At 7.30am on 22 September, a day after the Muslim holiday that marks the end of Ramadan, French riot police moved into a plot of land on the outskirts of the port city of Calais where some 270 migrants and asylum seekers, mostly from Afghanistan, had b...
Wed 25 Nov 2009 by William Spindler | Read more »
A controversial scheme which planned to take DNA from asylum seekers to establish their nationality has been suspended after mass criticism from scientists. The UK Border Agency’s (UKBA) Human Provenance project, first reported on 20 September, ...
Wed 14 Oct 2009 by John Jarvis | Read more »
Britain has a proud tradition of offering sanctuary to those who need our help. The principles of asylum were laid down in the 1951 Geneva Convention, which defines a refugee as a person outside his or her country, with a well-founded fear of persecuti...
Mon 23 Feb 2009 by Phil Woolas | Read more »
