Children are being routinely detained by inadequately-trained staff for long periods in immigration lock-ups at Heathrow Airport. This is despite the British government's claims to have ended child detention for immigration purposes
Britain's top crime-solving body is soon to close. The state-owned Forensic Science Service is being sold off by the Coalition as part of its privatisation programme, despite warnings that the sale could compromise justice being done in Britain
An eighteen-year-old trafficked girl Y, subjected to years of exploitation and abuse, broke her silence today in an interview with Dan Foster, at the Children’s Legal Centre
Due to economic uncertainty, a rise in inflation, various debt crises, and intense price pressures, global investors are returning to gold as a secure investment. The increase in demand has pushed the price of gold to a new high, fuelling an unprecedented mining boom in countries with rich mineral
A reply to a piece highlighting the positive aspects of British asylum policy and politics, by a former Chair of National Refugee Week
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 worse. Policy makers must listen to the real victims: the people on the front lines
The Private Finance Initiative has recklessly transferred billions from UK taxpayers to private financiers. Now we’re nicely asking for a little bit of our money back
Surviving persecution, fleeing across continents– for most of us these experiences are unimaginable. But as history has shown, refugee communities also produce more than their share of stand-out individuals. Yet again we are seeing that some of the ‘best of British’ are from refugee backgrounds, s
Interviewing Latin American leaders and victims of repressive policy, film-maker Rachel Seifert argues that the West should take real responsibility and rethink its failed war on drugs
Despite the deluge of coverage in England about the fate if its National Health Service there is a lack of alertness from journalists and opposition MPs about what is actually being proposed, changed or staying the same. Professor Wendy Savage exposes deceit in the government’s revisions to the He
