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  ‘We, former detainees, demand the closure of Dungavel immigration removal centre’

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  Alois Dvorzak inquest: death of vulnerable and confused 84 year old detained by UK Border Force

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  Shine A Light writer Jenny McCall wins Anti-Slavery Day media award

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  When did inconvenience kill compassion? Thoughts on Calais

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  Rebecca Omonira-Oyekanmi, openDemocracy writer, shortlisted for Orwell Prize

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  Just how badly does the UK protect victims of trafficking?

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  Meet the UK’s latest weapon against organised crime and asylum seekers

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  UK activists prevent deportation of Afghan migrants

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  Yarl’s Wood: legal black hole

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  One bath for 12 women and 11 babies: UK asylum housing by G4S

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  'Headbutt the bitch' Serco guard, Yarl’s Wood, a UK immigration detention centre

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  Child locked up ‘by mistake’ for 62 days at adult immigration jail

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  Destitution, intimidation . . . How Britain shirks its obligations to asylum-seekers

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  The national shame that is healthcare in UK immigration detention

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  UK government accused of unlawful deportation of Buddhist monk

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  Nice work: G4S wins $118 million Guantánamo contract

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  Today MPs vote to end slavery - tomorrow they vote to continue it

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  Dalrymple verdict: NEGLECT contributed to death of American tourist in UK immigration jail

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  Medical care in UK detention centre a 'lamentable failure': Brian Dalrymple inquest report

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  Serco on the stand: Death of a US tourist in UK immigration detention

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  A call to action in memory of the woman I never knew

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  Activists call upon Angelina Jolie to meet rape survivors in a UK detention centre

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  Lessons from Australia: talking about privatised immigration detention

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  Migrant boys, all alone in the UK

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  Barnardo's and G4S, partners in the child detention business

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  'Neither criminals, nor animals!' A week of unrest in Britain's migrant jails

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  Hard lives: migrant children and the British state

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  Why the Jimmy Mubenga trial matters. By ex-Chief Inspector of Prisons Lord Ramsbotham

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  The nasty country? Debating immigration in the UK

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  The latest allegations against the Home Office are as serious as they are absurd

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  The spread of social blindness: migrants & the immigration Bill

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  I believe the word you want is 'rape'

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  Welcome to Britain. Go Home. And have a pleasant journey

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  Wasted lives in UK immigration detention

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  UK government deports sexual assault witnesses

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  Another death in UK immigration detention

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  Justice in the UK: back to the 1930s?

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  Lord Ramsbotham attacks 'perverse' decision not to prosecute G4S over Mubenga death

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  When you've been tortured does it matter who your torturer was?

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  Boy locked up for months in adult immigration jail

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  Miscarriage, stillbirth, psychosis. Pregnant in UK immigration detention

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  Needless heartbreak: new UK rules on family migration

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  UK Immigration Courts: fresh observations from the Public Gallery

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  What stops the UK protecting victims of trafficking?

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  UK immigration control: children in extreme distress

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  Is there an alternative to locking up migrants in the UK?

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  openDemocracy writer longlisted for Orwell Prize

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  Another G4S scandal: UK's privatised asylum housing market is falling apart

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  Their secret is out, but for G4S and friends ‘abject disregard' for human dignity persists

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  Is she a victim or an illegal immigrant? The UK Border Agency decides

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  Healthcare failings persist in UK immigration detention

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  Deportation: an increasingly 'foreign' Britain at war with itself

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  Inspectors condemn UK’s detention of torture survivors and victims of trafficking

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  Britain has become an open prison to migrants

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  Public protest supports women's uprising in UK detention centre

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  G4S uses ‘unacceptable’ force on pregnant detainee at UK family detention centre

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  Coalition promise in tatters as Home Office 'independent' panel wants more children detained

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  Detention is the essence of immigration control

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  What can be done to prevent further injury and death in the UK Border Agency’s care?

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  'Migrant Hope' versus political distrust in the UK

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  The UK Border Agency's long, punitive campaign against children (helped by G4S and Serco)

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  G4S teaches UK Border Agency how to care for children

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  Life in limbo for UK’s irregular migrant children and families

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  Controversial doctor and Barnardo’s serve UK’s flawed child detention policy

  Written by: Clare Sambrook All articles by: Clare Sambrook
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  How many children secretly deported under UK Border Agency’s Gentleman’s Agreement?

  Written by: Clare Sambrook All articles by: Clare Sambrook
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  Routine neglect by UK government-contracted doctors brings torture victims fresh trauma

  Written by: Frank Arnold All articles by: Frank Arnold
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  Nice Brits wouldn’t lock up children who ask for help, would they?

  Written by: Stephanie Donald All articles by: Stephanie Donald
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  Your asylum procedure is too fast and not fair, UNHCR tells UK government

  Written by: Roland Schilling All articles by: Roland Schilling
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  A child, a bleeding anus, interrogation by the UK Border Agency

  Written by: Clare Sambrook All articles by: Clare Sambrook
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  Illuminating the UK’s lethal detention and deportation conditions

  Written by: Tom Sanderson All articles by: Tom Sanderson
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  Child detention goes on and on in the UK

  Written by: Simon Parker All articles by: Simon Parker
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  Official lying in the UK: what child detention reveals about how we are governed

  Written by: Anthony Barnett All articles by: Anthony Barnett
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  "Just Go!” A final slap for the unwanted: Britain’s deportation shame

  Written by: SOAS Detainee All articles by: SOAS Detainee
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  Sadly, Jimmy Mubenga's death has not changed deportation practices in the UK

  Written by: Emma Ginn All articles by: Emma Ginn
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  In Nick Clegg’s fantasy world, child detention in the UK has ended

  Written by: Esmé Madill All articles by: Esmé Madill
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  Selling the state: the 'unethical' companies taking over UK public services

  Written by: Tom Sanderson All articles by: Tom Sanderson
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  Man’s inhumanity to man: why and how the UK asylum system must change

  Written by: Tindyebwa Agaba All articles by: Tindyebwa Agaba
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  Hard-hitting play on asylum system is a favourite of the Edinburgh Fringe

  Written by: Simon Parker All articles by: Simon Parker
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  'Barnardo’s! Please quit the child detention business'

  Written by: Alida Alisis All articles by: Alida Alisis
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  Theatre of Inhumanity: a damning portrayal of the UK asylum system

  Written by: Liz Allcock All articles by: Liz Allcock
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  UK asylum: Fit for Purpose?

  Written by: Catherine O'Shea All articles by: Catherine O'Shea
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  Why Britain’s refugees and asylum seekers have little to cheer about: a reply to Tim Finch

  Written by: Clare Sambrook All articles by: Clare Sambrook
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  Letter from Australia to Britain: Trading in human misery - immigration and the "Malaysian solution"

  Written by: Linda Briskman All articles by: Linda Briskman
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  Reasons to be cheerful: 10 things to celebrate during refugee week

  Written by: Tim Finch All articles by: Tim Finch
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  Fast track to despair

  Written by: Jerome Phelps All articles by: Jerome Phelps
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  The UK continues to detain children, a year after the Coalition's pledge to end it

  Written by: Simon Parker All articles by: Simon Parker
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  Justice for asylum seekers in the UK?

  Written by: Chloé Lewis All articles by: Chloé Lewis

  Written by: Azeemah Kola All articles by: Azeemah Kola
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  Detaining children is not a necessary evil, despite the Coalition's approach

  Written by: Heaven Crawley All articles by: Heaven Crawley
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  Oranges and Sunshine: children's charity Barnardo's must learn from past mistakes

  Written by: Clare Sambrook All articles by: Clare Sambrook
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  Is Barnardo's legitimising child detention in the UK?

  Written by: Frances Webber All articles by: Frances Webber
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  Who is speaking for Britain's children and young people?: a challenge to the children’s sector

  Written by: Al Aynsley-Green All articles by: Al Aynsley-Green
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  A friendly warning to 38 Degrees: don’t just compete, campaign together

  Written by: Anthony Barnett All articles by: Anthony Barnett
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  A child prisoner, a Santa suit and a Border Agency out of ministerial control

  Written by: Clare Sambrook All articles by: Clare Sambrook
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  An end to child detention?: how a High Court judgement brings us closer

  Written by: Simon Parker All articles by: Simon Parker
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  Man or mouse? Keith Vaz should demand urgent reform of the UK Border Agency

  Written by: Clare Sambrook All articles by: Clare Sambrook
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  Mind the Gap! Coalition claims and realities for child detention in the UK

  Written by: Clare Sambrook All articles by: Clare Sambrook
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  Five years of denial: the UK government’s reckless pursuit of a punitive asylum policy — never mind the evidence of harm

  Written by: Clare Sambrook All articles by: Clare Sambrook
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  “We weren’t born asylum seekers”

  Written by: Debora Singer All articles by: Debora Singer
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  On Her Majesty’s Deceitful Service: The Woolas Case and the Ignoble Lies of the British State

  Written by: Simon Parker All articles by: Simon Parker
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  Clare wins again! 'Investigative Comment' and the future of journalism on the web

  Written by: Anthony Barnett All articles by: Anthony Barnett
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  Triple vulnerability: the lives of Britain's undocumented migrant children

  Written by: Nando Sigona All articles by: Nando Sigona
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  UK government's slippery response on the "moral outrage" of child detention

  Written by: Clare Sambrook All articles by: Clare Sambrook
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  Meet G4S, Government’s untouchable friend

  Written by: Clare Sambrook All articles by: Clare Sambrook
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  "A lifer is better than a detainee"

  Written by: Jerome Phelps All articles by: Jerome Phelps
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  State-sponsored cruelty

  Written by: Clare Sambrook All articles by: Clare Sambrook
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  Rethinking asylum

  Written by: Colin Firth All articles by: Colin Firth
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  Let’s end child detention at the Release Carnival, London, Saturday 5 June

  Written by: Mia Eskelund All articles by: Mia Eskelund
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  Mother and child detained and deported

  Written by: Robina Qureshi All articles by: Robina Qureshi
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  When they said ‘We will end child detention,’ they meant ‘Keep on arresting babies’

  Written by: Clare Sambrook All articles by: Clare Sambrook
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  Let’s make sure they really do end child detention now

  Written by: Clare Sambrook All articles by: Clare Sambrook
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  Citizens UK hosts the party leaders

  Written by: Guy Aitchison All articles by: Guy Aitchison
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  Gordon Brown on child detention

  Written by: Clare Sambrook All articles by: Clare Sambrook
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  Election time: asylum seekers lose their last safety net

  Written by: Clare Sambrook All articles by: Clare Sambrook
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  Has Meg Hillier gone mad?

  Written by: Clare Sambrook All articles by: Clare Sambrook
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  Take one traumatised child, classify as 'adult', arrest, lock up, and bundle onto plane, bound for danger - Labour's Britain in 2010

  Written by: Clare Sambrook All articles by: Clare Sambrook
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  Roll calls, body searches and sex games

  Written by: Clare Sambrook All articles by: Clare Sambrook