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Published in: Shine A LightAnother G4S scandal: UK's privatised asylum housing market is falling apart
The sensitive work of housing vulnerable asylum seekers appears to be defeating the world’s biggest security...
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Published in: Shine A LightTheir secret is out, but for G4S and friends ‘abject disregard' for human dignity persists
Landlords get richer. Women are harassed in their homes. The UK Border Agency's contractor G4S is using...
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Published in: Shine A LightHealthcare failings persist in UK immigration detention
Inquests, High Court judgments, reports from HM Inspector of Prisons, Medical Justice, and the UK Border Agency’s...
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Published in: Shine A LightMany thousands of children stripped naked in custody. Ignites memories of being raped
• Children routinely strip-searched in England & Wales child prisons and secure children’s homes despite government...
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Published in: Shine A LightWhat the BBC conceals on private prisons research
The national broadcaster fails to inform the public that ‘independent’ research urging more prison privatisation was...
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Published in: Shine A LightG4S human rights record under tough Scandinavian scrutiny
Putting reputational capital at risk: when a security company's human rights record counts in the contest for public...
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Published in: Shine A LightSecurity giant G4S rejects ‘World’s Worst Company’ nomination
The world’s leading security company, G4S, says it doesn’t deserve to be nominated for Public Eye’s World’s Worst...
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Published in: Shine A LightThe trials of Roseline Akhalu
Why is the Home Office continuing a cruel and ludicrous campaign against a woman who they have accepted will...
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Published in: Shine A LightKidney transplant case signals deep flaws in UK immigration policy and practice
Home Secretary Theresa May’s relentless pursuit of kidney transplant patient Roseline Akhalu is one more sign of...
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Published in: Shine A LightWhen business and the state co-opt ‘independent’ civil society
How can charities and community organisations provide effective advocacy when they are agents of the state or...
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Published in: Shine A LightTen reasons to vote for G4S as the World's Worst Company
The infamous Public Eye award wants your vote on the company that most deserves naming and shaming. Activists from...
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Published in: Shine A LightPrivatising probation: ‘less crime, fewer victims, safer communities.’ Oh, really?
The UK government packaged its privatisation of probation services in England and Wales today as 'the most...
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Published in: Shine A LightA cockroach in the baby’s bottle: asylum-seeker housing by security giant G4S
Angela and her baby are among thousands of vulnerable people being forcibly re-housed as the UK government converts...
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Published in: Shine A LightG4S equips the apartheid wall, Israel confirms
The company whose logo appears on police staff uniforms in the UK and dropped the Olympics contract has far reaching...
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Published in: Shine A LightCorrupt and ‘reckless’ Kellogg Brown & Root still in the running for UK police contracts
Ahead of Police & Crime Commissioner elections in the UK, a negligence verdict in Oregon intensifies pressure to...
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Published in: Shine A LightG4S loses contract. Handing prisons to any commercial contractor is a grave mistake
The big news story is that G4S, the shambolic security company that botched the London Olympics, has today lost a...
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Published in: Shine A LightForced evictions, racist attacks. Meet the new landlord, security company G4S
The UK government has created a new profit source for security giant G4S and its partners: managing housing for...
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Published in: Shine A LightG4S and friends exploit the mother and baby market
The latest G4S twist on asylum housing markets – a hostel for asylum seeker mothers and babies in the North East of England.
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Published in: Shine A LightG4S uses ‘unacceptable’ force on pregnant detainee at UK family detention centre
HM Inspectorate of Prisons report finds that G4S security staff at a UK Border Agency detention facility “deserve...
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Published in: Shine A Light‘The company you need to target is G4S’. Opponents form strategic alliance
Critics of the world's biggest security company are banding together. A report from the Stop G4S Convergence campaign.