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The UK Court of Appeal Thursday ruled that the UK Government’s “Rwanda Plan” is unlawful. In the ruling the Lord Chief Justice Burnett reversed the High Court’s finding, writing, “Unless and until the deficiencies in its asylum processes are corrected, removal of asylum seekers to Rwanda will be unlawful.” While the court unanimously accepted “the assurances [...]

The UK Parliament’s Human Rights Committee on Sunday condemned the country’s proposed Illegal Migration Bill in their latest report and urged the government “not to breach its legal obligations to refugees, children and victims of modern slavery, and to play its part in the global system of refugee protection.” Government officials have claimed the bill [...]

The UK Home Office announced new reforms on Tuesday regarding international students and their ability to bring their families with them into the country. The move is seen as an attempt to control the UK’s rising immigration numbers. In 2022, alone, the UK reportedly issued half a million student visas to international students. The government [...]

This is the third article in a series covering attacks on the rule of law.  The rule of law is a political philosophy premised on the promise that all people, systems and institutions are accountable to the same laws, processes and norms that work together to support equality before the law.  This series argues that [...]

UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak Tuesday called for changes to international law regarding migration that experts think government will break by allowing UK ministers to ignore rulings from the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). Sunak is scheduled to meet with heads of the EU and the ECHR in Iceland to discuss the changes. Sunak’s [...]

The UK Bar Council on Wednesday called on peers in the House of Lords to reject the “deeply flawed” Illegal Migration Bill. The second reading of the bill took place in the House of Lords this afternoon and saw the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby make representations as to the immorality of the bill. This [...]

The Parliament of the United Kingdom Wednesday passed the controversial Illegal Migration Bill through the House of Commons, clearing all reading stages in the lower House of Parliament. Passing by 289 votes to 230, the bill will now move through several readings in the House of Lords. The bill must pass both the House of [...]

Thousands of protesters Friday descended on Westminster to join the biggest protest tackling the climate crisis ever held in the UK. The unprecedented action was co-ordinated by Extinction Rebellion (XR), a UK-based global environmental movement which aims to use mass nonviolent civil disobedience to challenge government inaction over climate change. More than 200 environmental and [...]

A joint statement issued Tuesday on behalf of three UN Special Rapporteurs joined previous condemnation in saying that the UK is failing to  “abide by its core obligations under international human rights law” over its approach to migrant children arriving in the country. The rapporteurs say that UK government policy has led to unaccompanied child [...]

The Council of Europe’s Group of Experts on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings (GRETA) Wednesday expressed concern over the UK’s Illegal Migration Bill, saying the legislation didn’t comply with “core elements” of the Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings. The Bill provides for the detainment and expulsion of all those people who arrive [...]