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European Court of Human Rights

Britain Sets a Precedent That Worries the UN Refugee Agency

Damilola Banjo
• June 27, 2022

Britain’s new five-year asylum partnership arrangement with Rwanda is showing the rest of Europe how countries can possibly lock refugees out of their borders. And Filippo Grandi, the United Nations high commissioner for refugees, is worried about this precedent….

Categories: Africa, Human Rights, Migration, Refugees

UN Human-Rights Experts Raise Alarm Over the Fate of a Russian Ex-Guantánamo Detainee

Clair MacDougall
• July 20, 2021

Yusuf Mingazov met his father, Ravil, for the first time through a videocall between a Red Cross office in Nottingham, Britain, and the Guantánamo Bay detention camp in Cuba, where he had been imprisoned for more than 14 years….

Categories: Human Rights, Terrorism, US-UN Relations

OPINIONS

Will Britain Scrap Its Human Rights Act for Something Less Noble?

Opinion by Rhona Scullion
• July 3, 2015

DUNDEE, Scotland — Soon after the newly elected Conservative government in Britain was installed in May, it announced plans to repeal the country’s Human Rights Act with a new Bill of Rights. Advocates of the policy maintain this is…