Maeve Sherlock
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Maeve Sherlock
Maeve Christina Mary Sherlock, Baroness Sherlock, OBEis a Labour Party life peer who was the chief executive of the Refugee Council, a charity supporting refugees and asylum seekers in the UK, between August 2003 and October 2006. Prior to joining the charity, she worked as a special advisor to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown MP. At the Treasury her brief covered social issues such as child poverty and welfare reform...
asylum deeply human packages processed rather reports seekers treated vulnerable
These reports are deeply worrying. Asylum seekers are being treated as packages to be processed and removed rather than as very vulnerable human beings.