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14 February 2016
The Scots taking refugees into their homes and their hearts
Sunday Herald, February 14, 2016 Scotland took pride in offering a home to a disproportionate number of refugees when the UK Government agreed to house 1,000 of those fleeing from the Syrian crisis at the end of last year. However, away from the spotlight of those forced to flee the fighting in the…
10 January 2016
Together Against Prevent
We are a signatory to the ‘Together Against Prevent’ statement that says: We recognise and condemn the damage that Prevent’s “spot the potential terrorist” approach has made primarily in stigmatising and criminalising entire Muslim communities, but also to a growing number of political activists…
11 December 2015
Room for Refugees U.K. Western Europe and the U.S. – Refugee Hosting Scheme
Room for Refugees is one of those ideas that makes the world a better place. It brings people together, those who need to find a home when they have lost all else, with generous individuals who want to share their home. The concept was pioneered by Positive Action in…
8 November 2015
Notes on a Scandal – the Eric Kempson Transcript – 4 November 2015
Powerful testimony from Eric Kempson about the extent of suffering in Lesvos, what exactly the aid agencies are not doing with the donations they have collected from the public on the back of the Lesvos Refugee Crisis, and testimony about abuses of refugee boats by the Turkish coastguard.…
5 September 2015
UK wide refugee hosting scheme – national database
Positive Action in Housing’s refugee hosting scheme has gone viral and UK wide, Scotland, England and Northern Ireland… We have hundreds of volunteers signing up to our refugee hosting scheme, hundreds signed in the last 12 hours and growing. This builds our capacity considerably and…
27 August 2015
Europe’s Refugee Crisis Breaks Into Human Conscience
A poultry van on an Austrian motorway came to represent one of the deadliest moments of Europe’s 2015 refugee crisis, as the discovery of 71 suffocated Syrian refugees forced the news media to confront both the scale of the horror and the language it used to describe it. Robina Qureshi writes
10 August 2010
Messages of Support
Messages of Support for Positive Action in Housing on the occasion of our Fifteenth AGM
15 January 2008
First person
Waiting for asylum in Glasgow Fleeing from the war in Somalia, Sofia sought refuge in Britain. She has been raped, left destitute on the streets of Glasgow, is HIV-positive, and cannot find her two daughters, whom she believes may yet be stranded in Somalia. Six years after her arrival Sofia…
23 November 2007
13 year old Meltem Avcil & her mother to be released from Yarlswood
In a successful campaign led by Positive Action in Housing, we maintained close contact with Meltem and her mother, we successfully lobbied the then Children’s Commissioner, Sir Al Aynsley-Green, to take a personal interest. We organised a UK-wide letter-writing campaign and highlighted what was happening in the press. The publicity led to Meltem and her mother being released and the charity Women for Refugee Women, journalist Natasha Walters, and actress Juliet Christie getting involved. We are incredibly proud of helping The family to be released.
1 August 2006
Messages of Support 2006
Its been a challenging year and a highly productive year in which we have delivered on almost every front. And it would be a great boost for our staff, volunteers and management committee, to receive messages of support from everyone who is aware of our work or been in contact…
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