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Home Office refers to the government department responsible for immigration, law and order, and security in the United Kingdom. The Home Office is responsible for a wide range of policies and services, including visas and immigration, crime prevention, national security, and emergency response. The Home Office plays a crucial role in shaping the social and political landscape of the UK, and its decisions have significant implications for millions of people both within and outside the country.
Dr Masimba Mavaza Zimbabwean care workers are being tricked into coming to the UK by unscrupulous middlemen who withhold up to half their wages and force them to live in squalor. The scam, which plays on the acute shortages of nursing and care staff across Britain’s hospitals and care homes, has echoes of the debt…
Migrant workers pick apples at a famr in Suckley, Britain, in October 2016. | Reuters When Raj heard British farmers were hiring seasonal workers from Nepal last year, he jumped at the chance to earn what he thought would be a sizeable income for his family. Having already worked in Malaysia and Saudi Arabia, the…
A Lagos-based Nigerian trader allegedly trafficked to the United Kingdom by former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, told a British court he pleaded with police officers in the UK for his life to be saved. In a videotaped interview, the alleged victim also told police he was treated like a ‘slave’ at the house in…
Right from under the noses of the British Home Office, hundreds of child refugees, seeking asylum in the United Kingdom, are being abducted and trafficked for all sorts of reasons. The British Home Office has been repeatedly cautioned by a multitude of agencies, about the dangers such vulnerable children faced, arriving unaccompanied from their homelands….
LONDON — A Uyghur rights group’s legal challenge against the British government for not investigating the import of cotton produced in the Chinese region of Xinjiang was dismissed by a London court Friday. The World Uyghur Congress, an international organization of exiled Uyghur groups, had taken legal action at London’s High Court against Britain’s Home…
Out of 200 asylum-seeking children that have gone missing from hotels provided by the British Government, 88% were Albanian, according to Minister Lord Murray, sparking outrage in Tirana over the lack of responsibility from UK authorities and the fact that they were not notified. “The Home Office have no power to detain unaccompanied asylum-seeking children…
It is common for wars to alternate between periods of relative calm and high intensity. This month, it seems as though the war against people smuggling in the Mediterranean is experiencing the latter. A series of unconnected raids and arrests, from Sudan to Bulgaria to the UK, have hit trafficking networks hard. An operation last…
Human trafficking is the movement of a person from one place to another, within a country or across borders, into conditions of exploitation against their will. It consists of three basic parts: An action – the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of a person A means – the threat or use of force or…
The co-founder of Stagecoach bus company, who faces human trafficking charges, is believed to be Scotland’s richest women and was made a dame for services to business and charity. Business mogul Dame Ann Gloag, 80, is one of four people facing allegations of trafficking and immigration offences, Police Scotland said. Her representatives said she firmly…
Bus company tycoon Dame Ann Gloag has been charged as part of a human trafficking probe. The Stagecoach co-founder and multimillionaire, 80, was was charged with three others. Dame Ann, who is one of Scotland’s richest women and charity campaigner, is said to vehemently denies the accusations, a representative for the businesswoman has said tonight….
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