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RAPAR Reveals Names Of Voluntary Returns Surgeries in the UK
8 NOVEMBER 2019
There are 21 voluntary returns surgeries in the community in the UK, according to information sent to a RAPAR volunteer by the Home Office following a Freedom of Information request.
It took 10 months for our volunteer to obtain the information from the Home Office. The Home Office turned down our volunteer's initial Freedom of Information request, he then asked for an internal review but they still refused to send him the information. Read More >>> Free workshop events (Huddersfield and Manchester): Space, place and ‘othering’: Deactivating the ‘hostile environment'
30 OCTOBER 2019
RAPAR will be taking part in two events on November 4th and 7th as part of the Economic and Social Research Council's Festival of Social Science
There are 450 events being held throughout the UK. The seminar and workshops that RAPAR members have worked on will take place in Huddersfield on Monday, November 4th, and at the Friends' Meeting House in Manchester on Thursday, November 7th. Both events will run from 13.30 to 17.00 Read More >>> Vigil In Hulme To Demand Action Over Racial Attacks
16 OCTOBER 2019
On National Hate Crime Awareness Week, communities come together to reject racially motivated violence and call on Greater Manchester Police to investigate the incident properly
The resident who came out of his home in Hulme to stop a young Asian man being violently attacked has welcomed a vigil being organised on Friday during National Hate Crime Awareness Week. Read More >>> Manchester Actor And Activist In Court For Campaigning Against Climate Change
8 SEPTEMBER 2019
RAPAR's Community Development Lead and actor Maddie Wakeling is in court tomorrow (Monday September 9th) for campaigning against climate change.
Maddie, 22, was one of 16 people arrested on charges of obstructing a main road into Bristol city centre on July 17th as part of an Extinction Rebellion protest to publicise the climate crisis. Read More >>> Frack Free Three Back In Court – Report by “River”
3 SEPTEMBER 2019
The Frack-Free Three - Katrina Lawrie, Christopher Wilson, and Lee Walsh, protestors from the Frack-Free Lancashire campaign - were back in court for sentencing on Tuesday 3rd September in a case centred around the right to protest.
All three had locked themselves together in July 2018 to delay access to the fracking site near Blackpool run by the company Cuadrilla. Ms Lawrie had also stepped out into the road to stop a lorry in August 2018 and the lorry allegedly had to swerve into the path of oncoming traffic. No-one was hurt in the incident. Read More >>> RAPAR Joins Northern Rebellion To Highlight The Growing Number Of Climate Refugees
30 AUGUST 2019
RAPAR members from Southern Cameroon, Zimbabwe, Democratc Republic of Congo and Sierra Leone are taking part in Extinction Rebellion's climate crisis events in Deansgate, Manchester, today and over the weekend.
The crisis is leading to a huge increase in the numbers of displaced people who have been forced to leave their homes and are now being termed "Climate Refugees". Read More >>> Casework Co-learning Ends With 'Moot Court'
9 July 2019
RAPAR's lead caseworker Dan Isaac has been running a series of casework co- learning sessions examining all aspects of the asylum and immigration system.
The popular sessions were attended by RAPAR members who have been working on their own asylum cases and by our volunteer casework team. Read More >>> Run For RAPAR
20 MAY 2019
Many thanks to RAPAR volunteer Jonny Benett who successfully ran a half marathon to raise money for RAPAR in the Great Manchester Run at the weekend.
Thank you to everyone who has donated so far. It is very much appreciated by Jonny and by everyone at RAPAR. Jonny has raised £340 so far but you can still donate here >>> Manchester DJ Owen Haisley's Supporters Call for his Immediate Release
22 FEBRUARY 2019
Indefinite detention of man from deportation flight to Jamaica must end
Manchester DJ Owen Haisley has been detained at Harmondsworth immigration removal centre for 28 days. It is nearly three weeks since his deportation to Jamaica was halted following the intervention of his MP and overwhelming public support – but he still remains at real risk of removal. Read More >>> Dr Rhetta Moran of RAPAR, interviewed in the Morning Star about the racist graffiti incident in Salford
19 February 2019
Phil Miller reports; Dr Rhetta Moran, chair of the trustees at Refugee and Asylum Seeker Participatory Action Research, said the “No Blacks” graffiti daubed on a family home in Salford earlier this month was “very disturbing.”
Read More >>> Solidarity with the RMT Union
10 JANUARY 2018
RAPAR will be supporting the RMT rail at Manchester Victoria for a protest on Saturday 12th January after one of their guards was racially abused.
Read More >>> On International Migrants Day RAPAR Stands With the Stansted 15
18 DECEMBER 2018
RAPAR member who was on the plane stopped by the Stansted protesters shocked by their conviction under anti terror laws
Rally at 5.30pm-6.30pm TUESDAY 18 DECEMBER 2018 St Peter's Square, Manchester RAPAR'S Annual General Meeting 2018
10 NOVEMBER 2018
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>>> |
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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 >>> 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 >>> 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 >>> |
