Social security for asylum seekers in the United Kingdom
Legal depository - Country: United Kingdom / Body: Other Domestic Courts / Year: 2005
Summary: In this case, the House of Lords listened to appeals by the Secretary of State for Home Department, who denied state support to destitute asylum applicants (“applicants”) on the grounds of not having applied for asylum “as soon as reasonably practicable”. The applicants cited a violation of Article...
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Expert commentaries - Date: 8 October 2014 / Author: Robert Maganga Mwanyumba
Often when the impact of social protection is discussed, extensive monitoring and evaluation mechanisms are pulled out of the bag and the degree to which poverty has been alleviated is put forth as the yard stick. What these considerations sometimes fail to acknowledge is the compounding effects of poverty:...
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