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Published in: Shine A Light“Duty of care” vs “earnings per share”: private contractors in the UK immigration removals businessPrivate contractors are “out of control” and Amnesty International calls for a complete overhaul of UK immigration removals
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Published in: Shine A LightFrisk the 5-year-old: the UK Government’s new compassionate approach to child detention
Children are being routinely detained by inadequately-trained staff for long periods in immigration lock-ups at...
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Published in: Shine A LightA Crime against the British Justice SystemBritain's top crime-solving body is soon to close. The state-owned Forensic Science Service is being sold off by the...
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Published in: HomeoD Drug Policy Forum: Front Line Report - Week of July 4th 2011
We lead this weeks Report with news that the Bolivian government has formally notified the UN Secretary General of...
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Published in: HomeThe Exile Nation Project: Amy Ralston Povah (Pt. 2)
In Part II of her interview, Amy relays the horrors of her arrest and prosecution, the 9 years she spent in prison,...
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Published in: Shine A LightLondon, a city of slavery?
An eighteen-year-old trafficked girl Y, subjected to years of exploitation and abuse, broke her silence today in an...
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Published in: Shine A LightThe new gold rush
Due to economic uncertainty, a rise in inflation, various debt crises, and intense price pressures, global investors...
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Published in: HomeoD Drug Policy Forum: Front Line Report - Week of June 26th 2011
We lead this week with the release of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime 'World Drug Report', revealing a rise in...
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Published in: Shine A LightWhy Britain’s refugees and asylum seekers have little to cheer about: a reply to Tim Finch
A reply to a piece highlighting the positive aspects of British asylum policy and politics, by a former Chair of...
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Published in: Shine A LightLetter from Australia to Britain: Trading in human misery - immigration and the "Malaysian solution"
Australia’s detention regime offers an ugly vision of where UK asylum policy may be headed
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Published in: Shine A LightThe Human Cost of "War on Drugs"
50 years of criminalisation of drugs and 40 years of blatant failure of “war on drugs” has only made the problem...
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Published in: Shine A LightPFI: transferring billions from UK taxpayers to private financiers
The Private Finance Initiative has recklessly transferred billions from UK taxpayers to private financiers. Now...
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Published in: Shine A LightReasons to be cheerful: 10 things to celebrate during refugee week
Surviving persecution, fleeing across continents– for most of us these experiences are unimaginable. But as history...
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Published in: HomeoD Drug Policy Forum: Front Line Report - Week of June 21st 2011
We lead this week with an excerpt from the documentary film, The Exile Nation Project - by our very own Charles...
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Published in: HomeThe Exile Nation Project - Former Federal prisoner Amy Ralston Povah
In 1991 Amy Ralson Povah was sentenced to 24 years in Federal prison for a crime she did not commit. An incredible...
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Published in: Shine A LightCocaine UnwrappedInterviewing Latin American leaders and victims of repressive policy, film-maker Rachel Seifert argues that the West...
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Published in: Shine A LightSaving the NHS: the fight goes on
Despite the deluge of coverage in England about the fate if its National Health Service there is a lack of alertness...
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Published in: Shine A LightTactical Questioning: Scenes from the Baha Mousa Enquiry
A review of Tricycle Theatre's dramatisation of the public inquiry into the death of Baha Mousa, an innocent Iraqi...
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Published in: Shine A LightBeating the Retreat: how much longer for Britain’s child soldiers?
As the Armed Forces Bill reaches its final stages, we have one last chance to stop Britain recruiting under 18s
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Published in: oDRUkrainian politics on trialAhead of parliamentary elections in 2012, Ukrainian President Yanukovych has initiated a number of high-profile...
