Student activists urge the UK’s biggest children’s charity to serve children, not the government

The experience of entering the world of the human rights "professional" leads the author from Cairo to Liberia, from...

Rwandan refugees in Britain live in fear of their government’s spies, whilst Britain remains Rwanda’s largest donor....

A new play shines a light on the dark side of the British asylum system, portraying with brutal clarity the inhuman...

The opening of the first purpose-built immigration detention centre in Northern Ireland this month, is a sad day as...

Over four years a young dramatist’s curiosity drew her into the UK’s asylum system. Her new play previews in London...

More lies, gags and payoffs - and in the NHS, unlike in News International, the victims end up dead

As new patterns of racial violence emerge throughout the UK, anti-racist campaigners need to forge new solidarities...

Private contractors are “out of control” and Amnesty International calls for a complete overhaul of UK immigration removals

Children are being routinely detained by inadequately-trained staff for long periods in immigration lock-ups at...

Britain's top crime-solving body is soon to close. The state-owned Forensic Science Service is being sold off by the...

An eighteen-year-old trafficked girl Y, subjected to years of exploitation and abuse, broke her silence today in an...

Due to economic uncertainty, a rise in inflation, various debt crises, and intense price pressures, global investors...

A reply to a piece highlighting the positive aspects of British asylum policy and politics, by a former Chair of...

Australia’s detention regime offers an ugly vision of where UK asylum policy may be headed

50 years of criminalisation of drugs and 40 years of blatant failure of “war on drugs” has only made the problem...

The Private Finance Initiative has recklessly transferred billions from UK taxpayers to private financiers. Now...

Surviving persecution, fleeing across continents– for most of us these experiences are unimaginable. But as history...

Interviewing Latin American leaders and victims of repressive policy, film-maker Rachel Seifert argues that the West...

Despite the deluge of coverage in England about the fate if its National Health Service there is a lack of alertness...