GJN RWANDA BILL REACTION: “A shameful day for the UK”

Date: 23 April 2024
Campaigns: Migration

Responding to the Rwanda Bill passing, Dorothy Guerrero, head of policy and advocacy at Global Justice Now said:

The passing of the Rwanda Bill is a shameful day for the UK. By shirking its legal and moral duty to provide sanctuary to refugees, this government is sinking to an even more desperate low. The disastrous foreign and economic policies of successive governments have contributed to the need for people to seek refuge.

These same people’s lives are continually used as a political football, after years of being scapegoats for bad government decisions. Statements from politicians are now even more blatantly devoid of any pretence of care for human rights. We will not stop pushing for a change of course, with safe routes to seek asylum in the UK so that people no longer have to risk their lives in the Channel.