UK: “Hostile” Compensation Scheme Fails ‘Windrush’ Victims
Independence, Legal Aid, Appeals Rights Needed to Provide Effective Remedy

The UK’s human rights record is in significant decline. It has introduced laws that violate rights and aim to dismantle the international protection framework. The government is attempting to send asylum seekers who arrive to the UK irregularly, to Rwanda, a country that is not safe, and has proposed draconian immigration legislation that bans most asylum seekers from even claiming asylum. Rising food, rents, and energy prices, and inadequate social protections threaten the rights of people on the lowest incomes, including to food and housing. The UK government’s efforts to act multilaterally to promote human rights obligations in some contexts, was undermined by its aggressive domestic anti-rights agenda and refusal to acknowledge its serious violation of rights in colonial contexts such as its ongoing crimes against humanity against the Chagossian people.
April 19, 2023
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