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Published in: Shine A Light'Barnardo’s! Please quit the child detention business'
Student activists urge the UK’s biggest children’s charity to serve children, not the government
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Published in: Shine A LightA cog outside the machine
The experience of entering the world of the human rights "professional" leads the author from Cairo to Liberia, from...
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Published in: Shine A LightUK's cosy relationship with Rwanda: rose-tinted glasses?
Rwandan refugees in Britain live in fear of their government’s spies, whilst Britain remains Rwanda’s largest donor....
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Published in: Shine A LightTheatre of Inhumanity: a damning portrayal of the UK asylum system
A new play shines a light on the dark side of the British asylum system, portraying with brutal clarity the inhuman...
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Published in: Shine A LightWe must oppose the cruelty of Northern Ireland's new detention centre
The opening of the first purpose-built immigration detention centre in Northern Ireland this month, is a sad day as...
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Published in: Shine A LightUK asylum: Fit for Purpose?
Over four years a young dramatist’s curiosity drew her into the UK’s asylum system. Her new play previews in London...
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Published in: Shine A LightShoot the NHS whistleblower: malignant managerialism is killing people
More lies, gags and payoffs - and in the NHS, unlike in News International, the victims end up dead
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Published in: Shine A LightNew geographies of racism
As new patterns of racial violence emerge throughout the UK, anti-racist campaigners need to forge new solidarities...
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Published in: Shine A Light“Duty of care” vs “earnings per share”: private contractors in the UK immigration removals business
Private 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 System
Britain'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: 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: 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: Shine A LightCocaine Unwrapped
Interviewing 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...