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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26th May 2023
On Tuesday 16 May, the Labour Party supported RSI’s analysis of the Data Protection and Digital Information (No. 2) Bill in a Committee debate. RSI has repeatedly raised concerns that...
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11th May 2023
Yesterday, RSI testified before a House of Commons Committee about the negative impacts the Data Protection and Digital Information (No. 2) Bill would have if Parliament adopts it.The Public Bill...
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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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6th March 2023
Rights & Security International (RSI) has raised concerns about trends it believes are suggested by data on ethnicity and race from the Government’s Prevent and Channel programmes. The London-based human...
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27th February 2023
[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_xKqSzyQkk[/embed] In October 2022, Rights & Security International (RSI) hosted a panel event at Garden Court Chambers discussing the UK’s ‘Prevent’ counter-extremism strategy, with a moderated panel conversation followed by...
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22nd February 2023
Today, the Special Immigration Appeals Commission (SIAC) released a judgement rejecting the appeal of Shamima Begum, a young woman born in the UK and raised in London, against the Home Office's decision...
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9th February 2023
(London, 8 February 2023) The purportedly independent review of the UK’ Prevent counter-extremism strategy belittles professional expertise, including that of doctors, psychologists and people who work with vulnerable adults, and does not demonstrate a...
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2nd February 2023
Today, Baroness Smith of Newnham supported RSIs concerns about the legality of the use of people's biometric data, in the House of Lords Committee Stage debates on the Northern Ireland...
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1st February 2023
On 17 January 2023, the UK Parliament’s Joint Committee on Human Rights supported RSI’s argument that human rights in the UK should be enforceable -- not toothless. In our August...
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31st January 2023
Today, RSI submitted evidence to the UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism's call for inputs on the impact of...
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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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29th November 2022
On 6 December 2022, the National Security Bill has its Second Reading in the UK House of Lords. RSI believes that the Bill – if enacted – would unjustly limit...
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26th October 2022
Today, Rights & Security International (RSI) launches a new report analysing the UK’s collection and sharing of personal data under the 'Prevent' counter-extremism programme, and concludes that these practices are...
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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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1st September 2022
Rights & Security International (RSI) is pleased to publish the result of its research on the role of Ombudsperson offices to advance human rights within the UN counter-terrorism framework. RSI...
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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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