On Monday the Home Office announced that it would fully scrap a secret arrangement that allowed it to access patient’s NHS data without their permission.
This is an important victory against the ‘hostile environment’.
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Tienga Ngale is co-chair of the Right to Remain management committee. Here he writes about how the support he has given to and received from different communities kept him going through his most difficult situations.
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At one of the training sessions we ran this week with volunteers who are keen to learn more and do more for people seeking the right to remain in the UK – we looked at evidence. What ‘evidence’ means, in the context of asylum, immigration and human rights cases. How someone can get this evidence, and how others can help them. We discussed how important documentary evidence is, when so many legal cases are refused on the basis of credibility – the Home Office or the courts don’t believe you are telling the truth.
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Between them, the Freed Voices group have lost over 20 years to detention in this country. “Freed Voices stand in solidarity with the 15 brave individuals who are facing trial for taking part in a peaceful protest and stopping a charter flight at Stansted airport..”
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Stand in solidarity with the Stansted 15 defendants at Chelmsford Court! Their trial began a month ago and is still ongoing. On Monday 5th November groups will be offering support, and showing their opposition to Home Office deportations.
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On the ‘Life On The Outside’ podcast, Bairbre Flood talks to three women who’ve survived Direct Provision: Elsie Nwaora, Nomaxabiso Maye & Florence Eriamantoe.
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“I’ve had my life and purpose affirmed again and again by the asylum and refugee led groups who attend and shape our annual gathering, and by having a management committee which is balanced between those who are allies and those who are experts by experience. To be amongst these people, for me, has been being deeply and truly to be amongst ‘my people’.”
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People seeking safety in our country are banned from working. They are unable to provide for themselves and their families and often left to live in poverty. Join the campaign to #LiftTheBan!
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As Westminster debates the new contracts for asylum accommodation, Housing4All in Belfast have written about why these contracts and conditions must be human rights compliant.
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How does wartime opposition to internment compare to local anti-detention movements today? Turns out the language is surprisingly similar…
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Detention and the threat of detention affects staff and students, and members of the local community. It’s time to get informed, and take action.
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“Whatever you do, never stay in silence, get involved, run a workshop, raise awareness and challenge to change this unjust system!’
Read moreWhen people reach the UK, the struggle isn’t over. It's a hostile environment. Right to Remain relies on grants from charitable trusts and on donations from people like you. Your donation will help us to help people in their struggles for the right to remain in the UK, and to campaign for migration justice.
Donate todayRight to Remain works with communities, groups and organisations across the UK, providing information, resources, training and assistance to help people to establish their right to remain, and to challenge injustice in the immigration and asylum system. Right to Remain is a registered charity (charity number 1192934).
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