Sentences with phrase «on asylum centres»

The Home Office has been strongly criticised for spending # 33 million on asylum centres which were never built.

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Social impact «residents» that have been placed in coworking centres by All Good Work include BASE, which develops co-living residences for young adults with learning differences; RiF, which supports refugees and asylum seekers arriving in New York City; and AdaptLab — a team that helps filmmakers with autism and learning differences to work on productions and gain valuable skills for sustainable employment.

Somewhere between 60 and 72 inmates at the centre conducted a demonstration in the courtyard on Saturday night, in a protest against the use of fast - track detention to decide asylum claims.

Immigration and asylum reporting centres were closed, hundreds of asylum interviews cancelled and juxtaposed immigration controls at Calais non-operational today, as up to 10,500 members of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) working for the Home Office and Border and Immigration Agency, went on strike today.

The government has already been accused of deserting its promise to end the detention of children in immigration centres — a change that would have signaled one of the Lib Dem's few influences on policy and demonstrated that the government was at last sympathetic to the cause of asylum seekers.

Shadow immigration minister Damien Green has launched a stinging attack on «government inaction» following French proposals to establish a welfare centre in Calais for asylum seekers.

Some 26 asylum seekers escaped from Campsfield House Immigration Detention Centre near Oxford on Saturday after starting a fire to distract staff.

On Saturday 18 November 2017 activists surrounded Dungavel Detention Centre in South Lanarkshire, calling for an end to the detention of asylum seekers.

The Border Force Act 2015 says that from July 2015 contracted workers including doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals face a prison sentence of up to two years for blowing the whistle on substandard medical care given to asylum seekers in detention centres.

Within these pages, a desperate asylum seeker is pacing the hallways of Sydney's notorious Villawood detention centre; a seven - year - old Sudanese boy has found solace in a patchwork bike; an enraged black militant is on the war - path through the rebel squats of 1960s Brixton; a Mississippi housewife decides to make the ultimate sacrifice to save her son from small - town ignorance; a young woman leaves rural Jamaica in search of her destiny; and a Sydney schoolgirl loses her way.

Artists have joined protests against the National Gallery of Victoria's contract with Wilson Security, which manages services at Australia's offshore detention centres on Manus Island and Nauru — the company is the subject of controversial claims regarding assault against asylum seekers held in its detention centres.

Travelling the refugee route, from desperate desert camps in Syria to the squatter camps and asylum centres of Europe, Edward gives powerful and profound commentary on the failures of integration.

That would allow independent inspectors to investigate and report on matters of torture, cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment across Australia and in Australia's offshore asylum seeker detention centres.