Episode 28 - Dr Emilie McDonnell- Human Rights Watch- Offshoring Refugees, the Rwanda Plan
Still We Rise27 Helmi 2023

Episode 28 - Dr Emilie McDonnell- Human Rights Watch- Offshoring Refugees, the Rwanda Plan

This week we are joined by Dr. Emelie McDonnell, a human rights and refugee advocate, with experience and expertise in human rights, refugee, and international law more broadly. We look at Britain’s diminishing rights record through the lens of Human Rights Watch whose work across the world is well-established and respected. Britain has set itself on an extraordinary path with a raft of domestic legislation that criminalises people seeking asylum who arrive without prior authorization, in breach of its obligations under the 1951 Refugee Convention. Not only that, it plans to outsource the processing of Refugees to Rwanda, a country with a very poor rights record. Domestically plans to repeal and replace the Human Rights Act are afoot. It’s a truly precarious time for would-be Refugees. Emilie McDonnell talks us through the implications, she’s clear, these changes are egregious and a flagrant disregard of international law. An instructive compelling listen

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Episode 31 - Frances Webber- Barrister and Author - The prosecution and conviction of Ibrahima Bah

Episode 31 - Frances Webber- Barrister and Author - The prosecution and conviction of Ibrahima Bah

Following last week’s episode on the criminalisation of seeking asylum, today we take a deep dive into the prosecution and conviction of Ibrahimah Bah.  Is he a scapegoat? Is he a victim of political ...

16 Huhti 202459min

Episode 30 - Victoria Taylor- Border Criminologies- The Criminalisation of seeking asylum

Episode 30 - Victoria Taylor- Border Criminologies- The Criminalisation of seeking asylum

In this episode, we confront a disturbing reality unfolding, the criminalization of people seeking asylum, Britain of course is still a signatory to the Refugee Convention, a document it once champion...

2 Huhti 202442min

Episode 29 - Dr Peter Walsh- Migration Observatory - The Illegal Migration Bill

Episode 29 - Dr Peter Walsh- Migration Observatory - The Illegal Migration Bill

The Illegal Immigration Bill will withdraw the UK from the international refugee framework established after the ravages of the Second World War and the Holocaust. Dr. Peter Walsh is candid and forthr...

5 Huhti 202348min

Episode 27 - Nicola Kelly- Journalist- Inside the Home Office

Episode 27 - Nicola Kelly- Journalist- Inside the Home Office

Over the last few months Nicola Kelly, a former Home Office Staffer and now journalist focused on UK immigration and asylum policy and human rights, has been looking at what’s going on at the Home Off...

30 Elo 202244min

Episode 26 - Martha Spurrier- Director of Liberty- A Bill of RIghts for Britain?

Episode 26 - Martha Spurrier- Director of Liberty- A Bill of RIghts for Britain?

Bill of Rights Synopsis Dominic Raab has set Britain on a course of travel that indulges its worst Brexit excesses. He famously said he didn’t believe in social and economic rights and so it is no s...

15 Heinä 202246min

Episode 25 - Maya Goodfellow-  Hostile Environment- How migrants became scapegoats

Episode 25 - Maya Goodfellow- Hostile Environment- How migrants became scapegoats

A Decade ago, the Former Prime Minister Theresa May introduced the most draconian internal border controls on people who she thought were living in Britain without permission. This onerous policy and ...

31 Touko 202257min

Episode 24 - Alba Kapoor- The Runnymede Trust- Deprivation of Citizenship

Episode 24 - Alba Kapoor- The Runnymede Trust- Deprivation of Citizenship

Clause 9- is the Deprivation of Citizenship. Who is a citizen in Brexit Britain or as we often hear, Global Britain? Well, Priti Patel has shown her hand and through the Nationality and Borders Act ha...

16 Touko 202241min

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