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At forRefugees we stand with people displaced, dehumanised and silenced. And we stand with those who stand with them.
Today, that means standing with Gary Lineker.
One mistake doesn’t erase a lifetime of humanity. We know Gary to be a principled ally to refugees, and an inspiration to many.
Today, that means standing with Gary Lineker.
One mistake doesn’t erase a lifetime of humanity. We know Gary to be a principled ally to refugees, and an inspiration to many.
May 20, 2025 at 9:49 PM
At forRefugees we stand with people displaced, dehumanised and silenced. And we stand with those who stand with them.
Today, that means standing with Gary Lineker.
One mistake doesn’t erase a lifetime of humanity. We know Gary to be a principled ally to refugees, and an inspiration to many.
Today, that means standing with Gary Lineker.
One mistake doesn’t erase a lifetime of humanity. We know Gary to be a principled ally to refugees, and an inspiration to many.
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Mainstream radio presenters like Vanessa Feltz are perfectly happy to contribute, in their own small way, to the rise of the extreme far right.
Her interview with me on LBC just now was chock full of lies. Calls herself a journalist.
Really I wonder how they sleep at night.
Her interview with me on LBC just now was chock full of lies. Calls herself a journalist.
Really I wonder how they sleep at night.
May 3, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Mainstream radio presenters like Vanessa Feltz are perfectly happy to contribute, in their own small way, to the rise of the extreme far right.
Her interview with me on LBC just now was chock full of lies. Calls herself a journalist.
Really I wonder how they sleep at night.
Her interview with me on LBC just now was chock full of lies. Calls herself a journalist.
Really I wonder how they sleep at night.
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If deporting US citizen children with cancer isn’t your redline, it’s time to reassess your priorities.
April 26, 2025 at 7:30 PM
If deporting US citizen children with cancer isn’t your redline, it’s time to reassess your priorities.
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The final honor guard for Pope Francis included migrants, prisoners, transgender people, the homeless and others selected by the Vicariate of Rome as a symbol of the late pope’s mission of inclusion and outreach.
Read more from the funeral: wapo.st/3YdDGqM
Read more from the funeral: wapo.st/3YdDGqM
April 26, 2025 at 12:07 PM
The final honor guard for Pope Francis included migrants, prisoners, transgender people, the homeless and others selected by the Vicariate of Rome as a symbol of the late pope’s mission of inclusion and outreach.
Read more from the funeral: wapo.st/3YdDGqM
Read more from the funeral: wapo.st/3YdDGqM
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Crimes against humanity!
I am sickened to my core!
This must be stopped!
I am sickened to my core!
This must be stopped!
April 26, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Crimes against humanity!
I am sickened to my core!
This must be stopped!
I am sickened to my core!
This must be stopped!
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“Deporting” someone is sending them back to their country where they are free to live as citizens.
What that asshole is doing is NOT deportation.
It’s kidnapping and human trafficking. It’s illegally sending people to USA-funded off shore concentration camps.
What that asshole is doing is NOT deportation.
It’s kidnapping and human trafficking. It’s illegally sending people to USA-funded off shore concentration camps.
April 27, 2025 at 1:02 PM
“Deporting” someone is sending them back to their country where they are free to live as citizens.
What that asshole is doing is NOT deportation.
It’s kidnapping and human trafficking. It’s illegally sending people to USA-funded off shore concentration camps.
What that asshole is doing is NOT deportation.
It’s kidnapping and human trafficking. It’s illegally sending people to USA-funded off shore concentration camps.
“As you work closely with migrants and #refugees… promoting fundamental human rights. God will richly reward all that you do for the protection and defense of those who are considered less valuable, less important or less human!” #PopeFrancis
www.vatican.va/content/fran...
www.vatican.va/content/fran...
Letter of the Holy Father to the Bishops of the United States of America (10 February 2025) | Francis
Letter of the Holy Father to the Bishops of the United Sates of America, 10 February 2025
www.vatican.va
March 29, 2025 at 7:11 AM
“As you work closely with migrants and #refugees… promoting fundamental human rights. God will richly reward all that you do for the protection and defense of those who are considered less valuable, less important or less human!” #PopeFrancis
www.vatican.va/content/fran...
www.vatican.va/content/fran...
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The experiences in this story are horrific but not uncommon. Our clinicians have repeatedly warned that the squalid conditions and substandard food in asylum hotels are causing profound harm to the men, women and children placed there.
This MUST change.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
This MUST change.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Children experiencing malnutrition and stunted growth in Home Office asylum hotels
Nearly 1,500 complaints escalated by help service to Home Office accommodation providers last year, new data reveals
www.independent.co.uk
March 28, 2025 at 10:24 AM
The experiences in this story are horrific but not uncommon. Our clinicians have repeatedly warned that the squalid conditions and substandard food in asylum hotels are causing profound harm to the men, women and children placed there.
This MUST change.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
This MUST change.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
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SWITZERLAND ANNOUNCES A NEW HIGHER EDUCATION PILOT PROJECT FOR REFUGEES
Big news: To ease the skilled labor shortage, the govt and Swiss universities are launching a pilot project to make higher education more accessible for refugees with academic potential www.admin.ch/gov/en/start... academicsky
Big news: To ease the skilled labor shortage, the govt and Swiss universities are launching a pilot project to make higher education more accessible for refugees with academic potential www.admin.ch/gov/en/start... academicsky
Easing the shortage of skilled labour through higher education for refugees
Current information from the Federal Administration. All press releases from the Federal Administration, the departments and offices.
www.admin.ch
March 28, 2025 at 1:08 PM
SWITZERLAND ANNOUNCES A NEW HIGHER EDUCATION PILOT PROJECT FOR REFUGEES
Big news: To ease the skilled labor shortage, the govt and Swiss universities are launching a pilot project to make higher education more accessible for refugees with academic potential www.admin.ch/gov/en/start... academicsky
Big news: To ease the skilled labor shortage, the govt and Swiss universities are launching a pilot project to make higher education more accessible for refugees with academic potential www.admin.ch/gov/en/start... academicsky
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Denying refugees citizenship? How low can we go?
Denying refugees citizenship? How low can we go?
The Labour leadership can and must do better
bylines.scot
March 25, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Denying refugees citizenship? How low can we go?
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Poland has adopted a law suspending the right to seek asylum for people entering the country via Belarus.
It's an effort to provide legal cover for Poland's abusive and unlawful border pushbacks. Learn more ⤵️
It's an effort to provide legal cover for Poland's abusive and unlawful border pushbacks. Learn more ⤵️
March 28, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Poland has adopted a law suspending the right to seek asylum for people entering the country via Belarus.
It's an effort to provide legal cover for Poland's abusive and unlawful border pushbacks. Learn more ⤵️
It's an effort to provide legal cover for Poland's abusive and unlawful border pushbacks. Learn more ⤵️
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New: Independent Chief Inspector of Borders & Immigration call for evidence on Home Office approach to overstayers, incl:
➤identification of actual & potential overstayers
➤communications with overstayers
➤ information to deter people from overstaying
Deadline 16th April
www.gov.uk/government/n...
➤identification of actual & potential overstayers
➤communications with overstayers
➤ information to deter people from overstaying
Deadline 16th April
www.gov.uk/government/n...
Call for evidence: An inspection of the Home Office’s approach to overstayers
The ICIBI invites anyone with knowledge and experience of the Home Office’s approach to overstayers to contribute to this inspection.
www.gov.uk
March 28, 2025 at 1:21 PM
New: Independent Chief Inspector of Borders & Immigration call for evidence on Home Office approach to overstayers, incl:
➤identification of actual & potential overstayers
➤communications with overstayers
➤ information to deter people from overstaying
Deadline 16th April
www.gov.uk/government/n...
➤identification of actual & potential overstayers
➤communications with overstayers
➤ information to deter people from overstaying
Deadline 16th April
www.gov.uk/government/n...
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There is a huge community of people wanting to add their voice and capacity to resist hostile immigration policies.
At a time when migrants are being routinely scapegoated, it’s vital we come together to build share info, build strategies and #StandUpSpeakOut
➡️https://sknb.org/take-action/suso/
At a time when migrants are being routinely scapegoated, it’s vital we come together to build share info, build strategies and #StandUpSpeakOut
➡️https://sknb.org/take-action/suso/
March 28, 2025 at 2:01 PM
There is a huge community of people wanting to add their voice and capacity to resist hostile immigration policies.
At a time when migrants are being routinely scapegoated, it’s vital we come together to build share info, build strategies and #StandUpSpeakOut
➡️https://sknb.org/take-action/suso/
At a time when migrants are being routinely scapegoated, it’s vital we come together to build share info, build strategies and #StandUpSpeakOut
➡️https://sknb.org/take-action/suso/
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Levana Coker worked on the Bibby Stockholm barge.
She was reprimanded for "talking to people and treating them like human beings".
Read about her experience in @opendemocracy.net👇
www.opendemocracy.net/en/bibby-sto...
She was reprimanded for "talking to people and treating them like human beings".
Read about her experience in @opendemocracy.net👇
www.opendemocracy.net/en/bibby-sto...
How the Bibby Stockholm became a symbol of profit and failur
As the migrant barge left Dorset, openDemocracy explored life on board the Bibby – and the failed policy that cost millions
www.opendemocracy.net
March 27, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Levana Coker worked on the Bibby Stockholm barge.
She was reprimanded for "talking to people and treating them like human beings".
Read about her experience in @opendemocracy.net👇
www.opendemocracy.net/en/bibby-sto...
She was reprimanded for "talking to people and treating them like human beings".
Read about her experience in @opendemocracy.net👇
www.opendemocracy.net/en/bibby-sto...
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Delays in approving visa extensions impact Ukrainians in UK
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Ukrainians lose out on jobs and homes over visa uncertainty
Some employers and landlords are reluctant to hire or rent to Ukrainians because their visas are due to expire.
www.bbc.co.uk
March 28, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Delays in approving visa extensions impact Ukrainians in UK
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Alongside 146 other organisations, we're calling on the government to urgently reconsider its decision to ban refugees from ever becoming British citizens.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Small boats: Union and bishops criticise refugee citizenship ban
Some 147 signatories of a letter say the recently-implemented rule will
www.bbc.co.uk
February 17, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Alongside 146 other organisations, we're calling on the government to urgently reconsider its decision to ban refugees from ever becoming British citizens.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
These are the everyday people who voluntarily work in a draughty warehouse, and spend hours standing in the bracing Northern France winter weather, to support strangers. People who meet refugees necessities and show kindness in a horribly hostile world. #refugees #MobileRefugeeSupport #France
December 21, 2024 at 4:47 PM
These are the everyday people who voluntarily work in a draughty warehouse, and spend hours standing in the bracing Northern France winter weather, to support strangers. People who meet refugees necessities and show kindness in a horribly hostile world. #refugees #MobileRefugeeSupport #France
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Over 700 organisations have signed a letter to the Home Officer, urging them to keep processing asylum claims by people from Syria.
Through our services we know that the community is fearful about their future here. It's time to reverse this cruel decision.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...
Through our services we know that the community is fearful about their future here. It's time to reverse this cruel decision.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...
Yvette Cooper urged to end ‘cruel’ pause on Syrian asylum decisions
Asylum seekers say they are in limbo and charities have expressed ‘deep concern’ as claims paused after Assad regime’s fall
www.theguardian.com
December 16, 2024 at 11:44 AM
Over 700 organisations have signed a letter to the Home Officer, urging them to keep processing asylum claims by people from Syria.
Through our services we know that the community is fearful about their future here. It's time to reverse this cruel decision.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...
Through our services we know that the community is fearful about their future here. It's time to reverse this cruel decision.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...
We should be proud that we’re a country that can protect people from torture, persecution and death. #RefugeesWelcome
Listening to politicians talk about asylum seekers it sounds like their one & only purpose is to keep people out.
Which of you is not too much of a coward to say: it is GOOD that people escape from danger.
And it is GOOD that the UK can be a place of sanctuary, actually.
Which of you is not too much of a coward to say: it is GOOD that people escape from danger.
And it is GOOD that the UK can be a place of sanctuary, actually.
December 16, 2024 at 8:45 AM
We should be proud that we’re a country that can protect people from torture, persecution and death. #RefugeesWelcome
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forRefugees are one of over 700 groups to sign the letter to Home Secretary Yvette Cooper urging decision making on asylum claims to resume.
We’re advised by FCO against all travel to #Syria, ‘due to the ongoing conflict and unpredictable security conditions’.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/yvet...
We’re advised by FCO against all travel to #Syria, ‘due to the ongoing conflict and unpredictable security conditions’.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/yvet...
Charities urge Home Secretary to resume Syrian asylum claim decision-making
Yvette Cooper has said it would not be appropriate to grant asylum decisions on claims made against the Assad regime since it is no longer in place.
www.independent.co.uk
December 15, 2024 at 7:21 AM
forRefugees are one of over 700 groups to sign the letter to Home Secretary Yvette Cooper urging decision making on asylum claims to resume.
We’re advised by FCO against all travel to #Syria, ‘due to the ongoing conflict and unpredictable security conditions’.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/yvet...
We’re advised by FCO against all travel to #Syria, ‘due to the ongoing conflict and unpredictable security conditions’.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/yvet...
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The Observer view on Syria: we must reach out a hand of friendship to Damascus | Observer editorial
The Observer view on Syria: we must reach out a hand of friendship to Damascus | Observer editorial
The challenges facing Ahmed al-Sharaa’s new government are numerous, complex and daunting. But the west must not attempt to dictate events
One struggle ends, another begins. Revolution begets counter-revolution. Hopes soar, disappointment and…
www.theguardian.com
December 15, 2024 at 7:07 AM
The Observer view on Syria: we must reach out a hand of friendship to Damascus | Observer editorial
🤩 You did it! You donated and, together with the power of match-funding, raised an incredible £50,000 🚀.
Your donations are already providing sports, healthcare access, free legal aid, english lessons, protecting women and children, replacing a broken down van, providing tents, and much much more.
Your donations are already providing sports, healthcare access, free legal aid, english lessons, protecting women and children, replacing a broken down van, providing tents, and much much more.
December 14, 2024 at 3:32 PM
🤩 You did it! You donated and, together with the power of match-funding, raised an incredible £50,000 🚀.
Your donations are already providing sports, healthcare access, free legal aid, english lessons, protecting women and children, replacing a broken down van, providing tents, and much much more.
Your donations are already providing sports, healthcare access, free legal aid, english lessons, protecting women and children, replacing a broken down van, providing tents, and much much more.
Providing supporters with the latest information on Immigration issues #StarterPack #Immigration #UK @detentionaction.bsky.social
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December 14, 2024 at 3:20 PM
Providing supporters with the latest information on Immigration issues #StarterPack #Immigration #UK @detentionaction.bsky.social
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The prisons and the people bewildered upon their release some after decades are beyond devastating. Mabrook to the Syrians. We wish you solace in your reunions and returns. Inshallah the day will come for the Sudanese too.
December 8, 2024 at 12:26 PM
The prisons and the people bewildered upon their release some after decades are beyond devastating. Mabrook to the Syrians. We wish you solace in your reunions and returns. Inshallah the day will come for the Sudanese too.