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Location
United Kingdom, England, Hull
Employees
51-200
Founded date
1951
Mentions in press and media 8
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| Feb 20, 2025 | UK: Refugees to be prevented from ever receiving citizenship â Home Office releases controversial deportation video â Record number of deaths in asylum accommodation in 2024 â Confirmation of blanket rejection of asylum claims from Afghan special force⦠| The Home Office (Ministry of the Interior) has introduced a new measure which will make it almost impossible for people who arrive in the UK irregularly to ever receive British citizenship. The Home Office has released a video showing peopl... |
| Nov 6, 2024 | Starmer Announces £75M for UK Border Security Tech | Prime Minister Keir Starmer has committed £75m more in funding to the newly established Border Security Command (BSC) to enable the use of “state-of-the-art surveillance equipment” as part of a wider clampdown on immigration. Starmer made t... |
| Apr 26, 2024 | UK: Rwanda Bill Finally Adopted Amid High-level Criticism ― Rwanda Scheme: Doubts About Civil Service Compliance And Concerns About Airline ‘Complicity’ in Human Rights Violations ― More Migrant Deaths in Channel ― NGO Predicts ‘Meltdown’ of Asylum Sys… | The Rwanda Bill has finally been adopted but it has immediately drawn criticism from various high-level sources, including the Council of Europe and the United Nations. The civil service trade union has warned the government that it is cons... |
| Jun 21, 2023 | Worshipful Company of Information Technologists Hosts Inaugural Schools Hackathon to Empower Displaced People | City Livery company promotes the use of technology for good in society We’re delighted to have hosted this inaugural hackathon to generate ideas about how technology can help displaced people” — Rob Wirszycz, Master at WCITLONDON, UNITED KI... |
| Mar 16, 2023 | Can asylum seekers in Europe survive the cost-of-living crisis? | Towards the end of 2021, governments across Europe had scarcely eased their COVID-19 restrictions when the continent was gripped by a new problem: a cost-of-living crisis caused by soaring prices and low wage growth over the past decade. Fr... |
| Apr 9, 2020 | Could COVID-19 Upend International Asylum Norms? | On March 27, a judge in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York ordered the release of four immigrants from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention, charging that the government “had shown ‘deliberate indif... |
| Boris Johnson's government slammed for the UK's paralysis in helping Ukrainian refugees fleeing Vladimir Putin's invasion | Anti-war demonstrators and Ukrainians living in UK, gather around 10 Downing Street to protest against Russia's military operation in Ukraine, on February 25, 2022 in London, United Kingdom. Photo by Rasid Necati Aslim/Anadolu Agency via Ge... |
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FAQ about Refugee Council
When was Refugee Council founded?
Refugee Council was founded in 1951.
What has the press written about Refugee Council?
Parsers VC has collected 8 articles mentioning Refugee Council, among them “UK: Refugees to be prevented from ever receiving citizenship â Home Office releases controversial deportation video â Record number of deaths in asylum a...” (Feb 20, 2025) and “Starmer Announces £75M for UK Border Security Tech” (Nov 6, 2024).
Is Refugee Council still active?
Yes, Refugee Council is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Mar 25, 2025.