September 29, 2023
Coalition members, Refugee Council and City of Sanctuary, are collecting the UK’s favourite dad jokes to raise awareness of refugee children who are separated from their dads because of the UK’s unfair family reunion laws. Whether your dad told the worst jokes, or you’re the joker in your family, now is your chance to put…
View ArticleAugust 14, 2023
Enver Solomon and James Needham, the CEOs of the Refugee Council and veterans’ charity Help for Heroes, have jointly written to the Immigration Minister, Robert Jenrick, calling on the Home Office to put in place a system to reunite Afghan families separated during the UK government’s evacuation effort, Operation Pitting. Afghans who were evacuated without…
View ArticleMarch 25, 2023
More than 4000 people have signed the Refugee Council’s alternative Mother’s Day card calling on the government to reunite refugee children with their mums. The cards contain a message from from 14-year-old Dawit*, explaining how being separated from his mum impacts him. The cards call on the government to change the rules so that children…
View ArticleMarch 20, 2023
Children at primary schools in the West Midlands and the North West sent Mother’s Day cards to their MPs this week calling on the government to change the Immigration Rules so that refugee children can safely reunite with their parents in the UK. At St Dunstan’s primary school in Birmingham, more than 150 mums, grandmas…
View ArticleJanuary 17, 2023
More than 100 charities and activists have signed a letter calling on the prime minister to facilitate the resettlement of family members of thousands of Afghans evacuated to the UK. The letter was coordinated by Safe Passage, in partnership with the Families Together coalition and the Refugee Council. Beth Gardiner-Smith, the chief executive of Safe…
View ArticleMarch 17, 2022
Representatives from the Refugee Council, Amnesty International UK and refugees representing the VOICES Network[1], posed for photos outside the Prime Minister’s residence holding placards reading,’36,500 believe families belong together.’ Every day, refugee families are torn apart by war and terror – during the brutality of conflict or in the urgency of fleeing a warzone. After…
View ArticleSeptember 6, 2021
Addis arrived in the UK in 2008 as an asylum seeker from Eritrea. She had left behind her husband and her 5-year-old daughter back home. She received a positive decision on her asylum case about 3 months ago, 13 years after her initial application. During the waiting period, Addis was left to rely on charities…
View ArticleJuly 21, 2021
On Monday the 19th and Tuesday the 20th of July, a parliamentary debate took place concerning the proposed changes to the UK asylum system laid out in the Nationality and Borders bill. At the close of yesterday’s debate, 366 MPs voted in favour of the bill, with 265 MPs voting against. The proposed legislation outlined…
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