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MP intervenes as disabled asylum-seeker faces ‘life-threatening’ destitution
Wednesday 1st March 2017
by Karin Goodwin on February 23, 2017
for The Ferret
For more information and the documents:
https://theferret.scot/disabled-asylum-seeking-woman-faces-life-threatening-destitution/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=SVTF
EXCLUSIVE: UK “voluntary” returns – refugee coercion and NGO complicity
Wednesday 22nd February 2017
By: Lotte Lewis Smith
21.02.2017
The UK Home Office is accelerating its drive for “illegal” migrants and those refused asylum to return home voluntarily – a tactic publicised as more cost-effective and “humane” than forced returns. But how “voluntary” are these returns really? And how have NGOs become complicit in this strategy?
Fail, fail, and have another government contract
Monday 20th February 2017
John Grayson 16 February 2017
Open Democracy UK
"Security contractors G4S and Serco and housing company Clearsprings have for years supplied UK asylum seekers with shoddy housing. The contracts carry on regardless."