Release: End Child Detention Now on collapse of Refugee & Migrant Justice 28 June 2010 RAGE AND DISMAY GREET RMJ COLLAPSE GOVERNMENT URGED TO REVIVE REFUGEE & MIGRANT JUSTICE Leading charities and clergy and prominent figures including Colin Firth and Michael Morpurgo have greeted with rage and dismay news that Refugee & Migrant Justice has [...]
Immigration Minister Damian Green’s invitation to submit evidence to the government’s review of child immigration detention ended on 1 July 2010. End Child Detention Now’s submission can be read in full here. Please visit the Review page for submissions from other organisations and concerned individuals – more will be added as we receive them. [...]
Refugee and Migrant Justice administration – update RMJ’s final release: Refugee and Migrant Justice is saddened to announced that a last-minute rescue plan to save the organisation has not succeeded. After launching an emergency appeal for funds, £76,525 was pledged by members of the public within a 24 hour period and a number of charitable [...]
Florence Potkins, aged 11, this month won her age category in the first ever Amnesty International / Guardian Learnnewsdesk Young Human Rights Reporter of the Year award for her powerful story about child detention. With kind permission of the Guardian, we’ve reproduced Florence’s story below, to mark national Refugee Week: Primary winner: Florence Potkins, 11, [...]
Children from Shpresa march on Downing Street. Hundreds turned out in the warm sunshine on Saturday June 5th to hear speakers from Citizens for Sanctuary, Outcry!, Refugee and Migrant Justice, No-One is Illegal, Medical Justice, End Child Detention Now and former detainees urge the government to make good on its pledge to end child detention, [...]
New immigration plans will end child detention but we should be wary of substituting one form of state abuse with another. Simon Parker, Comment is Free, The Guardian, Friday 28 May 2010. The announcement in Tuesday’s Queen’s speech that along with a cap on non-EU immigration, the new Conservative-Liberal Democrat government no longer intends to [...]
If they mean the immediate closure of Yarl’s Wood, that should be a cause for great rejoicing. This is why we must hold them to it By Clare Sambrook (from OpenDemocracy, 12 May 2010). ‘We will end the detention of children for immigration purposes,’ says today’s coalition agreement. A stunning victory for children, decency and the [...]
This post originally appeared on Brighton’s TheArgus.co.uk. It was easy for me to put my questions directly to the Brighton Pavilion candidates because they’ve been fighting it out on Twitter. I didn’t even need to leave the house. My most pressing question concerns child detention. I’ve been involved in a citizens’ campaign to end the [...]
On Monday, at the Citizen’s UK leaders’ debate Gordon Brown found himself forced to face the question of child detention, despite initially trying to avoid the question.
A version of this post initially appeared on openDemocracy’s OurKingdom. Following Brown’s speech to Citizens UK on Monday (May 3), there was a remarkable moment during which the Prime Minister, who was attempting to leave the stage, was challenged by the assembled citizens on whether he would put an end to the government’s detention of [...]
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