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We don't often have our breath taking away quite so strongly as after we watched the recent video produced by our friends at AVID. Their new animated video exposes what [...]

As the new Border Security Bill works its way through the House of Commons, we were keen to see the latest UNHCR perspective on the Bill  In particular we were [...]

We are delighted that recently Parliamentarians held a meeting to re-establish the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Immigration Detention. Following a vote by the membership, Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP (Labour) was [...]

We are keen to promote this new briefing from the Migration Observatory, which examines immigration detention in the UK. It discusses who is detained, for how long, with what effects, [...]

At our last members meeting we heard about the work of our media group at our meeting. Our media group contains people with lived experience of immigration detention in the [...]

Our friends at the Keep Campsfield Closed Campaign have arranged the following demonstration: KEEP CAMPSFIELD CLOSED! 12 NOON 30 NOVEMBER 2024 CAMPSFIELD GATES LANGFORD LANE KIDLINGTON OX5 1RE  BUS INFORMATION: [...]

We are mourning the tragic news of another death at Brook House, after a man died at the detention centre on Sunday. This is almost a year since an Albanian [...]

At our recent members' meeting, we discussed our three key priorities for our engagement with the new Government and Parliament. They are as follows: Keep Haslar (in Hampshire) and Campsfield [...]

The Detention Forum is happy to be joining our friends at Rene Cassin and Rainbow Migration at an online event next week promoting the compassionate alternative to immigration detention - [...]

Following on from the Brook House Inquiry, we were saddened to see the recent publication of another independent report this time showing that since then safety has got worse for [...]

The Detention Forum was proud to add its name to the recent joint letter co-ordinated by AVID expressing our opposition to the proposed re-opening of the detention centres at Haslar [...]

In the last Parliament, we had become sadly quite used to the last Government's response to any questions about the Home Office funded community-based alternatives to detention pilot projects - [...]