Refugee Voices Barracks contradict the concept of the UK as a safe haven My name is Aissata. I’m a member of RAS Voice, an ‘Expert-by-Experience’ group of refugees and asylum seekers in the UK. I have been asked…AissataApril 9, 2021
Refugee Voices I’m a qualified carer seeking asylum: banning me from working helps nobody Members of Parliament debated the right to work for me and other people claiming asylum on Wednesday 18 November. Speaking for the Government, Home Office…AnjuNovember 20, 2020
Refugee Voices Lift the Ban: Teem’s Story As tough as things have been for all of us over the last months, people seeking asylum are having an especially rough time. I went…Teem KhanSeptember 24, 2020
Refugee Voices Ana £37 a week. I remember myself calculating our shopping’s cost, so we don’t have to feel embarrassed at the tills. We had already had that…Refugee ActionJune 2, 2020
Refugee Voices Mariyan Mariyan is a lone mother fighting for her rights. She ended up in the UK three years ago, in a desperate search for safety after…Refugee ActionMarch 12, 2020
Refugee Voices Bruno and Catherine Bruno went through unimaginable suffering in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) as a result of his activism. “In 2006, I was a businessman…Refugee ActionNovember 30, 2019
Refugee Voices Safaa Today marks our one year anniversary in the UK – a country of extraordinary history and civilization; a country that is Great by any standards;…SafaaMay 7, 2019
Refugee Voices Mansoor Mansoor was in the final year of his degree in the UK, when he began receiving threats from people in his home-country of Libya. He…Refugee ActionJuly 9, 2018
Refugee Voices Ahmad Sitting in a café in Manchester’s busy district of Rusholme, Ahmad reminisces over the life he once shared with his wife in Syria before the…Refugee ActionMay 16, 2018
Refugee Voices Ehsan After waiting two and a half years for a decision on his asylum claim, Ehsan was finally given refugee status at the end of last…Refugee ActionMay 16, 2018