UK’s failed asylum deportation plan puts Rwanda’s human rights and refugee struggles in the spotlight
THE UK Supreme Court ruled on 15 November 2023 that sending asylum seekers to Rwanda was unlawful. The plan would have seen tens of thousands of asylum seekers sent from the UK to Rwanda, which would then process and host such refugees indefinitely. EVAN EASTON-CALABRIA, Senior Researcher at the Feinstein International Center, Tufts University, and Research Associate at the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford Along with countless refugee and human rights groups – including the United Nations – I raised red flags about the plan and welcomed the decision to halt it. My research and work over more than…