12 February 2018
IWD: International Women's Day – did you know?
International Women's Day is celebrated in many countries around the world on 8 March. It is a day when women are recognised for their past achievements whilst also remembering that there is still more to do to achieve gender parity.
6 October 2017
Celebrating 30 years of Black History Month
On Monday I attended an event hosted by 2 Hare Court on the Lammy Review. For those who have not seen it, on the 8th of September, the Government published an independent review by David Lammy, MP for Tottenham which it commissioned on the ‘treatment of, and outcomes for, Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) individuals in the Criminal Justice System (CJS)’.
20 June 2017
Life in Limbo: The realities of being a Refugee in the UK
You finally made it. It could be months or even years since you were forced to flee your home country, for fear of conflict, persecution, torture or death. You may not have seen your family or friends since you set off on a journey for a better life, you may feel isolated and afraid. You may have been at the mercy of people smugglers and risked your life on perilous journeys by land and sea. Many making the treacherous journey will die in transit but you have finally arrived at your destination – the United Kingdom.
20 June 2017
Less than our fair share: resettling Europe’s refugee children
2016 was an eventful year. We made it through two Prime Ministers, a referendum, an escalating crisis in Syria and ‘the Donald’. Amid all of this we also welcomed around 1,000 unaccompanied children to the UK from the camp known as ‘the Jungle’, a project which we had some involvement in, working with the fantastic charity Safe Passage.
16 June 2017
Refugee Week: ‘Sur place claims for the politically active refugee’
In BA (demonstrators in Britain – risk on return) Iran CG [2011] UKUT a short clip of an Iranian national was uploaded onto YouTube, where he is caught protesting outside of the Iranian Embassy in London, chanting anti-regime slogans following the re-election of the President of Iran. The Iranian national relied on his political activity to prove a ‘well-founded fear of persecution’ if he was to return to Iran and as a result was granted asylum.
