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Home Office changing the process for making further submissions on asylum and human rights cases

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Date of publication

15 January 2015

Summary

UKVI announces that from 26 January 2015 all further submissions must be submitted in person in Liverpool

Women for Refugee Women report details the humiliation and dehumanisation of detainees at Yarl's Wood

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Date of publication

14 January 2015

Summary

New report details the damaging psychological effects of detention at Yarl's Wood immigration detention centre on female asylum seekers

Afghan interpreters granted permission to challenge UK resettlement restrictions

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Date of publication

13 January 2015

Summary

Court grants permission for Afghans to argue that Government's failure to provide resettlement scheme on par with Iraqi interpreters is discriminatory

UNHCR: Conflicts in the Middle East and Africa push displacement to record high in 2014

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Date of publication

09 January 2015

Summary

UNHCR's Mid-Year Trends report says 5.5 million people newly displaced and 1.4 million new refugees in first half of 2014

UN Special Rapporteur to officially criticise Government over refusal to allow visit to Yarl's Wood immigration detention centre

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Date of publication

05 January 2015

Summary

The Guardian says Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women will censure Government for preventing her from inspecting Yarl's Wood

Happy New Year 2015: Freedom from Torture's 30th anniversary year starts now

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Date of publication

01 January 2015

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