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Tag: refugees
Let’s demand the impossible
Friday, 26 April 2024 — Migrants Organise
The Rwanda Deportation sham continues to dominate British politics causing relentless trauma.
This comes at a time when we’ve been told that there is no money left for anything; after the previous short-lived administration crashed the economy, at a time when school meals were cut, people are dying in cold homes, when it has been impossible to find a home, our waters are polluted by water companies, when millions of people rely on food banks, the list goes on.
If hope had wings
Monday, 26 February 2024 — Migrants Organise
We’re delighted to share, “Hope“, our latest creative exhibition with you. ‘Hope’ is a stunning exploration of memory, future dreams, freedom, resilience, family and community. It is creative solidarity.
Show up for racial justice for Palestinians – oppose the Anti-Boycott Bill
Thursday, 11 January 2024 — The Institute of Race Relations
Over the last weeks, campaigners in the UK have targeted arms manufacturers, companies, banks and universities that are complicit in the violation of rights of Palestinians living under occupation. They have also protested against the Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill (otherwise known as the anti-boycott bill) that had its third Commons reading this week. If passed, this legislation, by preventing public bodies’ investment policies from singling out a particular state or showing ‘political or moral disapproval of foreign state conduct’ will clip the wings of this highly ethical civil society movement. And lest there is any doubt that the bill is aimed at granting Israel impunity for its violations of the human rights of Palestinians, the proof is in the text which names Israel, the Occupied Palestinian Territories and Occupied Golan Heights as territories that the law will explicitly protect from public sector boycotts.
The Bibby barge must be stopped!
Friday, 15 December 2023 — Crowd Justice
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Refugee Week: celebration and resistance
Thursday, 22 June 2023 — Institute of Race Relations
As we mark Refugee Week, we applaud all those who have taken to the streets to ensure that criticisms of the EU and Greece for creating the conditions for the worst shipwreck in recent Mediterranean history are not staved off by authorities in Greece who have announced three days of national mourning and sought to pin the blame on traffickers, making several arrests amongst the survivors. At least 78 people drowned after an overcrowded trawler capsized off the southern Peloponnese, with the death toll likely to be far higher – 500 people are believed still missing, and so far there have been no women and children, who were all held in the hold, the most dangerous part of the vessel, amongst the survivors. We should particularly salute the investigations team at We Are Solomon and volunteers from Alarm Phone who have worked day and night to create a timeline of events which points to a failure of the authorities to render assistance after multiple distress calls, as well as concerns about the treatment of survivors.
Gov announces new Hostile Environment Taskforce – help us fight back!
Tuesday, 31 January 2023 — Patients Not Passports
Last week, the government announced the creation of a new Home Office taskforce that will attempt to expand Hostile Environment immigration policies.
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UK: State violence in a no-access border zone
Thursday, 24 November 2022 — Institute of Race Relations
Exactly a year ago, a dinghy with 34 people on board sank in the English Channel. There were two survivors. In the three hours it took for the boat to sink, as distress messages flooded in from those on board, French and British coastguards debated whose responsibility it was to rescue them. No help came, as one by one the passengers died of cold or drowned. As this week’s Calendar of Racism and Resistance shows, the body investigating the deaths – the worst loss of life in the Channel in over 30 years – the Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB), will not present its findings until at least early summer next year, and has not yet been in touch with most of the families of those who died, despite being sent their contact details. The families have also been denied access to recordings of their loved ones’ final calls for help. The unmistakable message conveyed by such responses is that these deaths don’t matter and that the families of the deceased are unworthy of respect.
An Excess of Evacuees
Monday, 7 November 2022 — The Van Says…
This has become a familiar picture over the last year, yet is the Ukrainian political establishment now attempting to flood Europe with its populace?
Preamble
The last month has seen Russian forces take the Ukrainian electricity system offline piece by piece, power stations as well as substations being destroyed in a series of devastating strikes. This has prompted the mayor of Kiev to propose evacuating the entire population from the city as well as its environs due to the increasingly untenable situation that the population faces as normal life slowly grinds to a halt and the cold of winter starts to bite. With things being as they are across the whole country today, it can be guaranteed that these displaced people will not stay in-country and will be sent to Europe. This article examines what this may mean for both the Ukraine as a country and those states who would be playing host to as many as four million more Ukrainian people.
UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman’s Refugee Plan Is Illegal. The UK Will Implement It Anyway
Monday, 24 October, 2022 — Global Research
New law from ruling Conservative Party set to break the Refugee Convention, the Human Rights Act and common law
Refugee organisations have balked at new proposals by the British government to ban refugees who cross the English Channel from seeking asylum.
Home Secretary Suella Braverman set out the new plans at the Conservative Party conference on Tuesday in a bid to cut down the number of migrants taking the dangerous journey from France.
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Europe’s treatment of refugees is racist and murderous
Wednesday, 7 September 2022 — Peoples Dispatch
The recent incident of refugees being stranded in the Mediterranean without assistance from coastal forces exemplifies a larger pattern of cruelty by European nations towards those fleeing conflict zones
by Abdul Rahman
File Photo: Andrew McConnell/UNHCR
According to an Al-Jazeera report, around 60 refugees, mostly from Lebanon and Syria, stranded in the Mediterranean sea have not got any help from European coast guards for days despite distress calls and reports of at least three children among them dying. Instead, they are being watched from a container ship. Such reports of criminal insensitivity are not an aberration.
Statewatch News 5 August 2022 Issue 13/22
Friday, 5 August 2022 — Statewatch News
(Issue 13/22, also available as a PDF)
Welcome to the latest edition of Statewatch News, featuring:
- Frontex: covert interrogations at the Spanish border with no legal guarantees
- EU criminal records database access extended for migrant ‘screening’
- In-depth research to keep you informed
EU has spent over €340 million on border AI technology that new law fails to regulate
Thursday, 12 May 2022 — Statewatch
The EU has spent €341 million on research into artificial intelligence technologies for asylum, immigration and border control purposes since 2007, yet the proposed AI Act currently being debated in EU institutions fails to provide meaningful safeguards against harmful uses of those technologies, says a report published today by Statewatch.
Israel’s fortress state is the model for the UK’s new asylum policy
Thursday, 21 April 2022 — Jonathan Cook
In copying an Israeli scheme to ship refugees to Rwanda, Boris Johnson’s government has turned to the world leader in keeping out ‘undesirables’
Middle East Eye – 20 April 2022
There is nothing innovative or humanitarian about Britain’s new policy of shipping asylum seekers, “on a one-way ticket“, thousands of miles to central Africa. Nor is there anything surprising about the choice of destination: Rwanda. Boris Johnson’s government has simply copied wholesale a programme established by Israel eight years ago.
Manslaughter charges brought over drowned migrants in English Channel
21 December 2021 — True Publica
By TruePublica: Here is a story not published in a single mainstream newspaper in Britain. A humanitarian association has now filed manslaughter charges against high-ranking French and British officials for failing to help 27 people who subsequently drowned on November 26th attempting to cross the English Channel.
Safe Passage Breaking News: UK dis-invited to EU meeting
26 November 2021 — Safe Passage
You may have seen that Priti Patel has been dis-invited to an upcoming summit of European Ministers this weekend to discuss the tragedy in the Channel.
As the Home Secretary won’t be meeting with European Ministers to discuss policy, it’s more important than ever that the Government hears our calls for safe routes now loud and clear.
UK: Priti must resign
25 November 2021 — Safe Passage
Yesterday 24 November 2021, at least 27 men, women and children died attempting to reach safety in the UK. Our hearts go out to the families and loved ones of all those who have lost their lives.
The tragic truth is that these deaths could, and should, have been prevented.
Priti Patel failed to prevent them. She must resign.
Join our calls for her to resign.
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Migrants Organise! Wow. What a week!
1 November 2021 — MEDACT
Wow. Last week, hundreds of you took to the streets and went into your communities to deliver the message loud and clear: we demand no borders in the NHS.
Together we are shifting the racist and nationalist tide by refusing to allow our healthcare service to become a tool of hostile immigration enforcement. We are fighting to ensure it stays true to its founding principles: that healthcare should be available to all who need it, regardless of where you’re from or your ability to pay.
The Global Climate Wall
30 October 2021 — Origin: Climate & Capitalism
Climate Apartheid
The world’s wealthiest countries are responding to the climate crisis by militarizing their borders
The biggest emitters of greenhouse gases spend an average of 2.3 times as much on arming their borders as on climate finance. Some spend 15 times as much. They aim to keep migrants away, rather than addressing the causes of displacement.
Watch: Australia: A Laboratory of Empire with Lowkey & Aamer Rahman
1 August 2021 — MintPress News
British Home Secretary Pritti Patel sees the country’s offshore migrant detention centers, referred to by some as “concentration camps” as a model for the U.K. to follow.
The New Dark Age 