Really excellent brief, 👇 on a very complicated matter. 'But both countries are at loggerheads over policies which increasingly put the CTA arrangements in jeopardy and which seek to ignore the fact that conflict and persecution necessarily create more refugees' 👇

Happy 1st of May to all workers!

Au pairs finally won the right to the minimum wage. Let's learn how to enforce our rights!

Our DMs are open and we hold monthly open meetings.

Yesterday was the last day for many inquests into Troubles-related deaths. From today, the Legacy Act shuts down most inquests, keeping open only those where final verdicts remain. It's already extinguished future civil actions + police investigations.

A disgraceful statute.

Ending labour exploitation is being used here as a justification for stepping up immigration enforcement in the platform economy

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🚨‼️For anyone who has already been detained and is in need of urgent advice, charities have asked me to share details of their helplines.

For those in Brook removal centre or Tinsley IRC:
0800 389 4367 Gatwick Detainees

For Heathrow IRCs: 0800 587 2096 Detention Action

Christoph Konrath (Austrian Parliament) and me are putting together a special issue on 'Political impartiality in a parliamentary context' for the Int’l Journal of Parliamentary Studies. If interested get in touch! Details below and/or in the link: shorturl.at/cxCL8

Everything they do to asylum seekers, they’re simply road testing to use on other vulnerable groups in society next.

🚨Emergency legal update - What we know about the Rwanda Act and Treaty so far🚨

It's been reported by the press that the Home Office starts a surprise 2-week operation to detain people for the Rwanda flight on 29 April.

Read our Rwanda plan update. ⬇️

righttoremain.org.uk/what-we-know-a…

Re - The Home Office's surprise plan to start rounding up people for #Rwanda deportation from Monday.

The powerful throw a crisis in our path to destablise us - to weaken us.

Though it's really hard, we need to be grounded in our approach

Three things we can do.

When the horror starts for all of us, regular immigrants, second generation citizens, people with strange-sounding names, communities that celebrate different holidays, we will ask ourselves at what point it could have still been stopped. At THIS point.

theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/a…

The inspirational Shaista Aziz 💙 speaking at the European Alternatives and AEIP session @ European Common Space for Alternatives. “We have a right not to expect violent Islamophobia. It is not too much to ask our allies not to ‘expect’ Islamophobia and see it as normalised and normal” ✊🏽💯

Structural Injustice & the Law co-edited w/
Jo Wolff coming out UCL Press
uclpress.co.uk/products/252684

With chapters by Lea Ypi Colm O'Cinneide George Letsas Dr Maeve McKeown Hugh Collins Alan Bogg Nicola Lacey, Vanessa Munro Beth Watts-Cobbe Lynne McMordie, Jude Browne Guy Mundlak

#Reparations to be paid to survivors of wartime sexual violence in #Ukraine theguardian.com/global-develop…

The reports coming from Nasser hospital are beyond horrifying. Knowing that our taxes continue to arm Israel makes me feel physically sick. At what point will our political parties stand up and recognise the dystopian nightmare staring us in the face.

Join us on Sunday 12 May for a community launch event for our recent report on migrant care and agricultural workers at Pelican House, Bethnal Green - with food from 1pm and speakers and discussion from 2pm eventbrite.co.uk/e/research-for…

ICYMI, report here: modernslaverypec.org/resources/uk-a…

UK government minister Chris Philp is confused as to whether Congo and Rwanda are different countries, on the same day that the #RwandaPlan received royal assent.

#BBCQT

Important story on Migrants At Work LTD. legal challenge to care worker visa family rights removal, by Diane Taylor The Guardian: can the care sector survive this? theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/a…

Good morning I wrote something on why removal of slavery victims to Rwanda would be in breach of the common law constitutional prohibition on slavery

You might have missed this yesterday…

Home Office minister Lord Sharpe of Epsom admitted he doesn't know how many labour inspectors the UK has to monitor exploitation in the care sector, despite growing reports of abuse.

Why do inspectors matter? ...

1/6 Today @glan_law & Palestinian rights group @alhaq had their case revived + granted a full judicial review hearing at High Court on October. This challenges the UK govts failure to halt weapons exports to Israel, risking violations of international humanitarian law in Gaza.