21st June 2023
On 12 June 2023, the Illegal Migration Bill continued its fourth day in the Committee Stage, where members of the House of Lords discussed the clauses on entry and settlement...
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8th June 2023
In April 2023, Rights & Security International (RSI) hosted a hybrid roundtable in central London to discuss citizenship deprivation practices across three Council of Europe jurisdictions—the United Kingdom, France and...
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19th May 2023
As of 19 May 2023, the Illegal Migration Bill has reached Committee Stage in the House of Lords. RSI believes that proposals in the Bill would restrict citizenship rights for...
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26th April 2023
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...
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12th January 2023
On 10 January 2023, the Spanish government announced that it had successfully repatriated 13 children and two women from the Roj detention camp in northeast Syria. This is the first repatriation effort...
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19th October 2022
RSI welcomes the news that the UK has repatriated a British woman and child from Syria. It is the first known instance of the UK repatriating a British woman from the northeast...
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15th September 2022
The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled yesterday in a major case that France violated human rights when it refused to let French children and women confined...
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13th July 2022
Today, RSI launched its Global Repatriations Tracker, an important new tool that charts the estimated number of children, women and men repatriated from northeast Syria by country and date since 2019....
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31st March 2022
Today, RSI and the Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion ('ISI') made a joint submission to the Universal Periodic Review ('UPR') concerning the right to nationality in the United Kingdom ('UK')...
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4th March 2022
The Home Office has disclosed that it deprived 27 people of their British nationality in 2019, and 10 people in 2020, on the basis that to do so was ‘conducive...
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11th February 2022
On 21 January 2022, RSI wrote to UN human rights experts to raise concerns about the UK’s existing citizenship-stripping powers and practices, and the government's plans to let the Home Secretary...
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10th February 2022
On 10 February 2022, the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Trafficked Britons in Syria published the results of its inquiry into British nationals, including children, who may have been trafficked...
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8th November 2021
On 8 NovemberRights & Security International (RSI) submitted expert evidence to an inquiry by the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG)on Trafficked Britons in Syria.The APPG exists to ensure that the UK...
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26th October 2021
Authorities should also avoid separating families Rights & Security International (RSI) welcomes the news that the UK government repatriated three British children from detention camps in northeast Syria on Monday...
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2nd October 2020
On Saturday 3rd October 2020, Rights and Security International submitted a written intervention to the European Court of Human Rights regarding the case of HF and MF v France. The...
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3rd August 2020
On 17th July 2020, a UK appeals court ruled Shamima Begum should be allowed to return to the UK in order to fight the decision to remove her citizenship. The following is...
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16th July 2020
Response to Sajid Javid MP’s Statement as to Begum Court of Appeal Judgment The Court of Appeal’s decision today is a welcome first step in amending the significant damage done by Mr Javid’s...
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30th June 2020
On July 9th, 2020, RSI co-hosted a webinar with the Open Society Justice Initiative and the Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion on the deprivation on nationality as a side-event to...
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