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Many assume that British citizenship is a right after years of living, working, and contributing to the UK. But the government's ‘good character’ requirement tells a different story. The term is legally undefined — giving the Home Secretary wide discretion.

On 21 July 2025, Rights & Security International releases ‘A second-class citizen in fact’: The racist roots and ongoing harms of the UK’s ‘good character’ requirement to naturalise as a British citizen, a research report into the UK’s ‘good character’ requirement for becoming a British citizen.

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Ballymena statement: Calling out racism in Northern Ireland

RSI has viewed the racist violence in Ballymena and other areas of Northern Ireland over recent days with alarm.

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Ofsted, the body responsible for safeguarding in education in England, has been accused of “offensive” and “clumsy” discrimination after telling inspectors that children with autism are “at increased risk of being susceptible to extremism”.

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New government documents obtained by Rights & Security International (RSI) show what we believe is an incoherent and underinformed approach among officials toward the referral of autistic people to the Prevent and Channel counter-terrorism programmes.

Abolishing Prevent: A Community Day of Action and Organising 💥📣

🗓️ Sunday 29th June, 10:30am - 5pm
📍 The Advocacy Academy, London

Join us for a day of conversation and workshops, as we build a community able to resist the racist Prevent duty ⬇️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/abolishing...

Further evidence that Prevent is a flawed programme that harms and discrimates against people who are vulnerable.

In a pre-action letter to the Home Office, RSI said it was “deeply concerned about a potential ongoing failure to collect and analyse data on the protected characteristics of those referred to Prevent and that this constitutes an ongoing failure to comply with their public sector equality duty”.

Rights and Security International está profundamente preocupada por la detención de Ruth López, destacada defensora de derechos humanos salvadoreña y jefa de Anticorrupción en Cristosal. Ruth se encuentra en paradero deconocido desde el sábado.

Rights and Security International is deeply concerned about the detention of Ruth López, prominent Salvadoran human rights defender and head of Anti-Corruption at Cristosal. Her whereabouts remain unknown since Saturday.

RSI Accredited by the Immigration Advice Authority

We are delighted to announce that we are now officially accredited by the Immigration Advice Authority (IAA), formerly known as the Office of the Immigration Services Commissioner (OISC).

We've released a KPI scorecard to assess the ICRIR’s human rights performance under the Legacy Act.

58 indicators.
Rooted in international law.
For victims, survivors, and truth.

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#LegacyAct #ICRIR #Justice #HumanRights

📢 KPIs to assess the ICRIR’s performance under the Legacy Act 2023.
⚖️ Grounded in international law, these indicators spotlight independence, transparency & justice..
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#ICRIR #LegacyAct #HumanRights

RSI and other human rights organisations wrote to the government to express their concern about its plans to give the police unaccountable powers to snoop on our lives and use our personal data.

🚨 New Report: Caught in the Web

UK’s Prevent strategy collects and shares personal data on children without consent, risking their future. Our investigation reveals the hidden surveillance agenda behind the program.

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