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Asylum Matters @asylummatters.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

'Stopping the boats' isn't working. And unless we listen to experts it never will. Andy Burnham needs to learn from his predecessor's failures, and do the only thing that will actually end dangerous journeys: build safe routes. ✍️ @humansforrights.bsky.social & @projectplayfrance.bsky.social

Headline from the observer reads "the Government's stop the boats strategy is failing - and costing lives

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Detention Forum @detentionforum.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

STOP BORDER VIOLENCE: new campaign from @humansforrights.bsky.social, @projectplayfrance.bsky.social + @asylummatters.bsky.social calls for an inquiry into how UK funding at the border in northern France - £1.4bn since 2014 –has contributed to increasing state violence and fatalities.

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Humans for Rights Network @humansforrights.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

The UK’s border policy depends on violence. Humans for Rights Network recently spoke to Zack Polanski for Bold politics, discussing the horrific violence men women and children experience at our shared border with France, as they attempt to find a place of safety.

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Humans for Rights Network @humansforrights.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

We recently spoke to @zackpolanski.bsky.social for @boldpolitics.bsky.social discussing the horrific violence experienced by people seeking asylum and stuck at the UK FRANCE border, paid for by the UK Government through bilateral agreements with France. Full episode here - youtu.be/s3Va5lUvwgs?...

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Doughty Street Chambers @doughtystreet.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

𝗜𝗺𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗛𝗶𝗴𝗵 𝗖𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘁 𝗷𝘂𝗱𝗴𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗰𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗹𝗲𝗴𝗮𝗹 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗮𝗿𝗱𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗽𝘂𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗱 𝗺𝗶𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘃𝗶𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗺𝘀 ➡️ www.doughtystreet.co.uk/news/importa... @humansforrights.bsky.social

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Border Criminologies @bordercrim.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Over 25 young people have been forcibly removed to France as part of the UK's 'one in one out', despite flawed age assessments. Research from @jrsuk.bsky.social and @humansforrights.bsky.social show the scheme is putting children at risk. Read today's blog post ⤵️ blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

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Jesuit Refugee Service UK @jrsuk.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Under the "one-in-one-out" scheme there has been an increase in the number of age-disputed children in immigration detention. Urgent change is needed to ensure the protection of children and vulnerable people. Join us, and @humansforrights.bsky.social in calling for an end to immigration detention.

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Joint briefing exposes surge in children detained under UK-France ‘one-in-one-out’ scheme | JRS UK

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Border Forensics Agency @borderforensics.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Today, Border Forensics together with @sociodigfutures.bsky.social releases the new investigation 'How ‘stopping the boats’ kills'! The report shows that the #UK's "stop the boats" policy has in fact led to an increase in deaths. Find full report here 👉 www.borderforensics.org/investigatio...

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Crossborder Forum @crossborderforum.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Tomorrow, Thursday 26th March, join @humansforrights.bsky.social & @projectplayfrance.bsky.social for a discussion on how border violence is an intentional structural element of securitisation of the UK-French border Register here (online or in-person in London) www.tickettailor.com/events/cross...

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Select tickets – Report Discussion: You Can't Stay but You Can't Go – London

Report Discussion: You Can't Stay but You Can't Go – London, Thu 26 Mar 2026 - Join us on Thursday 26th March to discuss Humans for Rights Network's recently published report, 'You Can't Stay, but You...

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Nathan Phillips @nbphillips1872.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

State-sponsored border violence is causing avoidable deaths at the UK-French border. Demand a public inquiry into the UK's role in deadly border violence. Sign this urgent petition by @projectplayfrance.bsky.social and @humansforrights.bsky.social you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

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Stop Border Violence: Public Inquiry Now

In 2024 and 2025, 22 children lost their lives at the UK-France border. Their names were Abadeh, Mohamed, Roula, Sara, Abdelaziz, Mohammed, Ishannullah, Sablia, Meri, Mansur, Maryam, Salah, Agdad, and...

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Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants @jcwi-uk.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

We've written to the four airlines carrying out deportations under the cruel and inhumane UK-France agreement. They are: Air France, Titan Airways, AlbaStar Airlines & Corenden Airlines. We call on them to end their complicity, now. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

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Rights groups urge airlines to halt ‘one in, one out’ deportation flights

British and French activists write to Air France, AlbaStar, Titan and Corendon airlines over ‘shameful involvement’

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Le Boulliche Masqué @t0m4skaban.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

"One for one", "one in, one out" : rien d'autre qu'un échange abject. Cet épisode revient sur l'inventivité décidément sans limite des Etats, ici la France et le Royaume-Uni, pour tenter de dissuader l'immigration. Deux versions pour cet épisode, mix anglais-français ou avec doublages.

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Humans for Rights Network @humansforrights.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

“You can’t stay but you can’t go” - State violence at the UK France border. This report emphasises the UK and French governments’ joint responsibility for violence at the UK-France border. Both governments organise and fund violent policing operations in the name of ‘security’.

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Nadia Whittome MP @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Last week, I hosted an event in Parliament about violence at the UK-France border. @asylummatters.bsky.social, Humans for Rights Network, Project Play and others shared reports of horrifying state neglect and violence, including towards children.

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Humans for Rights Network @humansforrights.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

This is an extract from a testimony provided to us by Saeed*. The full testimony can be found here - www.humansforrights.org/blog/2025/12...

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Doctors of the World @dotwuk.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

We took the French government to court - and WE WON. But the work isn’t over. The court ruled that living conditions in Dunkirk camps are illegal and inhumane, ordering urgent action. But basic healthcare is still missing. We have appealed to push for its inclusion. @humansforrights.bsky.social

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Humans for Rights Network @humansforrights.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

“You can’t stay but you can’t go” - State violence at the UK France border. This report centres around and emphasises the UK and French governments’ joint responsibility for violence at the UK-France border. Both governments organise and fund violent policing operations in the name of ‘security’.

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Humans for Rights Network @humansforrights.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Yesterday we were in Parliament to launch our new collaborative report, “You can’t stay but you can’t go” - state violence at the UK France border” at an event hosted by @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social www.humansforrights.org/state-violence

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Refugee Action @refugeeaction.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

The level of taxpayer-funded violence at the UK-France border revealed in this report is sickening. We support @humansforrights.bsky.social calls for an independent public inquiry into the UK government’s role in the increase in violence and deaths at the border in recent years.

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Humans for Rights Network @humansforrights.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

🚨EMERGENCY AT THE UK-FRANCE BORDER 🚨 Today we are launching our new collaborative report reveals that people attempting to cross the UK-France border are subjected to horrifying levels of state violence. www.humansforrights.org/state-violence

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"You can't stay and you can't go" - State Violence at the UK-France Border — Humans for Rights Network

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Asylum Matters @asylummatters.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Deadly violence on the French border is being funded by the UK taxpayer. Our leaders need to understand what's done in their name. Tell your MP to join @humansforrights.bsky.social in Parliament next week to learn the real impact of hostile border policies: fightforasylumrights.org/write-to-you...

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Humans for Rights Network @humansforrights.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

On the 18th September the UK government attempted to remove an unaccompanied child from Afghanistan to France under its sordid ‘one in one out’ scheme. His removal was stopped as he was boarding the plane.

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Refugee Legal Support (RLS) @reflegalsupport.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

🚨EVENT POSTPONED🚨 Unfortunately due to the planned tube strikes, our upcoming event with @gardencourtlaw.bsky.social and @humansforrights.bsky.social to launch our report on the criminalisation of people seeking asylum has been postponed. The rescheduled date is Thursday 9th October, 6:30-7:45pm

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Humans for Rights Network @humansforrights.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

We have joined RAMFEL and 53 organisations to demand Yvette Cooper extend family reunion rights to those resettled under Afghan schemes. This is a vital step to fix the harm caused by the data breach, which exposed families to renewed risk from the Taliban. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

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Jon Featonby @jonfeatonby.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

After more than seven months, the Home Office is going to start processing Syrian asylum and settlement applications again. New country guidance being published today questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-stat...

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Written statements - Written questions, answers and statements - UK Parliament

Information from UK Parliament on written questions & answers, written statements and daily reports.

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Greater Manchester Immigration Aid Unit (GMIAU) @gmiau.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

🚨We have published a NEW REPORT sharing the experiences of children from our All4One youth group who were wrongly treated as adults by the Home Office. These children arrived in the UK alone seeking asylum, were declared “significantly over 18” at the border and sent alone to adult asylum hotels.

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New Report - “This system destroys you”: Children trapped in adult asylum hotels by the Home Office - GMIAU

Our new report on children who have been wrongly sent to adult asylum hotels by the UK Home Office.

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Humans for Rights Network @humansforrights.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Ahead of the French-UK summit we with @refugeeaction.bsky.social @jcwi-uk.bsky.social @camcrag.bsky.social @crossborderforum.bsky.social and others have signed a statement 'condemn[ing] unequivocally the continued violence and securitisation' at the border www.crossborderforum.org/july-2025-fr...

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Humans for Rights Network @humansforrights.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Children at the UK-France border are facing relentless violence. In 2024, more children were killed on the border than in the previous four years combined. A new report by @ProjectPlayFrance is dedicated to them. It highlights the realities children on our border face. 👇

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Helen Bamber Foundation 🧡 @helenbamber.org · 16/06/2025

Over the past 2 years, we've warned repeatedly that moving men seeking asylum in the UK to Wethersfield causes them profound & long-lasting harm. Instead of closing the site urgently, the govt plans to extend its use — it's disgraceful. We need #CommunitiesNotCamps www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Asylum sites to be expanded as ministers bid to end hotel use

Chancellor Rachel Reeves pledged to stop using taxpayer-funded hotels to house asylum seekers by 2029.

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Doctors of the World @dotwuk.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

🔴 #Gaza Yesterday morning, our office in Deir al-Balah was hit in a drone strike. The location was clearly marked and registered with the Israeli authorities - it should never have been targeted. This is a blatant violation of international humanitarian law.

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IMIX @imixuk.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Disturbing and powerful new report on how people who cross the Channel including many children are criminalised. We continue to call for #SafeRoutes for people seeking sanctuary 🧡

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Asylum Matters @asylummatters.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Who are the "illegal migrants" we hear so much about? Here's one: a scared 17-year-old boy, locked up while looking for safety. A lot is said about people migrating irregularly, but if you want to really understand, read this from @humansforrights.bsky.social‬ www.humansforrights.org/i-told-them-...

Text box: "I spent 3 days in a police station which is dark days that I spend in all my life, in the police station. One room, without nothing, dark place, nobody talk to you, nobody answer to you. Stress, the words are not enough to explain those days. They were bad days, the worst that I have ever had in my life"

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Helen Bamber Foundation 🧡 @helenbamber.org · 05/06/2025

The UK's asylum housing system is broken, cruel & unjustifiably costly. People seeking safety in the UK are still forced to live in hotels and the ex-military site, RAF Wethersfield, for prolonged periods of time, pushing them towards despair & even suicide. 🧵 observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

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Inside one hotel, the high price paid by taxpayers and as...

Hundreds of people given rooms in London have no idea when they can leave or what awaits them outside

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Refugee Council @refugeecouncil.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Thank you to @jakerichardsmp.bsky.social who sits on the Home Affairs Select Committee for raising the vital issue of refugee children being wrongly placed in adult asylum hotels. Many refugee children we and @helenbamber.bsky.social. @humansforrights.bsky.social work with are wrongly judged adult.

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Humans for Rights Network @humansforrights.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

🚨🚨NEW REPORT🚨🚨 www.humansforrights.org/i-told-them-...

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Doctors of the World @dotwuk.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Excited to see our report featured in @bmj.com! Our joint report with @msf.org calls for the closure of RAF Wethersfield, where the High Court found survivors of trafficking, torture, and violence were unlawfully housed. Read more 👇 bmj.com/content/389/... #CloseWethersfield #CommunitiesNotCamps

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Healthcare charities call for the closure of controversial asylum seeker facility

A report by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and Doctors of the World UK (DOTW) has called for the closure of Wethersfield, a site that houses male asylum seekers, because of its unsuitability and the “...

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Doctors of the World @dotwuk.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

NEW REPORT 📣 Our teams have been visiting RAF Wethersfield residents. Our report reveals what happens when people seeking safety are put into mass asylum camps by the UK government: immense harm. Please share #CommunitiesNotCamps #CloseTheCamps www.doctorsoftheworld.org.uk/news/the-uk-...

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The UK Government must close Wethersfield asylum camp - Doctors of the World

For over one year, Doctors of the World, in partnership with Médecins Sans Frontières, ran a primary healthcare mobile clinic outside the main gates of the former RAF base at Wethersfield.

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Garden Court Chambers @gardencourtlaw.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

📣 High Court ruling on asylum claim withdrawals & support termination protects asylum seekers 📣 Irena Sabic KC & Alex Grigg of our #ImmigrationLaw Team acted for MAH in the High Court, instructed by Bahar Ata, Katie Nelson & Ana Isabel Hart of @duncanlewiss.bsky.social. More 🔽 tinyurl.com/bde3nfsu

Portraits of Irena Sabic KC and Alex Grigg with #DoRightFearNoOne below.

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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

In under 24 hours, Israel has massacred over 400 people in Gaza — including 174 children. Words of condemnation ring hollow. The UK government must end ALL arms sales, trade & diplomatic ties with a state facing genocide charges at the ICJ & leaders under ICC arrest warrants.

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Women for Refugee Women @4refugeewomen.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

🚨Launched today! Our report, #ADecadeOfHarm, uncovers: ❌Shocking new findings about the impact of immigration detention on women seeking safety, ❌and the extremely concerning gaps between Home Office policy and practice. Find out more👇 www.refugeewomen.co.uk/decade-of-ha... 1/🧵

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Women for Refugee Women : A Decade of Harm: Survivors of gender-based violence locked up in immigration detention

New research uncovers the extremely concerning gap between Home Office policy and practice in immigration detention centres.

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Helen Bamber Foundation 🧡 @helenbamber.org · 14/03/2025

🚨 In a judgment today, the High Court has found that the government acted unlawfully in accommodating three victims of trafficking, torture & other extreme human cruelty in the asylum camp at RAF Wethersfield. www.helenbamber.org/resources/la...

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Humans for Rights Network @humansforrights.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

In a significant ruling today, the High Court of Justice has found that the Home Secretary acted unlawfully and in breach of her duties under the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 by accommodating three vulnerable asylum seekers - TG, MN, and HAA - at RAF Wethersfield.

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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Staggering failures of child protection here, and "well, some of them might not have been trafficked" scarcely seems much of a response

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Why do some asylum seeker children go missing?

More than 50 asylum-seeking children who went missing in Kent over six years are unaccounted for.

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Humans for Rights Network @humansforrights.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

🚨 Children who come to the UK alone in hope of finding protection need specialist support. But our new report w/ the Refugee & Migrant Children's Consortium shows that hundreds continue to be wrongly treated as adults & placed at risk in adult accommodation or criminalised 1/3🧵

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Humans for Rights Network @humansforrights.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

In response to the Border Security, Asylum & Immigration Bill introduced by the UK government on 30 Jan, along with Border Criminologies (@vickytaylor.bsky.social) we issued a briefing on the criminalisation provisions related to irregular arrival: www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/news...

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

This is not only morally reprehensible, but a breach of the UN Refugee Convention. No refugee should be discriminated against on the basis of how they entered the country www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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UK to refuse citizenship to refugees who have ‘made a dangerous journey’

Home Office accused of shutting out refugees, as new guidance says those applicants will ‘normally be refused’

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Public Law Project @publiclawproject.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

GPS tagging of migrants is cruel and disproportionate, as PLP's research has proven. Now the Home Office's evaluation of its own GPS tagging pilot has revealed that it was ineffective too. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

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GPS tagging of asylum seekers is ineffective, government report finds

Home Office pilot in 2022 and 2023 didn’t stop asylum seekers absconding from immigration bail

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