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The front page news in the Guardian last week, that “Home Office Eritrea guidance softened to reduce asylum seeker numbers” will not surprise those who have been following the debacle of Eritrean asylum claims in the UK for some time. The Public Law Project managed to obtain internal Home Office documents that evidenced UK government efforts to seek more […]

Overview: University student Al-Zubier Adem fled human rights abuses in Eritrea as a teenager, making a perilous journey across Africa and Europe to build a new life in the UK. Here he tells his story and calls for a more humane government policy towards people fleeing conflict and persecution. I came to the UK in […]

“For refugees who have lost everything, who are often without the support of family and friends, and who may carry the scars of trauma and tragedy, building a new life can be a difficult and daunting task. Mandated to protect refugees, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency provides life-saving shelter and assistance to refugees around the […]

People were first detected crossing the Channel on small boats at a significant scale in 2018, when 299 people were recorded arriving the UK in this manner. Numbers rose sharply, reaching a peak of around 46,000 in 2022. Arrivals then fell in 2023, before rising again to around 41,000 in 2025. The charts below show […]

An Eritrean man who has been fighting to stay in the United Kingdom is set to be deported to France after losing a High Court bid to have his removal temporarily blocked. The 25-year-old Eritrean man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, crossed the English Channel in August and was originally due to be removed […]

his release goes up to the year ending (YE) December 2025. The “year ending” period includes the 12 months up to and including the YE month. For example, YE December 2025 includes the 12 months between 1 January 2025 and 31 December 2025. An asylum claim may relate to more than one person, if the main applicant has family […]

Sustained by Francis Fukuyama’s triumphalist ‘end of history’ thesis, the model of the liberal democratic nation-state dominates much of the discussion about political and economic development in post-conflict environments. The so-called ‘triple transition’ — signifying moves to nationalise political and social space, democratise political systems, and ‘marketise’ economic policies  READMORE

This paper looks at „space‟ for women in the context of transitional justice in post-conflictcountries. It connects lack of „symbolic‟ spaces for dealing with violence against women intransitional justice mechanisms with the subsequent failure to deliver „physical‟ spaces forwomen‟s reintegration into communities. It also considers how women could benefit morefrom transitional justice.In times of conflict, […]

TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE:FRAMING A MODEL FOR ERITREA Since its independence in 1991, Eritrea has seen egregious violations of human rights andhumanitarian law. This study examines the perpetration of international crimes in Eritreabetween 24 May 1991 and 30 May 2008. A factual and legal analysis of the majorincidents and events that took place during the above period […]

As of June 30, 2024, Uganda had 11,520 Eritrean refugees and asylum seekers. This was part of the total of 1,702,278 refugees and asylum seekers in Uganda at that time.  Uganda is home to some of the largest refugee populations in the world. The majority of refugees in Uganda come from South Sudan (55%), the Democratic Republic of the […]