Here is an event that should be interesting! QARN is doing a workshop on advocacy.
Church of Sanctuary Conference 8 June 2024, Birmingham
Migration and Peace in Europe
Migration and Peace in Europe: Woodbrooke, Quaker Asylum and Refugee Network and Quaker Council for European Affairs working in partnership: This course runs 11 June – 2 July 2024 on Zoom
What are the links between migration and peace? This course, led by the Quaker Asylum Refugee Network and Saskia Basa, Migration and Peace Coordinator at the Quaker Council of European Affairs, will seek to answer this question.
The live Zoom sessions are every Tuesday at 18:30-20:00 (UK time)
The course is co-ordinated by Saskia Basa – QCEA, and Catherine Henderson – QARN
For more information and to book a place, please find more information here: https://www.woodbrooke.org.uk/courses/migration-and-peace-in-europe/
Rwanda: ‘notice of intent’
also in Sorani, Dari, Pashto, Arabic, Farsi, Amharic, Tigrinya, Albanian here:
file:///C:/Users/ACER/Downloads/Rwanda%20information%20leaflet%20for%20asylum%20seekers.pdf
Refugees, Migrants and Friends
On Saturday 22 June 2024 10am to 4pm: Join the Quaker Asylum Refugee Network (QARN) at Friends House in London for ‘Refugees, Migrants and Friends’.
The event will enable attendees to hear from people working to transform asylum and migration policies in the UK; listen to recommendations from people with lived experience of the asylum system; and share information on local practical solidarity actions.
The event takes place at Friends House, NW1 2BJ
Migrant Help strategy 2024 – 2029
From Migrant Help – it is useful to know what they consider to be their strategy, so that we can do what we can to help them stick to their plan
Migrant Help: We are pleased to present Migrant Help’s new organisational strategy for 2024 to 2029.
The 60th anniversary of the charity, that we marked in 2023, has provided the right pivotal moment to reflect on the past, the present and to plan for our future.
To develop this strategy we brought together staff, trustees and clients in multiple workshops over 12 months to set the new objectives, determine outcomes and specify the actions needed to achieve our aims.
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8 April 2024: Crisis Watch: Continuing Conflicts That Create Refugees – April 2024
Deteriorated Situations: Afghanistan / Pakistan / South China Sea / Venezuela / Haiti / Somalia / Bosnia And Herzegovina / Russia (Internal) / Israel/Palestine
Violence escalated in Haiti after the country’s two largest gang coalitions launched coordinated attacks across the capital Port-au-Prince to deter an international security mission from deploying. Gangs targeted critical sites, freed over 4,700 inmates and forced tens of thousands to flee.
Electoral authorities in Venezuela blocked the opposition coalition from registering their banned candidate María Corina Machado or her replacement, in an apparent bid to strengthen President Maduro’s hand in the lead-up to July elections.
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