News: Refugees, asylum seekers & migrants

27.08.2004 Parents of an Iraqi man who died trying to enter Britain in 2001 are appealing to the British public to raise £3,100 to send home his body.

16.08.2004 Lawyers and campaigners for refugees say that they are seeing increasing numbers of cases where women and children asylum seekers are being picked up for deportation before their legal options have been exhausted. Home Office guidelines state that asylum seekers should "not be removed from the UK while there is outstanding legal action".

09.08.2004 The Home Office has published Integration Matters, a draft document for consultation on its strategy on refugee integration in England. This new strategy builds on policies set out in Full and equal citizens (2002) and forms part of the work of the government and other public bodies in promoting race relations and community cohesion. The government is inviting responses on the document.