The Government's cruel changes to settlement rules
will tear families apart and push people into years of fear and uncertainty.
Opposition is growing from MPs and the public alike.
The Government must listen and stop these harmful plans now.
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The public outcry at attacks on migrants' rights is being heard.
We have to keep the pressure up. Write to your MP NOW and tell them to support the motion against inhumane plans to make refugee status temporary:
fightforasylumrights.org/back-edm-2908/
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Twenty years in limbo means never truly knowing you're safety, never really being able to settle and become a full part of a community.
No one benefits when we lock refugees and other migrants out of belonging.
Sign the petition now:
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Imagine fleeing war, torture and persecution and finally being given sanctuary - and then learning it only lasts 30 months.
Temporary protection isn't real protection. Tell your MP to sign the motion opposing this cruel and counterproductive change:
fightforasylumrights.org/back-edm-2908/
Your regular reminder that every person waiting for any asylum decision should have the right to work.
Banning people from work makes skills stagnate, leaves people stuck in poverty, and makes it so much harder for people to rebuild their lives.
#LiftTheBan
✍️WRITE TO YOUR MP!
The Govt’s ‘earned settlement’ plans are still being decided.
With more and more MPs speaking out, now is a chance to ask your MP to push back on these proposals before it is too late. It's important to make your voice heard.
Use our template: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Graphic for the first blog in Southall Black Sisters’ Real Impact series on the government’s strategy to tackle violence against women and girls, with this first instalment focusing on No Recourse to Public Funds. The design features black and white text on a maroon background set against a beige textured paper.
Graphic for the first blog in Southall Black Sisters’ Real Impact series on the government’s strategy to tackle violence against women and girls, with this first instalment focusing on No Recourse to Public Funds. The design features black and white text on a maroon background set against a beige textured paper.
Today we launch the first commentary in our Real Impact Series, analysing the government’s strategy to tackle violence against women and girls and its failure to address No Recourse to Public Funds.
Read here: southallblacksisters.org.uk/news/nrpf-th... 1/ 🧵
£16m wasted - and who knows how many more children traumatised by violent police action, how many more people killed in crossings made more deadly by hostile border enforcement.
Is this really what we want our money spent on?
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And we know that the £16m our Government has just spent on continuing the failed project of border violence will do nothing to stop more tragedies like this.
More police hostility at the border means more dangerous departures and smaller, more crowded boats.
Only safe routes can stop the deaths.
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Two more people died in our Channel today.
We don't know what they were fleeing. We don't know what their hopes or dreams were.
We don't even know their names.
We do know they deserved better. We know safe routes could have saved them.
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These deaths are tragic, and completely avoidable.
Our thoughts are with their loved ones, and everyone who was on the boat.
Until meaningful safe routes are established, lives will continue to be put at risk.
Safe routes, NOW.
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Temporary safety isn't safety.
Forcing refugees to reapply for protection every 30 months will make it impossible for people to rebuild their lives.
Tell your MP to sign @stellacreasy.bsky.social 's motion to oppose against these plans now:
fightforasylumrights.org/back-edm-2908/
"There is nothing fair or compassionate about keeping families divided."
Well done to faith leaders for speaking out against this attack on family life. Family reunion must be restored, so children aren't left trapped in danger and separated from their families.
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tag your MP today in this to ask them to join us calling for proposals to end refugee status to be put to parliament so we can do our job and scrutinise the impact this could have on those already here in our country. This motion if debated could stop these proposals.
Great news that asylum seeking doctors can now work, but legal action shouldn't have been needed to force the government into this minor concession.
Asylum seekers should be allowed to work.
Lift the Ban now!
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A wonderful piece on our trip to London by campaigner and journalist Tamirat!👇
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If you agree, use our easy letter writing tool to tell your MP to come to our upcoming event in Parliament to hear the evidence for lifting the ban - as well as to stand against absurd and cruel new rules giving refugees just 30 months of protection:
fightforasylumrights.org/back-edm-2908/
Anyone who has waited more than six months for an asylum decision should be able to seek work - in any job they have the skills for.
It would save money, boost our economy by as much as £1.6bn, and cut asylum system costs while ensuring support is there for those who need it.
The reality remains that the majority of people seeking asylum in the UK remain banned from working. The ability to work and rebuild your life with independence and dignity shouldn’t be an exception granted to a few people - it should be the rule.
It’s always good to see more occupations open to people in the asylum system, and to know talented professionals will have more opportunity to share their skills.
But the high skills threshold expected could prevent many people from finding work while they await a decision.
Previous rules hugely limited the number of roles open to those people seeking asylum with permission to work, and recently faced a legal challenge on behalf of two asylum-seeking doctors who’d been denied the opportunity to use their specialist skills.
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It means some skilled professionals including doctors, nurses, solicitors, architects and engineers seeking asylum will be able to seek work in the UK.
Under new rules, people given permission to work after waiting 12 months for an asylum decision will be able to seek jobs on the Appendix Skilled Occupations list which are categorised by the Government as degree-level roles (RQF 6 or higher).
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A woman holds a cardboard sign reading "let people work"
What's happening with working rights?
A recent change to migration rules means, from today, skilled professionals seeking asylum have a greater chance to work in the UK - but the fight for real, viable working rights for everyone seeking safety goes on.
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"Change may not happen overnight, but raising our voices and speaking directly to lawmakers is an important step"
Read refugee campaigner and journalist Tamirat's brilliant piece in
@northwestbylines.co.uk about his experience of lobbying Parliament on cruel settlement changes:
Proposals to conditions under which immigrants can settle here mean uncertainty and hardship for many, we asked MPs to reconsider | Tamirat A. Tsega
Our Government should be ashamed to be doing the work of the Taliban for them, refusing talented women the chance to be educated in safety.
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Signing this EDM is one clear way your MP can speak out against appalling new rules that will force people to wait decades for settlement, safety and security.
Write to them now and tell them to sign:
fightforasylumrights.org/back-edm-2908/
Every effort to increase force, danger and violence at our borders has only increased the power of vile, exploitative people smugglers.
Let's stop learning the same lesson again and again and try something that would actually work - safe routes.
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