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ReliefWeb Uganda30d06/10

UK: Save the Children calls for children to be protected amid violence in Belfast

Countries: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Ukraine Source: Save the Children Save the Children is calling for children in Belfast to be protected from violence that erupted in the city last night. BELFAST 10 June 2026 - Peter Bryson, head of Save the Children Northern Ireland, on last night’s disorder, said: “Our hearts are heavy for all those impacted by last night’s violence. We urgently call for calm. Children’s safety must be put first. "No child should have to flee the

ReliefWeb Uganda137d02/23

UK: IRC's Guide to Collaborating with Refugee Parents and Caregivers | The IRC

Countries: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, World Source: International Rescue Committee Please refer to the attached file.

ReliefWeb Uganda254d10/29

UK: Bond reaction to IDC report on FCDO's approach to Value for Money in ODA

Country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Source: Bond Today, Wednesday 29th October 2025, a new report from the International Development Committee (IDC) into the FCDO's approach to value for money in Official Development Assistance (ODA) has found that cuts to the UK’s aid budget, and an unclear definition of value for money, risk worse outcomes for the world’s most vulnerable people. The report, 'Assessing Value, Ensuring Impact: The FCDO’s Approach to Value for Money in O

ReliefWeb Uganda260d10/23

Progress and gaps: Transparency of UK Aid beyond the FCDO

Country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Source: Publish What You Fund Please refer to the attached file. Executive summary The 2025 UK Aid Transparency Review (UK ATR), led by Publish What You Fund and commissioned by the UK government, evaluates the transparency of Official Development Assistance (ODA) spending by government departments beyond the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO). This review builds on previous assessments, including the 2020 UK ATR, and

ReliefWeb Uganda303d09/10

UK: MSF Flashquote following the deaths of four people trying to cross the Channel

Country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Source: Médecins Sans Frontières Jacob Burns, UK Migration Operations Manager for Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF), said: "The deaths of four people - including two children - trying to cross the Channel over the last 24 hours are again a reminder of the brutal reality of cutting off safe routes for people trying to get to this country. If people desperate for a chance to live in safety do not have a way to obtai

ReliefWeb Ugandaolder07/01

UK: UN experts urge United Kingdom not to misuse terrorism laws against protest group Palestine Action

Country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Source: UN Human Rights Council GENEVA – UN experts* today urged the United Kingdom not to ban the “direct action” group Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation under the Terrorism Act 2000. “We are concerned at the unjustified labelling of a political protest movement as ‘terrorist’,” the experts said. “According to international standards, acts of protest that damage property, but are not intended to kill or injure people, shou

ReliefWeb Ugandaolder07/01

Climate Action Network UK (CAN-UK) reaction to UK announcement on pre-arranged finance at FFD4.

Country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Source: Climate Action Network Today at the Financing for Development Conference in Sevilla, Minister Chapman launched a global initiative to increase pre-arranged finance for disasters - with a focus on insurance - as part of an initiative seeking to increase global pre-arranged finance from 2% to 20% by 2035. While pre-arranged finance is an important part of addressing climate-related and non-related disasters, CAN-UK is sceptical

ReliefWeb Ugandaolder06/20

Delays to protection for trafficking survivors raise concerns over UK deportation policy

Countries: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, World Source: Walk Free Foundation The UK is delaying protection for trafficking survivors caught in deportation proceedings, leaving many without vital support. The pause risks breaching human rights and increases the chance of re-trafficking and harm. The UK Home Office has extended a pause on protection decisions for trafficking survivors facing deportation, prompting criticism over increased risks to their safety and human righ

ReliefWeb Ugandaolder06/04

UK: MSF statement: What the Prime Minister gets wrong about small boat crossings

Countries: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, World Source: Médecins Sans Frontières This week the UK Prime Minister said that “you have every right to be angry about small boat crossings”. He's right - you should be angry. We're angry too. We're angry because despite a change in UK government the harmful and hostile rhetoric remains the same. In 2016, the Prime Minister spoke of the appalling conditions he witnessed in camps in Northern France, the need for routes for chi

ReliefWeb Ugandaolder05/15

UK: “A Lonely Place”: How Wethersfield is harming people seeking asylum; One year documenting medical harms at the mass containment site

Countries: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Afghanistan, Eritrea, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Sudan, Syrian Arab Republic Sources: Médecins du Monde, Médecins Sans Frontières Please refer to the attached file. UK government must immediately close Wethersfield mass containment site for asylum seekers A new report released by MSF shows how people staying in Wethersfield mass containment site in the UK are experiencing severe mental health distress. Wethersfield continues to be

ReliefWeb Ugandaolder05/14

UK: Incidence of Rodentolepis nana infection within people seeking asylum and refugees attending health screening at an integrated refugee health service

Countries: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Afghanistan, Eritrea, World Source: BioMed Central Please refer to the attached file. Kieran Killington, Nicky Longley, Katherine Bowers, Humayra Chowdhury, Paola Cinardo, Laura Nabarro & Sarah Eisen BMC Global and Public Health volume 3, Article number: 45 (2025) Cite this article Metrics Abstract Background Rodentolepis (Hymenolepis) nana (R. nana) is the most common cestode to infect humans, and whilst most infections are asympt

ReliefWeb Ugandaolder04/16

UK: Over 100 NGOs and refugee charities call on the government to end the use of hotels for housing asylum seekers as soon as possible

Countries: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, World Source: Bond As first reported by The Times newspaper, 107 leaders of NGOs and refugee charities from across the UK, including Refugee Council, Refugee Action, Care International UK, Choose Love, the ONE campaign, International Rescue Committee UK, Safe Passage International, Save the Children UK, WaterAid and many more, have come together to write an open letter to the Prime Minister, calling for the government to end the us

ReliefWeb Ugandaolder03/06

UK: Aid for Asylum Hosting: Time to Act

Countries: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, World Source: Center for Global Development Please refer to the attached file. by Laura Chappell Sam Hughes and Ian Mitchell This brief is co-published with the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR). The IPPR version is available here. Summary Following the recently announced cuts to aid spending—taking official development assistance (ODA) from 0.5 percent of GNI to 0.3 percent—it is time for the government to act, to ensure

ReliefWeb Ugandaolder03/05

Lost Childhoods: The consequences of flawed age assessments at the UK border

Countries: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, World Sources: Anti-Slavery International, Asylos, European Network on Statelessness, Freedom from Torture, Refugee Council Please refer to the attached file. Children at Risk in ‘Deeply Flawed’ System Hundreds of highly vulnerable refugee children continue to be at risk of abuse, neglect and criminalisation as a result of a ‘deeply flawed’ system which sees the Home Office routinely incorrectly deeming them to be adults, warn lead

ReliefWeb Ugandaolder02/28

UK: Our Response to Latest Immigration and Asylum Statistics

Countries: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, World Source: Refugee Council Responding to immigration and asylum statistics released on 27th February 2025, Enver Solomon, Chief Executive of the Refugee Council, said: We are living in an increasingly unstable world, where many men, women and children have no choice but to leave their homes to seek safety. We are encouraged to see that in their first six months the new government has continued to work to remedy a broken asylum s

ReliefWeb Ugandaolder01/28

UK: United Kingdom: Health Systems in Action 2024 Edition

Countries: Armenia, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Serbia, Switzerland, Tajikistan, the Republic of North Macedonia, Ukraine, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Uzbekistan Source: World Health Organization Please refer to the attached files. The UK protects people from catastrophic healthcare costs but patients still face long hospital waits while access to primary care appointments has worsened WHO/Europe and the European Observatory on Heal

ReliefWeb Ugandaolder01/14

UK: UNHCR United Kingdom Fact Sheet, September 2024

Countries: Afghanistan, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Pakistan, Ukraine, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, World Source: UN High Commissioner for Refugees Please refer to the attached file. In July, the UK government announced the end to the UK-Rwanda Migration and Economic Development Partnership and the resumption of asylum processing, including for those previously subject to removal to Rwanda. On 12 July, UNHCR published its Recommendations to the UK Government on restoring

ReliefWeb Ugandaolder01/07

Minister Dodds and FCDO officials unable to confirm timeline for reducing UK aid spending on domestic asylum and refugee costs - Bond reaction

Countries: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, World Source: Bond Today, Tuesday 7 January, the Minister for Development Anneliese Dodds gave evidence to Parliament's International Development Committee on the development work of the FCDO. Sir Philip Barton, Under-Secretary at Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office and Nick Dyer, Second Permanent Under-Secretary at Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office also gave evidence. During the session, the Minister announced ther

ReliefWeb Ugandaolder01/07

Blair and Brown didn’t use the aid budget to pay for refugees in the UK, so why are Starmer and Reeves?

Countries: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, World Source: Center for Global Development Please refer to the attached file. By Ian Mitchell and Sam Hughes In-donor refugee costs—the cost of supporting refugees and asylum seekers within the UK—now account for almost 30 percent of the UK’s entire foreign aid budget. In the autumn budget, the new government did not provide any additional resources for this (though Rachel Reeves’ Conservative predecessor had provided £2.5 billion

ReliefWeb Ugandaolder01/03

UK: Deaths in the Channel – what needs to change

Countries: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, World Source: Refugee Council Please refer to the attached file. Refugee Council calls for decisive action as record number of Channel deaths reached in 2024 2024 was the deadliest year on record for Channel crossings, with at least 69 deaths reported. UK Government enforcement efforts have increased the dangers of crossings, with more people crammed into less seaworthy boats. There is no official government data published on the n

ReliefWeb Ugandaolder10/31

MSF UK responds to UK government's reduction to aid budget

Countries: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, World Source: Médecins Sans Frontières MSF is concerned about yesterday’s announcement from the UK Government which confirmed a reduction in the UK’s aid budget for the next two years. UK aid will drop from 0.58% in 2023 to 0.5% of GNI for the next two financial years. The government has signalled its intention to reduce aid spending on asylum costs but has failed to make a tangible commitment to change the current approach of usin