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Here's how Labour can dismantle the hostile environment and end refugee homelessness in 2025
a person sleeping on a dark street
Bridget Young

Here's how Labour can dismantle the hostile environment and end refugee homelessness in 2025

Refugees are being made homeless in unprecedented numbers, says NACCOM director Bridget Young. 2025 could be a year of change
Calls to give Syrian asylum seekers right to work while UK suspends refugee applications
A UNICEF worker holds a child outside a shelter center in Homs, Syria
Syria

Calls to give Syrian asylum seekers right to work while UK suspends refugee applications

‘Common sense and humanity’: Home Office doubles time given to refugees before eviction from asylum hotels
a tent on the street
Refugee homelessness

‘Common sense and humanity’: Home Office doubles time given to refugees before eviction from asylum hotels

Olympic boxer Cindy Ngamba: 'I want to show the world that refugees can do anything'
Sport

Olympic boxer Cindy Ngamba: 'I want to show the world that refugees can do anything'

'This will ease the backlog': Asylum legal aid rates set to increase for first time in almost 30 years
Legal aid

'This will ease the backlog': Asylum legal aid rates set to increase for first time in almost 30 years

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'Remember these are human beings': This is what the highly-politicised UK migration stats really mean
Protesting the Borders Bill
Immigration

'Remember these are human beings': This is what the highly-politicised UK migration stats really mean

'I'm furious': UK's 'rushed' rollout of digital eVisas risks creating another Windrush scandal
Immigration

'I'm furious': UK's 'rushed' rollout of digital eVisas risks creating another Windrush scandal

Vulnerable asylum seekers need lawyers. Here's how Labour can fix the legal aid scandal
Home secretary Yvette Cooper
Sairah Javed

Vulnerable asylum seekers need lawyers. Here's how Labour can fix the legal aid scandal

Letters: Sending job coaches to mental health wards isn't just ludicrous – it's desperate
Mental health
Letters

Letters: Sending job coaches to mental health wards isn't just ludicrous – it's desperate

I ended up in hospital due to lack of legal aid for my asylum claim – I got physically sick
a man with a backpack leans against a lamppost
Social Justice

I ended up in hospital due to lack of legal aid for my asylum claim – I got physically sick

'Broken' legal aid system leaves vulnerable asylum seekers facing 'life and death' decisions alone
Home secretary Yvette Cooper
Legal aid

'Broken' legal aid system leaves vulnerable asylum seekers facing 'life and death' decisions alone

The asylum legal aid crisis is costing taxpayers more than you think. Here's why
a man stands on a busy street in London and checks his phone
Legal aid

The asylum legal aid crisis is costing taxpayers more than you think. Here's why

My family has waited five years for an asylum decision. Here's how it strips your dignity
protesters hold two slogans saying 'no human is illegal'
Miguel

My family has waited five years for an asylum decision. Here's how it strips your dignity

'I came here for safety and I've come into danger': The grim reality of life in asylum hotels for women
Asylum seekers

'I came here for safety and I've come into danger': The grim reality of life in asylum hotels for women

Everything Labour must do to fix broken prison system as early release scheme gets underway
prisons
Prisons

Everything Labour must do to fix broken prison system as early release scheme gets underway

Asylum seeker still waiting for decision from Home Office after 16 years in limbo: 'It's degrading'
Counter-protesters react to a far-right protest outside an asylum seeker hotel
Immigration

Asylum seeker still waiting for decision from Home Office after 16 years in limbo: 'It's degrading'

'This is not human': UK asylum system pushing refugees into 'homelessness and danger', report finds
Asylum seekers risked being left
Asylum system

'This is not human': UK asylum system pushing refugees into 'homelessness and danger', report finds

Here's the truth about asylum seeker hotels – as rioters try to burn them down
UK riots

Here's the truth about asylum seeker hotels – as rioters try to burn them down

Campaigners welcome closure of Bibby Stockholm asylum barge – but Labour faces calls to go further
Bibby Stockholm
Bibby Stockholm

Campaigners welcome closure of Bibby Stockholm asylum barge – but Labour faces calls to go further

Queer asylum seekers 'not safe' in UK due to 'institutionalised homophobia' in Home Office, report finds
LGBTQ+ rights

Queer asylum seekers 'not safe' in UK due to 'institutionalised homophobia' in Home Office, report finds

What safe routes? Britain's broken system forcing refugees to take dangerous journeys, report finds
Refugees crossing the Mediterranean sea on a boat, heading from Turkish coast to the northeastern Greek island of Lesbos, 29 January 2016
Migrant crisis

What safe routes? Britain's broken system forcing refugees to take dangerous journeys, report finds

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The homelessness crisis cannot continue: Are the major parties' promises enough to tackle it?
homelessness
Rick Henderson

The homelessness crisis cannot continue: Are the major parties' promises enough to tackle it?

We took the Home Office to task for lying on modern slavery. We still don’t have answers
car washes have been highlighted as modern slavery hotspots
MAYA ESSLEMONT

We took the Home Office to task for lying on modern slavery. We still don’t have answers

Home Office drops plan to arrest homeless people if they smell
Homelessness

Home Office drops plan to arrest homeless people if they smell

Call for MPs to support new Ukraine-style visa scheme for Palestinians trapped in Gaza
gaza protest
Israel-Gaza war

Call for MPs to support new Ukraine-style visa scheme for Palestinians trapped in Gaza