Security giant G4S rejects ‘World’s Worst Company’ nomination John Grayson and Adri Nieuwhof  Open Democracy 23 January 2013 The world’s leading security company, G4S, says it doesn’t deserve to be nominated for Public Eye’s World’s…

A campaign led by two women asylum seekers has prompted Leeds City Council to take action against G4S. After visiting some of the squalid properties which G4S had tried to house people in, senior council officials ordered G4S…

  Once again, private security company G4S, has failed to meet its obligations to fulfill a contract paid for by public money. This time it’s the COMPASS contract to re-house people seeking asylum in Yorkshire and…

SYMAAG and Barnsley Asylum Support Group activists picketed the Annual Meeting of the West Yorkshire Pension Fund WYPF) in Huddersfield on Friday 26th October with the call DO NOT INVEST IN G4S. WYPF has significant investments…

‘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.   Sixty people came…

Note: UKBA statement on transport of people’s belongings issued 1st August 2012. We have been finding cases where people have been told they cannot transport more than 2 bags of their belongings when being moved. In…

At a G4S-requested meeting with SYMAAG back in February 2012, their representatives explained that G4S’ “primary concern” was to make money for their shareholders in what they called “the asylum market”. It’s 6 months into…

  Private security army G4S have been in the news a lot recently. And not just because they are being paid £135 million of public money to house asylum seekers in Yorkshire, despite their record…

When G4S eventually won the COMPASS contract to house asylum seekers in Yorkshire, Humberside and the Midlands they were well aware that their experience with asylum seekers was limited to detaining them, transporting them to…

Away from the front pages was the decision by the Crown Prosecution Service not to charge G4S with manslaughter following the death of Jimmy Mubenga, an Angolan asylum seeker who died while being deported by…