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Kurdish government bans deportation flights from UK

The Kurdish Regional Government in Iraq has banned the landing of flights deporting failed asylum seekers to its territory, amidst plans for sixty Iraqis to be deported in the next ...

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Health

Report writing for doctors

Report writing for doctors supplying evidence on asylum applications - training, 24 September, Coventry Refugee Centre GPs with asylum seeker patients are asked to write medical reports for asylum ...

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Countries

SA to resume deporting Zimbabweans

South Africa is to start expelling Zimbabweans again, from 31 December, the government has announced, ending their special status. The deportations were halted in April 2009 following an influx of those ...

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Media

Stoking paranoia about migration

The gap between the reality of the Office of National Statistics quarterly migration statistics and the knee-jerkery of much of the media (and not just the tabloids) is ...

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Resources

Refugees into Teaching – subcontract application process

There are currently 30 overseas-experienced 'refugee teachers' registered with the Refugees into Teaching project and living in and around the East Midlands. However, we believe that there are ...

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Sports

Leicester City sign Japanese international

Leicester City have pulled off a real coup by signing Japanese international Yuki Abe. That is the view of English journalists working in Japan who expected the 28-year-old international to ...

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Opinion

So what do you do for a living? Where do you work?

by Trish Elms It’s as common a question as remarking on the weather.   And ultimately our work or professions is part of the way we define ourselves and how others characterise us.  ...

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Events

Being Heard: Human Rights and Asylum Conference

Dear Colleague, We are delighted to invite you to the Being Heard: Human Rights and Asylum Conference. This not to be missed event takes place on the 21st of September 2010 ...

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