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Recent News
Nearly 40,000 incidents of physical restraint of mental health patients were recorded in 2011-12. Over 3,000 were in the dangerous face down position, while 949 resulted in injury.
Four asylum seekers were released from Harmondsworth IRC last week after going on hunger-strike, one of whom was at ‘death’s door’. However, they had already been assessed as medically unfit for detention.
A parliamentary human rights committee has condemned the treatment of child asylum seekers, acknowledging that immigration control is put before their well-being.
Recent Publications
October 17, 2010
Driven to desperate measures 2006-2010
A report cataloguing the deaths of the 77 asylum seekers and migrants who have died either in the UK or attempting to reach the UK from 2006-2010.
September 21, 2006
Driven to desperate measures 1989-2006
The IRR has catalogued a roll call of death of the 221 asylum seekers and migrants who have died either in the UK or attempting to reach the UK in the past seventeen years.
January 1, 1993
Community care: the black experience
The first study to ask black groups for their experiences and opinions on community care.
January 1, 1993
Resource directory on ‘race’ and racism in social work
A bibliographical guide covering elders, families, community care, HIV/AIDS, mental health, probation and criminal justice.
Upcoming Events
A conference on challenges facing legal services for lawyers, advisers, advocates, campaigning organisations and legal services in public bodies.
Jun 13 2013
Cracks in the Dutch deportation and detention regime
A series of hunger strikes, following allegations of abuse, force and the use of forged documents, are showing up the fault lines in the Dutch detention system.
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