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Migrants Rights news w/c 08/08
(August 09, 2016)
| Unaccompanied children are in the forefront of the refugee crisis, according to “Children in crisis: unaccompanied migrant children in the EU” a report from a House of Lords committee.
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| Anti-Semitic incidents rose by 11 percent in the first half of 2016 in comparison with the same period of 2015, according to a report published from the Community Security Trust (CST), a charity dedicated to protecting British Jews from anti-Semitism.
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| The number of asylum seekers self-harming in UK detention centres has more than doubled in the last five years, Sky News has found through a Freedom of Information request. The figures show that in 2010, there were 185 incidents of self-harm in detention centres. By 2015, that number had more than doubled to 409.
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| The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has published two research reports, one on the links between ‘Prejudice and unlawful behaviour’ and a second on the ‘Causes and motivations of hate crime’.
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| Current UK government policy is failing to reduce racial inequalities and is not complying with international obligations to eliminate racial discrimination, NGOs have told a UN committee.
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| The government faces an immense administrative exercise in securing the residence rights of more than 3 million EU nationals living in the UK, according to a new report from Oxford University’s Migration Observatory.
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| EU action to address the migrant crisis has been “too little, too late”, says the Home Affairs Select Committee in a new report. The EU-Turkey agreement is also a partial solution at best which raises serious concerns - humanitarian, human rights, logistical and legal. And many local authorities are not pulling their weight in resettling Syrian refugees.
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| Appeal court judges have overturned an earlier immigration judge’s decision to allow three Syrian teenagers and a 24-year-old man to be brought immediately to Britain from Calais and reunited with their families.
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| Pooled information gathered by the social media sites PostRefRacism, Worrying Signs and iStreetWatch reveals the true extent of race hate incidents since the EU referendum. The pooled data shows more than 500 racist incidents reported on the sites in the weeks since the 23 June.
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| A report about the impact of international migration on poverty in the UK has been published by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
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