The #ScrapMIRNow campaign: The minimum income requirement means sponsors of spouse visas for non-EEA citizens have to earn at least £18,600 plus £3,800 for their first child and £2,400 for each child after. t is particularly hard for women to sponsor husbands, especially those who care for children or family members, as they are many have into … Read more →
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The r/fight to protest #JusticeForGeorgeFloyd
Protesters around the world are continuing to demand justice for 46-year-old George Floyd, who died one week ago under the knee of a white police officer in Minneapolis while other officers restrained his body. George Floyd’s death is a painful reminder of the African-American struggle against systemic racism. African-Americans have been the primary target of police brutality in the United States. At least 100 African-Americans, including Trayyon Martin, Michael Brown, … Read more →
Testing times for digital rights around the world: The three most pressing challenges
The ongoing pandemic has significantly changed the landscape of digital rights in countries around the world. The collateral damage of the health pandemic has been the weakening of the immune system of democracy – freedom of expression and free exchange of information. Digital rights are not just human rights in themselves, but also form the bedrock on which civil society rests to rally for other human rights. At this stage, … Read more →
The UK must stop compelling asylum seekers to risk their lives
When I was a teenager, a shy young man took a long distance National Express bus down from Newcastle to stay with my family in Essex for a few days. He was a distant relative who had left lran and travelled to the UK by clinging to the underframe of a lorry a few years before, breaking all his limbs as he wedged them into gaps on the underside of the vehicle for hours on end. He was struggling … Read more →
Climate, migration, and displacement – What are the implications for human rights law?
Climate change and migration dredge up very specific imagery. It is often portrayed in the media as mass hordes of people crossing through barren deserts or Pacific Islanders standing at deteriorating shorelines. But the impact of climate change on human mobility is more complex than that – and its complexity … Read more →
Disinformation kills: The Covid-19 infodemic
The right to access information is incredibly important, now more than ever. Yet amidst a barrage of coronavirus disinformation aimed at sowing further chaos, many governments’ reactions to the pandemic have been to crack down hard on media outlets and journalists who are trying to provide the accurate information and facts that so … Read more →