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12 JUNE 2021
This week in RAPAR: what we've been up to, Cats on the Run, and Building networks of resilience By Billy Gardner We have not brought you a RAPAR update for a little while now, but we continue to be very busy doing what RAPAR does best: challenging the State and the State’s institutions on human rights violations and humanity-denying actions, and campaigning for human rights for all. Read more >>> 18 DECEMBER 2020 The State we’re in, it’s a Syn: that’s why we need Status Now 4 All By Rhetta Moran It’s Friday 13th March 2020. I watch the woman, around 60 like me, reach for a clear plastic bag of five tomatoes. Just moments before, my bare right hand placed it on the conveyor belt and now, her bare left hand lifts it towards the scales at her workstation. Tapping in her record of its value, she picks the bag up again, bare right hand this time, and sets it down before me. >>> Read More 22 NOVEMBER 2020 SERCO attempting to evict Refugee People during Lockdown “… evicting people onto the street does nothing, apart from create more illnesses, more miseries and more risks of death. It has to stop.” On 19th November, two members of the human rights organisation RAPAR, both of whom live in the city of Manchester, both of whom fled from persecution in their home countries and both of whom have been awarded Refugee Status, received letters from SERCO telling them that they are to be evicted from their homes on 29th November and 17th December respectively. Read More >>> Status Now 4 All - RAPAR joins national day of action 24 SEPTEMBER 2020 
RAPAR members joined the 'Status Now 4 All' campaign in a national day of action in solidarity with Regularise on 19th September.
Read More >>> WORLD REPORTS - Sierra Leone COVID-19 Woes 17 AUGUST 2020 
By Alimamy Bangura
After strenuously keeping the Corona virus disease at bay for months Sierra Leone finally succumbed to the pandemic on 31 March, 2020 when a male passenger from Paris, France tested positive. Read More >>> Status Now Network - join the Virtual Launch 4 July 2020 
The Status Now Network invites you to an online event on Saturday the 11th of July 2020, 4pm to 6pm, to launch the national Status Now Network and the #statusnow4all campaign.
Read More >>> If Black Lives Matter We Must Have Status Now 8 JUNE 2020 
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RAPAR stands in solidarity with yesterday's action in Bristol when young people dismantled Edward Coulston's statue. Read More >>> |
Upcoming Events More information here >>> 'Black Lives Matter' statement from RAPAR
3 JUNE 2020 
"Recent events around the world and here in the UK have placed systemic and institutional injustice in plain sight..."
Read More >>> Destitute RAPAR member addresses Prime Minister of UK 2 JUNE 2020 
On 19th March we reported here about what was happening to RAPAR member Jenny da Costa.
Jenny is still waiting for the Home Office to progress his case and, as a consequence, is still destitute and now staying with friends in Sheffield. Read More >>> “There is no gene for being an ethnic minority” 18 MAY 2020
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