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Published in: Shine A LightDefend the Right to Give: Our blood is a gift not a commodityA challenge to the government's plans to commercialise blood donation in the UK
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Published in: Shine A LightUK Immigration Courts: Observations from the Public GalleryThe UK's immigration courts have been criticised for unfairness and lack of due process for years. Today, a report...
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Published in: Shine A LightWho is speaking for Britain's children and young people?: a challenge to the children’s sector
The announcement that children's charity Barnardo’s will work with the Coalition in the proposed replacement for...
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Published in: Shine A LightA view for the rich: Youth Hostels under the hammerThe Youth Hostel Association was founded to help all, especially young people of limited means, to enjoy the...
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Published in: Shine A LightBritain's host community: who’s in and who’s out?
Esme Madill, a consultant in the not for profit sector, spoke last night at a celebration of a London project for...
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Published in: Shine A LightCriminalised, vulnerable, and likely to re-offend: Will this government help young offenders in England and Wales?
Will this government help young people stay out of trouble and out of prison?: A response to the Committee of Public...
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Published in: Shine A LightYoung, gifted, exploited - and interned
Young people – already facing the tripling of tuition fees – are increasingly expected to take on unpaid internships...
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Published in: Shine A LightA friendly warning to 38 Degrees: don’t just compete, campaign together
The campaigning organisation 38 Degrees has reached a new level with its Save Our Forests Petition, and is now a...
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Published in: Shine A LightCameron risks alienating immigrants and refugees: So much for Big Society inclusion
Cameron cannot continue preaching the Big Society while alienating immigrants and refugees. So much for the Big...
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Published in: Shine A LightA child prisoner, a Santa suit and a Border Agency out of ministerial control
As recently as 10 January, the Home Office falsely claimed that no child had been detained for immigration purposes...
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Published in: Shine A LightWho stands for Liberty? Is the coalition going back on its words with Labour's help?
The new British government is not being as good as its words across in the policy area where its promises seemed...
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Published in: Shine A LightPutting children at the centre of government
Long before the latest savage cuts, the UK’s failure to prioritise children was an international disgrace. At...
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Published in: Shine A LightCameron is cutting the very projects that make Britain a civilised society.
Esmé Madill tells of small charities that make a huge difference to some of the most vulnerable, and whose existence...
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Published in: Shine A LightLegal aid reform proposals: immoral, inefficient and anti-democraticDeborah Padfield, a Citizens Advice Bureau specialist adviser, offers a systematic breakdown of the potentially...
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Published in: Shine A LightAn end to child detention?: how a High Court judgement brings us closer
In a landmark judgment on child detention at Yarl’s Wood, Judge Wyn Williams found that the UK Border Agency failed...
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Published in: Shine A LightMan or mouse? Keith Vaz should demand urgent reform of the UK Border Agency
A report on the UK Border Agency's work, published today by the Home Affairs Select Committee, exposes poor...
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Published in: Shine A LightMind the Gap! Coalition claims and realities for child detention in the UK
As we head into 2011, the Coalition has still not fulfilled their pledge to end child detention. Clare Sambrook...
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Published in: Shine A LightFive years of denial: the UK government’s reckless pursuit of a punitive asylum policy — never mind the evidence of harmAs Nick Clegg prepares to make a statement that will either end the scandal of child detention by the immigration...
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Published in: Shine A Light“We weren’t born asylum seekers”
For women seeking asylum in the UK the tales of persecution, flight and exile, of children and families left behind,...
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Published in: Shine A LightOn Her Majesty’s Deceitful Service: The Woolas Case and the Ignoble Lies of the British State
The legal declaration that Phil Woolas knowingly lied and his election was void has reignited a debate on politics...