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National Day of Solidarity 2025

We are keen to promote the National Day of Solidarity to End Immigration Detention on Saturday, 18 October 2025 at Derwentside (Hassockfield) detention centre organised by our friends at Right to Remain and No To Hassockfield. This is [...]

2025-08-20T13:19:20+00:00August 20th, 2025|

Accessing legal advice in detention

We are keen to highlight the new report from the Jesuit Refugee Service on Accessing legal advice in detention: becoming an impossibility. The report highlights that it is extraordinarily difficult to access legal advice in immigration detention, with [...]

2025-07-28T09:50:05+00:00July 28th, 2025|

This is such a powerful story – do spread the word!

Our friends at Migrant Voice have recently produced a new newspaper in both hard copy and online formats, and we were delighted to see that they featured the powerful story of Stella on her experience in immigration detention. [...]

2025-05-08T08:35:37+00:00May 8th, 2025|

A decade of harm

We are keen to promote the new report by Women for Refugee Women on immigration detention, A Decade of Harm, has officially launched today! The research was designed and carried out by a team of 7 women who [...]

2025-04-02T09:39:55+00:00April 2nd, 2025|

Removed animation: take action now!

We don't often have our breath taking away quite so strongly as after we watched the recent video produced by our friends at AVID. Their new animated video exposes what really happens in UK immigration detention. It is [...]

2025-03-21T09:53:41+00:00March 21st, 2025|

UNHCR on new Border Security Bill

As the new Border Security Bill works its way through the House of Commons, we were keen to see the latest UNHCR perspective on the Bill  In particular we were struck by this statement: UNHCR is concerned that [...]

2025-03-19T10:30:49+00:00March 19th, 2025|

APPG on Immigration Detention

We are delighted that recently Parliamentarians held a meeting to re-establish the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Immigration Detention. Following a vote by the membership, Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP (Labour) was elected as the APPG’s new Chair, and Rt [...]

2025-02-12T09:43:06+00:00February 12th, 2025|

New briefing on immigration detention in the UK

We are keen to promote this new briefing from the Migration Observatory, which examines immigration detention in the UK. It discusses who is detained, for how long, with what effects, and the financial costs of operating the system. [...]

2025-01-23T11:56:18+00:00January 23rd, 2025|

Mama Stella’s story

At our last members meeting we heard about the work of our media group at our meeting. Our media group contains people with lived experience of immigration detention in the UK and who are powerful communicators. We are [...]

2025-01-07T09:25:20+00:00January 7th, 2025|

Keep Campsfield Closed Demo

Our friends at the Keep Campsfield Closed Campaign have arranged the following demonstration: KEEP CAMPSFIELD CLOSED! 12 NOON 30 NOVEMBER 2024 CAMPSFIELD GATES LANGFORD LANE KIDLINGTON OX5 1RE  BUS INFORMATION: S7 FROM MAGDALEN STREET (STOP C3) OXFORD People [...]

2024-11-13T15:20:19+00:00November 13th, 2024|
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