Around the Campaigns Friday 15th January 2009
John O | 15.01.2010 08:42 | Migration | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World
ord Carey's comments on immigration promote racism, bishop warns
A Church of England bishop has warned that the former Archbishop of Canterbury's call for new limits on immigration would "play into the hands of racists". The Bishop of Ripon and Leeds, the Right Rev John Packer, is the latest Anglican cleric to criticise Lord Carey of Clifton after he said in an article in The Times that he feared the present levels of immigration threatened "the very ethos or the DNA of our nation". Lord Carey is a member of the crossparty parliamentary group on balanced migration, which last week urged the political parties to make a commitment to keeping Britain's population below 70 million.
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A Church of England bishop has warned that the former Archbishop of Canterbury's call for new limits on immigration would "play into the hands of racists". The Bishop of Ripon and Leeds, the Right Rev John Packer, is the latest Anglican cleric to criticise Lord Carey of Clifton after he said in an article in The Times that he feared the present levels of immigration threatened "the very ethos or the DNA of our nation". Lord Carey is a member of the crossparty parliamentary group on balanced migration, which last week urged the political parties to make a commitment to keeping Britain's population below 70 million.
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Joseph Kakembo is Here to Stay
I can’t thank NCADC/Supporters enough for the tremendous solidarity I received in my long term quest for freedom. I was overwhelmed by the letters, petitions, prayers and messages of support I received in response to the launch of my campaign back in 2007.
People from all over the country offered their encouragement and advice.
As a result I was granted indefinite leave to remain in June 2009.
I am unreservedly thankful to NCADC/Supporters for my campaign, and grateful for the moral and practical support from all my friends and supporters.
Joseph Kakembo
joseph_k82@hotmail.com
Joseph Kakembo Belongs on Teesside!
http://tinyurl.com/Joseph-Kakembo
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Asylum: Mothers' & Children's Right to Family Reunion
To: UK Government
• Many people seeking asylum in the UK are mothers fleeing war, persecution, rape and other torture.
• To protect themselves and their children, mothers are often forced to leave their children behind –usually they don’t know where they are going or how they will survive.
• Mothers may lose contact with children back home or hear of them unprotected and suffering, and can do little to prevent it.
• It can take many years for an asylum claim to be settled; meanwhile: children suffer the torture of being deprived of their mother’s love and care, left destitute, at risk of sexual and other violence; mothers are treated as single people and the pain of separation and of trying to be a carer long distance is invisible and unrecognised.
• When mothers win the right to stay, most are not automatically granted the right of family reunion. If children turn 18 while their mother’s application is being considered they lose the right to join their mother.
* We are a mothers’ campaign, so we speak particularly of mothers, the primary carers in every society, but we know that the problems and heartbreak we describe are often true of fathers, grandparents & other carers.
We demand that:
1. Everyone who wins the right to stay in the UK, no matter under which law or convention, must have the unconditional right to family reunion.
2. Children should have the right to join their mother or father even if they turned 18 before their parents’ asylum claim was settled.
Sincerely,
The Undersigned
Go here to add your signature:
http://www.petitiononline.com/MumsKids/
The Asylum: Mothers' & Children's Right to Family Reunion Petition to UK Government was created by Mothers’ Campaign of the All African Women’s Group in collaboration with Legal Action for Women and written by Jeto Flaviah
http://womensgrid.freecharity.org.uk/?p=4328
http://www.allwomencount.net/EWC%20Immigrant/all_african_women.htm
http://www.allwomencount.net/EWC%20LAW/womenagainstlaw.htm
End of Bulletin:
Source for this Message:
Joseph Kakembo Campaign
The Times
I can’t thank NCADC/Supporters enough for the tremendous solidarity I received in my long term quest for freedom. I was overwhelmed by the letters, petitions, prayers and messages of support I received in response to the launch of my campaign back in 2007.
People from all over the country offered their encouragement and advice.
As a result I was granted indefinite leave to remain in June 2009.
I am unreservedly thankful to NCADC/Supporters for my campaign, and grateful for the moral and practical support from all my friends and supporters.
Joseph Kakembo
joseph_k82@hotmail.com Joseph Kakembo Belongs on Teesside!
http://tinyurl.com/Joseph-Kakembo ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Asylum: Mothers' & Children's Right to Family Reunion
To: UK Government
• Many people seeking asylum in the UK are mothers fleeing war, persecution, rape and other torture.
• To protect themselves and their children, mothers are often forced to leave their children behind –usually they don’t know where they are going or how they will survive.
• Mothers may lose contact with children back home or hear of them unprotected and suffering, and can do little to prevent it.
• It can take many years for an asylum claim to be settled; meanwhile: children suffer the torture of being deprived of their mother’s love and care, left destitute, at risk of sexual and other violence; mothers are treated as single people and the pain of separation and of trying to be a carer long distance is invisible and unrecognised.
• When mothers win the right to stay, most are not automatically granted the right of family reunion. If children turn 18 while their mother’s application is being considered they lose the right to join their mother.
* We are a mothers’ campaign, so we speak particularly of mothers, the primary carers in every society, but we know that the problems and heartbreak we describe are often true of fathers, grandparents & other carers.
We demand that:
1. Everyone who wins the right to stay in the UK, no matter under which law or convention, must have the unconditional right to family reunion.
2. Children should have the right to join their mother or father even if they turned 18 before their parents’ asylum claim was settled.
Sincerely,
The Undersigned
Go here to add your signature:
http://www.petitiononline.com/MumsKids/ The Asylum: Mothers' & Children's Right to Family Reunion Petition to UK Government was created by Mothers’ Campaign of the All African Women’s Group in collaboration with Legal Action for Women and written by Jeto Flaviah
http://womensgrid.freecharity.org.uk/?p=4328 http://www.allwomencount.net/EWC%20Immigrant/all_african_women.htm http://www.allwomencount.net/EWC%20LAW/womenagainstlaw.htm End of Bulletin:
Source for this Message:
Joseph Kakembo Campaign
The Times
John O
e-mail:
JohnO@ncadc.org.uk
Homepage:
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