Humans for Rights Network

Children seeking safety should be cared for by local authorities - never locked in immigration detention centres and threatened with removal.

This child has family in the UK.
Will he risk everything to come back and be with them?
Wouldn’t you?

This violent scheme will only push people into more dangerous journeys.
People who have every right to seek asylum in the UK may be forced to risk unsafe return.

To date, we have identified 7 age-disputed children detained under this ‘scheme’. We are gravely concerned that more children will be detained and targeted for removal.

Once again, this government has failed to protect unaccompanied children.
These children now face recovery not only from family separation and past trauma, but also from this horrific ordeal - all because of a desperate attempt by the Labour government to appeal to Reform voters.

He was held in detention for 43 days prior to this, held in isolation prior to his removal.
He is a potential victim of trafficking and has survived torture. He is terrified and remains in detention - along with two other children who are also facing removal.

On the 18th September the UK government attempted to remove an unaccompanied child from Afghanistan to France under its sordid ‘one in one out’ scheme.
His removal was stopped as he was boarding the plane.

🚨EVENT POSTPONED🚨

Unfortunately due to the planned tube strikes, our upcoming event with @gardencourtlaw.bsky.social and @humansforrights.bsky.social to launch our report on the criminalisation of people seeking asylum has been postponed.

The rescheduled date is Thursday 9th October, 6:30-7:45pm

We have joined RAMFEL and 53 organisations to demand Yvette Cooper extend family reunion rights to those resettled under Afghan schemes. This is a vital step to fix the harm caused by the data breach, which exposed families to renewed risk from the Taliban. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Written statements - Written questions, answers and statements - UK Parliament Information from UK Parliament on written questions & answers, written statements and daily reports.

After more than seven months, the Home Office is going to start processing Syrian asylum and settlement applications again. New country guidance being published today questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-stat...

New Report - “This system destroys you”: Children trapped in adult asylum hotels by the Home Office - GMIAU Our new report on children who have been wrongly sent to adult asylum hotels by the UK Home Office.

🚨We have published a NEW REPORT sharing the experiences of children from our All4One youth group who were wrongly treated as adults by the Home Office.

These children arrived in the UK alone seeking asylum, were declared “significantly over 18” at the border and sent alone to adult asylum hotels.

Ahead of the French-UK summit we with
@refugeeaction.bsky.social @jcwi-uk.bsky.social @camcrag.bsky.social @crossborderforum.bsky.social
and others have signed a statement 'condemn[ing] unequivocally the continued violence and securitisation' at the border www.crossborderforum.org/july-2025-fr...

We’re joining @ProjectPlayFrance in calling on the UK government to:

1️⃣ Take accountability for deaths in the Channel
2️⃣ End funding for border violence
3️⃣ Create safe, accessible routes to asylum

📖 Read the full report: project-play.org

#WeWantToBeSafe #ChildrensRights #SafeRoutesNow

UK taxpayer money is funding this violence.

It's making the border more dangerous for children and families seeking asylum - placing them at increased risk of harm, serious injury and death.

This report is dedicated to the 14 children who died in 2024.

It centres the voices of children on the move and the reality they face:
Children and babies teargassed
Boats stabbed as children try to board
Children detained and criminalised
No official record of their deaths

Children at the UK-France border are facing relentless violence.

In 2024, more children were killed on the border than in the previous four years combined.

A new report by @ProjectPlayFrance is dedicated to them. It highlights the realities children on our border face. 👇

Asylum sites to be expanded as ministers bid to end hotel use Chancellor Rachel Reeves pledged to stop using taxpayer-funded hotels to house asylum seekers by 2029.

Over the past 2 years, we've warned repeatedly that moving men seeking asylum in the UK to Wethersfield causes them profound & long-lasting harm.

Instead of closing the site urgently, the govt plans to extend its use — it's disgraceful.

We need #CommunitiesNotCamps

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

🔴 #Gaza

Yesterday morning, our office in Deir al-Balah was hit in a drone strike.

The location was clearly marked and registered with the Israeli authorities - it should never have been targeted.

This is a blatant violation of international humanitarian law.

Disturbing and powerful new report on how people who cross the Channel including many children are criminalised.

We continue to call for #SafeRoutes for people seeking sanctuary 🧡

New report finds that children continue to be prosecuted for arriving across the Channel - Free Movement A new report from Humans for Rights Network, Oxford Border Criminologies, Refugee Legal Support and Captain Support UK, "I told them the truth" looks at the

From yesterday: New report finds that children continue to be prosecuted for arriving across the Channel | Sonia Lenegan

Text box: "I spent 3 days in a police station which is dark days that I spend in all my life, in the police station. One room, without nothing, dark place, nobody talk to you, nobody answer to you. Stress, the words are not enough to explain those days. They were bad days, the worst that I have ever had in my life"

Who are the "illegal migrants" we hear so much about? Here's one: a scared 17-year-old boy, locked up while looking for safety.
A lot is said about people migrating irregularly, but if you want to really understand, read this from @humansforrights.bsky.social‬
www.humansforrights.org/i-told-them-...

Inside one hotel, the high price paid by taxpayers and as... Hundreds of people given rooms in London have no idea when they can leave or what awaits them outside

The UK's asylum housing system is broken, cruel & unjustifiably costly.

People seeking safety in the UK are still forced to live in hotels and the ex-military site, RAF Wethersfield, for prolonged periods of time, pushing them towards despair & even suicide. 🧵

observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Thank you to @jakerichardsmp.bsky.social who sits on the Home Affairs Select Committee for raising the vital issue of refugee children being wrongly placed in adult asylum hotels. Many refugee children we and @helenbamber.bsky.social. @humansforrights.bsky.social work with are wrongly judged adult.

🚨🚨NEW REPORT🚨🚨

www.humansforrights.org/i-told-them-...

Healthcare charities call for the closure of controversial asylum seeker facility A report by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and Doctors of the World UK (DOTW) has called for the closure of Wethersfield, a site that houses male asylum seekers, because of its unsuitability and the “...

Excited to see our report featured in @bmj.com!

Our joint report with @msf.org calls for the closure of RAF Wethersfield, where the High Court found survivors of trafficking, torture, and violence were unlawfully housed.

Read more 👇 bmj.com/content/389/...

#CloseWethersfield #CommunitiesNotCamps

The UK Government must close Wethersfield asylum camp - Doctors of the World For over one year, Doctors of the World, in partnership with Médecins Sans Frontières, ran a primary healthcare mobile clinic outside the main gates of the former RAF base at Wethersfield.

NEW REPORT 📣 Our teams have been visiting RAF Wethersfield residents. Our report reveals what happens when people seeking safety are put into mass asylum camps by the UK government: immense harm.

Please share #CommunitiesNotCamps #CloseTheCamps
www.doctorsoftheworld.org.uk/news/the-uk-...

Portraits of Irena Sabic KC and Alex Grigg with #DoRightFearNoOne below.

📣 High Court ruling on asylum claim withdrawals & support termination protects asylum seekers 📣

Irena Sabic KC & Alex Grigg of our #ImmigrationLaw Team acted for MAH in the High Court, instructed by Bahar Ata, Katie Nelson & Ana Isabel Hart of @duncanlewiss.bsky.social.

More 🔽
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In under 24 hours, Israel has massacred over 400 people in Gaza — including 174 children.

Words of condemnation ring hollow.

The UK government must end ALL arms sales, trade & diplomatic ties with a state facing genocide charges at the ICJ & leaders under ICC arrest warrants.