23rd February 2024
London, 23 Feb – Today's decision by the Court of Appeal to uphold the removal of Shamima Begum's British citizenship is a deeply disappointing outcome, setting a troubling precedent for the... Read more
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... Read more
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... Read more
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... Read more
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... Read more
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.... Read more
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')... Read more
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... Read more
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... Read more
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... Read more 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... Read more 5th July 2021
On Monday 5 July 2021, Rights and Security International ('RSI') submitted a written intervention to the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights in the joined cases of... Read more 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... Read more 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... Read more
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... Read more 9th November 2019
On 7 November 2019, RWUK attended the European Parliament (“EP”) Committee on Civil Justice, Liberty and Home Affairs’ meeting, “Exchange of views on the children of foreign fighters held in... Read more
30th October 2019
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 moreCopyright 2026. All Rights Reserved
