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/
‘Safety of Rwanda’ Bill
Following the passing of the ‘safety of Rwanda’ Bill … and no ICIBI to oversee what is happening!
28 April 2024: Guardian: Home Office to detain asylum seekers across UK in shock Rwanda operation
Exclusive: Operation comes weeks earlier than expected and is thought to have been timed to coincide with local elections
The Home Office will launch a surprise operation to detain asylum seekers across the UK on Monday, weeks earlier than expected, in preparation for their deportation to Rwanda, the Guardian can reveal.
Officials plan to hold refugees who turn up for routine meetings at immigration service offices and will also pick people up nationwide in a major two-week exercise.
They will be immediately transferred to detention centres, which have already been prepared for the operation, and held to be put on flights to Rwanda, including the first one due to take off this summer. Others identified for these flights are already being held.
It is thought the move’s launch has been timed to coincide with Thursday’s local council elections in England, to boost Rishi Sunak’s claims he is cracking down on illegal migration.
Continue reading “‘Safety of Rwanda’ Bill”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
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.
Continue reading “Migrant Help strategy 2024 – 2029”QARN next meetings
QARN meetings: next planned meeting dates: on Zoom on Saturdays: July 6th 2024 to include the AGM which will be a blended meeting held face-to-face between 11am and 4pm at Bradford-on-Avon Meeting as well as on Zoom, and thereafter on Zoom on October 12th, and January 11th 2025.
We usually meet quarterly using Zoom and all Quakers are welcome. We plan to start at 10.30am to manage the technical aspects of a Zoom meeting, falling quiet at around 10.45am, and beginning business at 11am; and we aim to end around 12.30pm. The meeting link will be available to those who receive our emails, but for other people, please contact us via info@qarn.org.uk giving your name, and the Quaker Meeting to which you are attached. Thank you.
Continue reading “QARN next meetings”Continuing Conflicts That Create Refugees – April 2024
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.
Continue reading “Continuing Conflicts That Create Refugees – April 2024”