Last week, I hosted an event in Parliament about violence at the UK-France border. @asylummatters.bsky.social, Humans for Rights Network, Project Play and others shared reports of horrifying state neglect and violence, including towards children.

This is an extract from a testimony provided to us by Saeed*. The full testimony can be found here - www.humansforrights.org/blog/2025/12...

We took the French government to court - and WE WON. But the work isn’t over. The court ruled that living conditions in Dunkirk camps are illegal and inhumane, ordering urgent action. But basic healthcare is still missing. We have appealed to push for its inclusion. @humansforrights.bsky.social

“You can’t stay but you can’t go” - State violence at the UK France border. This report centres around and emphasises the UK and French governments’ joint responsibility for violence at the UK-France border. Both governments organise and fund violent policing operations in the name of ‘security’.

Yesterday we were in Parliament to launch our new collaborative report, “You can’t stay but you can’t go” - state violence at the UK France border” at an event hosted by @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social www.humansforrights.org/state-violence

The level of taxpayer-funded violence at the UK-France border revealed in this report is sickening. We support @humansforrights.bsky.social calls for an independent public inquiry into the UK government’s role in the increase in violence and deaths at the border in recent years.

🚨EMERGENCY AT THE UK-FRANCE BORDER 🚨 Today we are launching our new collaborative report reveals that people attempting to cross the UK-France border are subjected to horrifying levels of state violence. www.humansforrights.org/state-violence

Deadly violence on the French border is being funded by the UK taxpayer. Our leaders need to understand what's done in their name. Tell your MP to join @humansforrights.bsky.social in Parliament next week to learn the real impact of hostile border policies: fightforasylumrights.org/write-to-you...

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...

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...

🚨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...

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. 👇

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 🧡

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

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-...

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-...

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

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-...

📣 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 🔽 tinyurl.com/bde3nfsu

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.

🚨Launched today! Our report, #ADecadeOfHarm, uncovers: ❌Shocking new findings about the impact of immigration detention on women seeking safety, ❌and the extremely concerning gaps between Home Office policy and practice. Find out more👇 www.refugeewomen.co.uk/decade-of-ha... 1/🧵

🚨 In a judgment today, the High Court has found that the government acted unlawfully in accommodating three victims of trafficking, torture & other extreme human cruelty in the asylum camp at RAF Wethersfield. www.helenbamber.org/resources/la...

In a significant ruling today, the High Court of Justice has found that the Home Secretary acted unlawfully and in breach of her duties under the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 by accommodating three vulnerable asylum seekers - TG, MN, and HAA - at RAF Wethersfield.

Staggering failures of child protection here, and "well, some of them might not have been trafficked" scarcely seems much of a response

🚨 Children who come to the UK alone in hope of finding protection need specialist support. But our new report w/ the Refugee & Migrant Children's Consortium shows that hundreds continue to be wrongly treated as adults & placed at risk in adult accommodation or criminalised 1/3🧵

In response to the Border Security, Asylum & Immigration Bill introduced by the UK government on 30 Jan, along with Border Criminologies (@vickytaylor.bsky.social) we issued a briefing on the criminalisation provisions related to irregular arrival: www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/news...

This is not only morally reprehensible, but a breach of the UN Refugee Convention. No refugee should be discriminated against on the basis of how they entered the country www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Thousands of migrants held at UK-run French detention centres ‘shrouded in secrecy’ www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

GPS tagging of migrants is cruel and disproportionate, as PLP's research has proven. Now the Home Office's evaluation of its own GPS tagging pilot has revealed that it was ineffective too. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Earlier this year, I sat through a trial that never should have happened, and watched as a young asylum seeker was prosecuted for a tragedy dealt by forces far greater than him. On Wednesday, his legal team will seek permission to appeal -I am hopeful this will be a step towards justice