Climate Justice and Refugees

February 14, 2025February 14, 2025

At the crossroads of climate justice and migrant rights

2025 February 14: Quakers: At the crossroads of climate justice and migrant rights

Ginny Baumann from the Quaker Asylum and Refugee Network explores how to build better links between climate and migrant justice campaigns.

Across our Yearly Meeting, the issues of climate justice and migrant rights are live concerns. Although they are often carried forward by different groups of Friends, they are somehow held invisibly together within our Quaker meetings. But in our wider communities, efforts to tackle these two issues aren’t often unified, and it means that climate campaigning can sometimes feed into unintended harm on migrant issues.

July 7, 2023July 7, 2023

Climate Justice and Refugees

7 July 2023: Climate Justice Means Migrant Justice

The Intersection of Injustice

The most marginalised communities are on the front line of the climate crisis and often face its worst impacts. Indigenous peoples, small-scale farmers, and communities living in poverty are disproportionately impacted by intersecting multiple global crises. These communities are forcibly displaced & then routinely denied the right to migrate safely. The climate justice movement must centre these communities and foreground their struggles.

July 7, 2023July 7, 2023

Rethinking Security

7 July 2023: Rethinking Security: Public Call for Evidence: What is the ASR? This page explains in more detail what the Alternative Security Review is and how it will be undertaken

The Alternative Security Review is a civil society-led review of the UK’s security strategy. By asking people in the UK what matters to them for their security, and by discussing potential solutions to human and ecological security with experts, a cooperative Human Security Strategy will be produced that will offer an alternative to the existential failures of the current ‘national security’ approach.

Rethinking Security have undertaken this project in response to the UK government’s latest security review, the Integrated Review of Security, Defence, Development and Foreign Policy, which set out government ‘security’ priorities for the next 10 years. This will see a big boost to military spending at the expense of development and diplomacy, and commits the UK to dangerous great power struggles in both Europe and on the other side of the world.