Chris Stone, a local writer, has written an excellent review of our exhibition of Foreign National Prisoner paintings. You can read his piece here.
Links to Relevant Sites
- ASYLUM SUPPORT APPEALS PROJECT Protects asylum seekers’ legal rights to food and shelter
- BAIL FOR IMMIGRATION DETAINEES (BID) exists to challenge immigration detention in the UK. BID also has a useful leaflet, “How to Get Out of Detention”.
- CALAIS MIGRANT SOLIDARITY gives current advice about what is needed and how to help.
- DETENTION ACTION supports people in detention and campaigns for change
- DOCTORS OF THE WORLD is attending to migrants’ medical needs and would welcome cash donations.
- GATWICK DETAINEES WELFARE GROUP supports people held in detention near Gatwick Airport
- THE JOINT COUNCIL FOR THE WELFARE OF IMMIGRANTS has been Campaigning for justice in immigration, nationality & asylum law & policy since 1967
- MIGRANTS RIGHTS NETWORK works for the rights of all immigrants
- NO-DEPORTATIONS gives current details of the legal and human situation of detainees
- SEEKING SANCTUARY is a small organisation promoting awareness of migrants near our shores and all lone children, also providing humanitarian assistance to exiles, especially those stranded in Northwest France.
Edited by David Herd & Anna Pincus
Featuring Shami Chakrabarti, Kyon Ferril, Christy Lefteri, Robert Macfarlane, Khodadad Mohammadi, Dina Nayeri, Amy Sackville, Philippe Sands, Rachel Seiffert, Natalia Sierra, Bidisha SK Mamata, Simon Smith & Maurizio Veglio
Seventy years after the adoption of the 1951 Refugee Convention, the UK is guilty of undermining the very principles of asylum, inhumanely detaining those seeking protection and ushering in sweeping changes that threaten to punish refugees at every turn.
But the UK’s immigration system is not alone in committing such breaches of human rights. The fourth volume of Refugee Tales explores our present international environment, combining author re-tellings with first-hand accounts of individuals who have been detained across the world.
As the coronavirus pandemic defies borders – leaving those who are detained even more vulnerable – this collection shares stories spanning Canada, Greece, Italy, Switzerland and the UK, and calls for international insistence on a future without detention.
Featuring a prologue by Baroness Shami Chakrabarti.
You can order a copy here
Contact
PO Box 192
Whitstable
Kent
Kent Refugee Help
Charity Number 1120185
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