December 2006
Some stories
Human rights advocacy graduates speak out
Two days before Human Rights Day, sixteen asylum seekers and refugees graduated from an intensive human rights advocacy course.
14 December 2006 (831 words)
Ugandan gay rights activist struggles to stay
After enduring torture and imprisonment in Uganda and hardship in detention at Harmondsworth removal centre, a gay rights activist is still struggling to stay in the UK.
7 December 2006 (587 words)
Sergey Baranyuk forgotten at Harmondsworth
A recent inquest into the death of Ukrainian asylum seeker Sergey Baranyuk provided a glimpse of how asylum seekers are treated behind the closed doors of removal centres in the UK - detained, forgotten and slowly driven to despair.
7 December 2006 (1344 words)