Reflections On the Pandemic
Victor Mujakachi reflects on the coronavirus pandemic, the government’s response, racism, the impact of the crisis on migrants, fake news, and the history of Zimbabwe, which eventually brought him to the UK.
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Urgent action: We must empty the detention centres – write to your MP for help
TAKE ACTION: email your MP, ask for help bring pressure on the Home Secretary to empty the detention centres. This is urgent. The Home Office must take action now to stop the spread of Covid-19
read moreLockdown sessions bring down walls – looking for volunteers
We’re looking for people to help run online events to raise urgent funds for local projects, and support the campaign to end immigration detention
read moreConversations Across Borders: Behrouz Boochani, Omid Tofighian and These Walls Must Fall in Conversation
These Walls Must Fall campaigners in joined author Behrouz Boochani, and translator Omid Tofighian, discussing the writing of Boochani’s extraordinary book ‘No Friend But the Mountains’, a first-hand account of his detention by the Australian government on Manus Island
read moreDetention and deportation update: only 700 people remain in detention
Detention centres closed to visitors. Only 736 remain detained. No detention or deportations to 49 countries. Cases of all in detention to be reviewed
read moreCovid-19: latest changes to asylum and immigration process
Right to Remain has a new webpage with news of changes to the asylum and immigration system. It is constantly updated as changes are announced.
read moreCovid-19: People must be released from detention. Legal challenge and petition
Covid-19: Legal challenge and petition – People must be released from detention
read moreCovid-19: translated health advice from Doctors of the World
Doctors of the World have produced Coronavirus (COVID-19) advice for patients in 20 languages. Please share.
read moreCoronavirus: call to release all people from immigration detention
Ten human rights and legal organisations have written to the Home Secretary to demand the release of all people from immigration detention.
read moreVisitors to immigration detention: Research call
Do you visit people in immigration detention? Can you help with this MSc student with their research project?
read moreShut Down Morton Hall- Protest – CANCELLED
Join Sheffield Student Action for Refugees, South Yorkshire Migration and Asylum Action Group, and These Walls Must Fall supporters on a national protest at Morton Hall detention centre on the 14th March 2020.
read moreIn Humanity: borders, detention, human rights
These Walls Must fall campaigners in Manchester have been working with digital artist Kooj Chuhan on an art installation and exhibition at the People’s History Museum.
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