News August 2025
31 August 2025
No safe route out of genocide
Britain helped write the Refugee Convention, promising never again to abandon people fleeing persecution. Today, it does exactly that.
23 August 2025
UK’s Biometric Blockade on Palestinians Is Costing Lives
Positive Action in Housing, the refugee charity that founded the Room for Refugees programme — the UK’s longest-running hosting scheme, has warned that the UK Government is using visa biometrics as a bureaucratic weapon against Palestinians trapped in Gaza.
17 August 2025
Justice Demands Compassion: Why Lord Bracadale is Right
Lord Bracadale’s decision to extend compassion to the family of Sheku Bayoh honours a vital judicial tradition: humanity strengthens justice, it does not weaken it. At a time when the Police Federation threatens delay and obstruction, his stance affirms that dignity for the bereaved is not bias but the essence of fairness.
6 August 2025
Stop the Double Standards and Let Palestinian Students Leave Gaza
Eighty Palestinian students in Gaza have been awarded fully funded university places in the UK—but without urgent action from the Home Secretary to waive biometric visa requirements, they may never make it out. Positive Action in Housing is calling on the UK government to follow the example of other European countries and act now to evacuate these students from a war zone.