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Help Refugees join forces with artists to create huge ‘CHOOSE LOVE’ mural to celebrate Refugee Week
In celebration of the 20th anniversary of Refugee Week, Iranian refugee and artist Majid Adin, and world-renowned artist Lakwena, have created two huge murals in Hanbury Street, Shoreditch and London’s…
Malika Harbalie Brings Hope To Syrian Children and Families Against All Odds
This article, about the incredible Malika Harbalie, who against all odds, continues to work with our partners Independent Doctors Association and bring hope to Syrian children and families. Malika Harbalie…
The Community Sponsorship Scheme: welcoming refugees into British communities
To witness suffering of the scale and magnitude of the current refugee crisis has challenged many citizens, across the world. For some of us, questions stir within: What should I…
Child refugees should be able to join their families after Brexit – but we need to act now.
In a matter of days, MPs will vote on an Amendment that could keep open a vital family reunion route for refugees, including unaccompanied children, after Britain leaves the EU.…
Legal aid crisis denying justice to refugees, asylum seekers and migrants
Since March this year, criminal barristers have been on strike. They are rejecting state-funded cases, to protest cuts to legal aid that are keeping those most in need from accessing…
The Timber Project: goodbye to our carpentry heroes
Writing about this crisis, there’s often a tendency towards superlatives. But for some groups responding to it, these are entirely deserved. The Timber Project are one such group. Across Greece,…
Academics, civil society groups and local government working together for better refugee accommodation and inclusion
Carlotta Fontana Valenti is a recent graduate of UCL’s MSc In Building and Urban Design in Development. Here we repost her blog, ‘Refugee reception and housing practices in Greece’, in…
Aslam: the Syrian refugee feeding thousands of people in Greece
To people working in the grassroots refugee response in Greece, Aslam needs no introduction. To those unfamiliar with his work, Aslam has begrudgingly allowed us to share his some of…
Our Impact 2015 – 2017: from a hashtag to a global movement
In the summer of 2015, a group of friends started a campaign on social media. They wanted to make a difference to the situation for refugees in the north of…
The Refugee Crisis
“The refugee crisis” means different things to different people. That’s because there are refugee crises unfolding across the globe, and yet there doesn’t seem to be the political vocabulary to…
What is a refugee?: Refugees, Asylum seekers and IDPs
Refugees are entitled to international protection, because their country of origin is unable to guarantee their basic rights and/or physical security. This means that other countries are required to provide…
870 mile solidarity march in support of refugees & migrants
Our partners L’Auberge des Migrants are marching 870 miles to show their support of refugees and migrants, calling on governments to provide more safe and legal routes for those fleeing…
