In reality? We got a barrage of harmful rhetoric about people seeking safety, cruel policies about tearing families apart and discriminatory plans to make people "earn" safety. #ConferenceSeason2025

🚨 This is a message from over 100 charities, including @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social, @sheltercharity.bsky.social, , @oxfamgb.bsky.social @savechildrenuk.bsky.social and @friends-earth.bsky.social: Scapegoating refugees won’t fix anything. It's time for real change www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Today feels like a good day to remember that most of us believe in welcome 💜 Here are some of the thousands of messages we've received from supporters recently. We'll be delivering them to Number 10, because it seems the government needs this reminder too.

People like you know that families fleeing war and persecution aren’t to blame for the cost-of-living crisis or overstretched services. Will you tell the government you welcome refugees? Send your message using our tool:

Another heartbreaking yet totally avoidable tragedy. Our thoughts are with their loved ones and refugee communities everywhere. Enough. Human beings will continue to die at the border until our government dismantles its hostile environment and creates safe routes. news.sky.com/story/two-ch...

Yesterday, Members of the House of Lords stood up for the right to work, thanks to the thousands of you who emailed them using our tool!

We’ve got so many real solutions for the new Home Secretary, Shabana Mahmood, to build an asylum system that works for refugees and communities. Instead of repeating the last Government’s mistakes, we’d love her to sit down with us and hear them. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Amidst a summer of racism and hatred from the far-right, we’ve been overwhelmed by the support of incredible people like you. People calling for unity. Join our community of people that believe in better - take on a personal challenge that makes a change this September in the Race for Refugees.

Family unity is central to recovery, integration, and wellbeing. We stand with @rasvoice.bsky.social in urging the Home Secretary to recognise the human cost of this policy and to reinstate safe, legal, and timely pathways for families to be reunited. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Vital conversations about violence against women and girls (VAWG) are being hijacked by a racist, anti-migrant agenda. We've joined 200 organisations to urge the Government to address this dangerous weaponisation. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

We're proud to join over 200 organisations to call on Party Leaders to end the divisive politics, racist rhetoric and demonising language of the past. Only then will they bring unity instead of division and cohesion rather than hate. Read the letter below👇 @refugeestogether.bsky.social

Our leaders could treat people with dignity, house them safely and let them rebuild. But they seem to be in a race to the bottom, competing over who can treat people seeking safety the most cruelly. This emboldens the far-right and leads to racist attacks. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

We’re joining 200+ orgs to say enough. These racist actions do not have broad public support. Yet the government and the media are fuelling them with hateful and divisive rhetoric. It's time to take responsibility and change the tune. #TogetherWithRefugees www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

📢Dispatches from Calais today: As the UK government begins detaining people under its “one in, one out” policy, our Racial Justice researchers are on the ground, speaking with people who could be subject to this inhumane policy next. What we’re witnessing is fear, uncertainty and cruelty.

This morning, Home Office Minister Angela Eagle had the opportunity to promote inclusive communities and speak out against the racism happening outside asylum accommodation.

The voices of people seeking safety are missing from too much media coverage of this summer's racist attacks. Let's make sure Nabil is heard loud and clear.

"I did not come here seeking wealth or running from poverty. In fact, I had a stable life back in my country, Yemen. "What forced me to leave was not economic hardship, but persecution and fear for my safety and the safety of my family." www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Banning people from work makes no sense. Some people who attended this event are still going through the asylum system. They all said that they are ready to work to contribute to the UK economy. What is the government waiting for? #LiftTheBan

Shockingly, the Prime Minister is bragging that his government will “share asylum accommodation locations” with food delivery companies. Instead of keeping people safe he is putting people at risk at a time when this sensitive information is being used by the far right to harass and attack refugees.

Our thoughts are with the people seeking safety, including children, who have been targeted with racist harassment, threats and violence outside the buildings in which they have been forced to live.

It’s time to invest in communities and social homes, not private pockets. The government is handing money to companies that make huge profits from housing people seeking safety in appalling conditions. But this could be used to fund a joined-up, local approach to housing people seeking safety.

The Home Office decision to resume processing asylum applications from Syria is welcomed, but this should never have been paused in the first place. Lives have hung in the balance for the last 6 months. No one should be left in limbo when safety is at stake. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Do you follow this brilliant group of campaigners yet? RAS Voice is a campaign group represented by refugees and people seeking asylum, supported by us. With their own lived experience of the asylum system, they're experts in how to change it. Watch them speak truth to power on the regular 🙌

This video was written by Catherine Lebadou, who has experienced the UK's hostile asylum system. She said: "It was strangers who helped me find my footing. The woman who pointed me in the right direction when I couldn't read the signs. Strangers had been my guides, my bridges, my first welcome."

This cruelty will cost lives. We're one of 65+ refugee groups on both sides of the Channel telling our Governments to work together to protect lives, not put them at risk.

- Safe routes save lives. They are the best way to stop people from dying in the Channel - Under the Refugee Convention, everyone who arrives in the UK has the right to seek asylum here

A team of us from @refugeeaction.bsky.social is at the City of Sanctuary 20th anniversary conference today to run workshops on asylum as a racial justice issue - we are sharing findings from our previous and new policy research, and from our survey on representation of lived experience in our sector

Instead, Keir Starmer wants to discuss spending millions in UK taxpayer money on more border violence and other failed, dangerous “deterrents”.

Ahead of the French-UK summit @refugeeaction.bsky.social @jcwi-uk.bsky.social @humansforrights.bsky.social @camcrag.bsky.social and others have signed a statement 'condemn[ing] unequivocally the continued violence and securitisation' at the border www.crossborderforum.org/july-2025-fr...

The government's annual report card is in... And they won’t be top of the class this year. ❌Work ban still in place 🤞Promising changes in asylum housing 🟡Rwanda scrapped, but hostile policies remain ❌Same scapegoating tactics One good mark doesn’t fix a failing report. ↻ Repost if you agree.

Did you know you can invite Refugee Action campaigners to speak at your event? Our Speakers Community offer talks on how communities can take real action for refugees. We speak at universities, workplaces, schools & more. No audience is too big or too small. Book a talk ⬇️ bit.ly/4epvcn6

New podcast alert🚨 This Refugee Week, we’re celebrating community and how citizenship helps build strong communities for refugees. Our latest RAS Voice episode dives into the Citizenship Ban -what it means, why it matters, and how we are fighting back. 🎧 Listen: bit.ly/443jrhj

LONDON - this thursday i'm helping to organise this cracking line-up in aid of refugee action, please come down!

Mass sites like this segregate people and destroy their well-being. They must be shut and never used again. It's time we funded and supported councils to house people in communities, instead of funding the profits of private contractors to run asylum accommodation. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

We agree! Make sure you get to Horizons Festival! 🤩 @refugeeaction.bsky.social’s ‘Asylum Justice is Racial Justice’ event last night was so powerful. Looking forward to the launch of WAST’s ‘More in Common’ exhibition this afternoon! 🧡

This #RefugeeWeek, #OurSuperpower is supporting LGBTQI+ people seeking safety in the UK.⁠ ⁠ #SimpleActs #CommunityAsASuperpower #Thunderclap 🧡🌍

Happy Refugee Week! 🧡 This #RefugeeWeek, #OurSuperpower is fighting for a fair new plan for refugees. We're a coalition of 600+ orgs calling for a fair new plan for refugees. We know that when we work together, we are strong, loud and unstoppable. Community is a superpower.

This #RefugeeWeek, #OurSuperpower is our unwavering hope and vision that we can end the hostile environment for refugees, and build a better future together.

Hotels are part of an asylum system that creates huge profits for businesses, while people live in dire conditions. This money must be used to support councils to build and buy homes for anyone in the community who needs one, regardless of immigration status. www.bigissue.com/news/politic...

It’s common sense that government money is used to build housing for all people. But instead, Home Office contractors are earning millions in profit from the taxpayer, while people seeking safety are housed in gross hotel rooms, and attacked by racist thugs. As MP Chris Murray says ⬇️

Hotels are not homes. People can't put down roots, raise children, or stay healthy in them. So this commitment is welcomed BUT only if done right, with the good of people seeking safety at the crux of all decision making. (1/2) www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Today's #SpendingReview is a chance to commit to the social housing we desperately need for many people in our towns and cities. We'll be watching closely. It's time to build communities with refugees and #BuildSocialHousing (1/1)

We stand together with our allies and organisations calling for safe and immediate release of those on board the Freedom Flotilla's Madleen. @humantiproject.bsky.social www.humantiproject.org/the-uk-has-a...

How connected is the fight for racial justice and refugee rights? How can we address racism in the asylum system? We will discuss answers at our #HorizonsFestival2025 event in Manchester. Join us alongside our incredible campaign group RAS Voice. Get your tickets! homemcr.org/whats-on/277...

68% of people who sought safety in the UK in the past year were from countries directly affected by British colonial rule. It’s time political language welcomed people whose lives are shaped by our history instead of stoking hate that puts them in even more danger. www.bigissue.com/opinion/immi...

The debrief. Why this parliament must lift the ban on work for people seeking asylum. Got 5 mins? Read our full report with the Lift The Ban coalition: www.refugee-action.org.uk/wp-content/u... Got 60 seconds spare? Read this thread! 🧵

New report🚨 Time to lift the ban: why this parliament must lift the ban on work for people seeking asylum. Today we’re in Parliament launching our new report! We’re telling MPs exactly why it’s time to give people the right to work. Read it here: www.refugee-action.org.uk/wp-content/u...

Thread: 🧵Meet the companies that make obscene profits from asylum housing, while refugees live in often dangerous conditions. www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

Divisive words have consequences. Rhetoric like this leads to racist violence, riots and policy decisions. It divides communities, when we should be united.