Head of Asylum Advocacy @FreefromTorture. Interests are asylum & international refugee protection, human rights. All views are personal.
London, England
Joined November 2010
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Our new report exposes the true reasons torture survivors and refugees arrive in the UK & proposes some alternative solutions to save lives and preserve access to refugee protection
Read the report now.... freedomfromtorture.org/why-t…
FfT's new report, 'A Place to Heal' centres the voices of those in asylum housing & exposes the devastating harm it causes to survivors. The solutions are simple:
✅Better quality & faster asylum decisions to manage numbers
✅ Locally-tailored, well-resourced housing
This morning, we appeared in @DailyMirror exposing the reality of the UK’s asylum accommodation:
Asylum hotels are awful places to live for people fleeing torture. We didn’t rely on them to house asylum seekers 5 years ago – so why is our govt using them?
mirror.co.uk/news/politics/a…
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I'm just gonna pop this here for any Sun readers who are interested in why refugees actually come to the UK... from
@FreefromTorture report Fleeing a Burning House: freedomfromtorture.org/sites…...
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Cooper will shortly be providing a statement to parliament on her plans for asylum reform, including changes that restrict access to refugee family reunion and speeding up processing of asylum appeals parliamentlive.tv/Commons
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New immigration rules will be published this week to temporarily suspend any new applications under Refugee Family Reunion route until a new scheme can be brought in. Refugees will be covered by the conditions and rules that apply to everyone else.
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Have just heard from Chris Murray MP that Home Affairs Select Committee will publish the report of their inquiry into asylum accommodation shortly.
@FreefromTorture
provided evidence to the committee of the harmful impact of hotels on survivors of torture in UK asylum system
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Grim spectacle. Many of the family reunion applications will involve women and children living in precarious environments - camps, war zones, places where their health and liberty is at risk, etc.
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🧵Yesterday a good e.g. of the danger of the politics of 'can't'. If Govt want to effectively challenge Reform policies the worst approach is to say 'we can't do them' - instead set out why your alternative better & make positive case for things you might believe in like ECHR
When asked what drives people to abandon their principles & humanity & engage in torture @RoryStewartUK & @campbellclaret focus on responsibility of individual perpetrators rather than a political & social environment in which torture is permitted @FreefromTorture @aaliyahmburns
Question Time: Assad’s People - Torture, Justice, and Forgiveness
New episode alert 🚨
This week on Question Time @RoryStewartUK and @campbellclaret discuss:
🇸🇾 What drives someone to torture
📰 The latest in Gaza
🇬🇪 Democracy under threat in Georgia and Venezuela
...and much more.
Tune in now 👇
lnk.to/TheRestIsPoliticsTW
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Perhaps @RestIsPolitics team could speak to anti-torture campaigners like @FreefromTorture and the survivors who lead the movement to uphold the global anti-torture ban like @haoussou & @ntunasi to better understand what drives people to commit such unimaginable acts of horror
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Some helpful clarifications from Home Sec Yvette Cooper's appearance before Home Affairs Select Cttee on Monday: the immigration White Paper coming in new year will focus on reform of labour migration routes to UK & enforcement on illegal working parliamentlive.tv/event/inde…
Home Affairs Cttee just launched an inquiry into asylum accommodation. This is such an important inquiry at a critical time in the life of the current contracts. @FreefromTorture & @SSOonline will be putting in our evidence of the impact of asylum housing on survivors of torture
Tho it was accepted that people on DG needed in-person assessment by medical experts these hadn't been facilitated & so protection claims stalled. The reason behind this was a HO concern that allowing experts to visit might set precedent for Rwanda scheme: tinyurl.com/48f26kw3
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Help us achieve our dream of building a new day centre for vulnerable street children in Lubumbashi, D.R.C. Match funding available today, Giving Tuesday via globalgiving.org/projects/ki… Thanks so much! 🇨🇩👍👍 #DRCongo #streetchildren #Lubumbashi #safeguarding #Congo
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WARNING: Young torture survivors are being put at risk due to this government's age assessment policies.
Their voices are often left out of the conversation, so this #WorldChildrensDay hear our Young Outspoken Survivors important message to this government.
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