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High price paid by asylum seekers on reaching Europe’s affluent nations - Institute of Race Relations questions commitment to human rights after analysis of people who died in detention

15 February 2015

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"Analysis by the London-based Institute of Race Relations thinktank found that the highest numbers of deaths of asylum seekers and migrants were in some of the most affluent countries, with the UK having the third largest death toll, during a period mostly governed by the Conservative-Lib Dem coalition."

See the full article: High price paid by asylum seekers on reaching Europe’s affluent nations - Institute of Race Relations questions commitment to human rights after analysis of people who died in detention (Guardian, link)

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