A baby boy starved to death in London’s Westminster whilst his seriously ill and “socially isolated” mother struggled to find proper housing, benefits and support. The revelations came on 5 October 2012 after a serious case review into the child’s death. The inquest returned a verdict of accidental death, noting that the baby, known as Child […]

Aberdeenshire businesses fined more than £28,000 for illegal workers Four Aberdeenshire restaurants have been fined a total of £28,750 in civil penalties for employing illegal workers, details recently published by the UK Border Agency show. As part of the ongoing crackdown into illegal working, the takeaways and restaurants were visited in late 2011 and January […]

UN Rapporteur urges Italy to respect human rights in its migration cooperation with Libya and to stop pushing back migrants to Greece Following a nine-day visit to Italy, François Crépeau, UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants warned that a number of bilateral readmission agreements between Italy and its neighbours do not appear to have […]

UNHCR provides guidance to improve identification and protection of men and boys who have survived sexual and gender based violence For the first time, UNHCR have published a set of guidelines for working with men and boys who are survivors of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) in the context of forced displacement. Whilst the use of rape […]