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Government criticised for ‘reinterpreting’ international law to justify its asylum reforms
A group of people are escorted by Border Forcer officers as they approach the Port of Dover in Kent, following a small boat incident in the Channel
RIGHTS groups hit out today at government attempts to “reinterpret” international law to justify its much-criticised asylum reforms.
The United Nations refugee agency UNHCR has repeatedly warned that policies in the government’s Nationality and Borders Bill, currently making its way through Parliament, are “fundamentally at odds with the Refugee Convention and Britain’s obligations under it.”
But, in an apparent shift in the government’s position, Home Office minister Baroness Williams of Trafford declared last week that the government disagrees with UNHCR, the custodian of the Refugee Convention.
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