News 2020
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20 April 2020
Mears moves over 300 Glasgow asylum seekers into hotels where social distancing is ‘impossible’
Positive Action in Housing said it is aware of asylum seekers being accommodated in hotels and having all their financial support withdrawn, leaving them unable to top up their phones to keep contact with lawyers, caseworkers and GPs, or buy extra food or hand sanitiser. More worrying still, many…
20 March 2020
Letter to the Home Secretary calling for Suspension of Travel for Asylum Seekers Amid Coronavirus Outbreak
We are a coalition of Scotland and UK based refugee charities and groups working directly with people from refugee and asylum seeking communities. In light of the Coronavirus outbreak, we are dismayed to learn that asylum seekers are still being forced to go to Liverpool to hand in documents despite…
2 March 2020
Anger after Edinburgh Council Officials recommend massive cuts to BME Services for children and families
A broad Coalition of Black & Minority Ethnic (BME) charities and anti-racist organisations providing services for and/or supporting BME Communities in Edinburgh have condemned plans by City of Edinburgh Council officials to recommend massive cuts to BME Services. The BME charities are deeply concerned about the news that services…
30 January 2020
Shame on the racist thugs who attack our immigrant shopkeepers
rotest against racist attacks against Pakistani Muslim brothers Nadeem and Mudassar Akbar in Niddrie, Edinburgh today 4.30 pm Cragmillar Library – please attend. https://www.facebook.com/events/570448223539709/ Positive Action in Housing condemns the vicious racist attack on two defenceless Pakistani Muslim brothers trying to provide a livelihood for their families. …
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