolicyAndPublicAffairs/Consultations/2007/2007_UASC_gf46257.pdf + Joint response to 'Planning Better Outcomes and Support for Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children' ...This is a great opportunity to introduce a system of guardianship for separated children seeking asylum "...seek to persuade stakeholders that these children can be provided with segregated services because the children themselves are different. This is a dangerous assertion and does not reflect the professional assessment of most statutory and voluntary agencies, which is that while these children may have additional needs arising from their immigration status they are children first and are no more a homogenous group than any other group of children in need of state support and care. It should not be the responsibility of the Border and Immigration Agency (BIA) to make proposals relating to the assessment and care of unaccompanied children. (word doc) http://www.frankcorrigan.com/segregated.doc Immigrants stranded at sea http://www.guardian.co.uk/guardianweekly/story/0,,2091458,00.html Migrants risk all in new assault on fortress Europe http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article1875684.ece [02] UK 3 Jun 07 Blair?s liberties leave our rights open to abuse http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/debate/letters/article1875830.ece 2 Jun 07 Blair backs 'softly, softly' approach to Zimbabwe http://news.independent.co.uk/world/africa/article2606390.ece Interview: My Work and Life at AFRUCA http://nigeriaworld.com/columnist/fajemisin/052207q.html A longer wait to English lessons http://www.thisisnottingham.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=134436&command=displayContent&sourceNode=134094&contentPK=17467579&folderPk=78480&pNodeId=133993 Here is the news . . . and press your red button for the Polish subtitles http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/tv_and_radio/article1873043.ece Homework help for new arrivals http://www.thisissouthwales.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=161818&command=displayContent&sourceNode=161644&contentPK=17467639&folderPk=88499&pNodeId=161365 Number-plate fraud shows how ID cards will fail http://www.no2id.net/news/pressRelease/release.php?name=ANPR_fraud Russian minister hits out at UK http://www.guardian.co.uk/russia/article/0,,2093708,00.html 1 Jun 07 No more fast track for first passports http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/about-us/news/first-passport-change Blair tells his critics to ?get real? as he hints at intervention in Darfur http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article1867699.ece 31 May 07 Uthayasooriyan Family belong to Middlesbrough http://www.ncadc.org.uk/newszine82/tamil.html Points of entry http://www.lawgazette.co.uk/features/view=feature.law?FEATUREID=338413 The 'war on terror': Libya and the UK http://www.irr.org.uk/2007/may/ha000022.html Phantom Meeting Between Opposition Leaders and Blair http://www.thezimbabwean.co.uk/viewinfo.cfm?id=4649 G8 & EU are Blair?s last chance to act on Darfur http://www.ippr.org.uk/pressreleases/?id=2725 Facial drones spot passport frauds UK.gov's own facebook http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/05/31/facial_passports/ 30 may 07 The Home Office has been forced to investigate one of the companies it appointed.... http://www.insidehousing.co.uk/news/article/?id=1449066 [03] Jobs ----------- Internship for ECRE's South Eastern European Program http://www.ecre.org/resources/project_documents/858 Director http://www.forwarduk.org.uk/news/news/153 Area Deputy Manager Location: Liverpool and Manchester Hours: full-time Salary: ?33,315 - ?35,772 Closing date: 11 June 2007 http://www.refugee-action.org.uk/jobs/default.aspx Education Officer Campaigns Officer http://www.antislavery.org/homepage/jobvacancy/currentvacancy.htm Campaigner EU Team (East EU Countries) ?25,680 21/06/2007 Europe and Central Asia http://web.amnesty.org/jobs/index/31052007-ECA0711 Campaigner EU Team (East EU Countries) ?25,680 21/06/2007 Europe and Central Asia http://web.amnesty.org/jobs/index/31052007-ECA0711 [04] World ---------- Genocide trial ends after five years Alleged mastermind of genocide in Rwanda still insists he was 'victim of ignominious propaganda'. http://www.guardian.co.uk/rwanda/story/0,,2093625,00.html Chechnya: video evidence of torture http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article1875671.eces Create Darfur Recovery Fund with Sudanese Oil Revenues http://hrw.org/english/docs/2007/05/31/sudan16038.htm Darfur Refugees Flee in 125-Mile Trek http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6676805,00.html Nobel winners decry lack of women's rights in Middle East http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/article2606452.ece Albania: Fifteen in Kor?a threatened with eviction and homelessness http://news.amnesty.org/index/ENGEUR110012007 Bahrain: Jailed Protestors Show Signs of Severe Abuse http://hrw.org/english/docs/2007/06/01/bahrai16051.htm China: Media Freedom Under Assault Ahead of 2008 Olympics http://hrw.org/english/docs/2007/05/31/china16029.htm China: Tiananmen Legacy Defies Olympic Gloss http://hrw.org/english/docs/2007/06/01/china16043.htm Haiti bids to halt return of Baby Doc's millions http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,2093603,00.html Iran: End Harassment of Dual-Nationals http://hrw.org/english/docs/2007/05/31/iran16025.htm 'Japanese Schindler' who saved Lithuanian Jews is honoured http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article2594166.ece Latvia: Celebrating rights -- fighting prejudice http://news.amnesty.org/index/ENGEUR520032007 Lebanon army pounds militants in refugee camp http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/CrisesArticle.aspx?rpc=401&storyId=L02382697 Nepal: Bhutanese Refugee Tensions Erupt Into Violence http://hrw.org/english/docs/2007/05/31/bhutan16034.htm Serbia's New Government: Turning from Europe http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?id=4878&l=1 Serbia: EU Sends Wrong Message by Reopening Talks http://hrw.org/english/docs/2007/06/01/serbia16052.htm Serbia delivers third most wanted genocide suspect to The Hague http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article2606404.ece Thai coup leader says disbarred politicians could receive amnesty http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/article2606474.ece US: Halt Deportation to Torture in Egypt http://hrw.org/english/docs/2007/06/01/usdom16055.htm [05] Europe --------- Weekly updates 31-May-2007 http://www.ecre.org/resources/weekly_update/865 28-May-2007 - Special http://www.ecre.org/resources/weekly_update/859 [06] Events ----------- Refugee recruitment open day http://www.education-action.org/default.asp?pageRef=163&newsID=122 Enter our student photo competition Take a picture of what education means to you and you could win a digital camera and a trip to London! http://www.education-action.org/default.asp?pageRef=281 16 June 2007, 12pm Anti-deportation/anti-racist protest/stall There will be another protest and campaign stall on Market Street in Manchester city centre from 12pm. All campaigns and organisations are invited. Defend all asylum seekers! No to deportation! http://www.asylum-seekers-defence.org.uk 16th and 17th July 2007 A two day Workshop with Dr. Kenneth Hardy: "Clinical Work with Black Families" on the 16th and 17th July 2007 http://cccs.typepad.co.uk/ http://www.instituteoffamilytherapy.org.uk/ [07] Latest CrisisWatch Newsletter, 1 June http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?id=4880&l=1&m=1 [08] US - Refugee Roulette: Disparities in Asylum Adjudication This study analyzes databases of merits decisions from all four levels of the asylum adjudication process: 133,000 decisions by 884 asylum officers over a seven year period; 140,000 decisions of 225 immigration judges over a four-and-a-half year period; 126,000 decisions of the Board of Immigration Appeals over six years; and 4215 decisions of the U.S. Courts of Appeal during 2004 and 2005. The analysis reveals significant disparities in grant rates, even when different adjudicators in the same office each considered large numbers of applications from nationals of the same country. In many cases, the most important moment in an asylum case is the instant in which a clerk randomly assigns an application to a particular asylum officer or immigration judge. http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=983946 'Refugee Roulette' Report Details Disparity Among Judges Granting Asylum http://www.hispanicbusiness.com/news/newsbyid.asp?id=66426&cat=Headlines&more=/news/more-news.asp [09] Legal notices: Privacy, User obligation and terms of use ----------- ? Disclaimer and terms of use (July 2006) ? 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Suggest websites as sources of News, Jobs and Events @ http://www.frankslist.info ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ [01] Lead items [02] UK [03] Jobs [04] World [05] Europe [06] Events [07] Eyes on Darfur [08] Strategic Migration Partnership [09] ILPA: Papers for Information Service [10] ECRE Response to Commission's Asylum package released [11] Separating breast-feeding mothers from their children [12] Justice and Home Affairs Issues at European Union Level [13] US / Mexico immigration solutions from the people to their policy makers [14] More responses to 'Planning Better Outcomes and Support for Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children' BIA con...sultation [15] Legal notices: Privacy, User obligation and terms of use [16] How to cancel or change your subscription to Frank's List [01] Lead items: ---------- 'Law, 11, Britons, Amnesty, Day, horror, citizenship, false dawns' - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Move to simplify immigration laws A public consultation will run until 29 August on how to reform the 11 Acts and dozens of other regulations, some from 1971, which govern immigration. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6727865.stm Simplifying Immigration Law: an initial consultation 6 June - 29 August 2007 http://www.bia.homeoffice.gov.uk/lawandpolicy/consultationdocuments/currentconsultations Children and young people make DVD on Dungavel ?horror? http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/news/display.var.1452604.0.0.php Ministers proposing 'Britain Day' http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6721239.stm Brown promises Britons first refusal on jobs http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article2617452.ece Amnesty for failed asylum-seeker families ruled out under new ... The Scottish Executive yesterday ruled out an amnesty for failed asylum-seeker families who have settled in Scotland. Scotland's children's commissioner, said there had been a number of "false dawns" by the government promising to take into account the welfare of children of failed asylum seekers. http://news.scotsman.com/politics.cfm?id=882812007 Amnesty demanded by women in Yarl's Wood Download copy (PDF) http://www.frankslist.info/amnestyappeal.pdf Source: bwrap at womenagainstrape.net http://www.bwrap.dircon.co.uk/ MSP in plea on asylum seeker raids http://icscotland.icnetwork.co.uk/news/scottish/tm_headline=msp-in-plea-on-asylum-seeker-raids%26method=full%26objectid=19248595%26siteid=50141-name_page.html OK, let's have a Britishness test. But it must be for everyone, migrant or not http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,2096223,00.html Follow US identity model http://www.guardian.co.uk/immigration/story/0,,2095809,00.html Lessons on citizenship http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,,2096178,00.html Shared purpose and national cohesion http://comment.independent.co.uk/leading_articles/article2617414.ece Muslim perspective What Britishness means to some in multi-cultural Britain http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6723325.stm Exclusively English? Recent debate over an English parliament is further evidence that English national identity is on the rise. http://www.ippr.org.uk/articles/?id=2730 Rules to make migrants integrate Ministers want to introduce a national British day to complete a "citizenship revolution" that would also toughen rules for migrants and try to instil community pride in all 18-year-olds. http://www.guardian.co.uk/frontpage/story/0,,2095521,00.html Even in death, migrants were let down by Europe The bodies of 21 would-be migrants picked up from the Mediterranean by a French frigate 120 miles south of Malta were left to rot on board the ship while Maltese, French and Libyan authorities argued for hours over where the bodies would be taken for burial. http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article2611745.ece US border vigilantes declare war on themselves Anti-immigrant vigilante force set up to patrol US-Mexican border, in danger of imploding. http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,2094677,00.html Citizenship must be earned, says minister http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article1884811.ece [02] UK -------- 6 Jun 07 Joseph Kakembo Belongs on Teesside! http://www.ncadc.org.uk/newszine83/joseph.html New concerns over right to detain travellers http://politics.guardian.co.uk/homeaffairs/story/0,,2096536,00.html Support for immigrant pupils praised http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/chorley/headlines/display.var.1450218.0.support_for_immigrant_pupils_praised.php Attorney General faces new questions on ill-treatment of Iraqi civilians http://www.liberty-human-rights.org.uk/news-and-events/1-press-releases/2007/new-questions-re-iraq-civilians.shtml Stop the deportation of Laban Mmbololo, father of two and Harmondsworth witness http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/06/372632.html Oral evidence session for the inquiry "A Surveillance Society?" http://www.parliament.uk/parliamentary_committees/home_affairs_committee/hacpn070606no29.cfm 5 Jun 07 Group wants asylum seeker stories http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/6721121.stm Link: Independent Asylum Commission http://www.independentasylumcommission.org.uk/ The latest salvo Russia and the G7: Do the Russians really intend to target their missiles at cities such as London, where thousands of Russians live? http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,,2095329,00.html MSP calls for changes in how asylum seekers are dealt with http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/news/display.var.1448321.0.0.php The End of Tolerance: racism in 21st century Britain http://www.irr.org.uk/2007/june/ak000008.html Refugee group says Sweden shows way on deportations ...criticised by refugee groups and it had a poor rate of people signing up to it. http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/news/display.var.1449493.0.0.php Public sector to help set immigration levels http://icbirmingham.icnetwork.co.uk/birminghampost/news/tm_headline=public-sector-to-help-set-immigration-levels%26method=full%26objectid=19248779%26siteid=50002-name_page.html 4 Jun 07 Tortured Liberian refugee finds home and work in UK A Liberian immigration officer, who fled his native country in 2001 after being tortured for his political beliefs has found a permanent home in the UK http://www.24dash.com/news/1/21386/index.htm + The Hague: Charles Taylor Trial - This trial must deliver justice for the victims http://www.amnesty.org.uk/news_details.asp?NewsID=17363 Yelena Tregubova: Why I fled Putin's Russia. And why the West must appease him no longer I have personal experience of Vladimir Putin's regime and the way the Russian President operates. I have been forced to seek asylum in Britain for criticising the Kremlin as an independent journalist. I have come to realise that to return to my homeland would be suicidal for me. http://comment.independent.co.uk/commentators/article2614548.ece Civil liberty Get positive http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,,2094477,00.html Guidelines For Health Professionals on Forced Marriage Launched http://press.homeoffice.gov.uk/press-releases/guide-health-profs-forced-mar + Forced Marriage Unit: Two- Year Strategy 2007-2009 (PDF) http://www.fco.gov.uk/Files/kfile/FMU%20Two-Year%20Strategy.pdf Call for controls on school fingerprinting http://www.guardian.co.uk/Education/schools/story/0,,2095058,00.html Israel threatens British boycott http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article1878463.ece + Forty years of occupation -- no security without basic rights http://news.amnesty.org/index/ENGMDE150382007 Blair can no longer deny a link exists between terrorism and foreign policy http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,2094484,00.html Firm to be sued over 'torture flights' Former British resident held at Guant?namo to sue subsidiary of Boeing corporation. http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,2094727,00.html Briton 'killed in US missile attack in Somalia' http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,2095010,00.html + Removals to Somaliland http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/about-us/freedom-of-information/released-information/foi-archive-immigration/6424-Somaliland-Removals?view=Standard&pubID=472336 G8 Migration Demonstrations http://noborderslondon.blogspot.com/2007/06/g8-migration-demonstrations.html 3 Jun 07 [03] Jobs ----------- [04] World ---------- Eta ends ceasefire and pledges terrorist campaign 'on all fronts' http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article2617449.ece The end of Bush's kangaroo courts? http://hrw.org/english/docs/2007/06/06/usdom16081.htm Africa?s warlords look on in alarm as ?revolutionary? faces UN court http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article1878739.ece Key Khmer Rouge trial talks held http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/6717767.stm Army U-turn on Kashmir holy sites http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/6720385.stm Putin raises spectre of nuclear war in Europe http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article1878730.ece Is Putin the bully leading Russia into fascism? http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article1884277.ece Will the detainees of Guantanamo Bay ever face a proper trial or be released? http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article2617407.ece Six-day war: 40 years on Israel triumphed in 1967, but the conflict with the Palestinians seems more intractable than ever. http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,,2095621,00.html Rulings leave Guant?namo in legal limbo US government faces calls to abandon separate legal system and try detainees at existing military and civilian courts. http://www.guardian.co.uk/guantanamo/story/0,,2096191,00.html Colombian rebels spurn jail deal http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6713303.stm Colombian Massacres and land seizures behind biofuel revolution http://www.guardian.co.uk/colombia/story/0,,2095348,00.html Iraq: 14 US soldiers reported killed in Iraq http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,2094842,00.html Iraqi displaced tops 4.2 million; shanty towns mushroom http://www.unhcr.org/news/NEWS/466579e64.html Israel/Occupied Territories: Reunited with images which defined the Six-Day War http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article2614570.ece Lebanese clashes spread to second refugee camp http://www.guardian.co.uk/syria/story/0,,2095057,00.html Pakistan: Broadcast Media Muzzled by Musharraf?s Decree Withdraw Presidential Decree and End Threats to Journalists http://hrw.org/english/docs/2007/06/06/pakist16084.htm Pakistan: Emergency Rule or Return to Democracy? http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?id=4884&l=1 Poland's Anne Frank Diary of 14-year-old Jewish girl unveiled after 60 years. http://www.guardian.co.uk/secondworldwar/story/0,,2096090,00.html Russian risk could yet dwarf our blunder on Iraq http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,2096200,00.html Russian missiles will be aimed at US bases http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article2611750.ece US: Pro-Immigration Group to Launch Ads http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6683658,00.html US: City OKs ID Cards for Illegal Immigrants http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,,-6686201,00.html US: Court: Women who are forced to abort pregnancies can seek asylum http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_6075767 [05] Europe --------- ECRE Response to Commission's Asylum package released 6th June http://www.ecre.org/resources/press_releases/869 Europe considers single asylum policy http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6726045.stm [06] Events -------- Tribal Soul - The Accused http://www.birmingham-rep.co.uk/core_asp/showpage.asp?theid=323&version=textonly&mode= 20th June 2007 Seeking Asylum: A Scottish Perspective Glasgow Royal Concert Hall http://ww3.holyrood.com/nav/conference/future_events/conf_asylum07/conference.asp?content=contents 28-29 June 2007 Diaspora and Migration: Otherness, identity and movement in and out of Greece An International Conference Organised by The Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies of the Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity http://www.diasporamigration.bham.ac.uk/ Monday 8th October 2007 Current Issues in Asylum III Fighting for Human Rights Against the Tide http://www.lsa.org.uk/currentissuesinasylumiii.aspx [07] Eyes on Darfur -------- Sudan (Darfur): Amnesty International adopts powerful technology in campaign to protect people in Darfur Amnesty International is using satellite cameras to monitor highly vulnerable villages in war-torn Darfur, Sudan. The human rights organisation is inviting ordinary people worldwide to monitor 12 villages by visiting the Eyes on Darfur project website (www.eyesondarfur.org) and put the Sudanese Government on notice that these and other areas in the region are being watched around the clock. http://www.amnesty.org.uk/news_details.asp?NewsID=17368 [08] Strategic Migration Partnership --------- Strategic Migration Partnership is the regional enabling body for co-ordinating services to asylum seekers, refugees and migrant workers in the East of England. http://www.eera.gov.uk/category.asp?cat=40 EERA Strategic Migration Partnership Business Plan 2007/8 ( (word doc) http://www.eera.gov.uk/Documents/About%20EERA/Policy/Asylum/EERA%20Consortium/Business%20Plan,%202007-8%20(Final%20Draft).doc [09] Separating breast-feeding mothers from their children -------- Immigration agency admits new mother was wrongly detained http://www.nursing-standard.co.uk/thisweek/news6.asp Bail for Immigration Detainees letter to the immigration minister (word doc) http://www.biduk.org/pdf/women/LByrne_4_June_07.doc Deportee separated from breastfeeding son http://www.guardian.co.uk/immigration/story/0,,2085613,00.htm [10] Justice and Home Affairs Issues at European Union Level -------- Third Report http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200607/cmselect/cmhaff/76/7602.htm [11] ILPA: Papers for Information Service -------- (Word docs) Detention Rights Remedies | May 2007 http://www.ilpa.org.uk/infoservice/DetentionRightsRemedies.doc Update on Asylum | April 2007 http://www.ilpa.org.uk/infoservice/UpdateonAsylum.doc Legal Criteria for Protection | February 2007 http://www.ilpa.org.uk/infoservice/LegalCriteriaforProtection.doc Info Service http://www.ilpa.org.uk/infoservice.html [12] ECRE Response to Commission's Asylum package released -------- ECRE Response to Commission's Asylum package released 6th June http://www.ecre.org/resources/press_releases/869 Europe considers single asylum policy http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6726045.stm [13] US / Mexico immigration solutions from the people to their policy makers --------- Mexicans and Americans Thinking Together Foundation http://www.matt.org Pro-Immigration Group to Launch Ads http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6683658,00.html [14] More responses to 'Planning Better Outcomes and Support for Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children' BIA con-sultation -------- Young Asylum seekers: Charities criticise Home Office plans http://www.ypnmagazine.com/news/index.cfm?fuseaction=full_news&ID=14424 A response by 11 MILLION led by the Children?s Commissioner for England, supported by the Children?s Commissioners for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. https://www.childrenscommissioner.org/adult/ccnews/index.cfm?id=1953&newsid=88 Response: 11 MILLION consultation response to Government consultation UASC (word doc) https://www.childrenscommissioner.org/documents/11%20MILLION%20response%20planning%20better%20outcomes%20and%20support%20for%20UASC.doc Refugee Children's Consortium (PDF) http://www.childrenssociety.org.uk/NR/rdonlyres/21A7B605-F252-401B-9A03-90C68242790A/0/0705UASCReformProgrammeTCSResponseFinal1.pdf Children's Society (PDF) http://www.childrenssociety.org.uk/NR/rdonlyres/D347AE59-EC94-4426-A37E-F3C031A26ECC/0/0705RCCUASCreformresponsefinaledit.pdf NSPCC?s http://www.nspcc.org.uk/Inform/PolicyAndPublicAffairs/Consultations/2007/2007_UASC_gf46257.pdf Joint NGO's (word doc) http://www.frankcorrigan.com/segregated.doc UNISON Scotland?s http://www.unison-scotland.org.uk/response/asylumresponseo7.html [15] Legal notices: Privacy, User obligation and terms of use ----------- ? 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[08] New visa rules, fees [09] UK Refugee Week and World Refugee Day [10] US: Court Grants Asylum Over Forced Abortion [11] Online: training modules on refugee and new migrant housing [12] UK provided base for rendition flights, says European inquiry [13] Newsletters, BIA, NRUC, NAM, Fresh Asylum Claims, Right to Marry, CRE, Show Racism the Red Card, Legacy cases [14] Legal notices: Privacy, User obligation and terms of use [15] How to cancel or change your subscription to Frank's List [01] Lead items: ---------- 'UK, axe, squalid, cohesion, anathema, wilful neglect, food, five' - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Food protest by asylum detainees About 50 detainees at a immigration removal detention centre in South Lanarkshire are refusing food, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/6739135.stm UK Borders Bill: briefing for Second Reading debate in House of Lords, Wednesday 13 June http://www.iasuk.org/C2B/PressOffice/display.asp?ID=369&Type=2 UN warns of five million Iraqi refugees http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article2640418.ece Iraqi civilians bring abuse claims to the High Court http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/legal/article2636199.ece UN forum spotlights situation of children in 11 countries http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=22841&Cr=child&Cr1= What happened to childhood? How we are failing the young The Children's Rights Alliance for England (CRAE), which represents the groups, is to hand over the evidence to the United Nations and accuse the Government of "wilful neglect" over its repeated failure to implement the international treaty protecting under-18s, the Convention on the Rights of the Child. http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article2640426.ece More: IoS Warns UK Is Failing Its Young Children's Rights Alliance for England The UK is the only European country to place a general reservation on the Convention on the Rights of the Child putting immigration ahead of the rights of asylum-seeking children. A similar reservation affecting women's rights was removed by the Government in 2004 http://www.crae.org.uk/cms/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1 + Get ready for Geneva website for children and young people http://www.getreadyforgeneva.org.uk/ MF warns that Home Office asylum child care proposals could damage young torture survivors http://www.torturecare.org.uk/news/latest_news/1038 See: Full MF response to Home Office proposals (word doc) http://www.torturecare.org.uk/files/unaccompanied%20children.doc + Refugee Children's Consortium response to Home Office proposals ...the political choices and presumptions in this consultation are highly inconsistent with international and domestic legal obligations and moreover anathema to child welfare practice. (word doc) http://www.torturecare.org.uk/files/children's%20consortium.doc squalid deal that cost our reputation Until we establish the full facts of the BAE affair, Britain is in no position to lecture others. http://www.guardian.co.uk/armstrade/story/0,,2099564,00.html Councils told to axe translation help for migrants http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article1909764.ece Translation help 'should be cut' The Commission on Integration and Cohesion..., is due to highlight the issue...in its report due later this week. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6738603.stm Link: Commission on Integration and Cohesion http://www.communities.gov.uk/index.asp?id=1501520 Blears sparks race row over immigrants 'undercutting wages' Candidate for Labour deputy leadership accused of pandering to the far right with controversial remarks on jobs and housing http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article2640423.ece Bosses may pay for migrants' English http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/06/10/nenglish110.xml Plan for new 'teenage call-up' Compulsory community service for the sake of social cohesion is suggested in a government report. http://observer.guardian.co.uk/Politics/homeaffairs/story/0,,2099685,00.html + Campaign Against Slave Labour Section 10 of Asylum and Immigration Act 2004 makes ?hard case support? conditional on performance of community work. In immigration newspeak Rooker called this ?social cohesion?. It is more like social disintegration http://noii.trick.ca/CampaignAgainstSlaveLabour If you don't play your part, your community will wither Britain continues to grow more diverse. So cohesion is everyone's business. http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,2099516,00.html Stop endless lessons about Nazis. Tell us our national story instead http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,2099512,00.html [02] UK -------- 10 Jun 07 Making themselves at home: Russian elite http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article1909842.ece London student?s jungle war escape led to ?rendition? trap http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article1909886.ece UK?s richest man in slave labour row http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article1909761.ece 9 Jun 07 US plans fingerprinting for air passengers Millions of Britons leaving United States airports face mandatory fingerprinting under new security guidelines. http://www.guardian.co.uk/airlines/story/0,,2097218,00.html 8 Jun 07 Independent commission hears about disgrace of asylum raids http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/node/5344 Children learn about plight of refugees http://icbirmingham.icnetwork.co.uk/mail/news/tm_headline=children-learn-about-plight-of-refugees%26method=full%26objectid=19266990%26siteid=50002-name_page.html Haringey Council asks government for more money for asylum seekers http://www.communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2007/06/08/104756/haringey-council-asks-government-for-more-money-for-asylum.html Yarl?s Wood women call on Gordon Brown to let them stay in UK http://www.communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2007/06/08/104753/yarls-wood-women-call-on-gordon-brown-to-let-them-stay-in.html Mail renews fight for deported woman with P1 plea to immigration minister http://www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/campaigns/2007/06june/070608deb.shtml We have a human duty to help asylum seekers http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/WebPartsTpls/opinion?articleid=2918443 Migrants push birth rate to highest in decades http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/06/08/nbabies108.xml Goldsmith ?wanted payments hidden? http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article1902323.ece A struggle for independence in the British colony that time forgot http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article2631529.ece Chocoholics may be funding war in Africa http://news.independent.co.uk/world/africa/article2631528.ece 7 Jun 07 Govt in exile predicts mutiny http://www.thezimbabwean.co.uk/viewinfo.cfm?linkcategoryid=4&linkid=9&id=4704 Dishonour for Mugabe http://www.thezimbabwean.co.uk/viewinfo.cfm?linkcategoryid=4&linkid=9&id=4705 + Zimbabwe's terror One man's story of how he raped and tortured for Mugabe http://news.independent.co.uk/world/africa/article2621831.ece Urgent Action Needed! - Demirci family Must Stay http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/06/372812.html U.S. and UK Agencies to Join Forces in Combating Human Trafficking http://www.ukhtc.org/news.htm#7 How an asylum seeker bonded with her HIV support worker http://www.communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2007/06/07/104727/how-an-asylum-seeker-bonded-with-her-hiv-support-worker.html Liberty?s response to the Home Office Consultation 'Modernising Police Powers: Review of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act (PACE) 1984', June 07 http://www.liberty-human-rights.org.uk/publications/1-policy-papers/index.shtml [03] Jobs ----------- Campaign Administrator ?22,225 22/06/2007 Campaigns http://web.amnesty.org/jobs/index/07062007-CP0707 Commission for Equality and Human Rights Helpline Opportunities - Can you help Britain feel at ease with itself? http://www.cehr.org.uk/content/secondments.rhtm Donor Development Executive (Maternity Cover) 10-month fixed term contract http://www.uk2.msf.org/working4us/vacancies/DDE_Maternity_cover.doc [04] World ---------- The G8 leaders are committing a passive genocide http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,2096959,00.html UN: Press Khartoum to Arrest Darfur Suspects http://hrw.org/english/docs/2007/06/07/sudan16087.htm General who helped redraw the borders of Israel says road map to peace is a lie http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article2640432.ece Classified advert breaks Tiananmen taboo http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article1896114.ece UN war crimes prosecutor calls for arrest of first Darfur suspects http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=22826&Cr=sudan&Cr1= Tamils are forced out at gunpoint amid claims of ethnic cleansing http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article1901135.ece Belgrade's new 'commitment' to war tribunal helps restart EU talks http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article2631520.ece In Iraq's four-year looting frenzy, the allies have become the vandals http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,2098057,00.html Olmert favours peace talks with Syria while making preparations for war http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article2621823.ece Is Israel heading for a peace deal with Syria - or another war? http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article2631298.ece The spoilers who threaten Somalia's peace hopes http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldbriefing/story/0,,2098190,00.html G8 pledges $60bn aid to Africa http://www.guardian.co.uk/g8/story/0,,2098552,00.html The battle over the media is about race as well as class http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,2097076,00.html China: Slaves rescued from factory owned by party boss?s son http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article1907369.ece Georgia?s South Ossetia Conflict: Make Haste Slowly http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?id=4887&l=1 India : Large numbers of IDPs are unassisted and in need of protection http://www.internal-displacement.org/idmc/website/countries.nsf/(httpCountries)/5762D122F45E14B0802570A7004BBA1F?OpenDocument&count=1000 Lebanese army again pounds refugee camp militants http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=21005 Liberian women ?vanguards of peace,? not just victims of war http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=22833&Cr=liberia&Cr1= Russia Refuses Asylum for "Ivanovo Uzbeks" http://www.iwpr.net/?p=buz&s=b&o=336181&apc_state=henh Russia blocks blogs to thwart demos http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2191706/russia-blocks-blog-thwart-demos Russia: Kasparov leads demonstration against Putin's rule http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article2640433.ece Spain jails Basque leader days after ETA announces end of cease-fire http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article2636184.ece Sri Lanka troops 'kill 30 Tigers' http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/6736753.stm Sri Lanka: End Expulsion of Tamils from Colombo http://hrw.org/english/docs/2007/06/08/slanka16106.htm Thailand deports Hmong asylum-seekers http://www.spokesmanreview.com/nation_world/story.asp?ID=194125 Turkish troops 'chase Kurds in Iraq' http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article2621819.ece Ukraine: UNHCR concerned by rise in attacks on asylum seekers, refugees http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/media?page=home&id=4669266f2 US called to account for 'disappeared' detainees http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,2097726,00.html USA: Leading human rights groups name 39 CIA 'ghost detainees' in new list http://www.amnesty.org.uk/news_details.asp?NewsID=17367 US: One boy wins hearts in immigration battle Pair become public face of debate as Congress prepares to vote on guest worker bill. http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,2097237,00.html US: Isolated Bush sees divisive immigration bill killed off http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,2099061,00.html US: Deep Divisions Derail Immigration Bill http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,,-6693631,00.html US: Immigrants Divided Over Reform Bill http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6692010,00.html US migrant worker army to remain illegal http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article1907321.ece [05] Europe --------- [06] Events -------- Se section [09] UK Refugee Week and World Refugee Day [07] Why human rights? -------- It is less than four months until the new Commission for Equality and Human Rights launches, replacing the existing equalities commissions in Britain. http://www.catalystmagazine.org/ [08] New visa rules, fees --------- New visa rules for foreign artists 'would put fifth of shows at risk' http://news.scotsman.com/politics.cfm?id=894172007 We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to Reconsider the new pricing for applications concerning ILR Naturalisation. http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Immigration-Fees/ [09] UK Refugee Week and World Refugee Day --------- World refugee day: June 20 Marked each year on June 20. Find out all about World Refugee Day 2007 here, including listings of special events to mark the day worldwide. http://www.unhcr.org/events/3e7f46e04.html UK Refugee Week: 18 - 24 June Publicity material and UK events listings http://www.refugeeweek.org.uk Destitution sleepouts: http://www.church-poverty.org.uk/sleepout/ Refugee Week Radio - 2007 http://www.refugeeweekradio.net/ National and Regional contacts: http://www.refugeeweek.org.uk/Contact/National+and+Regional+Contacts.htm Birmingham: 23 June 2007 Justice for refugees and asylum seekers! Amnesty for all, No deportations Saturday 23 June 2007, 12 noon until 2.30pm Outside Birmingham Council House, Victoria Square, Birmingham (word doc) http://www.irr.org.uk/pdf/Ref_week_rally_birm.doc Bristol: http://bristolrefugeeweek.co.uk/ Glasgow: Unity World Party, Saturday 23rd June http://www.unitycentreglasgow.org Leeds: Party to celebrate Refugee Week http://www.refugeeaccess.info/events.asp?step=2&eventid=589&lang_event=english_events Calendar of events: (PDF) http://www.frankslist.info/leedscalendar.pdf Launch event: http://www.frankslist.info/leedslaunch.pdf London: Celebrating Sanctuary at Coin Street Festival http://www.viewlondon.co.uk/whatson/celebrating-sanctuary-at-coin-street-festival-article-1713.html Manchester: http://www.manchester.gov.uk/adultsocialcare/services/asylum/marim/refweek.htm Nottingham Refugee Week 2007 - 16th?24th June http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/05/371846.html + http://www.nottsrefugeeforum.org.uk/first.htm#events Scotland programme: (PDF) http://www.scottishrefugeecouncil.org.uk/static/pdf/refugee-week-scotland-2007-programme.pdf Sheffield: http://www.sheffield.gov.uk/in-your-area/libraries/refugees-and-asylum-seekers/refugee-week-2007 Southwark: http://home.btconnect.com/southwarkrcf/srcf/id24.html Swansea: http://www.hafan.org/RefugeeWeek2007Swansea.htm York: http://york.indymedia.org.uk/node/613 [10] US: Court Grants Asylum Over Forced Abortion --------- A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that women who are forced to abort their pregnancies by governments such as China's can be awarded asylum in the United States. http://www.casperstartribune.net/articles/2007/06/08/ap/health/d8pjnu600.txt [11] Online: training modules on refugee and new migrant housing --------- CIH is collaborating with hact in a Housing Corporation and CLG-funded project, called 'Opening Doors', which addresses the needs of refugees and other new migrants. Included below are a set of training modules on refugee and new migrant housing issues, and a review of national, regional and local policy reports on new migration, especially migration from the EU member states. http://www.cih.org/policy/openingdoors/ and http://www.hact.org.uk/downloads.asp?PageId=173 [12] UK provided base for rendition flights, says European inquiry -------- CIA in Europe 'confirmed' http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6733353.stm About: Alleged secret detentions in Council of Europe member states - Chronology of Council of Europe action http://www.coe.int/T/E/Com/Files/Events/2006-cia/ UK provided base for rendition flights, says European inquiry http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article2636183.ece First CIA rendition trial begins http://www.guardian.co.uk/italy/story/0,,2098583,00.html UK provided base for rendition flights http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article2636183.ece Police chiefs accused of 'whitewash' over British links to CIA torture flights http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article2640436.ece The war on terror: Inside the dark world of rendition http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/article2631542.ece Response to Council of Europe findings http://www.amnesty.org.uk/news_details.asp?NewsID=17371 [13] Newsletters, BIA, NRUC, NAM, Fresh Asylum Claims, Right to Marry, CRE, Show Racism the Red Card --------- BIA Strategic Stakeholder Groups (Word doc) http://www.eera.gov.uk/Documents/About%20EERA/Policy/Asylum/EERA%20Consortium/StratStakeGrpsStatusV2%200June.doc NRUC News Spring 07 (PDF) http://www.eera.gov.uk/Documents/About%20EERA/Policy/Asylum/EERA%20Consortium/NRUC%20Newsletter%20spring%202007[v.05].pdf NAM End to End Process Map (word doc) http://www.eera.gov.uk/Documents/About%20EERA/Policy/Asylum/EERA%20Consortium/Asylum%20E2E%20generic%20v1.1.doc Show Racism the Red Card Newsletter (PDF) http://www.srtrc.org/docs/newsletters/newsletter_june_07.pdf West London Refugees? Events List. June 2007 http://www.reap.org.uk/news/index.htm Welcome to the first edition of the CRE's new e-bulletin. http://www.cre.gov.uk/about/ebulletins/issue1.html ILPA's Information Service - Update Sheet 3 Inc, ?Legacy Cases? This continues to generate widespread interest and concern. However, it is clear there is much confusion. It should be noted that having your case treated as a legacy case gives no reason to think your chances of being granted permission to stay in the UK are improved. There has recently been a change of responsibility for legacy cases at the Home Office. In the meantime, no new information is available.... (PDF) http://www.ilpa.org.uk/infoservice/Update%20sheet3.pdf - Fresh Asylum Claims (PDF) http://www.ilpa.org.uk/infoservice/Info%20sheet%20Fresh%20Asylum%20Claims.pdf - Right to Marry Judgement (PDF) http://www.ilpa.org.uk/infoservice/Info%20sheet%20Right%20to%20Marry%20Judgement.pdf [14] Legal notices: Privacy, User obligation and terms of use ----------- ? Disclaimer and terms of use (July 2006) ? Privacy Policy (updated May 2007) http://www.frankslist.info/disclaimer.htm [15] How to cancel or change your subscription to www.frankslist.info ---------- To make changes or cancel, just click on the link shown below: _____________________________ Change address / Leave mailing list: http://ymlpr.com/u.php?frankslist+noborders-brum at lists.aktivix.org Hosting by YourMailingListProvider From phunkee at riseup.net Tue Jun 12 10:25:32 2007 From: phunkee at riseup.net (phunkee) Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 11:25:32 +0100 Subject: [noborders-brum] Indymedia G8 Collection screening this evening (7:30) @ Custard Factory Theatre Message-ID: <466E749C.9060205@riseup.net> Greetings, Indymedia Birmingham are screening a series of short films about the recent G8 protests in Germany that the corporate media have either chosen to ignore or distort and sensationalise. Come and see footage from many of the protests, blockades and mass actions. There will also be a discussion with people who have recently returned from Germany. The Custard Factory is located in Digbeth Birmingham, the films will be screened in the Theatre from 7:30pm. Entrance is free. See you there! phunkee (one of birmingham imc) http://birmingham.indymedia.org.uk From frank.corrigan at frankslist.info Wed Jun 13 07:02:17 2007 From: frank.corrigan at frankslist.info (Frank's List) Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 09:02:17 +0200 Subject: [noborders-brum] Migrants Rights Network, Website launch July 1st Message-ID: <7f25a25a94c711897e8e9f23d42387f5@kauri.ymlpnet.com> RE: Migrants Rights Network, Website launch July 1st Website preview +++++++++++++++ Get a preview of the new website now, just visit: Migrants Rights Network Working for the rights of all migrants http://www.migrantsrights.org.uk Migrants E-news +++++++++++++++ Sign-up now to the Network's Newsletter: Migrants E-news http://www.migrantsrights.org.uk July 1st a date to remember +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The Migrants Rights Network website will be fully launched on July 1st 2007, to mark the 4th anniversary of The International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families coming into force. 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Secretary of State for Defence (Appellant) Al-Skeini and others (Appellants) v. Secretary of State for Defence (Respondent) (Consolidated Appeals) [2007] UKHL 26 13 June 2007 http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200607/ldjudgmt/jd070613/skeini-1.htm Asylum Rights Watch survey - Have you applied for asylum in the UK? - Are you in contact with people who have? Please tell us your experiences of the treatment of asylum seekers in the UK. http://www.asylumaid.org.uk/Policy/asylum_rights_watch2007.htm Executive moves to protect asylum children http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/news/display.var.1466536.0.0.php Some background: Scottish Executive must "pull out all the stops" to protect the "vulnerable" children of asylum seekers http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/4271922.stm It doesn't make sense in any language Ruth Kelly wants immigrants to the UK to learn English - so why do the government's current proposals seek to restrict access to free lessons? http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/ellie_levenson/2007/06/it_doesnt_make_sense_in_any_la.html 'Migrant scheme reforms may have breached law' Immigration changes for highly-skilled criticised by CRE Families 'devastated' by retrospective rules http://www.guardian.co.uk/immigration/story/0,,2100738,00.html Immigration laws too complex The myriad of legislation dating back to the 1971 Immigration Act, brought in shortly after Enoch Powell's notorious "rivers of blood" speech, will be replaced by a "single, consistent and coherent framework" for dealing with newcomers. http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article2646299.ece Response to the Discrimination Law Review Green Paper http://www.cehr.org.uk/news/docview.rhtm/453643 See: A Framework for Fairness: Proposals for a Single Equality Bill for Great Britain - A Consultation Paper Consultation period: 12 June 2007 to 4 September 2007 http://www.communities.gov.uk/index.asp?id=1511211 DNA database agreed for police across EU New law heralds world's biggest biometric system Police to share information on visa applicants http://www.guardian.co.uk/eu/story/0,,2101686,00.html Make migrants learn English http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article1913162.ece UK foreign language teaching hits all-time low Foreign language teaching in the UK's state schools has been reduced to "the sort of thing you find in a 'get by' phrase book", claims a doom-and-gloom report published yesterday. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/06/12/language_teaching_report/ See: School curriculum corrupted by politics http://www.civitas.org.uk/press/prcsCorruption.php The minister must learn the right lingo http://comment.independent.co.uk/columnists_m_z/thomas_sutcliffe/article2646313.ece We?ll carry on translating, vows council http://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/boltonnews/display.var.1464650.0.well_carry_on_translating_vows_council.php Liberty calls ACPO findings on extraordinary rendition a "whitewash" http://www.liberty-human-rights.org.uk/news-and-events/1-press-releases/2007/acpo-er-findings.shtml Leading human rights groups name 39 CIA "disappeared" detainees -- Three groups file lawsuit seeking information about "ghost" detention http://news.amnesty.org/index/ENGAMR511012007 [02] UK -------- 13 Jun 07 UNHCR's comments on the UK Borders Bill http://www.unhcr.org.uk/info/briefings/UKBordersBillComments.html Another dawn raid http://www.theherald.co.uk/features/letters/display.var.1470049.0.0.php Call for immigrant 'briefing packs' http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_2373861.html?menu=news.topheadlines McGuinness pledges his support for mother and baby seeking asylum http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/politics/article2652400.ece SNP fears new law could mean curtains for foreign Fringe acts http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=924772007 Brown's bane will be getting dragged into an American attack on Iran http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,2101440,00.html Poverty dynamics research in the UK http://www.jrf.org.uk/knowledge/findings/socialpolicy/2041.asp 'The media is a feral beast, tearing people to pieces' http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article2651066.ece Who exposed this colossal bribery? Why, the feral beast http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,2101424,00.html 12 Jun 07 Bravery award for city refugee http://icstafford.icnetwork.co.uk/news/localnews/tm_headline=bravery-award-for-city-refugee%26method=full%26objectid=19283562%26siteid=50002-name_page.html Nurse wins fight to stay http://www.thisissouthwales.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=161818&command=displayContent&sourceNode=161644&contentPK=17538879&folderPk=88499&pNodeId=161375 Refugees to visit the town hall http://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/news?articleid=2944905 Abused asylum seeker to meet Deputy First Minister http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/politics/article2647097.ece Dawn raid in Glasgow this morning http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/06/373434.html Child asylum seekers given care http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/nottinghamshire/6744323.stm Having fled Iraq, she died at the hands of her father ? and all because of a kiss http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article1918019.ece Honour killings on the rise in UK say campaigners http://www.education-action.org/default.asp?pageRef=277#12%20june%2007 UK Borders Bill at Lords Report Stage 13 June 2007 (PDF) http://www.jcwi.org.uk/news/UKbordersbillLordsreportjcwi%5B1%5D.pdf London is getting into the Olympic spirit - by kicking out the Gypsies http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,2100618,00.html 11 Jun 07 Women of Achievement finalists: Women of Determination Award http://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/features?articleid=2943733 Asylum seekers stage hunger strike amid claims of brutality http://news.scotsman.com/glasgow.cfm?id=910002007 Protestors support gay asylum seekers http://www.kentnews.co.uk/kent-news/Protestors-support-gay-asylum-seekers-newsinkent4052.aspx Teachers want to cap numbers of migrant pupils in class who speak little English http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=908692007 Mr Blair extradited? Not as crazy as it sounds http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/william_rees_mogg/article1913297.ece Ex-Navy chief 'took private legal advice on Iraq' http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/legal/article2643053.ece 9 Jun 07 Man jailed for five years after racist arson bid http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/article2637079.ece [03] Jobs ----------- Team Manager - Islington Refugee Integration Service Part ?time Job Share Wednesday ? Friday, 17.5Hours http://working.islington.gov.uk/Job_Search_View.aspx?jobId=2312&jobIdList=2312,2293,2296&categoryList=&minsal=0&maxsal=150000&workingPatternList=&keywords=team+Manager&PageIndex=0 Campaigner (UK,France & other EU countries ) ?25,680 04/07/2007 Europe and Central Asia http://web.amnesty.org/jobs/index/13062007-ECA0709 STAR is recruiting volunteers to join the National Office team. http://www.star-network.org.uk/vacancies.html Researcher (Zimbabwe) ?29,826 01/07/2007 Africa http://web.amnesty.org/jobs/index/12062007-AFR0711 Research Support Unit Director ?40,229 27/06/2007 Senior Director - Regional http://web.amnesty.org/jobs/index/12062007-RSU0702 Researcher - DRC focus ?29,826 04/07/2007 Africa http://web.amnesty.org/jobs/index/12062007-AFR0709 Senior Research Policy Adviser ?35,100 27/06/2007 Senior Director - Regional http://web.amnesty.org/jobs/index/12062007-RSU0701 Financial Controller ?40,229 rising to ?46,473 06/07/2007 Finance and Accounting http://web.amnesty.org/jobs/index/12062007-FAP0702 Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Policy Coordinator ?29,826 06/07/2007 Policy and Evaluation http://web.amnesty.org/jobs/index/11062007-PEP0706 Human Rights Adviser ?40,876 pa (London-based) http://www.lawsociety.org.uk/aboutlawsociety/career/vacancies/view=currentvacancydetails.law?JOBID=340553 Senior policy officer http://www.nat.org.uk/page/2428 Chief Executive Salary package circa ?40,000 http://www.covrefugee.org/Vacancies.html Policy Advisor, Youth Justice Asylum & Social Excl London, Public Policy/Policy Development, Ref:SE0460 ?32,487 ? ?34,986, plus London Weighting of ?3,102 and Market Adjustment of ?2,500, London, Part-time: 17.5hpw, Closing date: 3 July 2007 http://www.nspcc.org.uk/whatwedo/workingforus/workforushub_wda38392.html [04] World ---------- Dutch MPs back immigrant amnesty http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6746225.stm The Life and Death of a Border Town http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=14511 Pentagon report chills US-China relations http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,2101415,00.html Putin 'climb-down' claimed as police allow second protest http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article2646279.ece Bush feted in Albania as he calls for independence for Kosovo http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article2643039.ece US arms Sunni dissidents http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,2100698,00.html Putin protest to go ahead http://www.guardian.co.uk/russia/article/0,,2100638,00.html Expelled from Iran - refugee misery http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/6705329.stm Afghans are sick of our armies killing their people http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,2101419,00.html Bosnian Serb accused of genocide transferred from UN tribunal http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=22850&Cr=ICTY&Cr1= Central African Republic: Aid rushed to new Darfur arrivals http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/media?page=home&id=466e713c4 France moves to toughen immigration http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=923282007 Greece: Justice and protection for trafficked women and girls http://www.amnesty.org.uk/news_details.asp?NewsID=17375 Iraqi Christian Refugees in Legal Limbo http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6701241,00.html Iraq: Murder highlights death toll of Iraqi journalists http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article2643057.ece Israel/Occupied Territories: Palestinian breakdown nears as Gaza rages http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article1919742.ece Kosovo: A UN plan for Kosovo http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,,2101405,00.html Lebanon: Aid workers die in clash http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6741737.stm Lebanon: 'Escape is impossible' http://www.guardian.co.uk/syria/story/0,,2100766,00.html Malta, under fire, rescues 59 migrants, one lost http://africa.reuters.com/wire/news/usnL13902405.html Serb leader jailed for war crimes http://www.guardian.co.uk/yugo/article/0,,2101052,00.html Sudan: National Courts Have Done Nothing on Darfur http://hrw.org/english/docs/2007/06/11/sudan16110.htm Sudan: UNICEF lauds agreement by former rebels to hand over children http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=22852&Cr=sudan&Cr1= Sudan accepts joint Darfur force http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/6745691.stm Turkey: Small bomb blast in Istanbul injures 14 http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article2643040.ece US is clamping down on illegal migrants, but it relies on their labour http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2100115,00.html US: Controversial exile General's 'coup plot' arrest shocks Hmong community in US http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/6735609.stm Western Sahara: Out of the Impasse http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?id=4893&l=1 [05] Europe --------- JRS Europe Newsletter May/ June 2007 (PDF) http://www.jrseurope.org/publications/Newsletter%20May%20June%2007%20-%20web.pdf Weekly updates 10-June-2007 http://www.ecre.org/resources/weekly_update/873 Frontex - Facts and Myths http://www.frontex.europa.eu/newsroom/news_releases/art26.html [06] Events -------- Public meeting to organise Gatwick Area No Border Camp http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/06/373438.html World Refugee Day 2007: ECRE organises events on 19th June and 20th June http://www.ecre.org/world_refugee_day_2007 Africans Unite Against Child Abuse is July 23 Training Events For practitioners in Birmingham (PDF) http://www.afruca.org/archive/Training%20Brochure%2007.pdf [07] The Asylum Process Explained ---------- ICAR staff have written a series of briefings to assist the work of the Independent Asylum Commission (IAC) http://www.icar.org.uk/ Link: Independent Asylum Commission (IAC) http://www.independentasylumcommission.org.uk/ PDF files: Asylum determination process http://www.icar.org.uk/bob_html/04_iac_briefings/The_operation_of_the_asylum_determination_process_June_2007.pdf Detention of asylum seekers http://www.icar.org.uk/bob_html/04_iac_briefings/Detention_of_asylum_seekers_in_the_UK_June_2007.pdf Vulnerable groups http://www.icar.org.uk/bob_html/04_iac_briefings/Vulnerable_groups_in_the_asylum_determination_process_June_2007.pdf Removals http://www.icar.org.uk/bob_html/04_iac_briefings/Removals_June_2007.pdf [08] Report: Child trafficking in the UK --------- Children smuggled into UK for sex abuse and slavery Most victims become prostitutes or servants Violence used to control and 'break-in' youngsters http://www.guardian.co.uk/crime/article/0,,2100910,00.html Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre A year of high impact as UK centre for tackling child sex abuse delivers step change in protecting children http://www.ceop.gov.uk/news_items/article_20070611_ceop.htm + E-bulletin http://www.ceop.gov.uk/ebulletin_registration.html A scoping project on child trafficking in the UK, a report by CEOP http://bia.homeoffice.gov.uk/aboutus/newsarchive/childtrafficking [09] Nigerian dies on deportation flight from Spain --------- ...died while being deported from Spain with a restraining gag over his mouth, Spanish media reported on Monday. http://africa.reuters.com/top/news/usnBAN133033.html [10] Private view: Imprisoned - The damaging effects of immigration detention -------- Exhibition: Imprisoned - The damaging effects of immigration detention http://www.amnesty.org.uk/events_details.asp?ID=446 [11] A long way to go - Young refugees and asylum seekers in the UK --------- A long way to go highlights for donors ways to support these vulnerable young people. Three areas where the work of charities is critical and donors can make an important contribution include: * supporting children through the asylum process; * improving access to school places and other support; and * increasing refugee children's integration into the community. http://www.philanthropycapital.org/html/Research/young_refugees.php [12] Full text of secret UN report that condemns US for Middle East failures --------- Envoy's damning verdict revealed as violence takes Gaza closer to civil war http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,,2101677,00.html Alvaro de Soto's end of mission report (PDF) http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-files/Guardian/documents/2007/06/12/DeSotoReport.pdf Government on brink as Gaza civil war looms http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article1923755.ece [13] Legal notices: Privacy, User obligation and terms of use ----------- ? Disclaimer and terms of use (July 2006) ? 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Yours faithfully Frank Corrigan _____________________________ Change address / Leave mailing list: http://ymlpr.com/u.php?frankslist+noborders-brum at lists.aktivix.org Hosting by YourMailingListProvider From noborderslondon at riseup.net Tue Jun 12 18:30:23 2007 From: noborderslondon at riseup.net (noborderslondon at riseup.net) Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 11:30:23 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [noborders-brum] invitation to help organise the no border camp near gatwick Message-ID: <2721.127.0.0.1.1181673023.squirrel@petrel.riseup.net> Hi everybody. As you propably know we're organising a no borders camp in the Gatwick area 19th-24th of September 2007. You can read the invitation to camp at www.noborders.org.uk This is an invitation to all No Borders groups to join organising the Gatwick area noborder camp. We're organising a weekend of meetings in Rampart Social Centre in London from 30th of June to 1st of July Saturday 30/June 1pm-6pm- Public meeting for individuals and groups to talk about practical stuff for the camp and to exchange ideas about what to do during the camp. Sunday 1st July 10am-2pm - network meeting for No Border groups and friends to discuss the camp in more detail. Of course we will be discussing practical stuff a lot, but this will also be a chance to discuss what political issues the camp should cover, how we do that and what input people and initiatives would like to contribute and discuss. If you want discuss specific issues or want to do a working group at this meeting, please let us know so we can plan a bit in advance - please email g-anbc2007 at riseup.net) Accommodation on Saturday night can be arranged - please email g-anbc2007 at riseup.net It would be great if people from as many noborder groups and other migrant groups as possible could attend. We're hoping that this camp will have input from groups around UK in terms of organising and content. In fact, this will be necessary to make the camp a big success! For more specific information on times and location we will e-mail later. If you cannot come to the meeting yourself, please spread the word to those who might be interested. In the meantime, to get involved with the organising of the camp, please subscribe yourselves to the public list we have set up - gatwick07 at lists.riseup.net go to: http://lists.riseup.net/www/info/gatwick07 Information will also be posted to the noborders-uk list - if you're not already on this email shiar at riseup.net to ask to be put on (giving a bit of information about who you, what group you are with etc). At the Glasgow gathering we decided that this would be the best way to communicate internally between the different no borders groups, rather than emailing each of the lists/accounts. We have also printed some postcards which it would be great if people could take and distribute where they are. Hopefully leaflets and posters will be coming too, though we also need some money for this (see my previous begging email!) Yes, if there are any groups with money to spare (!), or ways of getting money, please remember that camps are expensive :) that's it. greetings from the camp preparation group. PS apologies if you have received this information already - we're just keen to make sure that everyone knows! From phunkee at aktivix.org Sun Jun 24 11:48:44 2007 From: phunkee at aktivix.org (phunkee) Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 12:48:44 +0100 Subject: [noborders-brum] making a statement about Amnesty Message-ID: <467E5A1C.1070808@aktivix.org> Hey, Following the rally yesterday which we're mentioned as a 'supporting group', shouldn't we make a statement about our position on Amnestys? For instance, facing the audience were two banners: one with 'no-one is illegal' - which is fine, and the other with 'amnesty now'. Dunno bout anyone else but i sensed a lot of mixed messages and confused politics going on yesterday. I'm also a bit concerned about differentiating between asylum seekers and "economic migrants". Myself and Shiar expressed our reservations about this at the planning meetings and then the publicity about the event claimed that it was supporting an "Amnesty for all", which sounds like a compromise on the face of it, but the word Amnesty is associated with a temporal process - it's not associated with freedom of movement or an end to the border regime. I feel we really need to be clear about this as a no borders group. Here's the indymedia post where we could add a statement clarifying our position as a comment: http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/birmingham/2007/06/374302.html phunkee From shiar at riseup.net Sun Jun 24 12:30:41 2007 From: shiar at riseup.net (Shiar) Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 05:30:41 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [noborders-brum] making a statement about Amnesty In-Reply-To: <467E5A1C.1070808@aktivix.org> References: <467E5A1C.1070808@aktivix.org> Message-ID: <33286.127.0.0.1.1182688241.squirrel@petrel.riseup.net> Yes, good idea. I'll try to draft one tonight. -- Shiar On Sun, June 24, 2007 4:48 am, phunkee wrote: > Hey, > > > Following the rally yesterday which we're mentioned as a 'supporting > group', shouldn't we make a statement about our position on Amnestys? > > For instance, facing the audience were two banners: one with 'no-one is > illegal' - which is fine, and the other with 'amnesty now'. > > Dunno bout anyone else but i sensed a lot of mixed messages and confused > politics going on yesterday. I'm also a bit concerned about differentiating > between asylum seekers and "economic migrants". > > Myself and Shiar expressed our reservations about this at the planning > meetings and then the publicity about the event claimed that it was > supporting an "Amnesty for all", which sounds like a compromise on the > face of it, but the word Amnesty is associated with a temporal process - > it's not associated with freedom of movement or an end to the border > regime. I feel we really need to be clear about this as a no borders > group. > > Here's the indymedia post where we could add a statement clarifying our > position as a comment: > http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/birmingham/2007/06/374302.html > > > phunkee > > _______________________________________________ > NoBorders-Brum mailing list > NoBorders-Brum at lists.aktivix.org > https://lists.aktivix.org/mailman/listinfo/noborders-brum > > From shiar at riseup.net Mon Jun 25 12:01:36 2007 From: shiar at riseup.net (Shiar) Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 05:01:36 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [noborders-brum] making a statement about Amnesty In-Reply-To: <467E5A1C.1070808@aktivix.org> References: <467E5A1C.1070808@aktivix.org> Message-ID: <43256.127.0.0.1.1182772896.squirrel@tern.riseup.net> On Sun, June 24, 2007 4:48 am, phunkee wrote: > Following the rally yesterday which we're mentioned as a 'supporting > group', shouldn't we make a statement about our position on Amnestys? So I've put together a quick draft (basically based on the London Noborders leaflet from a while ago). Below is the text. For easy reading, see here http://makebordershistory.org/workspace/BirminghamNoBorders_statement_on_amnesties ------ Birmingham NoBorders statement on asylum amnesties

In light of the national (now mainstream) campaign demanding an amnesty for some, selected asylum seekers [1], and even more radical campaigns demanding a general amnesty for all, Birmingham NoBorders would like to stress a few points related to asylum amnesties.

Not all amnesties are the same. Those campaigning for one need to consider what kind of amnesty or regularisation they want. Some amnesties may cause great suffering and consequently result in strengthening the immigration system.

An amnesty is not a long term solution because it does not affect the causes of immigration. Those arriving after an amnesty would still be declared 'illegal', forced to work illegally for sweatshop wages and be subject to detention, destitution and deportation. There is also a real danger that an amnesty could open the door for stronger immigration controls for those who don?t "make the grade" or who arrive after an amnesty ends. [2]

Asylum amnesties, however, could give security to thousands of people living in precarious conditions, and a campaign for amnesty could prove the basis for a wider campaign against the unfairness of the immigration system itself. While we do support the demands of asylum seekers, over-stayers and migrants in general to improve their lives, we want to make sure that all migrants are aware of the dangers inherent in amnesties and the specific dangers concealed in some of the proposals that are being bandied around.

We, at Birmingham NoBorders, believe that we need not just an amnesty but the complete abolition of immigration controls. We believe that no-one is illegal and migration cannot and should not be "managed". Any attempt to strengthen immigration controls is futile in the face of the wars, political repression, global exploitation, gender inequalities and environmental destruction that drive migration. "Stronger" immigration controls only cause massive suffering and reinforce racist ideas.[3]

Notes: [1] Strangers into Citizens is calling for a "pathway into citizenship", via a two-year work permit, for migrants who have been in the UK for more than four years. The campaign has the backing of leading church figures, trade unions, the Mayor of London and some businesses. For more information, see http://www.strangersintocitizens.org.uk [2] "Naturalisation programmes" have been carried out by many European countries in the past. Since 1981, there have been more than 20 "regularisations" in France, Belgium, Greece, Italy, Luxembourg, Portugal and Spain. Most, if not all, of these were followed by mass deportations and new, stricter immigration controls. [3] The new Borders Bill already allocated more funds and powers to the new Border and Immigration Agency to "deter, detect and deport those breaking the rules and ensure that those foreign nationals legally in the UK play their part in upholding the rules." -- Shiar From phunkee at riseup.net Mon Jun 25 14:53:20 2007 From: phunkee at riseup.net (phunkee) Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 15:53:20 +0100 Subject: [noborders-brum] making a statement about Amnesty In-Reply-To: <43256.127.0.0.1.1182772896.squirrel@tern.riseup.net> References: <467E5A1C.1070808@aktivix.org> <43256.127.0.0.1.1182772896.squirrel@tern.riseup.net> Message-ID: <467FD6E0.1080402@riseup.net> Shiar wrote: >On Sun, June 24, 2007 4:48 am, phunkee wrote: > > >>Following the rally yesterday which we're mentioned as a 'supporting >>group', shouldn't we make a statement about our position on Amnestys? >> >> > >So I've put together a quick draft (basically based on the London >Noborders leaflet from a while ago). Below is the text. For easy reading, >see here >http://makebordershistory.org/workspace/BirminghamNoBorders_statement_on_amnesties > > There's been some changes that are documented on the same page. Essentially we are concerned that talk of an amnesty is purely speculative and fosters even more precarity. Here they are in full: Birmingham NoBorders statement on asylum amnesties In light of the national (now mainstream) campaign demanding an amnesty for some, selected asylum seekers[1], and even more radical campaigns demanding a general amnesty for all, Birmingham NoBorders would like to stress a few points related to asylum amnesties. Not all amnesties are the same. Those campaigning for one need to consider what kind of amnesty or regularisation they want. Some amnesties may cause great suffering and consequently result in strengthening the immigration system. An amnesty is not a long term solution because it does not affect the causes of immigration. Those arriving after an amnesty would still be declared 'illegal', forced to work illegally for sweatshop wages and be subject to detention, destitution and deportation. There is also a real danger that an amnesty could open the door for stronger immigration controls for those who don?t "make the grade" or who arrive after an amnesty ends.[2] It is also worth noting that the government has repeatedly ruled out the prospect of an amnesty for failed asylum seekers, so raising false hopes doesn't really help people.[3] While asylum amnesties may give some security to limited numbers of migrants living in precarious conditions, they are by no means universal. A campaign for amnesty could, at best, be the basis for a wider campaign against the unfairness of the immigration system itself. While we do support the demands of asylum seekers, over-stayers and migrants in general to improve their lives, we want to make sure that all migrants are aware of the dangers inherent in amnesties and the specific dangers concealed in some of the proposals that are being bandied around. We, at Birmingham NoBorders, believe that we need not just an amnesty but the complete abolition of immigration controls. We believe that no-one is illegal and migration cannot and should not be "managed". Any attempt to strengthen immigration controls is futile in the face of the wars, political repression, global exploitation, gender inequalities and environmental destruction that drive migration. "Stronger" immigration controls only cause massive suffering and reinforce racist ideas.[4] Notes: [1] Strangers into Citizens is calling for a "pathway into citizenship", via a two-year work permit, for migrants who have been in the UK for more than four years. The campaign has the backing of leading church figures, trade unions, the Mayor of London and some businesses. For more information, see http://www.strangersintocitizens.org.uk [2] "Naturalisation programmes" have been carried out by many European countries in the past. Since 1981, there have been more than 20 "regularisations" in France, Belgium, Greece, Italy, Luxembourg, Portugal and Spain. Most, if not all, of these were followed by mass deportations and new, stricter immigration controls. [3] See here http://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2006-06-19a.1064.5&s=section%3Adebates+section%3Awhall+speaker%3A11360#g1066.0 and here http://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2007-02-19a.14.4&s=section%3Adebates+section%3Awhall+speaker%3A11360#g15.7, for example. [4] The new Borders Bill already allocated more funds and powers to the new Border and Immigration Agency to "deter, detect and deport those breaking the rules and ensure that those foreign nationals legally in the UK play their part in upholding the rules." From shiar at riseup.net Wed Jun 27 14:42:52 2007 From: shiar at riseup.net (Shiar) Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 07:42:52 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [noborders-brum] Indymedia feature on Birmingham's 2007 Refugee Week Message-ID: <57622.127.0.0.1.1182955372.squirrel@petrel.riseup.net> [for hyper links see http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/birmingham/2007/06/374496.html] Birmingham's 2007 Refugee Week(end) IMC Birmingham | 27.06.2007 00:37 Besides the annual high-profile Celebrating Sanctuary 'festival', this year's Refugee Week in Birmingham saw a candlelit vigil, organised by the Birmingham Anti-Racist Campaign (ARC), in the grounds of St. Philip's Cathedral on Friday, 22 June, to remember asylum seekers who took their own lives and to protest against the government's racist policies [call]. This was followed by African, Kurdish and Iranian live music, then the annual Refugee Sleep-out to highlight the problem of destitution that many asylum seekers suffer from. The following day, the end of Refugee Week, saw a rally in Victoria Square, organised by ARC as well, to highlight the bitter realities suffered by refugees and asylum seekers in Britain and to protest against the Home Office's war on them [call]. Meanwhile, Birmingham NoBorders issued a statement on the much-talked-about asylum amnesty, pointing out that, even when not based on racist criteria, it is not a long-term solution and often causes great suffering for those who do not 'fit in' and leads to stricter immigration controls. Related: Celebrating Sanctuary?! What Sanctuary?! | Birmingham NoBorders and The Angel Group at Celebrating Sanctuary | Refugee Week 2006: ARC vigil | Solihull picket | "party without borders" From Felipe.Molina at bsmht.nhs.uk Sat Jun 30 22:54:32 2007 From: Felipe.Molina at bsmht.nhs.uk (Molina Felipe) Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2007 23:54:32 +0100 Subject: [noborders-brum] possible deportation this thursday Message-ID: <094D4A88AD5EB247A9A59E09CBB2067E18B5FC@EXCHANGE1.bsmht.nhs.uk> Hi everyone Just found out today that a congolese woman living in kings heath was detained while at the solihull reporting centre. She is due to be deported this thursday. Is anyone up for getting involved in organising against her deportation? Felipe ********************************************************* This e-mail is confidential and legally privileged, if you are not the intended recipient please accept our apologies. 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