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RAPAR and 'Status Now' at the Climate Justice Rally in Manchester - In Pictures

​6 NOVEMBER 2021
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Today RAPAR and Status Now Network took part in a global action in central Manchester.

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There’s No Turning Back

9 SEPTEMBER 2021

“When people are driven from their homes in the most desperate of circumstances, we must always stand with them and provide sanctuary.” - 
Afzal Khan, MP for Manchester Gorton, Shadow Deputy Leader of the House of Commons

“The threat to force boats in the English Channel to turn back puts already vulnerable people at even greater risk… The whole idea smacks of political posturing.” - Tony Lloyd, MP for Rochdale and one of the first Parliamentarians amplifying the calls for #StatusNow4All
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Taking to the football pitch to stand up for human rights

​19 AUGUST 2021
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RAPAR and Football For Humanity have teamed up with other partners to start a football programme which provides a safe place to play for refugees and people seeking asylum. 

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This week in RAPAR: what we've been up to, Cats on the Run, and Building networks of resilience

​12 JUNE 2021

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.

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The State we’re in, it’s a Syn: that’s why we need Status Now 4 All 

18 DECEMBER 2020

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.  

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SERCO attempting to evict Refugee People during Lockdown 

​22 NOVEMBER 2020

“… 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.

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Status Now 4 All - RAPAR joins national day of action

24 SEPTEMBER 2020
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RAPAR members joined the 'Status Now 4 All' campaign in a national day of action in solidarity with Regularise on 19th September.

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WORLD REPORTS - Sierra Leone COVID-19 Woes 


17 AUGUST 2020
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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.

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Status Now Network - join the Virtual Launch
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​4 July 2020
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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.

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If Black Lives Matter We Must Have Status Now  

​8 JUNE 2020
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#healthandsafetyforall

RAPAR stands in solidarity with yesterday's action in Bristol when young people dismantled Edward Coulston's statue. 

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'Black Lives Matter' statement from RAPAR

3 JUNE 2020
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"Recent events around the world and here in the UK have placed systemic and institutional injustice in plain sight..."

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​Destitute RAPAR member addresses Prime Minister of UK

​2 JUNE 2020
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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.

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​“There is no gene for being an ethnic minority”

​18 MAY 2020

  • Professor Aneez Esmail on why people of BAME heritage are being differentially impacted
  • ​​A current and candid workplace description following a RAPAR member's discussion with a BAME care home worker in Greater Manchester
  • Another Trade Union leader, Manuel Cortes of TSSA, signs our Open Letter: "No one who lives within our shores should be left destitute or without access to comprehensive healthcare."

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