As last week's EU Munich migration summit concluded with a renewed commitment to externalising returns, ahead of a follow-up meeting planned tomorrow, 1 October, the International Rescue Committee (IR...

GENEVA – UN experts* today warned that Africans and people of African descent on the move are victims of racism and discriminatory acts throughout their migration journeys, as a result of migration po...

Fifty-two of the 65 countries that criminalise consensual same-sex intimacy inherited such laws from colonial rule. Yet a proposed UN resolution on decriminalisation omits that history, risking the fa...

GENEVA – US migration externalization arrangements are already putting migrants at heightened risk of human rights violations, including torture and persecution, Human Rights Experts** warned today, a...

GENEVA – US migration externalization arrangements are already putting migrants at heightened risk of human rights violations, including torture and persecution, Human Rights Experts** warned today, a...

Exclusive: Move by Shabana Mahmood comes after closure of Afghan scheme last year but experts say numbers too small to deter Channel crossings

All 50 districts of Bangkok have been declared disaster zones after almost 48 hours of heavy rain that caused widespread flooding, traffic problems and disruptions to daily life.

Mary Jane Veloso, a drug convict who was sentenced to death in Indonesia and later repatriated to Philippines, was granted absolute pardon on Friday.

Speaking before the party conference, the housing secretary says Shabana Mahmood’s immigration plans would affect care workers

In much of the coverage of the Ed Sheeran-Macklemore debacle, the reality of the incident is turned on its head, as...

Usually brought ashore by Border Security Command or the RNLI, these are the first uncontrolled landings since 2025.

The threats from A.I. are real — and they’re ones we know how to deal with.

While some rules are just fiddly and frustrating, others do real harm

Malaysia has invited Myanmar’s military ruler for a visit to the country in a bid to expedite Rohingya repatriation.

Home Office’s fees are up to 10 times the processing cost – and rising every year

Complacency and inaction from successive governments mean the wave of far-right abuse has now reached our heroic lifeboat volunteers, writes charity CEO Minnie Rahman – and it shows what charities kno...

From Elizabeth I’s backing of early voyages to royal investment in trafficking companies, generations of monarchs were central to Britain’s slave trade

This is a disgrace. Brave RNLI volunteers being called scum for risking their lives to save others at sea is just plain wrong. So I've signed an open letter of thanks for the RNLI letting them know th...

Women said they face harassment and lack proper medical care.

After 9/11, thousands of rescue and cleanup crews went to work at ground zero. They were exposed to toxic debris and experienced psychological trauma. Today, many say they live in fear of deportation.

Paul Nowak says changes to immigration rules risk overstretching social care and fuelling far-right sentiment Andy Burnham must overhaul Shabana Mahmood’s migration reforms or risk overstretching social care and fuelling far-right sentiment, the TUC general secretary, Paul Nowak, has warned. Speaking ahead of the TUC’s annual congress in Brighton next week, Nowak welcomed the “sense of optimism” around Burnham’s fledgling government, but he urged the PM to act in a series of areas, including migration and the cost of living. Continue reading...

A government that can’t distinguish between ‘legitimate concerns’ and open racism is only making things worse

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