On a cold day in late January 2023, Together With Refugees drove its message directly to Westminster on an open-top bus – that the government’s plan to send refugees to Rwanda is cruel and must be scrapped. After protesting on the bus, activists with lived experience went inside Parliament to meet MPs and share their
Refugee activist Ali Ghaderi on his day at parliament Read More »
The Fill the Skies with Hope campaign urges the new Prime Minister (PM) Liz Truss, to change course on the government’s policy to banish refugees to Rwanda. Fill the Skies with Hope involves sending orange heart-shaped paper planes into the sky with messages to the new Prime Minister. 23 September, is a Day of Action,
Fill the Skies with Hope activities planned all over the UK Read More »
A few weeks ago, people power and some smart legal work, stopped a plane that was to take refugees to Rwanda. But the fight is not over. The Rwanda scheme will see people who came to the UK hoping to find safety, instead forcefully removed to a country they have no connection to, thousands of
25 June 2022 Celebrities, many with heritage from African countries in the Commonwealth including Sophie Okonedo, Martins Imhangbe, Lucian Msamati and Anita Asante, are urging Commonwealth leaders who are attending the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Rwanda today (25 June 2022), to take a stand against the UK government’s new policy to deport refugees
21 June 2022 As leaders from all over the world prepare for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) and on World Refugee Day, over 170 organisations signed a letter to the Editor published in The Independent on 21 June 2022. These included groups led by refugees, human rights organisations, international development agencies, major faiths,
Letter in The Independent: We stand in condemnation of the disturbing Rwanda scheme Read More »
Dr Sabir Zazai, Chair of Together With Refugees, CEO of Scottish Refugee Council and himself a refugee has today (Thursday 2nd June 2022) been awarded an OBE by Her Majesty the Queen in recognition of his work advocating for refugee rights. This is a wonderful testament not only to the work of Sabir, but also
From refugee to OBE: Sabir Zazai honoured for refugee work Read More »
Over the last six months Tom Nguyen, has been coordinating the coalition’s parliamentary team, and drawing on the expertise and contacts of our members to lobby MPs and peers on the Nationality and Borders Act. We’re doing a deeper assessment of our parliamentary work as part of a wider reflection of the coalition’s activities over
Our joint influence and impact with peers and MPs Read More »
Campaign activist and media manager for Kent Refugee Action Network, Bridget Chapman, has proposed “community picnics up and down the country so that those with lived experience, those from the refugee and migrant support sector, and all those in the community who support and want to show solidarity, can come together to simply share a
Community picnics at the end of “healing” Refugee Week Read More »
Today, in the face of overwhelming opposition, and forced to resort to strong-arm tactics in the House of Lords, the Government has managed to steamroller the catastrophic Nationality and Borders Bill through Parliament. The bill will harm people seeking sanctuary This bill will punish refugees who have been left with no other options to find
After the government forces through the Nationality & Borders Bill we fight on… Read More »
20 April 2022 Actor Juliet Stevenson and the Ukrainian refugee family she is hosting at her home were joined today (Wednesday 20th April 2022) by Robert Rinder, Lily Cole and a host of other celebrities, refugees and campaigners from campaign coalition Together With Refugees on a boat on the Thames to urge MPs to ‘vote
Press release: Celebrities and refugees take to the Thames against the refugee bill Read More »