The @ukhomeoffice has released its guidance and information relating to Rwanda and to say it is a hot mess is offensive to other hot messes. Ignores human rights abuses, dismisses the LGBTQ+ community and gender based violence and more. #r4today 1/ gov.uk/government/pub…
There are very real concerns regarding illegal detention, torture and forced disappearances Rwanda, hence why the UK receives Rwandan refugees, which the @ukhomeoffice breezes past in its analysis of the country. 2/
Sorry @ukhomeoffice what exactly is this? "We know of discrimination against the LGBTQ+ community, but as we think it is mainly against trans individuals that's fine". Really embedding transphobia. Not to mention the de-facto criminalisation of the LGBTQ+ community as a whole. 3/
Despite the Home Office's rather lackluster considerations, to put it mildly, about the risks of Gender Based Violence, the UN has a different view, with it seem as prevalent, serious and including assault of minors and forced labour. 4/
Trafficking is such a risk that only last year the UK'S International Ambassador for Human Rights, Rita French, expressed concern at the lack of support for those vulnerable to traffickers'. 5/
The whole document is packed with inconsistencies, and just plain falsehoods. The #RwandaMigrationPlan demonstrably puts lives at risk and the @ukhomeoffice appears to not just ignore that, but actively attempt to cover it up. 6/ amnesty.org/en/location/af…
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How many of them will join those already being incorrectly classed as adults by Home Office social workers? How many risk being sent to Rwanda or stuck in camps? The government rejected amendments to the #antirefugeebill which could have helped. #r4today
Does the @ukhomeoffice think that increasing the inhumanity of the UK's asylum system will deter children seeking safety? Does @pritipatel think it will stop them trying to reach family members? Because anyone with half a braincell knows it won't.
We are already seeing separated children placed at more risk of trafficking and exploitation because of @ukhomeoffice policies. That's why organisations such as @Love146UK are fighting for child protection to the priority. Please support them today. cafdonate.cafonline.org/20440#!/Donati…
The Home Office has been seen to incorrectly age assess children as young as 14 as being 23. No matter what they claim, it is inevitable that children separated from families and loved ones will get caught up in their draconian plans to persecute asylum seekers.
The creation of the National Age Assessment Board (NAAB) under the provisions of the Home Office and implementation of fundamentally flawed and inaccurate "scientific age assessments" is only likely to make the whole situation far far worse.
We have undeniably seen a dramatic spike in "age disputes". A significant part of the problem is that, while some are adults posing as children, the Home Office has put immigration enforcement ahead of child protection and is mis-aging children. That puts them at risk.
Stand for All is a consultancy. We work with other organisations, push on policy, advocate for refugees and migrants. We aren't a front line service. If you are contacting us then you are desperate. This from M is one of many emails I get regularly. People with no other hope. 1/
Look at the people he has tried previously. @Keir_Starmer, @AngelaRayner, @TomTugendhat, @UK_FoRBEnvoy and Victoria Atkins, who I can't find on Twitter. Look at how hard he has tried to get a response, and for how long. 2/
British educated, directly persecuted, terrified for himself and his family, and ignored. M is one of so many, and so many need assistance. This is what government "resettlement routes" mean, people hiding and in fear for their lives while their calls for help are ignored. 3/
I see @thetimes is reporting Home Office press releases as fact again, even when both their own reporting and a quick Google search would have shown that unaccompanied refugee children are not treated anything like UK children in care. 1/
No experts interviewed in this piece, just uncritically letting the @ukhomeoffice knowingly lie. It wouldn't have taken much to contact and organisation which actually knows something about this, but that wouldn't fit the government line would it. 2/ independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…
The lack of critical reporting skills applied to stories about refugees is beyond dangerous. It isn't every journalist, and it isn't even the same throughout any particular media organisation, but there is for some a seeming agenda which clouds journalistic ethics. 3/
So many specialists have been warning about this from the start and every time we have been told to be quiet or "what are the alternatives". The alternatives were always there if the government would have just invested in asylum mechanisms. #r4today 1/ bbc.co.uk/news/uk-613110…
Instead though they have continued to fail to properly resource the existing mechanisms, mechanisms which have been shown to work, and relied on outsourcing protection to the public. Yeah, because that wasn't going to always create safeguarding risks like these. 2/
The benefit of investing in those mechanisms, which bring together local authorities, NGOS and experienced specialists is that they are then there to help everyone, so we can reduce use of hotels for Afghan refugees though. 3/