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Celebrating International Women’s Day 2023 with Refugee Women Connect

Together With Refugees is proud to work with some amazing coalition organisations that focus on refugee women. On International Women’s Day 2023, we asked Refugee Women Connect to tell us about their vital work in Merseyside and the Northwest. We are Refugee Women Connect, a women only charity supporting and working alongside women asylum seekers, refugees …

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Refugee activist Ali Ghaderi on his day at Parliament

On a cold day in late January, 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 experiences …

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Message from our chair and 2022 highlights

“As somebody who fled war and persecution in Afghanistan to come to the UK and is now a leader in our movement for change, your efforts and determined action never fail to inspire and uplift my spirits.” Sabir Zazai – Chair, Together With Refugees and CEO, Scottish Refugee Council This has been an exceptionally difficult …

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Fill the Skies with Hope activities planned all over the UK

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, …

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Letter in The Times: More than 150 organisations call on the UK government to help Afghan refugees one year on

Together With Refugees and Safe Passage coordinated a letter from over 150 organisations that was published in the Times, calling on the UK government to urgently help Afghan refugees who are already here and ensure that others can safely reach the UK and their families. Here’s the letter and full list of signatories: Sir, It …

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Together With Refugees Day Of Action

Save the date: Friday 23rd September! Being loud and visible as a movement is needed now, as much as it ever has been, in our work to end the government’s cruel policy to send people seeking protection in the UK to Rwanda without ever having their claim heard here. That’s why we are busy working …

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Stop the Rwanda flights

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 …

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We stand in condemnation of the disturbing Rwanda scheme: our coalition letter to the Editor

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 today’s Independent. These included groups led by refugees, human rights organisations, international development agencies, major faiths, women’s groups and regional and local service …

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From refugee to OBE: Sabir Zazai honoured for refugee work

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 …

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Our joint influence and impact with peers and MPs

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 …

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