Exclusive: Volker Türk critical of scheme he considers ethically problematic and believes government must look again at how to deal with people-smuggling gangs and the treatment of refugees
“You cannot offshore your responsibilities to another state in the way that is envisaged [by the UK government],” Türk told the Guardian. “It does raise very serious concerns, both from an international human rights and international refugee law perspective.”The high courtthat the Conservatives’ plan to send people seeking protection in the UK to the central African country was lawful, dismissing an application from asylum seekers, charities and a border officials’ union to stop it.
The victory was partial, as judges also said the government had failed to “properly consider the circumstances” of eight people it had tried to deport under the scheme in June, in one instance confusing facts relating to one Syrian Kurd with another Syrian in what the court deemedThe home secretary, however, swiftly announced her intention to push ahead the partnership “at scale and as soon as possible”.
More than 40,000 people have crossed the Channel in small boats in 2022, the highest number since figures began to be collected in 2018. The journey is perilous:Four people died last week after a small boat got into difficulties in the Channel off the coast of Kent.The Rwandan government has said that it currently has capacity to receive about 200 people – less than 0.5% of the total who have crossed this year and that rights groups say is nowhere near large enough to be a deterrent.
Türk, an Austrian lawyer and former assistant high commissioner at the UN refugee agency, said he had seen how Australia’s offshore
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