If you are pregnant or a parent or carer of under 2 year olds and live in East or South Leeds, Why not get involved? Free training and the creche is available starts on the 18th of April, for six weeks 2 hours a week. Contact Karen Marshall or Emily Wood 0113 2718277
Archive | March, 2018
Resource of the week #13: Refugee Phrase Book
The Rev Heston Groenewald of All Hallows has submitted this excellent resource https://www.refugeephrasebook.de “The refugee phrasebook is created in a set of google doc sheets, with the help of volunteers from Berlin and all over the world. Everyone is free to adapt, print and distributethe phrases to support refugees. We currently prepare the following datasets: Short version including […]
Emergency protest to support Yarls Wood hunger strikers
What’s been happening so far… Last Wednesday 21 Feb, 120 people in Yarls Wood, an immigration detention centre in Bedfordshire (which holds mainly but not only women) started a 3-day hunger strike. It has gathered momentum and has escalated into work strikes, occupations, and a refusal to co-operate with the mechanisms of detention from the […]
LMP Strategy Group agenda for the next meeting
The next LMP Strategy Group meeting will take place on Wednesday 14th March at Oak House in Waxwing Room on 2nd Floor. Please see the agenda for the meeting and the minutes from the last meeting (below) The group is currently preparing their action plan so come with your ideas and examples of work/initiatives […]
‘Existence is Enough: 10 Days of Action in Solidarity with Refugees and Asylum Seekers’ – Launch Event 6pm Monday 5th March
Eyewateringly short notice, but here’s an invitation to LUU’s launch event on Monday “Leeds University Union (LUU) would like to invite you to the launch event of our campaign ‘Existence is Enough: 10 Days of Action in Solidarity with Refugees and Asylum Seekers’. This campaign aims to get students to re-think the idea that refugees […]
Subscribe for a (short) daily update on the top refugee stories – via the UNHCR
This daily newsletter tells you what you need to know about the day’s top refugee stories and highlights some of the best refugee-related reporting, analysis and videos from across the web. Unlike a lot of refugee news it always ends with a good news story. http://www.unhcr.org/refugeebrief/
Al Weiwei’s film ‘Human Flow’ now available free online
Al Weiwei travels around the world, and finds a globalised story of desolation and desperation. He doesn’t arrive at answers, but he engages with the subject in fiercely human terms and he compellingly shows that migration is itself a new condition of global market forces, which have disrupted peoples the way world war did a […]
MCP Report. Rights without Remedies: Legal aid and access to justice for children
This report demonstrates the impact of the 2013 legal aid cuts on immigration, family and education law, and provides recommendations to the government to take steps to address this impact. It highlights that alternates to legal aid are not working, and without funding for legal advice, children and young people have been left homeless, without legal […]
Update from WYDAN Nightshelter
via Katrina at WYDAN Last year (2016/17) The WYDAN Nightshelter hosted 23 individual men and provided 398 individual nights of accommodation over 17 weeks. This year, the WYDAN Nightshelter opened on 20th December 2017. We are currently in our 12th week of hosting and have provided 473 nights of accommodation to 26 individual men. As […]
SATURDAY Emergency demo -Solidarity with Yarl’s Wood hunger striker
When: SATURDAY 3 MARCH 12.30PM Where? BRIGGATE, BY BODY SHOP https://www.facebook.com/events/1857058604585752/ Last Wednesday, 120 people held in immigration detention at Yarl’s Wood started a hunger strike. On Monday they have started an all-out strike, refusing to work. A group of women have staged a sit-in outside the Home Office department within the centre. Demands and […]