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April 10, 2024 at 8:16 AM. The amount of overseas aid funding diverted to support refugees in the UK rose to £4.3 billion last year, new figures have shown. Provisional statistics published on ...
April 23, 2024 at 6:20 AM. The UK parliament has finally passed a contentious bill that will allow the government to send asylum seekers to Rwanda for their claims to be considered by the East ...
Missing. 1. On 24 November 2021, an inflatable dinghy carrying migrants from France to the United Kingdom capsized in the English Channel causing the deaths of 27 of the 30 people on board. It is believed to be the deadliest incident in the English Channel since the International Organization for Migration began collecting data in 2014.
The UK and Rwanda Migration and Economic Development Partnership, [3] also known as the Rwanda asylum plan, [4] [5] was a policy that was announced in a speech by British prime minister Boris Johnson on 14 April 2022. [6] It was an immigration policy whereby people identified by the United Kingdom as being illegal immigrants or asylum seekers ...
1951 Refugee Convention at Wikisource. The Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, also known as the 1951 Refugee Convention or the Geneva Convention of 28 July 1951 is a United Nations multilateral treaty that defines who a refugee is and sets out the rights of individuals who are granted asylum and the responsibilities of nations that ...
Chris Scott, PA. A Ukrainian refugee and her British host family will mark the first anniversary of the Russia-Ukraine war by running a half marathon in a bid to raise money for displaced children ...
English Channel migrant crossings. An increasing number of refugees and migrants have been entering the United Kingdom illegally by crossing the English Channel in the last decades. The Strait of Dover section between Dover in England and Calais in France represents the shortest sea crossing, and is a long-established shipping route.
The first people making use of the Government’s sponsorship scheme are expected to come to the UK ‘in a week’s time’, Michael Gove said. New Ukrainian refugee route ‘could bring tens of ...