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Continuing Conflicts that Create Refugees - March 2009

Nine conflict situations around the world deteriorated and two improved in March 2009, according to the new issue of the International Crisis Group’s monthly bulletin CrisisWatch

Stop the Forcible Removal of Jeevitha and Neeraja

Jeevitha and Neeraja, aged 15 and 14 respectively and their mother Neeraja Joseph arrived in the UK in July 2008. The family have fled from Sri Lanka having been caught up in the civil war that has beset the country for over 20 years and that has escalated in the last eighteen months. The conflict has been at its fiercest in the north of Sri Lanka which is where the Joseph family are from.

Stop Forced closure of University of East London (UEL)

Dear friends
the University of East London (UEL) was supposed to host an alternative summit on April 1st in the context of the upcoming G20 meeting on April 2nd. Following the media and police hype about possible disruptions to the city, the University withdrew its support for the alternative summit.

Refugees Rights: Save ** * ****

31-03-2009 08:18 | Gender | Migration | World

A BRITISH COURT JUDGE HAS FORBIDDEN THE CIRCULATION OF HIS NAME, TO AVOID FURTHER PUBLICITY ON THE CASE. “EVERYONE GROUP’ PROTESTS: “ONLY TOTALITARIAN REGIMES CANCEL OUT THE IDENTITIES OF PERSECUTED PEOPLE. TO ACT AGAINST ABUSE, IT IS ESSENTIAL THAT INTERNATIONAL OPINION KNOWS THE REFUGEES’ NAMES”

Save ** * ****, a Ugandan gay persecuted

31-03-2009 08:08 | Migration | Repression | Sheffield | World

REFUGEES/UNITED KINGDOM: EUROPE MUST SAVE **** ***** ******, A ******* GAY MAN PERSECUTED.
A BRITISH COURT JUDGE HAS FORBIDDEN THE CIRCULATION OF HIS NAME, TO AVOID FURTHER PUBLICITY ON THE CASE. “EVERYONE GROUP’ PROTESTS: “ONLY TOTALITARIAN REGIMES CANCEL OUT THE IDENTITIES OF PERSECUTED PEOPLE. TO ACT AGAINST ABUSE, IT IS ESSENTIAL THAT INTERNATIONAL OPINION KNOWS THE REFUGEES’ NAMES”

NCADC News Service Tuesday 31st March 2009

[Failed asylum seekers are not entitled to free treatment - but hospitals can make up their own minds on whether to treat them if they have no money]

Break the siege! No Borders national day of action for Gaza

30-03-2009 12:35 | Anti-militarism | Migration | Palestine | World

On the 5th February, Israel and Egypt shut all borders with Gaza. Egypt has said it will close the Rafah border indefinitely as Gaza is an 'occupied territory'. No Borders UK calls for an immediate opening of Israeli and Egyptian borders with Gaza.

No Borders calls for a day of action on 27th April. Target those profiting from the siege (BAE, G4S, Caterpillar, EDO, Raytheon etc.).

Keep Alpha Mbodi and his family safe in Sheffield

Alpha Mbodi and his family are from eastern Congo. He fled DR Congo with his two sons in 2005, fearing the war there would claim the lives of his family. Unfortunately the family were unable to escape together and he was forced to leave his wife and young daughter behind. Alpha and his sons were accommodated in Sheffield by NASS shortly after their arrival in the UK.

Around the Campaigns Wednesday 25th March 2009

Sandrine Mbuyi Ntambwe, Still here, Still fighting

"Sandrine was already on the plane; a late successful injunction got her off the flight and returned to Yarl's Wood. She is not to be removed from the jurisdiction of the UK pending the oral hearing of her application for permission for judicial review refused on papers on 13th March 2009.

Main countries of destination for asylum seekers in 2008

United States (49,000), Canada (36,900), France (35,200), Italy (31,200) and the United Kingdom (30,500)

Call for Summer of Resistance‭ ‬2009‭

Collapse the security architectures‭!
Against NATO, G20, G8, Frontex and the “Stockholm Programme”!

Demonstration @ Yarl's Wood Saturday March 21st 2009

Thousands of person seeking/refused asylum/overstayers/persons 'Sans Papiers' are currently being kept in immigration prisons (AKA Immigration Removal Centres) throughout the UK. They haven't committed a crime, but they can be imprisoned indefinitely. Many of the people detained have experienced torture, and their trauma is exacerbated by being detained. Seven of the IRCs are operated for profit by private companies.

36 people have been in immigration detention for more than two years, 72 more than 18 months, 128 more than one year.

Lampedusa: a deceiving welcome for Jacques Barrot

17-03-2009 19:44 | Anti-racism | Migration | World

Lampedusa: Jacques Barrot the European Commissioner takes part in a sham inspection and exonerates the Italian Government for its xenophobic policies.

Tinsley House IRC blockaded by protesters 07:00 today

Anti-deportation campaigners are risking arrest to stop the collective expulsion of approximately 50 Iraqi refugees from the UK. Campaigners have locked themselves to the gate of Tinsley House detention centre at Gatwick airport, where some of the deportees are being held, in an attempt to prevent the forcible deportation.

Stop 'Double Punishment' of Foreign nationals

There are approximately 12,000 foreign nationals in the UK prison system

It is a fundamental principle of UK law that a person cannot be punished twice for the same offence. If you have committed an offence that society deems a crime and sentenced to a term of imprisonment by a magistrate, judge or judge and jury, once you have completed your sentence, you are released from prison as it is deemed you have repaid your debt to society and that is the end of the matter - and for the great majority of people in the UK, it is: you can only get punished once.

Right to Stay Now! A Documentary

15-03-2009 16:14 | Anti-racism | Migration | Repression | World

On 19 December 2008, approximately 150 undocumented migrants and solidarity activists occupied the Prediger Church in Zurich (Switzerland) for more than two weeks. The squatters demanded a just implementation of the hardship provision, the abolition of the prohibition of work and the legalization of the status of all undocumented migrants. Now, a 30-minute documentary about the action was published.

Iraqi Kurds demonstrate against Kurdish Government!

The Kurdish Regional Government has an agreement with the UK (and other European) Government to receive the 100's of Kurdish asylum seekers that the UK forcibly deports.
On Sunday 15th March the families of some of those people forcibly deported will demonstrate in Kurdistan to end this agreement.

NCADC News Service Friday 13th March 2009

New Statesman: Should there be an amnesty for illegal immigrants?

Online Poll @ 09:00 Friday 13th March 2009

* 33 % are saying yes

* 67 % are saying no

Cast your vote

http://newstatesman.com/community

Glasgow: Come and protest outside the Home Office

Wednesday 11th March 12:00 pm
UKBA Public Enquiry Office
Festival Court
200 Brand Street
Glasgow
G51 1DH

Around the Campaigns Tuesday 10th March 2009

*************** is back in the UK and back in his community
The Home Secretary has now brought *************** a gay person seeking asylum in the UK, back to the UK from Uganda where he was unlawfully deported last year. Jacqui Smith was ordered to do this by a High Court judge on 19th February. He arrived back in the UK last Friday and was detained in Tinsley House IRC before being released yesterday afternoon.
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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/deporting-gay-asylumseeker-was-unlawful-1627052.html)

World Migration Newswire Archive

Continuing Conflicts that Create Refugees - March 2009

Stop the Forcible Removal of Jeevitha and Neeraja

Stop Forced closure of University of East London (UEL)

Refugees Rights: Save ** * ****

Save ** * ****, a Ugandan gay persecuted

NCADC News Service Tuesday 31st March 2009

Break the siege! No Borders national day of action for Gaza

Keep Alpha Mbodi and his family safe in Sheffield

Around the Campaigns Wednesday 25th March 2009

Main countries of destination for asylum seekers in 2008

Call for Summer of Resistance‭ ‬2009‭

Demonstration @ Yarl's Wood Saturday March 21st 2009

Lampedusa: a deceiving welcome for Jacques Barrot

Tinsley House IRC blockaded by protesters 07:00 today

Stop 'Double Punishment' of Foreign nationals

Right to Stay Now! A Documentary

Iraqi Kurds demonstrate against Kurdish Government!

NCADC News Service Friday 13th March 2009

Glasgow: Come and protest outside the Home Office

Around the Campaigns Tuesday 10th March 2009

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