If your bureaucracy and administrative system makes people attempt suicide it needs to be replaced.

Horrible

Nigel Farage received 12% of TV/press coverage in the election. The Green Party (with 4 seats to Reform’s 5) didn’t even make top 20. Great research from Loughborough CRCC👉 @[email protected] shows Greens & smaller parties were especially marginalised by a press mesmerised by Farage’s anti-migrant noise

UNHCR issues important recommendations on asylum and refugees for UK’s new Labour government UN refugee agency calls on Government to repeal Illegal Migration Act and restore access to a fairer and more efficient asylum system EIN ein.org.uk/news/unhcr-iss…

Fun fact. Nico Williams, the standout star of the Euros, is the son on Ghanaian parents who crossed the Sahara and climbed over the fence into the Spanish enclave of Melilla.

An interesting & welcome UNHCR position paper that summarizes the organization's thinking on the role of 'routes-based approaches' to mixed migratory movements. My initial comments in this thread. 1/9 refworld.org/sites/default/….

New report launched today by UCL and ECPAT UK found that placing unaccompanied children in Home Office hotels, as occurred between July 2021 and January 2024, increased their risks of trafficking and exploitation. Read the full report ➡️ tinyurl.com/48r8jexp

This is worrying

Gloomy prospects for EU asylum policy. Excellent article from ECRE: ecre.org/editorial-eu-c…

My fellow Democrats, I have decided not to accept the nomination and to focus all my energies on my duties as President for the remainder of my term. My very first decision as the party nominee in 2020 was to pick Kamala Harris as my Vice President. And it’s been the best

Thank goodness. But some dice-throw to stop trump

The Government has made 2 key changes to the Illegal Migration Act so asylum claims can be processed. Gone are the retrospective application of the duty to remove (was post 20 July 2023 arrivals) & the ban on granting leave (post 7 March 2023 arrivals) legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2024/815/…

Good news

❤️Brighton #RefugeesWelcome

Important! "UNHCR is developing proposals that would see asylum claims processed regionally as well as inside the EU. The most complex & credible asylum cases would be heard in EU countries, while the most tenuous would be processed regionally in safe 3rd countries." 1/4

Got to love this judge

This appalling loss of life was preventable. The only way to save lives is via safe routes for people to reach family, safety & the chance to rebuild. Without political will, more deaths in the Channel are inevitable We need a fair new plan for refugees bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn9l…

Yvette Cooper says there’s a moral imperative to stop the gangs. Surely the moral imperative is to stop the deaths - and that means offering desperate people an alternative to risking their lives bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Fascinating report from Mixed Migration Centre about motivations of asylum seekers in Belgium & northern France traveling on to UK Argues that EU Dublin regulation is one of the push factors encouraging people to leave for the UK mixedmigration.org/resource/north…

In Brixton for a board meeting of the wonderful City of Sanctuary UK 🧡 and thought I’d see what had happened to the magnificent former Refugee Council 🧡 building . It’s changed!