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A boy plays in the playground of an asylum seeking centre in Baexem in the Netherlands.
© UNICEF/Sidra

Netherlands violates nationality rights: UN rights committee 

29 December 2020
Human Rights

The Netherlands has violated a child’s rights by registering children under the category “nationality unknown” as opposed to Stateless – leaving them ineligible to access international protections, the UN Human Rights Committee  declared on Tuesday.  

Prime Minister Boris Johnson (on screen) of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland addresses the general debate of the General Assembly’s seventy-fifth session.
UN Photo/Evan Schneider

Repair ugly rifts and unite against common foe, COVID-19, ‘or everyone will lose’, warns UK’s Johnson

26 September 2020
UN Affairs

COVID-19 has “united humanity as never before”, the United Kingdom Prime Minister told the UN General Assembly’s annual high-level session on Saturday.

A boy walks through a migrant camp in Calais, northern France. According to estimates, about 900 migrants and asylum seekers are sheltering in the area, many without toilets or washing facilities.
UNICEF/Geai

Interception no solution to address migrants crossing English Channel

14 August 2020
Migrants and Refugees

Intercepting boats full of migrants attempting to cross the English Channel, is not the solution to deter them from attempting to reach the United Kingdom, UN agencies have stressed, warning that deployment of large naval vessels to block small, flimsy dinghies could lead to fatal incidents.

A child walks in Al Hol camp in north-east Syria where more than 90 per cent of the people are women and children.
OCHA/Hedinn Halldorsson

UN independent expert welcomes UK court decision to allow Shamima Begum to fight for citizenship 

16 July 2020
Human Rights

Radicalized on British soil as a London schoolgirl, an independent UN expert welcomed a Court of Appeal ruling in the United Kingdom on Thursday, to allow 20-year-old Shamima Begum to return home from Syria to challenge the Government’s removal of her citizenship.