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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Freed Voices statement in support of the Stansted 15
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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Solidarity with Stansted Defendants 5th November demo
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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‘Life On The Outside’: Women speak about surviving Ireland’s asylum system
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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“Who doesn’t want another chance?”
“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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Lift the ban: people seeking asylum must have the right to work
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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“It’s so sad that we have to justify why asylum seekers deserve good accommodation.”
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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“Indignation and sorrow”: responses to wartime internment, and immigration detention today
How does wartime opposition to internment compare to local anti-detention movements today? Turns out the language is surprisingly similar…
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University of Manchester, October 16: These Walls Must Fall event
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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“I could not stay silent when people are suffering.”
“Whatever you do, never stay in silence, get involved, run a workshop, raise awareness and challenge to change this unjust system!’
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A history of Immigration Detention in the UK (1914-2018)
Sadly, immigration detention is nothing new. But we can make it a thing of the past. Right to Remain has worked with the Refugee History project to produce a timeline of internment and detention in the UK from 1914 to the present day.
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Build Unions Not Borders!
The Labour Campaign for Free Movement is selling great t-shirts and tote bags with to raise money for their campaign, and are kindly donating half the proceeds to us!
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- Open Source Graphics for the National Day of Solidarity 2025
- Radical Solidarity Hub meeting 12 August – staying safe amidst far-right violence
- Solidarity and safety against far-right violence
- We need to change the story – solidarity not racism
- POSTPONED! 31 July – Liverpool Solidarity Session; detention & enforcement
Legal updates
- The BEL v FCDO Judgment: A Victory in Principle
- Artificially Intelligent, Genuinely Harmful: AI and Age Assessments in the UK Asylum System
- Toolkit update: Failure to travel and asylum support
- Targeting Dignity and Survival: The Reality Behind the Government’s clampdown on “Illegal Working”
- UK-France ‘One In, One Out’ Immigration Policy: A Flawed Fix for a Complex Crisis
Events
- Radical Solidarity Hub meeting 12 August – staying safe amidst far-right violence
- POSTPONED! 31 July – Liverpool Solidarity Session; detention & enforcement
- 21 July: Knowledge is Power online workshop
- 22 July – Manchester Solidarity Session; detention & enforcement
- 17 July: From Detention to Defiance – National Solidarity Launch meeting
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When 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.
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Right 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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