Rights and Security International

On 21 July 2025, RSI 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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We found evidence that the Home Office is applying the requirement in a way that disproportionately impacts not only people from the Windrush generation – many of whom are Black or Asian – but also Muslims and people from Muslim-majority countries.

On 21 July 2025, RSI 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. Read full statement: rightsandsecurity.org/impact/entry/b…

“It could also lead to a feedback loop in which autistic children are increasingly over-policed, with lasting consequences.”

“Instead, the Ofsted trainings draw a target on autistic children based on what look to us like sweeping and simplistic statements. This could amount to direct and illegal discrimination.

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”. theguardian.com/education/2025…

Read about it: theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/m…

The letter states that a 2021 internal Home Office analysis obtained under the Freedom of Information Act found that more than a quarter of those receiving deradicalisation support from the Channel programme had either been diagnosed or had a suspected diagnosis of autism.

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”. theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/m…

We are honoured to join the dedicated network of practitioners and groups in Northern Ireland working to fill critical gaps in an underserved region. Everyone deserves a stable and secure life - and we are here to help make that a reality.

We will continue to centre the voices and experiences of minoritised communities, and to challenge the systems and policies that drive exclusion and discrimination.