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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Diane Taylor

Human rights groups call for France to suspend ‘one in, one out’ treaty with UK

Asylum seekers attempting to reach the UK from Gravelines, northern France.
Asylum seekers attempting to reach the UK from Gravelines, northern France. Photograph: Sameer Al-Doumy/AFP/Getty Images

Fifteen French and UK human rights organisations are calling for the suspension of the controversial “one in, one out” treaty in a legal challenge that has been launched in France.

The deal, signed by the UK and France in July, involves one asylum seeker who arrives in the UK from France in a small boat being sent back there in exchange for another selected in France to come to the UK.

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