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• Protect children before Calais closes says HRW
• Secrecy over UK drone strike deaths in Syria faces legal challenge
• UK policy to deport refugees for ‘extremist behaviour’ criticised
• Opinion: May’s Great Repeal Bill will leave workers’ rights hanging by a thread says MP
• UK to pardon thousands convicted under past anti-gay laws

Protect children before Calais closes says HRW

Human Rights Watch

France and the United Kingdom should ensure that all unaccompanied children in informal migrant camps in Calais receive adequate accommodation and care before the camps are demolished, Human Rights Watch said today.

Secrecy over UK drone strike deaths in Syria faces legal challenge

The Guardian

The government’s refusal to release secret advice about the legality of British drone strikes in Syria is to be challenged by a human rights group. Rights Watch UK is appealing against a decision by the information commissioner that the Cabinet Office and the attorney general’s office should not be obliged to publish the document.

UK policy to deport refugees for ‘extremist behaviour’ criticised

The Guardian

UK immigration laws permitting refugees to be deported if they exhibit “extremist behaviour” may breach a United Nations convention, the organisation’s general assembly is to be told.

Opinion: May’s Great Repeal Bill will leave workers’ rights hanging by a thread says MP

Labour List

Theresa May announced last month that the Government will look to pass a Great Repeal Bill, which will replace the European Communities Act once Britain has left the EU.

UK to pardon thousands convicted under past anti-gay laws

The San Diego Union Tribune

Thousands of men who were convicted under now-abolished British laws against homosexuality are to receive posthumous pardons, the government announced on Thursday.