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.
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.
If deporting US citizen children with cancer isn’t your redline, it’s time to reassess your priorities.
“That they should be the ones to welcome Pope Francis’s coffin in the basilica is because these people are those who represented the focus of his mission,” said Father Giulio Albanese, head of missionary cooperation and communications for the Vicariate of Rome. “They are those who live on the peripheries, geographical and existential peripheries.”
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
Rep Jerry Nadler says 3 children who are U.S. citizens have been deported and their families have been denied access to attorneys. One of the children has a rare form of cancer and was deported without their medicine or access to their doctor. We must end this cruelty.
Crimes against humanity!
I am sickened to my core!
This must be stopped!
“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.
“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
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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...
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
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 ⤵️
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...
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/
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...
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...
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
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...
Yup. Bigotry.
I’m happy living next door to anyone from anywhere in the world. What matters to me is if they’re nice. That’s all.
Here’s a thought. Free Movement across the world - documented and safe - anyone can live and work where they want when they want and go home when they want ❤️🌍✈️
Congratulations! 🙌
We should be proud that we’re a country that can protect people from torture, persecution and death. #RefugeesWelcome
💯 Refugees Welcome. Just so gutted that there are so many places in the world people can’t live safely from their own governments 💔
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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...
Awesome! 🙌 Merry Christmas 🎄
Religion is widely used by dictators and others for power and control - claiming the voice of God so people follow them. It’s not religion that’s the problem - it gives people immense strength in their toughest times - it’s the power hungry who use it for their own means.
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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.
