Featured #1
Simple Acts campaign
The Simple Acts campaign is about inspiring individuals to use small, everyday actions to change perceptions of refugees. It consists of 20 actions that can be done by anyone and that encourage us to learn and do more with refugees. With every person who joins the campaign and... [Read more...]
Featured #2
Refugee Week 2009
Different pasts, shared future Refugee Week is a UK wide programme of events which celebrate the contribution of refugees to the UK. Refugee Week 2009 will take place from 15 - 21 June. During Refugee Week hundreds of events exploring refugee experiences take place across the... [Read more...]
Featured #3
Conference:No place like home
By Elisha Shamba An innovative conference “Leicester: No Place Like Home’ will be held on April 28, 2009 at the University of Leicester, Henry Wellcome Building from 10:30am to 3:30pm. The conference, the first of its kind in the city, is organised and co-hosted by Hatnews... [Read more...]
Featured #4
Free publicity for your group
Infolinx is database of community groups, clubs and societies in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. It’s free to register and free to use. Register YOUR group online by visiting www.infolinx.org or via the link on the Leicester Libraries’ web-site: www.leicester.gov.uk/libraries Alternatively,... [Read more...]
Featured #5
An invitation for contributions
By Elisha Shamba Our inner strengths, experiences, and truths cannot be lost, destroyed, or taken away. Every person has an inborn worth and can contribute to the human community. [Read more...] Read More →
Featured #6
Youth : Heroes of a new Zimbabwe
A.D.Mwanza - If other youths fought for the liberation of Zimbabwe why can’t we fight for our future, a new Zimbabwe? Let us use our ‘guns’ which are our voices! [Read more...] Read More →
Featured News
Music’s key to a new voice and a new life
Amadou and Mariam (front row, right) with members of the Beating Wing Orchestra in Manchester. Photograph: Shaw & Shaw Malian world music stars Amadou and Mariam, wrapped up against the chilly Manchester morning, sit like islands of calm as African and Latin American rhythms from the nine musicians explode around them. Suddenly, the crystal-edged voice of a Chinese opera... [Read more...]
Featured Media
UN body calls for balanced reporting on refugees
By Carol Coulter REPORTING ON asylum issues can have a major impact on the integration of refugees, on public opinion and on the development of policy, according to a United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) representative. Manuel Jordao was speaking on Friday 19, June 2009 at the launch of National Union of Journalists (NUJ) guidelines on reporting on refugees,... [Read more...]
Featured Health
Comparison of self-reported health &healthcare utilisation between asylum seekers and refugees: an observational study
7thspace.com - Adult refugees and asylum seekers living in Western countries experience a high prevalence of mental health problems, especially post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression and anxiety. This study compares and contrasts the prevalence of health problems, and potential risk factors as well as the utilization of health services by asylum seekers and refugees... [Read more...]
Featured Education
New Booklet: “The Very First Day”
A new booklet “The Very First Day” has been produced by the Refugee Archive at the University of East London produced in collaboration with grade 7 students from Graveney School/London. It tells the story of two Ugandan refugees on their first day in an UK school as imagined by the group of students after interaction with young refugees and asylum seekers. The... [Read more...]
Featured Events
Leicester City of Sanctuary AGM
Leicester City of Sanctuary invites you to celebrate the first full year of their growth and development, talking and listening, meetings and events, projects and paperwork! The Annual General Meeting will be held at Friends Meeting House, 16 Queens Road, Leicester, LE2 1WP on the 07th of July 2009. This year we are pleased to have as our Guest Speaker Dr. Les Ashton from... [Read more...]
Featured Opinions
The UN in Calais:Can it resolve the refugee problem?
Author: By Robert Verkaik Why are we asking this now? The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is formally establishing a full-time presence in the French port. The agency’s staff will help migrants, refugees and asylum-seekers negotiate the French and British immigration systems. But the focus will be on assisting those who want to request... [Read more...]
Featured Resources
The Women’s Charter – a year on
Source: womensgrid.freecharity.org.uk A year ago Asylum Aid unofficially launched the Charter of rights of women seeking asylum. The Charter was developed by a number of specialist organisations and members of the refugee, women and human rights sectors. It is a framework of principles and suggestions for the UK Border Agency in their treatment of women asylum seekers, the... [Read more...]
Featured Zimbabwe
Blood diamonds team wraps up second Zim inspection
An team of inspectors from an anti-blood diamonds body was wrapping up a visit to Zimbabwe on Friday, where they have been investigating allegations of gross rights abuses in diamond mining. The United Nations-founded Kimberley Process is a body that monitors international trade in diamonds with a view to barring so-called conflict or blood diamonds — gems that are used... [Read more...]
Featured Somalia
SOMALIA: Conflict timeline from 2000
(IRIN) - Somalia has had no functioning government since January 1991, when former President Siad Barre was ousted. Since that time, fighting between Somali warlords, government forces and various alliances of Islamist insurgents has resulted in the deaths of hundreds of Somalis and the displacement of hundreds of thousands. One of the boldest attempts to turn a new page in... [Read more...]
Featured DR Congo
Violence forcing North Kivu civilians out of homes
(IRIN) - Continuing clashes between armed groups in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have forced civilians to abandon their homes in North Kivu and affected aid operations, a UN official said. “These incidents are causing a significant movement of IDPs [internally displaced people] from the area adjacent to Nyabiondo Masisi,” Lt-Col Jean-Paul Dietrich,... [Read more...]
