Strength in solidarity: Right to Remain’s 2016 annual gathering
“You know when you have a really inspirational day and you can’t wait to do the next thing? Well, the Right to Remain Gathering in… Read more »
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#UnisResistBorderControls
This is a guest blog post by Sanaz Raji, who will be co-running a workshop on this topic at our annual gathering on Saturday. Five… Read more »
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Progress made and challenges ahead: reflections in advance of our annual gathering
Our national gathering is just around the corner. These annual events are a chance for asylum/migrant support groups we work with across the UK to… Read more »
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Detention expansion by stealth, at the UK’s unknown sites of injustice
Despite being signed up to a reform agenda that involves reducing immigration detention, this summer the government has quietly expanded bed spaces at Brook House… Read more »
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Unlocking Detention 2016: be part of shining a spotlight in the shadows
Every year for the past three years, Right to Remain has helped to run an innovative and participatory social media project that raises awareness of… Read more »
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Byron burgers: legality, morality, humanity
“[A] kitchen worker said staff at his branch were told the meeting was about “a new hamburger that they were going to start selling”. The… Read more »
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These Walls Must Fall
By Lisa Matthews, Coordinator at Right to Remain. On a beautifully sunny day in South Wales last week, we held an event with Swansea City… Read more »
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Friendship and concern in a world increasingly fractured by division and discord
A guest post by David Bradwell of Scottish Faiths Action for Refugees. The project I work on, Scottish Faiths Action for Refugees, was set up… Read more »
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New country guidance case on risk on return to Sudan
Country guidance cases are asylum appeals chosen by the immigration tribunal to give legal guidance for a particular country, or a particular group of people in a particular country. The decisions in these cases are assumed to be based on the best possible evidence about that country at that time. Until there are significant changes in that country, a country guidance decision sets out the law for other asylum-seekers from that country.
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Unlocking immigration detention: Swansea
People are being taken from our communities. It’s time to stand up and say no. Detention is one of the most harmful aspects of the… Read more »
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Practical solidarity in the UK asylum and immigration system: Cambridge workshops
Cambridge Refugee Resettlement Campaign and Cambridge Calais Refugee Action Group invite you to two workshops run by Right to Remain. Do you want to know… Read more »
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Home Office unlawfully imposed curfews: does this affect someone you know?
There was a very important judgment from the Court of Appeal last week.
The judgment was in the case of Mr Gedi, who was represented by Tom Hickman of Blackstone Chambers instructed by Ravi Naik of ITN solicitors.
The Court of Appeal found that the UK government has no power to impose a curfew either under powers for electronic monitoring or under general powers for conditions under the Immigration Act 1971.
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Right to Remain works with communities, groups and organisations across the UK, providing information, resources, training and assistance to help people to establish their right to remain, and to challenge injustice in the immigration and asylum system. Right to Remain is a registered charity (charity number 1192934).
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