News 2015
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