23 June 2004 - [www.asylumpolicy.info] - 'Home Office...''Wastes millions'
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Watchdog criticises asylum decisions
"The most significant cause of delay is poor initial decision-making on asylum claims - too often the Home Office is refusing people who are later found to be refugees.
23 June 2004
About:
National Audit Office report: Improving the Speed and Quality of Asylum Decisions
Full Report (828 KB) PDF file
Executive Summary (152 KB) PDF file
Press Notice are available
Home Office response to National Audit Office report:
Background:
Amnesty International Report 'Get It Right: How Home Office Decision Making Fails Refugees'
"Government figures show that the Home Office gets the initial decision wrong on nearly 14,000 asylum cases in the last reported calendar year (2002), meaning around 1in 5 cases are overturned after costly appeals.
and
Home Office Accused of Failing Torture Victims
Former hostage John McCarthy opens MF's new London treatment centre
"Torture is intended to cause shame, degradation, humiliation, and guilt. With the new centre, the Medical Foundation is better placed both to assist the rehabilitation of those on whom torture is perpetrated, and attack the silence and complicity on which it thrives."
Call to Expose Asylum Myths by Ex-Hostage
"Former Beirut hostage John McCarthy tonight called on the Government to expose the myths about asylum seekers as he opened a new purpose-built treatment centre for survivors of torture.
22 June 2004
Accommodation centres for asylum seekers - your questions answered
"Up to 3000 places will eventually be provided to support new asylum seekers at a number of new accommodation centres.
22 June 2004
Bail for Immigration Detainees (BID): New June 2004 updated Notebook on Bail Part 2
PDF file
BID: New June 2004 Bail Information Sheet- explaining your right to a bail application
PDF file
Blair Challenged on Immigration Abuses
23 June 2004
UNHCR urges Glasto-goers to spare a thought for real refugees
21 June 2004
Asylum family can stay in Britain
A Croatian family, which has lived on Tyneside for more than five years, is given permission remain in the UK indefinitely.
22 June 2004
MP asks for return of ‘Barnet Two’
23 June 2004
Anger over immigrants' aid 'cut'
23 June 2004
Writers tell Welsh asylum stories
"An award-winning Algerian journalist is one of many contributors to a new book penned by refugees and asylum seekers now living in south Wales.
22 June 2004
About book: 'Nobody's Perfect: Refugees Writing in Wales 2'
"...free to people who are supported by NASS or who have been denied support by NASS.
Homeless project up for award
23 June 2004
Cockle pickers 'drowned'
22 June 2004
Facing up to 'death of portrait'
23 June 2004
Inquest into Morecambe Bay cocklepicker tragedy begins
22 June 2004
Opposition parties scent upset in Leicester
"Iraq war and asylum have Labour on the back foot in 'safe' seat
23 June 2004
The skills immigrants bring to Boston are in danger of being ignored, a leading councillor fears.
23 June 2004
Twelve 'illegal immigrants' held
"from either Afghanistan, Iran or Iraq.
23 June 2004
U.K. Investigating Alleged "Ethnic Cleansing" Plot In Zimbabwe
20 June 2004
:: World ::
Zimbabwe/South Africa: President Mbeki should be more publicly active in resolving the Zimbabwean crisis
Rumblings of war in heart of Africa
Ingushetia: Russian Federation coordinated attacks – life far from normal
Ingushetia: UN staffer killed in crossfire in Russian republic
Chechnya: More than 90 dead in Russia rebel attacks-agencies
Russians hunt southern attackers
Russian Federation: Brutal killing of human rights defender Nikolai Girenko
Russian Federation/Chechen Republic: The "normalization" of a human rights crisis
Russian Federation: Recommendations to second governments and the Council of Europe
Russia: One religious policy fits all?
Australia questioned over detaining children
"He says more than 2,000 children have been held in detention in Australia since 1999 and 93 per cent of them have been found to be genuine refugees.
Australia: Court blocks bid for deportation
Colombia: Probe finds army killed execution-style
Ireland: Up to 40 children being trafficked annually
Canada: Gypsies claim Ottawa rigged refugee cases
Nauru 'needs asylum seekers'
Thailand: The Shan - A Case of Protection and Assistance Failure
Sudan: Annan seeks to evade blame
Sudan: Darfur crisis deepens
Sudan: Desperate times
Sudan: Polio Reaches Sudan's Conflict-Ridden Darfur
http://www.oneworld.net/article/view/88671/1/
DR Congo: Number of Congolese fleeing to Burundi jumps to 31,000, UN reports
DR Congo: Keep out of Congo conflict, UN tells neighbors
Cuba: Two boatloads of Cubans arrive in Florida
Honduras vows to block any mass arrival by Cuban rafters
Bosnia-Herzegovina: Serb leader acknowledges atrocities in Srebrenica
Pakistan: US rules out aid curbs
U.S. amends plan to ensure war crimes immunity
Switzerland : Asylum seekers to be offered voluntary HIV tests
:: Miscellaneous ::
Bad News from Israel
TV news and public understanding of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Significant International Statements on Migration
US releases 'torture' documents
The Department of Defense today released documents related to the development of interrogation procedures at Guantanamo.
Women flee as police swoop in factory raid
:: Events ::
Challenging Perceptions Applying Citizenship resources in the classroom
Aegis Trust Training Day for LEA Officers and teachers
Date: 23rd July 2004
Venue: The Aegis Institute
Lound Hall, Bothamsall, Retford, Notts DN22 8DF
Via:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/refed/
The world belongs to all of us - we have a right to be here
Strengthening the movement against repressive laws on asylum & immigration
Saturday 3 July, 10-5pm
Trinity United Reformed Church, Buck Street London NW1
(Kentish Town Road end, behind Sainsbury's)
Disabled access (Toilets nearby)
Entrance: institutions £30; high waged £10; waged £3-£5; unwaged £3
asylum seekers: free
Speakers include: Gareth Pierce and Ian macDonald QC
Crossroads Women's Centre, 230a Kentish Town Road, London NW5 2AB
Tel: 020 7482 2496
Fax: 020 7209 4761
law@crossroadswomen.net
Via:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/refed/
Amnesty International Book Launch: Sex, Love and Homophobia: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Lives
1 July 2004
'The Changing Contexts of Migration'
COMPAS Launch Conference
5th & 6th July 2004
St. Antony's College, University of Oxford
An international conference to launch the Economic and Social Research
Council's (ESRC) Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS)
ESRC Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS)
University of Oxford, 58 Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 6QS
Tel.: +44 (0) 1865 274566 Fax.: +44 (0) 1865 274718
Email: info@compas.ox.ac.uk
UK Lesbian & Gay Immigration Group
Next London Meetings on July 17th., August 21st., Sept 18th
Conference: From policy to practice: making sense of the Asylum and Immigration Act 2004
Tuesday 14 September, London
Friday 17 September, Sheffield
For further information of the conferences and to book, download a conference flyer, (PDF).
Full rate £295 (central government/business)
Reduced rate £245 (public/educational body/local government)
Supported rate £100 (voluntary organisation)
More details:
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Consolidated text of amendments to the EU Constitution agreed by the EU "Intergovernmental Conference":
Consolidated text (76 pages, pdf)
to be read with: The legally corrected base text (25.11.03) is: CIG 50 (pdf)
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