Only days after Angela finished and graduated with her masters in linguistics, her home country was invaded. She was 23 and an English teacher in…

The 15 August 2021 was a very dark day. It destroyed humanity and the lives and aspirations of people in Afghanistan. It was the day…

"You won’t believe what I'm about to say... in my home country Kuwait, we are not recognised as human." Fawad is 33 years old and…

“I vividly remember that day when the Taliban reached Kabul: everything seemed normal.  I received the news while I was in the office, so we…

Content warning: this post contains references to suicide. Like many other asylum seekers, I am very concerned about the Government's Rwanda plan. I put myself…

We often hear the famous political rhetoric that the UK has a “proud history” of welcoming refugees and those seeking protection from persecution.   It is…

Saharo is a single mum from Somalia. She and her three children, two girls and one boy, arrived in the UK in July 2017 through the…

Yaghoub, a father and husband from Sudan, arrived in the UK with his three children and wife in September of 2017 from Egypt through the Gateway Protection Programme. Almost four years on, he tells us how resettlement saved…

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…

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…