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Please speak up for those who are denied a voice
Email your MP urgently
We need your help to get our message across.
The Independent Asylum Commission released a report on 30 June 2008 which stated that "destitution should not be used as a lever to compel refused asylum seekers to accept return".
We agree.
People fleeing some of the world's worst regimes are being denied sanctuary in the UK.
Often without money and with just the clothes on their back, men and women like Anna are faced with being cut off from all support, thrown out of accommodation, and denied medical treatment. Destitute.
This deliberate policy of destitution means they are left to make a seemingly impossible choice; stay and endure a degrading, hand-to-mouth existence on the streets, or return home to face persecution, violence and even death.
Not surprisingly, the majority choose destitution over persecution.
We are campaigning for fairer alternatives.
The recommendations of the Independent Asylum Commission are based on eighteen months of rigorous evidence-gathering and research. It's vital that decision-makers know about them.
The Independent Asylum Commission
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"I was taken away in a car by the secret police. It was terrifying. They interrogated me and accused me of being a foreign spy."