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  • Asylum Election Pledge Postcard

    Click above to find out if your MP signed the Asylum Election Pledge


  • The rights and freedoms we campaign to protect belong to every person in the UK – to immigrants and those seeking asylum as much as to British citizens. 
     
    Some of the Government's immigration and asylum policies have undermined these basic rights. By denying support to those who do not apply for asylum at the earliest opportunity, many were led to destitution.

    Liberty intervened in a case which established that denying the basic necessities of life to people who aren't allowed to earn, and so can't provide for themselves, constitutes 'inhuman or degrading treatment', prohibited by the Human Rights Act. 
      
    Since 9/11 we have seen an alarming tendency to treat counter-terrorism as a question of immigration control. This way the Government can appear 'tough' on terrorism without being 'tough' on the majority of the voting population. But this suggests that there is a connection between someone’s nationality and the question of whether they pose a threat to our security. This has fed community unrest, marginalisation and even violence against minority groups.
  • Press Releases

    • Liberty responds to Lib-Con coalition agreement

    • Liberty today welcomed the Lib-Con coalition’s proposals on civil liberties but urged the new Government to defend the Human Rights Act and remember both parties’ opposition to the control orders regime.
    • 12.05.2010
    • 1000th prospective MP milestone for asylum pledge

    • Today Liberty announces the 1000th parliamentary candidate has signed up to the organisation’s asylum election pledge. By signing the pledge, which is promoted by Liberty, the Refugee Council and the Scottish Refugee Council, candidates agree to ‘never play fast and loose with the proud tradition of a nation that must always offer succour to those in genuine fear of persecution’.
    • 06.05.2010