destitution

LOVE IS A HUMAN RIGHT

Dean Omori — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 10:36:44 +0100

MUGABE MUST GO!

PamD Zimgirl — Tue, 31 May 2011 01:22:28 +0100

Africans stranded on Italian island

benc — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 16:08:02 +0100

The negligence of the Italian authorities has turned the island of Lampedusa into the site of a humanitarian crisis.

Source: Africans stranded on Italian island

LOVE IS A HUMAN RIGHT

Dean Omori — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 17:54:14 +0000

Sleepout night in Cardiff

vero — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 15:18:49 +0000

Sleepout nights 2011

vero — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 10:51:14 +0000

Let them work: campaigners call for the right to work for asylum seekers — MULE

vero — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 10:32:27 +0000

Denied the right to work since 2002, destitution has soared among asylum seekers who seek sanctuary in the UK. Lawrence Carter speaks to one forced migrant about his experiences and takes a look at a campaign fighting to make a change.

Source: Let them work: campaigners call for the right to work for asylum seekers — MULE

Sleepout 2011

vero — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 10:15:15 +0000

Sleep out night - London 24 Feb

vero — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 12:42:23 +0000

Guardian.co.uk

Jo — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 19:27:09 +0100

Security guards accused over death of man being deported to Angola

Exclusive: Witnesses on BA flight say Jimmy Mubenga was being heavily restrained by guards from private security firm G4S

Source: Guardian.co.uk

Serbia: Roma children and pregnant women left homeless after forcible eviction in Belgrade

Vashka — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 12:56:00 +0100

Amnesty International has urged the Belgrade authorities to stop forced evictions after Roma families, including 17 children and one pregnant woman, were evicted from their homes in the city.

The 36 people were forcibly evicted from their houses at 15 Vojvodjanska Street, where most of them had been living since 2003 after previously being forcibly evicted from another site in Belgrade. Amnesty International learnt that the forced eviction was carried out in order to make way for the building of a new road and an apartment building.

Source: Serbia: Roma children and pregnant women left homeless after forcible eviction in Belgrade

Roma forcibly returned to kosovo from EU counties to face discrimination says new Amnesty report

Vashka — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 13:53:10 +0100

Posted: 28 September 2010

European Union (EU) countries should end the forcible return of Roma and other minorities to Kosovo, Amnesty International said in a report published today (28 September).

“No welcome anywhere: Stop the forcible return of Roma to Kosovo”, details how Roma and members of other minority communities, including children, are forcibly returned to Kosovo, often in the early hours of the morning with nothing but the clothes they are wearing, to face the possibility of continuing discrimination and violence.

Sian Jones, Amnesty International’s expert on Kosovo, said:

Source: Roma forcibly returned to kosovo from EU counties to face discrimination says new Amnesty report

Shoreditch church

protectthehumanatshoreditchchurch2010 — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 08:09:31 +0100

War Against Women (Congo DR)

unconformeart — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 16:00:32 +0100

CENSORSHIP BURNS THE BOOKS NOBODY READ

Dean Omori — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 19:56:28 +0100

EXPLAIN DEATH TO CHILDREN

Dean Omori — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 10:17:29 +0100

THE SOUND OF THE EARTH SPINNING

Dean Omori — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 16:12:40 +0100

The asylum seekers who survive on £10 a week | UK news | The Guardian

vero — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 17:18:47 +0100

They can't work, they can't claim benefits, they have nowhere to live. And their only means of survival is one £10 food voucher a week. Four failed asylum seekers tell their desperate stories

Source: The asylum seekers who survive on £10 a week | UK news | The Guardian

THE SOUND OF THE EARTH SPINNING

Dean Omori — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 08:42:42 +0100

THE SOUND OF THE EARTH SPINNING

Dean Omori — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 20:37:44 +0100

Economic cleansing' in BBC's World Cup backyard

Niluccio — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 17:49:23 +0000

On the one hand, a glass-sided television studio with panoramic views of Table Mountain and Cape Town's spectacular new 68,000-seater football stadium is installed by the BBC for the forthcoming World Cup. On the other, destitute locals are evicted from their only home, barely 100m away. Welcome to the two faces of modern South Africa.

Source: Economic cleansing' in BBC's World Cup backyard

Please don’t push asylum seekers into deeper poverty

Ethel Dube — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:33:31 +0000

"Most asylum seekers now have to survive on just £5 a day while waiting for a decision to be made on their asylum claim and they aren’t allowed to work to support themselves. The Government is now considering what level of support to give asylum seekers in the next financial year".

Source: Please don’t push asylum seekers into deeper poverty

Zimbabwe: Human Rights Watch Report 2010

Ethel Dube — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 09:46:16 +0000

"A power-sharing government formed in February 2009, with Robert Mugabe continuing as president and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai installed as prime minister, has failed to end rights abuses or to institute fundamental reforms. It has also made no attempt to repeal or substantially amend repressive legislation such as the Public Order and Security Act (POSA) and the Access to Information
and Protection of Privacy Act (AIPPA), which continue to be used by Mugabe’s Zimbabwe African National Union—Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) to harass political opponents and rights activists".

Source: Zimbabwe: Human Rights Watch Report 2010

Zimbabwe: "Operation Murambatsvina"

Ethel Dube — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 19:58:43 +0000

Zimbabwe Vigil Coalition

Ethel Dube — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 10:29:01 +0000

"Outside the Zimbabwe Embassy, 429 Strand, London Every Saturday from 14.00 - 18.00 since October 2002Zimbabwe Vigil Mission Statement: The Vigil, outside the Zimbabwe Embassy, London, will take place every Saturday from 14.00 to 18.00 to protest against gross violations of human rights by the current regime in Zimbabwe. The Vigil will continue until internationally - monitored, free and fair elections are held in Zimbabwe".

Source: Zimbabwe Vigil Coalition

New Amnest Report Reveals Roma family forced to live in metal cabins behind sewage works

Vashka — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 10:23:04 +0000

“We are gypsies and that is why they don’t listen to us” - Monika, May 2009

More than 100 Roma people – including families with children – are living in metal cabins next to a sewage works in Romania after they were forcibly evicted from their homes, according to a new Amnesty report launching today.

The report, Treated like waste: Roma homes destroyed and health at risk in Romania, tells how the Roma people were forcibly evicted by municipal authorities from a building in the centre of Miercurea Ciuc – the capital city of Harghita County in central Romania. Most were resettled by the authorities in metal cabins on the outskirts of the town, behind a sewage plant

Source: New Amnest Report Reveals Roma family forced to live in metal cabins behind sewage works

US doctors beg their government to admit critically injured children from Haiti

Niluccio — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 16:42:11 +0000

American doctors are begging their Government to accept critically injured Haitian children after one baby girl was airlifted to hospital in Florida.

Meanwhile, in an exercise dubbed Operation Pierre Pan, the Catholic Church in Miami is drawing up plans to rescue thousands of Haitian orphans, mirroring the Operation Pedro Pan airlift of 1960 in which 14,000 Cuban children were taken to the city.

Source: US doctors beg their government to admit critically injured children from Haiti

MONEY

Dean Omori — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 08:45:39 +0000

Song for the dead, song for the living

Riona Hartman — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:51:15 +0000

Born Free

ciara leeming — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:41:33 +0000