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15 June 2022
The Rwanda Flight Was Cancelled - But the fight continues for safe routes and an end to this barbaric policy
Campaigners and lawyers across the UK are celebrating the cancellation of the inaugural Rwanda flight. 130 asylum seekers were to be effectively dumped in Rwanda with absolutely no support system of any kind, no family connection, no language connection, no cultural connection, no basic guarantee of human rights, no prospect of education, work, or a liveable life, in fact no reason to be there at all. By yesterday, seven were at risk, and in the end no one travelled.
13 June 2022
ALL PRIVILEGE - NO STYLE : Immoral Rwanda flight to go ahead
Protests are planned across the country on the eve of the government’s first refugee deportation flight to Rwanda, with only one airline - Spanish run Privilege Style, agreeing to take part.
10 June 2022
Obituary: Sally Beaumont 1935-2022
Sally Beaumont has died peacefully at home, aged 87, on June 9th 2022. Sally was one of our longest standing volunteers and was involved with our Room for Refugees programme since the start and helped to shape the pioneering programme that has to date sheltered and transformed the lives of more than 4,000 men , women and children from refugee backgrounds.
8 June 2022
An update
This update touches on the Ukraine Crisis, the differential treatment of war refugees, and the silence surrounding refugees kept in hotels for months on end.
5 June 2022
The Ukrainian children at the mercy of UK’s refugee scheme
Under-18s travelling alone not permitted to be hosted under Homes for Ukraine programme, leaving them with no route to UKRussia-Ukraine war: latest updates
2 June 2022
A look at UK Asylum policy
Depending on where you come from in the world, war refugees will either be cautiously welcomed to the UK or left to drown in their thousands, if not locked up, left destitute or sent to Rwanda forever.
14 May 2022
Statement on the first anniversary of the Failed Immigration Raid on Kenmure Street
As public sympathy for the plight of refugees and immigrants continues to grow, the Home Secretary Priti Patel is expected to see more humiliating failures as in the form of peaceful civil disobedience.
8 May 2022
Hundreds of Ukrainian refugees removed from UK’s ‘unsuitable’ housing sponsors
Homes for Ukraine scheme 'unravelling' as government seeks new accommodation for 600 people at risk of being exploited by hosts Russia-Ukraine war - latest updates
16 April 2022
The refugee policy of this country should be clear by now
The refugee policy of this country should be clear by now. It’s not about saving refugees skins it’s about saving this governments skin.
14 April 2022
Home Office Rwanda Plans for Refugees Will Inflict More Torture
The government’s plan to send refugees to offshore processing centres in Rwanda will torture and persecute those who have been tortured and persecuted.
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