We welcome the new report from Detention Action, Without Detention: Opportunities for Alternatives, which outlines how the use of detention could be avoided through prioritising meaningful engagement with migrants over harmful and costly enforcement. For too long, asylum seekers and vulnerable migrants have faced damaging indefinite detention and without proper…
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Refugee Action has launched its Frontline Immigration Advice Project. This project aims to support organisations providing frontline services to migrants to cope with a beneficiary demand for immigration advice where legal aid is not available or accessible.
The Lords sent back to the Commons their amendments (again), and that means the Commons are left to consider;
City of Sanctuary is campaigning for MPs to support the progressive amendments to the Immigration Bill passed through the House of Lords. Many of our supporters have already contacted their MPs about the regressive measures proposed in the Immigration Bill. We are now asking all our supporters and networks to…
We thought that City of Sanctuary volunteers might be interested in Campaign Bootcamp, which provides intensive training and mentoring to help…
The 2015 Immigration Bill is still progressing and here is an update on amendments with links to key responses from the refugee sector.
As we near the end of a year marked by the greatest refugee crisis in living memory, we’re delighted to…
Outside Westminster in the morning
Each week from 21 September until 18 December (International Migrants Day), Unlocking Detention has been shining a spotlight on a…
The City of Sanctuary movement and partners are holding a second Sanctuary in Parliament on 1st December 2015 in Committee Room 14 at…
The Second Reading of the Immigration Bill took place on 13 October. "Reasoned amendments" to the Bill, which call for…
Detention Action and Detention Forum, along with the Regional Refugee Forum and North East Refugee Forum, held an open meeting…
Women for Refugee Women have invited City of Sanctuary to speak on Saturday 6 June 2015 at the Shut Down…
*Update 12th March *
On 16 December, the Court of Appeal found that the detention of asylum seekers who are not at risk of…