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Media Advisory: Information Tribunal hearing over refusal to reveal numbers of women and parents stripped of citizenship

Marginalised and vulnerable groups

Human rights research group Rights Security International (RSI) has a hearing in the Information Tribunal on Wednesday 26 and Thursday 27 April over its Freedom of Information (FOI) request about... Read more

Parliament hears concerns about plans to give police and Home Secretary unaccountable snooping powers

Accountability and Access to Justice

Yesterday, the Scottish National Party (SNP) echoed RSIs concerns about the Data Protection and Digital Information (No. 2) Bill during a debate in the House of Commons.RSI has briefed MPs... Read more

JCHR quotes RSI on the idea of a human rights ombudsperson in the UK

Accountability and Access to Justice

On 28 March, the UK Parliaments Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR) published its report on the creation of a human rights ombudsperson in the UK, quoting and supporting RSIs... Read more

Emails raise concerns about potential Home Office interference in the Independent Review of Prevent, says Rights & Security International

Accountability and Access to Justice

Rights & Security International (RSI), a London-based human rights charity, says copies of emails it has secured through a Freedom of Information (FOI) request raise concerns that the Home Office... Read more

Europe’s highest court stresses RSI’s work in major ruling

Accountability and Access to Justice

The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled yesterday in a Read more

Legacy Practitioners Open Letter: legacy commitments in NDNA must be returned to

Accountability and Access to Justice

Thursday 17 June 2021For immediate releaseHuman Rights NGOs, academics, and lawyers express deep concerns about NIO proposed legislationAn open letter endorsed by human rights NGOs, academics and lawyers has made... Read more

UK: Investigate human trafficking of British children and women in Syrian camps

Marginalised and vulnerable groups

London, 30 April 2021 - The UK Parliament should begin an urgent inquiry into government policies in response to Read more

UK: Dont renew Coronavirus Act provisions that harm rights

Accountability and Access to Justice

The UK Parliament is likely to renew the governments emergency powers to combat COVID-19 this week, but the relevant law u2014 the Coronavirus Act 2020 u2014 includes provisions that continue... Read more

Rights and Security International’s Statement on the UK’s Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill

Marginalised and vulnerable groups

The UKs Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill will further silence the countrys marginalised communities, which already have a disproportionately small voice in power-wielding institutions, by needlessly restricting their right... Read more

Follow Belgium by repatriating children and women from squalid Syrian camps, RSI urges governments

Accountability and Access to Justice

Belgian policy announced yesterday should prompt other returns and rights protections(London, 5 March 2021) - Belgiums decision to take back a significant number of Belgian children and women from squalid... Read more

UK SUPREME COURTS RULING IN SHAMIMA BEGUM CASE IS INCONSISTENT WITH HUMAN RIGHTS

Accountability and Access to Justice

(London, 26 February 2021) - Today, the UK Supreme Court has disappointingly ruled that Shamima Begum, who travelled to Syria as a school child in the context of the Islamic... Read more

RSIs response to UN statement on repatriation from North East Syrian camps of women and children from 57 States

Marginalised and vulnerable groups

(London, 8 February 2021) - The 57 countries that have citizens languishing in life-threatening and rights-violating conditions in camps in North East Syria, including the UK, Belgium, Germany, France and... Read more

Explain Prevent reviewer appointment process and plans for overcoming credibility gap with Muslim communities, RSI tells Home Office

Marginalised and vulnerable groups

The UK Home Office should explain the non-transparent process it used to Read more

RSI publishes landmark Report ‘Europes Guantanamo: The indefinite detention of European women and children in North East Syria’

Accountability and Access to Justice

Today Rights and Security International (RSI) publishes its Read more

RSI joins Global Coalition urging UN to Address Chinas Human Rights Abuses

International Security and Rule of Law

Rights and Security International joins a global coalition urging UN to address Chinas human rights abuses. More than 300 organizations joined the call for an international mechanism. See the letter... Read more

RSI Executive Director responds to former Home Secretary Sajid Javid on Shamima Begum’s appeal win

Accountability and Access to Justice

Response to Read more

RWUK EXPRESSES GRAVE CONCERN OVER ARBITRARY ARREST OF PTM LEADER IN PAKISTAN

Closing of civic space

PRESS RELEASE: Rights Watch (UK) expresses grave concern over arbitrary arrest of PTM leader in PakistanFollowing the arrest of Pakistani human rights leader, Manzoor Pashteen, on Monday 27 January, and... Read more

RWUK and Libertys joint letter to the Prevent Review

Marginalised and vulnerable groups

Rights Watch (UK), along with Liberty, have sent a letter to the Independent Prevent Review, informing it they would not be filling out the Reviews online questionnaire, which forms the... Read more

RWUK and Save the Children host urgent briefing on the situation of British women and children detained in islamic state-affiliated camps in North East Syria

Marginalised and vulnerable groups

On 23 October 2019, Rights Watch (UK) and Save the Children hosted an urgent briefing on the situation of the British women and children stranded in Islamic State-affiliated camps in... Read more

RWUK Expresses Concern About the Deprivation of Shamima Begums British Citizenship

Marginalised and vulnerable groups

In response to the Home Secretarys decision of 19 February 2019 to deprive Shamima Begum of her British citizenship, Executive Director of Rights Watch (UK), Yasmine Ahmed commented:u201cFirst and foremost... Read more