asylum seekers

A mental health charity has warned that Serco’s plan to evict 300 asylum seekers will exacerbate trauma and anxiety disorders among one of Scotland’s most vulnerable communities.

The Court of Appeal has ruled that the Home Office’s policy on deciding the age of young people seeking asylum is unlawful and must be rewritten, as it fails to ensure that children are not mistakenly treated as adults.

Amnesty International has called on the authorities in the US state of Arizona to drop charges against a humanitarian volunteer who is to go on trial for helping migrants in a notoriously dangerous desert area of the state.

UN is alarmed by reports that migrants in detention centres in Hungary have been deliberately deprived of food in contravention of international laws and standards.