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July
July 29
Local News
Helping to empower women from ethnic minorities
Jul 26 2005 – The Journal
Apna Ghar Minority Women's Centre is run by women, for women from minority ethnic groups.
Cuts leave people out and alone
The Journal
The Millin Centre was established in 1994 as a support group for black and minority ethnic residents ...
Fear for asylum centre kiddies
Jul 27 2005 – Evening Gazette
Children are being "damaged" by imprisonment at the Government's largest immigration removal centre, ...
National News
Award for Ham&High papers’ refugee coverage
Hampstead Express , UK -
... press awards. The group won the news reports award for balanced and accurate coverage of refugee and asylum issues. Describing himself ...
Needs debate
Willesden and Brent Times, UK -
A conference to look at the health and social needs of refugees and asylum seekers has been held in the borough. The event at Brent ...
Yarl's Wood women 'hunger strike'
BBC News, UK -
Legal Action for Women says the Ugandan women want their asylum claims to be reconsidered. They are also protesting over conditions at Yarl's Wood. ...
Asylum family do not board plane
BBC News, UK -
A family who were due to be controversially deported to Malawi on Tuesday evening have headed home to Dorset after an airport blunder. ...
A community rallies to stop deportations
Socialistworker.co.uk , UK -
... This could take four to six weeks. They don’t qualify for asylum because they are fleeing domestic violence. “Raheela Sajid has a degree. ...
July 26
Local News
Living together
Jul 25 2005 – The Journal
Coun David Slesenger, Lord Mayor of Newcastle
National News
Activist backs Zimbabwe deportation ban
ITN , UK -
A leading opposition activist from Zimbabwe has spoken of the brutality asylum-seekers face if they are deported back to Zimbabwe from the UK. ...
Annan hopes Britain will avoid racial profiling
GG2.net, UK -
... "I think the United Kingdom government has been very open, very lenient in its asylum laws and has received many people from around the world," he said "But ...
Malawi family lose asylum battle
BBC News, UK -
... former president. Their appeal for asylum was refused last year and the Home Office said they would be deported on Tuesday. After ...
Deportation threat could end Scottish swimming dream
Glasgow Evening Times, UK -
AN asylum seeker who dreams of swimming for Scotland at the Commonwealth Games faces deportation after his family lost a five-year fight to stay in the UK. ...
July 25
Local News
You have our support
Jul 22 2005 – Evening Gazette
Young supporters of a family threatened with deportation to Pakistan have taken their campaign to the ...
National News
UK Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Bill criticized
Workpermit.com , UK -
The latest Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Bill released by the UK Home Office has potential negative consequences for appeal rights, the immigration ...
Asylum seeker wins right to stay
BBC News, UK - 24 Jul 2005
A Rwandan asylum seeker who sought sanctuary in a Bristol church has won her fight against deportation. Josette Ishimwe, 23, came ...
Officers 'decide in advance' to reject asylum seekers
The Observer, UK - 23 Jul 2005
Asylum seekers are being 'inappropriately' turned away amid a climate of political pressure and hostile media coverage, an official watchdog has warned. ...
Pals enjoy a spot of horseplay in the park
Glasgow Evening Times, UK - 22 Jul 2005
... It is hoped the play park might also become a meeting point for asylum seeker families who have recently moved into the Sandyhills area.
July 21
Local News
Safe for now
Jul 20 2005 – Evening Gazette
Teesside asylum seeker Edneth Gotora will not be deported until at least August.
National News
Gay Muslim wins asylum appeal
Manchester Evening News, UK -
A FAILED asylum seeker was given a new chance to stay in Britain today because he is a Muslim homosexual. Three appeal judges ruled ...
Vow by MP in asylum camp row
ic Birmingham.co.uk, UK -
FAMILIES fearing a slump in house prices have been told there are no plans to set up a camp for asylum seekers near their Midland village. ..
July 20
Local News
New hope for family in fear
Evening Chronicle
A family facing deportation back to
Call for asylum seeker review
Evening Gazette
Ministers were today urged to review the immigration system after it was revealed around 283,500 failed ...
National News
Refugee restriction announced
OneWorld.net, UK -
As is currently the case, any leave granted to refugees may be subject to review if the refugee, through their own actions, brings themselves within the scope ...
Home Office will miss target for removing failed asylum seekers ...
The Observer, UK -
The government will fail to meet its target for the removal of failed asylum seekers if it relies only on arresting and detaining more people due to be deported ...
July 18
Local News
Search as child refugees vanish
Jul 18 2005 – Evening Chrocicle
Six child refugees from Africa being cared for by social services have disappeared from their Tyneside ...
National News
Town to become asylum seeker centre
East Anglian Daily Times, UK -
By Ted Jeory. BRITAIN'S oldest recorded town is set to be one of the new centres for an influx of 800 asylum seekers. Colchester...
Asylum girl takes fight to Commons
Yorkshire Post Today, UK -
... The MP has launched a scathing attack on the asylum system, and is personally championing her cause. It comes after the Government ...
Reuters AlertNet, UK -
... Earlier this month, the UN refugee agency UNHCR said between 20 and 60 Togolese refugees were still registering for asylum daily at Hilacondji, the main border ...
July 14
Local News
A family in fear
Jul 13 2005 – Evening Gazette
A tearful mum and her teenage son today spoke of their dread at a detention centre following a terrifying ...
Evening Gazette Our say
Jul 13 2005 – Evening Gazette
The treatment of Raheela Sajid and her two young children at the hands of immigration staff is outrageous.
National News
HOMELESS IN NEED OF TENTS
South Yorkshire Times, UK -
... The family has settled well into the community but have been told they must go back to Zimbabwe after failing in their bid for asylum. ...
Childcare still failing most vulnerable
Times Online, UK -
... It also raises concerns about asylum-seeking children, particularly those who come into the country apparently unaccompanied. As ...
Refugees to play football for city
Glasgow Evening Times, UK -
Glasgow Ansar will play against teams of refugees and asylum seekers from across the UK. The Unity Cup Festival, was organised by ...
Watchdog slams baby unit errors
Wembley and Kingsbury Times, UK -
A pregnant asylum seeker on the brink of birth was turned away from an NHS maternity ward because she couldn't pay £2,300, a damning report has revealed. ...
July 13
Local News
Treated like a terrorist
Jul 12 2005 – Evening Gazette
Immigration teams today stood accused of treating children like terrorists after a deportation raid ...
Pupils' terror at asylum raids Jul 13 2005 – Northern Echo
TEACHERS say two terrified children were treated like terrorists by Home Office guards during asylum raids at their schools.
National News
Staff bid to save deportation threat student
Highbury & Islington Express, UK -
... is offering £1,000 of his own cash, which a colleague is matching, to get student Lilian Kikulel bailed from a detention centre for asylum seekers where she ...
Plea to tackle asylum seeker 'untruths'
Camden Chronicle - London, UK -
NEGATIVE views of asylum seekers are threatening to undermine race relations, Camden Council leader Jane Roberts has admitted. And ...
Refugees' stunning school success'
Camden Chronicle - London, UK -
... Award Ceremony. The event is a celebration of refugee and asylum seekers contributions to all aspects of school life. Nelufar, who ...
Seeking acceptability
Progress Magazine, UK - ... Public hostility to asylum seekers has risen year-on-year and the polls consistently report widespread opposition to the government's immigration policies. ...
Peterborough Evening Telegraph, UK -
Kurdish asylum seekers and refugees in Peterborough who escaped persecution in their homelands said they were outraged by last week's atrocities. ...
July 8
Local News
Wartime refugee had to learn Geordie
Evening Chronicle
A child evacuee who fled to Northumberland 65 years ago has told the Prince of Wales and Duchess of ...
National News
School wins award for helping refugees This is Oxfordshire – When Dilan Keskin arrived in Oxford from Iran two years ago, she did not speak a word of English and faced an uncertain future.
Soaring cost of asylum housing
Yorkshire Post Today, UK -
THE Home Office is paying millions of pounds over the odds to house asylum seekers, the Government spending watchdog has warned. ...
MP hits out at plans on refugees
ic Liverpool, UK -
Louise Ellman, Labour MP for Riverside, condemned the Government's plans to scrap the policy of granting indefinite leave to remain to successful asylum-seekers ...
July 6
National News
Bungled detention of Australian woman "a sorry tale"
Reuters.uk, UK -
... An Amnesty International report has found that nine out of 10 unauthorised arrivals who sought asylum between July 2002 and June 2003 turned out to be genuine ...
MAKE POVERTY HISTORY: MSP IN CLASH AT DETENTION CENTRE
Glasgow Daily Record, UK -
... However, Home Secretary Charles Clark had ordered its 38 refugees and asylum seekers to be moved elsewhere at the start of the week. ...
Europe agrees package deal to fly home asylum-seekers
Times Online, UK -
... The aircraft, dubbed “Asylum Airways”, will fly from capital to capital picking up illegal migrants in an initiative agreed at a meeting of the interior ...
The Good News UK, UK - ... The move to abolish the right to appeal comes in the Immigration, Asylum and Nationalities Bill, receiving its second reading in the House of Commons this week ...
July 5
Local News
Proven right to sanctuary
Jul 5 2005 – The Journal
This week, on television, I saw children weeping in front of a United Nations envoy because they had ...
'We're losing the brightest in world'
Jul 5 2005 – The Journal
Ministers should ditch their "wholly unjust" plan to deny foreign students the right to appeal against ...
National News
G8 protest turns to immigration
BBC News, UK -
... closed. The group wants G8 leaders to bring an end to border controls and the closure of asylum seeker detention centres. Meanwhile ...
Proof of deportees' torture puts Clarke under pressure
Times Online, UK -
CHARLES CLARKE is under growing pressure to explain why he assured the Commons that deported Zimbabwean asylum-seekers would come to no harm, when there is ...
July 4
Local News
We're there for you
Jul 2 2005 – Evening Gazette
A Kosovan family fearing they may be sent back to the country they fled are being shown strong support ...
National News
Beaten and tortured, the asylum-seeker sent back to Mugabe's ...
ZWNEWS.com, UK -
... President Mugabe’s security forces, show why church leaders and human rights groups are demanding an end to the forcible return of Zimbabwean asylum-seekers. ...
Zimbabwean deportation halted at last minute
The Observer, UK -
... removal. Ms Mukandara, a failed asylum seeker, is one of up to 100 Zimbabweans on the hunger strike in a number of detention centres. ...
Not beaten enough for asylum
Socialistworker.co.uk , UK - 2 Jul 2005
Among the groups of refugees on Saturday’s march was Daniel, a refugee from Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). ...
