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The Politics of Forced Labour

The recent trial of a group of Irish Travellers (or Parvee) accused of forcing vulnerable people into forced labour or slavery unsurprisingly hit the headlines. A perfect reactionary story, a specific instance distorting the wider truth: that in fact that … Continue reading

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EU Migration Policy Put on Trial

Tribunal 12 is organised by Shahrazad – Stories for Life in close collaboration with Kulturhuset in Stockholm and the Swedish Forum for Human Rights. Tribunal 12 advocates a change within the European system that currently treats people who flee to … Continue reading

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Cafe Film Night Thurs 3rd May: “Le Harve”

Update from Calais, Wedges & dips from 7pm film start 7.45pm. In this warmhearted portrait of the French harbour city that gives the film its name, fate throws young African refugee Idrissa (Blondin Miguel) into the path of Marcel Marx … Continue reading

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X-rays, Surveillance and Secret Justice

From:  www.irr.org.uk Written by Frances Webber X-raying migrant children to determine age and proposals to monitor all communications, as well as the proposed secret justice measures, further target ‘suspect communities’. The pilot x-ray scheme to assess the age of young … Continue reading

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Child Refugees to be X-Rayed

The UK Border Agency is to trial dental x-rays of child asylum seekers in the face of fierce opposition from the medical profession, immigration lawyers and the UK’s children‘s commissioners. The agency has started a three-month trial of volunteer applicants … Continue reading

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First they come for the Asylum Seekers…

By John Gray (Institute of Race Relations) Asylum seekers were the guinea pigs for all kinds of brutal and unacceptable policies that are now beginning to be applied more widely. Private security firms are in the news – a national … Continue reading

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Hackers Take down Geo Group Asylum/Prison Profiteers Website

Bristol No Borders writes: In the UK they run Harmondsworth Immigration Prison, as well as numerous other things we don’t like. Cheers hackers, if you want any companies for further actions, just let us know! “Anonymous have struck a blow … Continue reading

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Activists occupy Barnardo’s HQ demanding they quit the child detention business

Anti-detention campaigners argue that by agreeing to provide welfare and social care services at this ‘family detention centre’, named Cedars, Barnardo’s is used to legitimise the continued use of detention for children, which the government promised in 2010 to stop … Continue reading

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No Borders Occupy Barnados HQ: Get Out of Child Detention!

No Border activists occupying @barnardos HQ demanding they quit child detention business #nbc2012 #noborders

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London No Borders Convergence – starts this monday

Seminars and workshops at the NoBorders Convergence 17 November, 2011 – 13:34 — London NoBorders During the first three days of the Convergence there will be a series of workshops and seminars taking place at Goldsmiths College in New Cross, … Continue reading

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