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Citizen watches for women12/26/2023 ![]() ![]() We spoke with Windrush claimants, their dedicated immigration lawyers, campaigners, racial justice groups, their organizations such as Windrush Lives, members of parliament, academics, and journalists. In February and March 2023, Human Rights Watch spoke with over two dozen people about whether the government had learned any lessons to avoid another Windrush-style scandal in the future and the failures to remedy the harm. And yet members and relatives of the Windrush generation are still waiting in vain for fair and adequate compensation for their hardships. ![]() People were stripped off their rights, thousands faced unemployment, homelessness, loss of health care, loss of education, inability to access benefits, and even detention and deportation. But many years later, their citizenship was questioned, uprooting the lives they had built here.įive years after the apology by then-Prime Minister Theresa May for the life-altering losses due to the failure of the UK’s Home Office to provide people with the necessary paperwork to prove lawful status in the UK, promises to right these wrongs now ring hollow. As Black Britons from predominantly former British colonies, they were invited by the UK government after 1948 to live and work in the UK after World War II to help rebuild the country and assured that they would be able to remain in the UK. That the term “Windrush scandal” has become well-known is a testament to the tireless campaigns to demand justice for the Windrush generation in the UK. Windrush advocates from across the country gathered in UK Parliament on to discuss the ongoing government failures around the Windrush Compensation Scheme. ![]()
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