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forRefugees @forrefugees.org · 21/04/2026
Facts matter more than fear-mongering. Here, Sarah Bentley (IG @bentley_sarah) brilliantly uses rice and lentils to show the reality: asylum seekers are a tiny fraction of the UK population, and supporting them costs little compared to the national budget. We all deserve the truth over propaganda.
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forRefugees @forrefugees.org · 20/05/2025
At forRefugees we stand with people displaced, dehumanised and silenced. And we stand with those who stand with them. Today, that means standing with Gary Lineker. One mistake doesn’t erase a lifetime of humanity. We know Gary to be a principled ally to refugees, and an inspiration to many.
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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Mainstream radio presenters like Vanessa Feltz are perfectly happy to contribute, in their own small way, to the rise of the extreme far right. Her interview with me on LBC just now was chock full of lies. Calls herself a journalist. Really I wonder how they sleep at night.
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 26/04/2025
If deporting US citizen children with cancer isn’t your redline, it’s time to reassess your priorities.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 26/04/2025
The final honor guard for Pope Francis included migrants, prisoners, transgender people, the homeless and others selected by the Vicariate of Rome as a symbol of the late pope’s mission of inclusion and outreach. Read more from the funeral: wapo.st/3YdDGqM
“That they should be the ones to welcome Pope Francis’s coffin in the basilica is because these people are those who represented the focus of his mission,” said Father Giulio Albanese, head of missionary cooperation and communications for the Vicariate of Rome. “They are those who live on the peripheries, geographical and existential peripheries.”
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Tris @trisresists.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Crimes against humanity! I am sickened to my core! This must be stopped!
Rep Jerry Nadler says 3 children who are U.S. citizens have been deported and their families have been denied access to attorneys. One of the children has a rare form of cancer and was deported without their medicine or access to their doctor. 
We must end this cruelty.
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Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
“Deporting” someone is sending them back to their country where they are free to live as citizens. What that asshole is doing is NOT deportation. It’s kidnapping and human trafficking. It’s illegally sending people to USA-funded off shore concentration camps.
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forRefugees @forrefugees.org · 29/03/2025
“As you work closely with migrants and #refugees… promoting fundamental human rights. God will richly reward all that you do for the protection and defense of those who are considered less valuable, less important or less human!” #PopeFrancis www.vatican.va/content/fran...
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Letter of the Holy Father to the Bishops of the United States of America (10 February 2025) | Francis
Letter of the Holy Father to the Bishops of the United Sates of America, 10 February 2025
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Helen Bamber Foundation 🧡 @helenbamber.org · 28/03/2025
The experiences in this story are horrific but not uncommon. Our clinicians have repeatedly warned that the squalid conditions and substandard food in asylum hotels are causing profound harm to the men, women and children placed there. This MUST change. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
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Children experiencing malnutrition and stunted growth in Home Office asylum hotels
Nearly 1,500 complaints escalated by help service to Home Office accommodation providers last year, new data reveals
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Rahel Freiburghaus @rfrbrghs.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
SWITZERLAND ANNOUNCES A NEW HIGHER EDUCATION PILOT PROJECT FOR REFUGEES Big news: To ease the skilled labor shortage, the govt and Swiss universities are launching a pilot project to make higher education more accessible for refugees with academic potential www.admin.ch/gov/en/start... academicsky
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Easing the shortage of skilled labour through higher education for refugees
Current information from the Federal Administration. All press releases from the Federal Administration, the departments and offices.
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Bylines Scotland @bylines.scot · 25/03/2025
Denying refugees citizenship? How low can we go?
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Denying refugees citizenship? How low can we go?
The Labour leadership can and must do better
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Human Rights Watch @hrw.org · 28/03/2025
Poland has adopted a law suspending the right to seek asylum for people entering the country via Belarus. It's an effort to provide legal cover for Poland's abusive and unlawful border pushbacks. Learn more ⤵️
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Migration Observatory @migobs.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
New: Independent Chief Inspector of Borders & Immigration call for evidence on Home Office approach to overstayers, incl: ➤identification of actual & potential overstayers ➤communications with overstayers ➤ information to deter people from overstaying Deadline 16th April www.gov.uk/government/n...
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Call for evidence: An inspection of the Home Office’s approach to overstayers
The ICIBI invites anyone with knowledge and experience of the Home Office’s approach to overstayers to contribute to this inspection.
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Migrants Organise @migrantsorganise.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
There is a huge community of people wanting to add their voice and capacity to resist hostile immigration policies. At a time when migrants are being routinely scapegoated, it’s vital we come together to build share info, build strategies and #StandUpSpeakOut ➡️https://sknb.org/take-action/suso/
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Praxis, for migrants and refugees @praxisprojects.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Levana Coker worked on the Bibby Stockholm barge. She was reprimanded for "talking to people and treating them like human beings". Read about her experience in @opendemocracy.net👇 www.opendemocracy.net/en/bibby-sto...
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How the Bibby Stockholm became a symbol of profit and failur
As the migrant barge left Dorset, openDemocracy explored life on board the Bibby – and the failed policy that cost millions
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Delays in approving visa extensions impact Ukrainians in UK www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Ukrainians lose out on jobs and homes over visa uncertainty
Some employers and landlords are reluctant to hire or rent to Ukrainians because their visas are due to expire.
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Refugee Action @refugeeaction.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Alongside 146 other organisations, we're calling on the government to urgently reconsider its decision to ban refugees from ever becoming British citizens. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Small boats: Union and bishops criticise refugee citizenship ban
Some 147 signatories of a letter say the recently-implemented rule will
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forRefugees @forrefugees.org · 21/12/2024
These are the everyday people who voluntarily work in a draughty warehouse, and spend hours standing in the bracing Northern France winter weather, to support strangers. People who meet refugees necessities and show kindness in a horribly hostile world. #refugees #MobileRefugeeSupport #France
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Refugee Action @refugeeaction.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Over 700 organisations have signed a letter to the Home Officer, urging them to keep processing asylum claims by people from Syria. Through our services we know that the community is fearful about their future here. It's time to reverse this cruel decision. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...
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Yvette Cooper urged to end ‘cruel’ pause on Syrian asylum decisions
Asylum seekers say they are in limbo and charities have expressed ‘deep concern’ as claims paused after Assad regime’s fall
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forRefugees @forrefugees.org · 16/12/2024
We should be proud that we’re a country that can protect people from torture, persecution and death. #RefugeesWelcome
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Al Jazeera English @al-jazeera-english.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
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The millions of untold stories flooding out of Syria | The Listening Post
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forRefugees @forrefugees.org · 15/12/2024
forRefugees are one of over 700 groups to sign the letter to Home Secretary Yvette Cooper urging decision making on asylum claims to resume. We’re advised by FCO against all travel to #Syria, ‘due to the ongoing conflict and unpredictable security conditions’. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/yvet...
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Charities urge Home Secretary to resume Syrian asylum claim decision-making
Yvette Cooper has said it would not be appropriate to grant asylum decisions on claims made against the Assad regime since it is no longer in place.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 15/12/2024
The Observer view on Syria: we must reach out a hand of friendship to Damascus | Observer editorial
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The Observer view on Syria: we must reach out a hand of friendship to Damascus | Observer editorial
The challenges facing Ahmed al-Sharaa’s new government are numerous, complex and daunting. But the west must not attempt to dictate events One struggle ends, another begins. Revolution begets counter-revolution. Hopes soar, disappointment and…
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forRefugees @forrefugees.org · 14/12/2024
🤩 You did it! You donated and, together with the power of match-funding, raised an incredible £50,000 🚀. Your donations are already providing sports, healthcare access, free legal aid, english lessons, protecting women and children, replacing a broken down van, providing tents, and much much more.
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forRefugees @forrefugees.org · 14/12/2024
Providing supporters with the latest information on Immigration issues #StarterPack #Immigration #UK @detentionaction.bsky.social go.bsky.app/gzfKcc
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Nesrine Malik @nesrinemalik.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
The prisons and the people bewildered upon their release some after decades are beyond devastating. Mabrook to the Syrians. We wish you solace in your reunions and returns. Inshallah the day will come for the Sudanese too.
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forRefugees @forrefugees.org · 06/12/2024
With just 4 days, and only 25% of match funding, to go there’s no time to lose in having your donation DOUBLED! 💝💝 Turn your £10 into £20 or £50 to £100. Every donation counts in our Big Give Campaign. donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05... #TheBigGive #ChristmasChallenge #Christmas #Charity
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forRefugees @forrefugees.org · 03/12/2024
🎯 We’re hoping to raise £50k of much needed funds! 🚀 The Big Give DOUBLE donations launches at noon today. 🎄 Make #Givingtuesday your new #BlackFriday 👉 donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05... 👈
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Take Urgent Action for Refugees this Christmas
At forRefugees we act where big NGOs and Governments fail. We help ensure refugee men, women and children have access …
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Together With Refugees @refugeestogether.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
This is why we need to take action now. Download the Fair Begins Here toolkit here: togetherwithrefugees.org.uk/fair-begins-...
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forRefugees @forrefugees.org · 03/12/2024
Think about buying from charity online shops too! (Many, including us, use TeeMill which is eco friendly 🙌.) Or simply make a donation instead of gifting! The #Charity sector really needs your support 🎄💝. #GivingTuesday
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forRefugees @forrefugees.org · 02/12/2024
Whose side are you on? When your government gets it wrong and you bravely scream to be heard. When your government reacts with oppression to silence you. Water today, but what next? When your fellow citizen is the one blindly “obeying orders”, shooting the water. Georgia today, and everywhere 🌍💔
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forRefugees @forrefugees.org · 01/12/2024
0️⃣2️⃣ It's the final countdown! Just 2 days to go until your donation to forRefugees is 100% DOUBLED 🤩🚀. When the clock chimes midday 🕛 on Tuesday, this is the link you need. ONLY on this link for doubling by The Big Give 😁😁😁 👇 donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...
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forRefugees @forrefugees.org · 01/12/2024
When #NGO Fenix Aid met Iyad his story broke their heart. Tortured for his activism at home he suffered brain damage causing early-onset Alzheimers. Lost in Greece's asylum process Fenix stepped in. They fought for his voice to be heard and his case moved forward. Helping means Iyad isn't alone 🧡.
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forRefugees @forrefugees.org · 01/12/2024
We’re calling for safe and documented routes for #immigration, including asylum seekers. #Visas too if they’d just bring in a #humanitarian one. The term ‘open borders’ is awful because it makes people fear immigration as something dangerous and uncontrollable. It’s not and never has been!
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forRefugees @forrefugees.org · 01/12/2024
“We need serious efforts towards peacebuilding, conflict resolution & addressing root causes of flight; more aid to countries along the displacement routes; & of course, cooperation among states to achieve this. Counting lives lost at sea cannot become a norm.” #unhcr www.unhcr.org/gr/en/63789-...
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UNHCR regrets rising death toll in the Aegean Sea - UNHCR Greece
Latest shipwrecks off Samos claim at least 12 lives
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forRefugees @forrefugees.org · 29/11/2024
“The best way to bring folks together, is to give them a really good enemy.” Is Wicked more relevant now than ever before? #Wicked
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forRefugees @forrefugees.org · 29/11/2024
👏👏👏 This is positive news. Thank you Yvette Cooper MP and thank you to all the lawyers accepting legal aid work to help the most vulnerable 🧡 #refugees
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forRefugees @forrefugees.org · 29/11/2024
Nearly 26 million Sudanese - half of the entire country - are facing acute food insecurity. Over one million Sudanese are already trying to survive famine conditions. About half of all people in the world facing catastrophic hunger are in #Sudan 💔. A civil war between rival factions over power 🤬.
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forRefugees @forrefugees.org · 29/11/2024
“I just want what everybody wants! Special treatment!” Don’t prove Homer Simpson right! Love freedom for all, not privilege. #Simpsons #Freedom
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forRefugees @forrefugees.org · 29/11/2024
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 Yes! Could #Wales lead the way in the #UK? 👏👏👏 @seneddwales.bsky.social #RefugeesWelcome #RighttoWork
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forRefugees @forrefugees.org · 28/11/2024
Could you survive on £7 a day? 🛒 What can £7 actually buy? 😞 What do you put back when there's no money left? 🤔 Could you make those sacrifices every single day? In the #UK, asylum seekers face these impossible choices daily. We call for their #RightToWork and appropriate support.
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forRefugees @forrefugees.org · 28/11/2024
Four mamas and 8 small children 🌹🌹🌹🌹🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀 have drowned in two shipwrecks in #Greece this week alone. Why are Europe’s borders deadly? We’re devastated for the families left behind, and angry at politicians for these needless deaths. Safe, documented routes. Now. #Refugees #SafePassage
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Tom Fletcher @tomfletcherun.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Lyse Doucet powerful on the Sudanese voices we must hear. Urgently. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Sudan civil war: Nowhere else on Earth are so many children on the run
The BBC's Lyse Doucet writes about the horrific effects of the 19-month civil war in Sudan.
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UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency @unhcr.org · 27/11/2024
Today, there are 120 million people who were #ForcedToFlee their homes. A milestone we never wanted to reach. The #GlobalTrends that we never wanted to unearth. 🔗 www.unhcr.org/global-trends
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forRefugees @forrefugees.org · 27/11/2024
Chancellor Angela Merkel knew what she was doing when she welcomed 1.2 million asylum seekers to Germany in 2015-2016… for humanity and for the German economy and future. Why aren’t we demanding the same level of leadership and intelligence from all Politicians? #immigration #refugees
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forRefugees @forrefugees.org · 26/11/2024
Of course a gay person can’t “live discreetly” in a country where being gay is illegal, and sex between people of the same gender is punishable by death. And yet, 46 European Governments (incl #UK) need an #ECHR landmark ruling to stop deporting #LGBTQI+ asylum seekers to countries like Iran 😩. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
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forRefugees @forrefugees.org · 26/11/2024
We meet so many young wonderful people from #Eritrea. Forced to leave their beautiful country and loving families because of a Dictator; it’s first and only president since 1993 - Isaias Afwerke. Look into Eritrea, it’s too little known or talked about. Share what you find out 🙏.
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forRefugees @forrefugees.org · 26/11/2024
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forRefugees @forrefugees.org · 26/11/2024
This 💯. Caveated by adding we are lean and we don’t have paid staff and we do have robust financial oversight and safeguarding, and our overheads are the lowest we can make them and, if only businesses were forced to run only on passion and air… 🧡 #Charity #UK
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forRefugees @forrefugees.org · 26/11/2024
Happy to celebrate the end of the Bibby Stockholm 🥳, whilst continuing to call for a humane reform of our broken #UK asylum system. #Refugees
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