35 NGOs urge the Home Affairs Select Committee not to ignore the issue of unlawful detention 3 October 2011 Today, 35 NGOs have written to the Chair of the Home Affairs Select Committee (HASC), urging him to ‘apply scrutiny to the issue of unlawful detention’ in their forthcoming inquiry into asylum and migration. The letter was… [Read more…]
September 26, 2011
26th September 2011 The Detention Forum is co-ordinating another joint-letter: this time to the Home Affairs Select Committee (HASC) urging them to look into the issue of immigration detention. It is understood that the HASC is going to hold an inquiry into asylum and migration in the near future. We hear that the inquiry’s terms of… [Read more…]
May 6, 2011
36 NGOs urge The Joint Committee on Human Rights to reopen the case on detention – 14 April 2011 36 NGOs are now urging The Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR) to scrutinise the use of administrative detention as a part of the asylum system in the UK. In their letter to the Chair of the JCHR, Dr Hywel… [Read more…]
September 27, 2010
The Detention Forum is organising a parliamentary meeting on detention reform on Monday 8th November 2010, from 4pm to 6pm. You can download the flyer here. We are delighted that Julian Huppert MP has agreed to chair this meeting. The main speakers include Lord Ramsbotham, Diane Abbott MP and Lisa Nandy MP with more to… [Read more…]
August 26, 2010
Join the call for detention reform – a statement for detention reform and a briefing paper In June 2010, 28 organisations across the UK signed the letter to Damian Green and Theresa May calling for detention reform. Now having received a reply from UKBA, AVID, GDWG and LDSG are inviting more organisations to join this movement as they… [Read more…]
June 24, 2010
28 organisations across the UK called for an urgent review the country’s immigration detention system. The letter sent to Damien Green and Theresa May on 23 June ’10 continues: ‘We believe that a sensible option is a moratorium on the opening of further immigration removal centres until an independent inquiry has fully examined the current use of detention’. The… [Read more…]
October 3, 2011
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