Listening to the unheard
There's really no such thing as the 'voiceless'. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard. - Arundhati Roy, 2004 On 1 June 2016 academics, lawyers, social workers,
What is precarious citizenship?
A conference on how to secure justice for young people with precarious citizenship is taking place in London on 1 June 2016, organised by MiCLU in conjunction with Birkbeck College. But what
We are joining forces to offer legal support to vulnerable migrant children
MiCLU and other advice agencies are taking inspiration from Angelina Jolie-Pitt and joining forces to offer legal support to vulnerable migrant children. We are excited to be among a key group of
We made sure that the best interests of the child are a ‘primary consideration’
RCRP were heavily involved in this landmark case in which Lady Hale set out the relevance and weight of the concept of ‘Best Interests of the Child’ in an immigration context. This
We made sure that children see social services BEFORE formal screening
AN & FA (Children), R (On the Application Of) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2012] EWCA Civ 1636. The challenge brought in AN & FA resulted from work done
We are fighting for the rights of young asylum seekers
Five years after the judgment in ZH Tanzania it was apparent that despite Lady Hale’s clear statement of the weight to be given to the rights of the child, and call for
We put the voice of the child at the centre of all that we do
The voice of the child is crucial to our work. We take time to ensure that we, as representatives, hear the voice of our clients, and that when we speak on their
Habibullah’s Story
“No-one believes me, [not] the Home Office, my lawyers, my social worker. I have no-one and you are first one listening. Please—why they punish me more and more?” Habibullah was 13 years
