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Brexit Poses Real Threat to Children's Rights

Key rights protections spelled out in EU law have not been transposed into UK national law, meaning EU national children in the UK will lose critical rights on Brexit day. That is, assuming they're able to register to stay in the country at all.

Brexit , UK , United Kingdom
March 28, 2019 • LibertiesEU
Britons Have Become More Migrant Friendly, Survey Shows

A new Ipsos-Mori survey shows that the number of Britons saying that immigration has a positive impact on the UK has risen from 19% in 2011 to 48% in 2019. Nearly 20,000 people participated in the survey. Mark Easton,...

migration , Ipsos-mori , UK
March 05, 2019 • LibertiesEU
EU Migration to UK Lowest in a Decade

Net migration of European Union citizens to the UK has dropped to its lowest level in almost a decade – primarily because Eastern European citizens choose to leave or stay away. The British Office for National...

UK , migration , EU
March 04, 2019 • LibertiesEU
No Prison for Stansted 15

Fifteen activists have received suspended sentences or community orders for a terrorism-related offence that carries a potential life sentence. The judge decided not to jail them because they were motivated by...

Stansted , Deportation , activists , UK , migration
February 11, 2019 • LibertiesEU
UK Mass Surveillance Challenge Heads to Human Rights Court

The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights will hear a legal challenge to the UK government’s bulk surveillance powers. The case is being brought by Liberty, Privacy International, Amnesty International...

Surveillance , UK , United Kingdom , ECHR , ECtHR , Court of Human Rights
February 07, 2019 • LibertiesEU
England’s Domestic Abuse Laws Get Major Update

A wide range of measures to protect domestic abuse victims has been introduced in England and Wales as part of “landmark” legislation. The new law introduces a legal definition of domestic abuse that includes economic...

domesic abuse , abuses , England , Wales , family court , UK
January 22, 2019 • LibertiesEU
UK Residents Make 170,000 Anti-Semitic Google Searches Each Year

At least 170,000 anti-Semitic Google searches are made in the UK every year, a new study shows. Roughly 10% of the searches involve violent phrases such as “Jews must die” or “kill Jews”. The study, conducted by the...

Anti-Semitism , UK , Vinter and others v. the United Kingdom , Google , internet , racism
January 14, 2019 • LibertiesEU
UK: Home Office Charges Migrants Double for NHS

The UK Home Office decided to double the immigration health surcharge, a charge that migrants have to pay to access healthcare, to £400 a year. The Home Office said that the sum will bring much-needed funds for...

NHS , IHS , migrants , UK , Windrush
January 10, 2019 • LibertiesEU
Germany Agrees to Settlement With 1,000 Evacuees From Nazis

Germany has agreed to make a one-off payment to surviving children who fled Nazi Germany on the Kindertransport trains to the UK. The roughly 1,000 survivors, most of them Jewish and still living in Britain, will...

World War II , Germany , UK , Holocaust
December 19, 2018 • LibertiesEU
Stansted 15: Activists Who Stopped Deportation Flight Found Guilty

On 28 March 2017, a group of activists blocked a flight leaving London Stansted airport with 60 people on board being deported to Nigeria, Ghana and Sierra Leone. Among the deportees was a Nigerian national, who had...

Standsted , UK , Deportation , refugees
December 11, 2018 • LibertiesEU
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