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Jun 2022
21m 21s

How effective is the UK's Rwanda asylum ...

Al Jazeera
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The UK is set to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda after legal challenges failed. It's a move described by many as inhumane. But will it stop refugees reaching Britain?

Join host Mohammed Jamjoom.

Guests:

Clare Moseley -Founder of Care4Calais, an organisation campaigning against the deportation.

Joseph Ryarasa - Executive Secretary of Never Again, a social justice and peacebuilding organisation in Rwanda.

Catherine Woollard - Secretary General of European Council on Refugees and Exiles.

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