ANTI SLAVERY, HUMAN RIGHTS AND GAZA

The BBC reports that anti slavery and human rights campaigner Dr Aidan McQuade is returning his OBE citing the UK Government’s support for the “Rwanda scheme”.

Sadly, the BBC headline fails to mention the other reason Dr McQuade was

Don’t criticise another person until you’ve walked at least a mile in their shoes …

ANTI SLAVERY, HUMAN RIGHTS AND GAZA

The BBC reports that anti slavery and human rights campaigner Dr Aidan McQuade is returning his OBE citing the UK Government’s support for the “Rwanda scheme”.

Sadly, the BBC headline fails to mention the other reason Dr McQuade was

NEW: Unseen footage reveals UK-funded French police are carrying out violent interceptions of small boats in the Channel - aggressive tactics include flooding, ramming & stabbing dinghies as UK mounts pressure to 'stop the boats'

ILLEGAL EVICTIONS
A message to rogue landlords that Positive Action in Housing will take every action to protect our service users legal rights to their homes. It is illegal to evict someone without proper notice and a court order. Where tenants are at risk of illegal eviction

Radiological contamination and unexploded ordnance were two of the risks found at a former RAF airfield used to house people seeking safety in the UK. This is exactly why we call for #CommunitiesNotCages - the Home Office is failing people seeking asylum.

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Former Home Secretary Suella Braverman scuttles off trying to avoid the cameras after the mayor of Brussels ordered Brussels police to shut down a conference for far right extremists at which she was supposed to be speaking at alongside Nigel Farage. Braverman complained to Sky

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The Home Office has created a preventable humanitarian crisis by pursuing policies destined to fail for those seeking asylum. This rapid increase in the emergency homelessness crises facing newly granted refugees demonstrates a system designed to fail.

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“I am hungry a lot of the time and I get hunger headaches.”

The Home Office has trapped thousands of people across the UK in food insecurity and poverty, leaving those who have fled war and persecution in chronic hunger.

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Police Scotland received 7,152 online and mostly anonymous complaints under Scotland’s new hate crime law in the first week of operation.

However, the vast majority resulted in no action being taken - with only 240 hate crimes recorded.

In addition, police also dealt with 430

IN MEMORY OF KAREN ABRAMS

On World book day, Thursday 8th March, Croydon High got all dressed up as their favourite character in memory of their late librarian Mrs Karen Abrams.

The day raised £1260.70 for Positive Action in Housing, a charity close to Mrs Abrams' heart.

Wishing Eid Mubarak to all our members, supporters and service users.

No-one should be held in immigration detention indefinitely against their will. The asylum system is not working for anyone and rapid changes are needed to this wasteful and hostile system to stop further tragedy.

#CommunitiesNotCages

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April 8th 2024
Cairo, Egypt

Dear Reader,

I am writing this in our first hours in Cairo after we were forced to leave our dreams and our home in Gaza behind in the form of burnt rubble.

The past six months have been difficult. So much that I do not have the words to describe