Recent Case Law. Reports. Country Profile. Categories of Asylum seekers. Return of Afghanistan. Fresh Asylum Application. Human Right Act. Sangate agreement. General Information. Home Office Reports. Latest. Links. 1. Case Law. HM (Policy concessions not Convention recognition)[2006] UKAIT 00092. click here LM (Educated women - Chaldo-assyrians) [2006] UKAIT 00060 SA (Entry Clearance Application in Jordan - Proportionality) [2006] UKAIT 00011 HH (Iraq) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2006] EWCA Civ 1374 (09 October 2006) JA (Ethnic Palestinian, Iraq, Objective Evidence) Palestine CG [2005] UKIAT 00045 (27 January 2005) Back to Top 2. Repots. Amnesty International Report,2005. click here U.S Department of State Human Rights Practice Report,2006. click here Human Rights Watch,2006.click here UNHCR Country Of Origin Information Report,2005. click here Home Office Country Of Origin Information Report, 2006. click here Home Office Country Of Origin Information Bulletin,2006. click here United State Institute Of Peace 2006, click here Back to Top 3. Country Profile. Wikipedia- Country Profile BBC News -Country Profile U.S Department of State -Country Background Note CIA World Fact Book-Guide to Country Profile Alert Net-Country Information IDMC- Map Back to Top 4. Categoires of Asylum seekers. Members of religious minorities Click here Members of ethnic minorities Click here Imputed political opinion. Click here Membership in a particular social group Click here Back to Top 5. Return. The Home Office reached agreement with Iraq about enforced returns on 30 January 2005 and they removed a first group of Iraqi nationals on 20 November 2005. The Home Office consider that it is appropriate to return all failed asylum seekers to Iraq as local circumstances permit but for the time being they are only returning people who are from the Kurdish Regional Government administered area of Iraq.However the Home Office stated that for the time being, they will not be enforcing the return of women , childern and pre-existing family units.They considered that it is Internal Flight or Relocation Alternative (IFA/IRA ). Click here UNHCR Return advisory and position on international protection needs of Iraqis outside Iraq, December 2006. click here Forced removal is alarming given scale of refugee crisis in Iraq Dozens of Iraqi Kurds Deported.. Again RETURNS ONLY ENFORCED TO 'STABLE' AREAS Back to Top 6. Fresh Claims. Bakhtear Rashid Failed asylum seekers may request that their cases are reviewed in the light of the Court of Appeal judgment in the case of the High Court cases of R (A): (H) & (AH). The Court of Appeal, in the case of R (Rashid) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2005] EWCA Civ 744 ruled that Mr Rashid should be granted Indefinite Leave to Remain because of series of errors, which in its view amounted to conspicuous unfairness in the processing of his asylum application. In that case the applicant was an Iraqi Kurd whose claim for asylum had been rejected as a result of a failure to apply the current policy. By the time the matter was reconsidered at the applicant's request the former regime in Iraq had been toppled and the applicant was no longer at risk of persecution. The Secretary of State therefore rejected his application. This court held the failure to apply the relevant policy at the time of the original application amounted to an abuse of power for which it could grant a remedy in the form of a declaration that the applicant was entitled to be granted ILR. In Secretary of State for the Home Department v R(S) [2007] EWCA Civ 546 (19 June 2007) Lord Justice Carnwath stated: In analysing the judgments in Rashid, it is important in my view to bear in mind that there were logically two distinct questions: i) Were the decisions made between 2001 and 2003 legally flawed, because of failure to apply the correct policy? ii) If so, what was the relevance (if any) of that finding to the legality of, or the court's powers in respect of, the 2004 decisions, made when the policy was no longer in force? The cases of R(A): ( H) & ( AH) clarfiy the scope of the rashid judgment. The scope of Rashid judgment and High Court judgment in R (A): (H) & (AH) is available from www.homeoffice. For the Home Office Guidance on this please see 1 August 2006 ( Iraq Policy bulletin 2/2006 refers) Rashid was interpreted by Collins J in R (R, H and AH) v Secretary of State [2006] EWHC 526 (Admin). In upholding a similar claim, he said: "I recognise that cases such as this which justify relief such as is claimed here will be rare. The court has to decide whether the unfairness is such that it goes beyond that which should attract no relief other than that afforded by a right of appeal. I recognise that it is not possible to define where the line should be drawn with any precision. Inevitably, the circumstances of an individual case will be the deciding factor. It is only if the court is persuaded that the unfairness is so bad that abuse of power is an appropriate label that it will find in a claimant's favour." (para 34) Health Health -care System on Verage of Collapse,RFE Reports ,2006.click here Back to Top 7. Human Right Act. Article 2 Article 3 Article 5 Article 6 Article 8 Article 9 Article 14 Back to Top 8. Sangate agreement . Back to Top 9. General Information. General info........ Safety fears force last major British charity to quit Iraq Back to Top 10. Home Office Reports. Operational Guidance Note,2006 Country Specific Asylum Policy OGNs, Home Office 1 August 2006 ( Iraq Policy bulletin 2/2006 refers) Back to Top 11. Latest. Latest news........ Violence In Iraq Takes On New Face Half a million Iraqis fled their homes last year creating the worst refugee crisis in the world, a report Refugee crisis as 500000 flee Iraq The U.S. military in Iraq says American troops captured two al-Qaida operatives and a Shi'ite militia leader Tuesday during operations around the country...US Military Captures 2 Al-Qaida in Iraq Bombing Suspects Ticking bomb of Iraq’s forgotten refugee children The Border and Immigration Agency is the Home Office Agency handling the last phase of the operation to resettle Iraqi ex-employees. And it is the BIA, according to every source of information that I have, that is delaying the ...Iraqi Employees: Fine words, shabby deeds The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) estimates that more than 4 million Iraqis are displaced from their homes, including 2.2 million inside Iraq and up to 2 million who have fled to safety in neighbouring countries, mainly Syria and Jordan, which continue to bear an unprecedented load on their economies and social infrastructures...The Iraqi Displacement Crisis: The Situation in Syria If the US leaves Iraq, the violent sectarianism between the Sunni and Shia will worsen. This is what Republicans and Democrats alike will have us believe. ...The Myth of Sectarian Violence in Iraq Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on Tuesday told the Vatican's ambassador to Iraq that his government is committed to ensuring the safety of ... Iraq working to ensure safety of Christians: Maliki The spiritual leader of Iraq's Catholics said on Tuesday that a recent wave of bomb attacks on churches in Baghdad and ...Iraq cardinal: Christians not singled out for attack The bombings are the latest attack on Christian buildings in Iraq. Insurgents bombed churches and a monastery in the northern city of Mosul on Sunday, ...2 Car Bombs Explode Outside Churches in Northern Iraq KIRKUK, Iraq (Reuters) - Two car bombs exploded outside two churches in the volatile northern city of Kirkuk on Wednesday, police said, the latest in a wave ...Two more churches bombed in Iraq: police the problem after Tracy Barker, a constituent, told him she was sexually assaulted in June 2005 while working for contractor KBR/Halliburton in Iraq. ...Senator examining extent of assaults of Iraq contract workers The UNHCR also cares for some 41000 foreign refugees in Iraq, including some 13000 Palestinians whose situation is extremely precarious following threats ...UN refugee agency seeks 261 million dollars for Iraq appeal The home secretary, Jacqui Smith, was today ordered to return a 15-year-old Iraqi asylum seeker to his UK foster carer after a judge condemned the way he ...Judge orders return to UK of 15-year-old Iraqi refugee Iraq faces alarming humanitarian crisis Human Rights Watch accuses Iraqi Kurds of torture Report: Detainees tortured and denied rights in Kurdish-run Iraq ... Kurdish forces accused of human rights abuses UK opposes EU-pooled resettlement program for Iraq refugees Guidelines on the Treatment of Iraqi Asylum Seekers and Refugees in Europe Read more>> A new Human Rights Watch report, "The Human Cost," accuses the Taliban, Hezb-e-Islami and other insurgent groups of war crimes in Afghanistan. ... Human Rights Watch slams Afghan insurgents In North Iraq, Sunni Arabs Drive Out Kurds Three Sunni mosques attacked in Iraq Al-Qaeda kills 14 officers in Iraq Several Sunni mosques in Iraq attacked European day of action for Kurdish & Iraqi asylum seekers Iraq facing complex series of overlapping sectarian, ethnic ... Back to Top 12. Links. Please note that we are not responsible for the content of external internet sites. 1-Baghdad Burning An anonymous Iraqi woman presents eyewitness accounts and political analysis of life in the war ..... Third prize winner of the Lettre Ulysses Award for the Art of Reportage Nominated for the 2006 Samuel Johnson Prize 2-Iraqi Association The Iraqi Association is a non-profit organisation that exists to enable Iraqis to settle and integrate in this country with rights to express their cultural identities..... 3-Niqash.org Niqash is a space for Iraqi citizens to exchange views on the current political process and to debate the processes that are shaping the Iraqi society. Its main focus is on issues relevant to the drafting of the new Iraqi constitution. Its main... 4-raqSlogge 5-News & Views 07/26/07 6-The Ground Truth In Iraq Back to Top