• UK-Rwanda asylum law:UN Human Rights office urges governments to enhance safe pathways for asylum seekers

    Shafaqna English-The UN Human Rights office on Wednesday called on governments to enhance “safe and regular” pathways for asylum seekers, according to Anadolu Agency. “We are deeply concerned that various other countries are considering ways of externalising their asylum and other human rights obligations and we have repeatedly stated that

  • GUILTY: Moroccan 'Asylum Seeker' Convicted of Murder in UK

    Europe has a problem. It has allowed millions of immigrants from the Middle East and North Africa, and most of those immigrants have not assimilated and are not interested in assimilating. Too many of them refuse to adapt to the cultures of the European nations, instead clinging to the norms of the countries they supposedly fled to come to Europe as asylum seekers.

  • UK passes bill to send asylum seekers to Rwanda

    Lawyers prepare for legal battles on behalf of individual asylum seekers challenging removal to east AfricaHow the UK government’s Rwanda deportation plan was fought in courtRishi Sunak’s Rwanda deportation bill will become law after peers eventually backed down on amending it, opening the way for legal battles over the potential removal of dozens of people seeking asylum.After a marathon battle of “ping pong” over the key legislation between the Commons and the Lords, the bill finally passed...

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    UK passes controversial bill to send asylum seekers to Rwanda

    Hamilton, Halton, Niagara and area news from CHCH - Hamilton, Halton, and Niagara news.. A controversial law is dividing public opinion in Britain today. Asylum seekers in the United Kingdom will start being shipped off to Rwanda within 10 to 12 weeks. It comes after the country’s House of Parliament finally passed the required legislation. Tens of thousands of migrants – many fleeing wars and poverty in Africa, the […]

  • UK approves controversial bill to send some asylum-seekers to Rwanda

    Deportation flights are expected to begin in July as the U.K. approves a bill to send some asylum-seekers to Rwanda.

  • What is the UK's plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda and how many could go?

    The UK government has passed new legislation to let it send some asylum seekers to Rwanda.

  • UK won't take back asylum seekers from Ireland, says Rishi Sunak

    It comes after Ireland said it would pass new laws to allow people to be returned to the UK.

  • Ireland planning emergency law to send asylum seekers back to the UK

    The Irish government said there has been an increase in asylum seekers arriving in Ireland after crossing the Northern Irish

  • Ireland plans to send asylum seekers back to UK under emergency law

    Taoiseach wants to reduce arrivals through Northern Ireland amid concern that Sunak’s Rwanda plan is driving people to IrelandIreland and Britain are on a collision course over asylum seekers, with Dublin vowing to send arrivals to Ireland back to the UK and London insisting it will not accept any.A diplomatic row erupted on Sunday after the taoiseach, Simon Harris, asked the justice minister, Helen McEntee, to bring proposals to cabinet next week to allow the return of inadmissible...

  • Sunak: rise in asylum seekers in Ireland proves Rwanda plan ‘having impact’

    UK PM points to Irish deputy PM’s claim that threat of being deported led people to cross border from Northern IrelandAn increase in asylum seekers heading to to Ireland proves that the Conservative party’s Rwanda plan is working, Rishi Sunak has claimed.In an interview with Sky News’ Trevor Phillips that will air on Sunday morning, the prime minister said the “deterrent is already having an impact because people are worried about coming here”. Continue reading

  • UK's Sunak Announces Raised Defence Spending, New Ukraine Aid

    UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak Tuesday announced additional funding for Ukraine and pledged to increase Britain's own defence budget, during a visit to the Polish capital Warsaw.Sunak said Britain was giving GBP500 million ($617 million) in additional military funding for Kyiv as he held talks with Polish premier Donald Tusk and NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg.Sunak said London would gradually boost defence spending to 2.5 percent of GDP by 2030."In a world that is the most dangerous it has been...

  • Will Denmark follow the UK with law sending asylum seekers to Rwanda?

    The British parliament on Monday night passed a law allowing it to deport people seeking asylum to Rwanda, a country where Denmark has harboured ambitions of opening its own asylum centre.