Home Secretary’s plans for refugees would be an ‘affront to human decency’
Charities say the plan would undermine the UN refugee convention Home Secretary Suella Braverman’s plans to ban migrants who cross the Channel from claiming asylum in Britain would put the UK at odds with the UN refugee convention, charities say. The convention was signed by Sir Winston Churchill following the second world war to ensure […]
3 years ago
First confirmed victim of Channel crossing was ‘desperate to reach fiancé in UK’
She is the first of many victims yet to be identified The first confirmed victim of Wednesday’s Channel tragedy has been identified as a 24-year-old Kurdish woman who was trying to reach her partner in the UK. Maryam Nuri Mohamed Amin was one of 27 people who drowned attempting to reach UK shores from the […]
4 years ago
‘It’s England or die’ – life inside the refugee camps in northern France
‘One year, 10 years. No problem. One day I will get to England’ Rozeekhan, 41, is speaking to me in a makeshift campsite in northern France. He travelled here in summer, after Kabul fell to the Taliban. “There’s a food problem, a work problem, a housing problem – an everything problem”, he says of life […]
4 years ago