The Rwanda bill explained: What is the controversial policy and what happens next?
8 months, 1 week ago

The Rwanda bill explained: What is the controversial policy and what happens next?

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Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Then last November, the Supreme Court, the UK’s highest court, also ruled the policy was unlawful and could not go ahead as it was, concluding there was a real risk that genuine refugees sent to Rwanda could be returned to their home country, where they would face “ill-treatment”. The Safety of Rwanda Bill compels judges to regard the country as “safe” and disapplies sections of the Human Rights Act and international law. In February this year, Parliament’s Joint Committee on Human Rights said the proposed Rwanda law was “fundamentally incompatible” with the UK’s human rights obligations and would flout international law. But it’s possible that the European Court of Human Rights could again prove a stumbling block, if it orders flights be blocked, as it did in 2022 – sending government plans back to square one.

History of this topic

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7 months, 3 weeks ago
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8 months ago
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8 months ago
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8 months, 1 week ago
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8 months, 1 week ago
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9 months ago
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9 months ago
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9 months ago
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9 months, 2 weeks ago
MPs warn Rwanda plan ‘fundamentally incompatible’ with UK’s human rights commitment
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Justin Welby and Labour peer's mission to derail Rwanda Bill is dropped as Lords back away from giving the UN a veto
10 months, 1 week ago
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10 months, 1 week ago
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10 months, 1 week ago
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10 months, 3 weeks ago
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10 months, 3 weeks ago
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10 months, 3 weeks ago
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11 months ago
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11 months, 1 week ago
U.K. PM Rishi Sunak faces Conservative rebellion in Parliament over his Rwanda asylum plan
11 months, 1 week ago
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11 months, 1 week ago
U.K. leader dealt a blow by Conservative rebellion over his Rwanda asylum plan
11 months, 1 week ago
The Rwanda plan is a ridiculous gimmick that shames us all
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Rishi Sunak gets a respite after UK lawmakers vote in favor of the Rwanda migration bill
1 year ago
Rwanda bill explained: What is the government’s controversial immigration plan?
1 year ago
The UK plans to ignore part of its human rights law to revive a Rwanda asylum plan
1 year ago
UK, Rwanda sign new treaty to resurrect asylum plan
1 year ago
Britain and Rwanda strike a new treaty in efforts to revive asylum plan blocked by UK courts
1 year ago
James Cleverly refuses to deny he called Rishi Sunak’s Rwanda scheme ‘batshit’
1 year, 1 month ago
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1 year, 1 month ago
Sunak battles Supreme Court ruling: What next for the UK’s Rwanda plan?
1 year, 1 month ago
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1 year, 1 month ago
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1 year, 1 month ago
What’s the UK’s ‘unlawful’ Rwanda immigration plan?
1 year, 1 month ago
Why the Supreme Court ruled Rwanda deportations are unlawful
1 year, 1 month ago
EU law stops UK sending migrants to Rwanda despite Brexit, lawyers argue in Supreme Court
1 year, 2 months ago
British government tries to assure UK Supreme Court it’s safe to send asylum-seekers to Rwanda
1 year, 2 months ago
UK Supreme Court weighs if it’s lawful for Britain to send asylum-seekers to Rwanda
1 year, 2 months ago
UK’s migration bill at odds with international law, says UN
1 year, 5 months ago
UK government vows to challenge court ruling that its plan to send migrants to Rwanda is unlawful
1 year, 5 months ago
UK’s Rwanda deportation plan ‘unlawful,’ court of appeal rules
1 year, 5 months ago
Sunak urged by MPs to abandon ‘damaging’ Bill of Rights
1 year, 11 months ago
U.K.'s Rwanda asylum seeker deportation plan is lawful, court rules
2 years ago
The Rwanda plan might be lawful, but it won’t work
2 years ago
Government on collision course with European courts after Rwanda policy is deemed lawful
2 years ago

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