News - Positive Action in Housing

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…

21 April 2004

Illustrating the disgrace of the UK’s asylum & immigration policy

Positive Action in Housing wishes to highlight the utterly inhumane treatment of one of our clients as a result of an asylum and immigration policy that has absolutely no regard for human life.

4 June 2001

Scottish Ethnic Minorities Directory 2002

Launch of Scottish Ethnic Minorities Directory 2002 GLASGOW Monday 4 June 2001 11.45 am – 1.30pm Speakers: Margaret Curran MSP, Deputy Minister for Social Justice, Subhash Joshi MBE, Chair (PAIH) and Robina Qureshi, Director (PAIH). This launch will also commemorate the contribution of Subhash Joshi, who passed away in May 2001, to the…

13 May 2001

OBITUARY: Subhash Josh MBE

SUBHASH Joshi, 47, the first Asian to serve as president of Glasgow Chamber of Commerce, died suddenly while on a trip to his native Kenya to visit a sick uncle.

1 November 1999

Housing for a Multiracial Society – Review Response – November 1999

Housing for a Multiracial Society A Response to Scottish Homes’ Review Of the Ethnic Minority Housing Strategy For Glasgow 1995-1998 and the Consultative Report on Key Findings and Draft Action Plan for 1999-2002 November 1999 Introduction 1. Positive Action in Housing (PAiH)…

1 August 1996

The first year of operation

In June 1995, Positive Action in Housing Ltd. opened its offices with one full-time and one part-time Officer. It had committed funding of £40,000 - £45,000.