So we ask again: Open safe routes Abandon offshore processing Resolve the legal aid crisis House people seeking asylum in communities, not camps Restore the right to work Increase asylum support rates End the use of immigration detention

And crucially: End the use of harmful rhetoric aimed at people seeking asylum, which contributes to a hostile environment which includes violence by far-right groups, and instead lead by example by promoting messages of compassion and welcome towards people seeking safety.

🚩👀 Join like-minded individuals to FINALISE on key principles & messaging that all migrant charities should be integrating into their campaigns. eventbrite.co.uk/e/finalising-t… RSVP by 20th September 2024. See you there!

Last minute preparations for today's Cowley Road Carnival - look out for Paddington 🐻 in the procession! Parade starts at 12.30 from The Plain... #BearsWithoutBorders

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We need a better, fairer, system which ensures people are treated with respect and dignity. A system which makes it simpler to secure a residence status, rather than locking away more people in expanded, and inhumane, detention centres. 1/ #r4today theguardian.com/uk-news/articl…

'Safe Here' shines a light on the issues #LGBTQ people face when seeking safety in the UK. The documentary tells the story of three #LGBT refugees, including Joel Joel Mordi 🏳️‍🌈 who calls for a compassionate alternative to immigration detention. The film highlights the need

We had a marvellous time at the Cowley Road Carnival 2024 Carnival on Sunday. Huge well done to the organisers (and whoever booked the weather)! 🥳 🎉 #bearswithoutborders 🐻 #freePaddington

Paddington and friends had an important message at the Cowley Carnival on Sunday. #bearswithoutborders 🐻

"This isn’t just a misstep, it’s a blatant betrayal of human dignity [ignoring the mountain of evidence that detention inflicts profound harm]" Important letter from AVID's Gee.Manoharan in today's Guardian ⬇️

Incredible news from the Paralympic Games! Last week, athlete Zakia Khudadadi - who fled Afghanistan as a refugee - won bronze in taekwondo at the Paralympics.🥉 This is the FIRST EVER Paralympic medal for the Refugee Paralympic Team. She said “this medal is for all the women

With 50+ organisations and 85 individuals, we've written to Yvette Cooper to demand an immediate halt of the reopening of Haslar & Campsfield detention centres! Detention destroys lives—it's time for change. Support community alternatives that uphold dignity! 🧵 #ChooseFreedom

12 people, including 3 children, have died trying to reach the UK. These waters are a graveyard. Without safe routes to reach family, sanctuary are the chance to rebuild, these tragedies are inevitable. This is politics devoid of empathy. theguardian.com/world/live/202…

At least 12 lives taken at our border today. 12 people who needed our help & were killed trying to ask for it. Our thoughts & love are with their families & loved ones, the survivors & with all those left without safe access. People need safe routes to seek asylum.

The situation unfolding in the Channel is utterly tragic. We are devastated for the people who lost their lives today, for their families and loved ones, for all the people who had hopes for them - for their safety, for their futures. We have heard this story too many times. We

We can’t keep watching people die & listening to the same failed rhetoric on ‘smashing gangs’ & people smugglers. They render dangerous crossings & deaths inevitable because they won’t let people travel safely to claim asylum nor apply in any other country.

Each and every one of us with a platform has a responsibility to correct others on the truth about asylum seekers claiming benefits and free homes. They can’t. They receive just £49 a week or £9 if given food. Only if and when they get refugee status can they claim or get a job.

The politicisation of refugees has detracted from the fact that these are real people who have human stories and have very often been through absolute horrors and are coming to the UK in search of safety. Big Issue tinyurl.com/ynw5h4kd

Join us tonight at Carfax, 6 pm, to mourn twelve previous lives and to demand #SafePassageNow - the only way to prevent future tragedies. 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ theguardian.com/world/live/202…

Hundreds have already added their names to the #FairBeginsHere Promise 💪 This is about pledging to take action to win an asylum system that is fair, just & compassionate. Tag the orgs, institutions & businesses that you want to see add their name👇 togetherwithrefugees.org.uk/the-fair-begin…