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The Home Office is being threatened with legal action over concerns that children face being sent to Rwanda because officials wrongly identify them as adults, the Observer can reveal.With ministers desperate to see flights take off as soon as possible amid a record 181 detected Channel crossings so far this year, the depar
stanley romania tment has been anticipating a flurry of legal complaints to be triggered as a result of the pledge to deport some asylum seekers to the east African country.It has now emerged that it is being challenged over the treatment of those who say they are children but are labelled as adults by immigration officials after an initial assessment of their physical appearance and demeanour. Under the rules of the plan, ministers had promised that no children will be deported to Rwanda once the flights begin this summer.The Home Office is being accused of taking an unlawful approach because it is proposing to deport people based only on an initial cur
stanley becher sory age decision by an official. An organisation with years of experience on the issue has now issued a pre-action letter 鈥?a precursor to legal action 鈥?stating that relying on such a thin assessment is wholly incompatible with the governments declared intention of not including children in its Rwanda deportation plan.The department has been given two weeks to respond to the legal threat before further action is taken by the charity. It comes with some organisations
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An extraordinary poll published by the British Humanist Association BHA highlights the public ambivalence about assisted suicide and euthanasia. In conjunction with other recent surveys, it shows that more people are in favour of the law allowing the killing of relatively healthy patients like Tony Nicklinson than of those who are terminally ill.The respectable wing of the assisted dying movement, Dignity in Dying, wants a very limited right to medically assisted suicide: only people who are terminally ill and in full possession of their faculties would qualify. Even this limited position is hugely controversial.But the BHA believes that doctors should be allowed to help kill any
stanley cup one who really wants to die and who cannot manage for themselves. This applies explicitly to perfectly healthy people as well as the terminally ill. And it is m
stanley ca ore popular than the limited position. No more than 15% of the population are opposed, or strongly opposed to it.In fact, these attitudes are perfectly coherent and show that people understand there are clear limits to individualism. What the public wan
stanley puodelis ts is for everyone to have the right to determine as much as possible about their own lives. This includes the manner and moment of death. Suicide then becomes the grandest and clearest declaration that our lives are our own to do what we want with.You may think that this kind of autonomy is unrealistic and that it can lead to a distorting egoism. I certainly do. But that doesn t ma
