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Changes to immigration rules are longer than War and Peace
19 SEPTEMBER 2018
Home Office officials have made more than 5,700 changes to the immigration rules since 2010, making the visa system nearly impossible to navigate.
One person whose case has been particularly badly affected by these constant changes is RAPAR Vice-Chair Nestor Sylla who, according to his lawyer, has been left in “a whirlpool of Home Office bureaucracy,” Read the report from The Guardian here>>> Nestor Safely Out of Dallas Court
16 AUGUST 2018
Nestor came safely out of Dallas Court Home Office Reporting Centre today. He has to report again next month.
Many thanks to Manchester Quakers, Manchester City of Sanctuary and other friends and supporters who came to Dallas Court to stand shoulder to shoulder with Nestor. Read More >>> LGBTIQ refugee conference calls for end to sexual abuse, sexual exploitation of LGBTIQ refugees and high standard of proof sexuality policy
12 AUGUST 2018
Rhetta Moran from RAPAR attended the African Rainbow Family's annual conference in Manchester on August 11th.
Read their press release calling for an end to sexual exploitation of LGBTIQ refugees and an end to the Home Office's policy of demanding a high standard of proof of sexuality. Read More >>> Refugee Caught Up In "Whirlpool" of Home Office Bureaucracy At Risk of Removal From the UK
18 JULY 2018
A Guinean man who has made his home in Manchester for the last 12 years has been caught up in a Home Office "whirlpool" of bureaucracy.
Nestor Sylla, who is vice-chair of RAPAR and is involved with other charitable organisations in the city, came to Europe at the age of 26 looking for his mother after the death of his father and the murder of his sister in Guinea. Read More >>> 19 JULY 2018
VERY URGENT
CALL TO SOLIDARITY VIGIL between 9 and 10am tomorrow morning, 19th July 2018 Outside Dallas Court SALFORD, M50 2GF WATCH: RAPAR's Rhetta Moran speaking at the anti Trump rally in Manchester
14 JULY 2018
Yesterday, demonstrations were held in cities up and down the country in protest against Donald Trump's visit to the UK.
At the Manchester rally, RAPAR's Rhetta Moran spoke out against Trump and his policies. (Video by Mark Krantz for Stand Up To Racism) Read more >>> |
Upcoming Events Annual General Meeting
TUESDAY 30 OCTOBER 2018
FROM 6:30pm Friends Meeting House
6 Mount Street Manchester M2 5NS Everyone is very welcome.
There will be food after the meeting in the RAPAR office. We look forward to seeing you there. Disability Murals Remembers Kamil Ahmad
3 JULY 2018
Human rights campaigners in Bristol pay tribute to Kamil Ahmad who was brutally murdered after suffering racist abuse.
Ahmad was one of the participants of the Disability Mural that brought to light the struggles faced by disabled asylum seekers, amongst them, RAPAR members Manjeet Kaur and Mary Adenugba. Read More >>> Obituary: RAPAR Matron Anna Maria Miwanda Bagenda (1951 - 2018)
24 JUNE 2018
Anna Maria Miwanda Bagenda was a mighty woman.
The first time she spoke for RAPAR it was at a Home Office organised conference about Refugees held at the newly completed Radisson Hotel at Manchester Airport in 2002. The stage was raised and Home Office officials were looking down upon us when Miwanda began to walk towards them from the back of the hall. She raised her hands as she approached, speaking out in a clear and utterly uncompromising tone: “We are here because you were there.” Read More >>> I am Farheen Raja, the Mancunian
23 JUNE 2018
RAPAR member Farheen Raja addresses the Stand Up to Racism conference in Whalley Range, Manchester where she talks about her experience in the asylum system, denounces Trump's zero-tolerance immigration policies.
Read More >>> Patients Deserve the Chance to Be Treated - Doctors Should Be Able to Treat Them!
14 MARCH 2018
English language tests preventing medical professionals from practising in the UK as NHS struggles to survive
Launch of research at 12pm on Wednesday 16th May at Rusholme Health Centre, Walmer Street, Manchester, M14 5NP Read More >>> |
