Ports in Liverpool and Edinburgh refused to allow cruise ships meant to house asylum-seekers to dock - and so the ships have had to return to the company that owns them.

🚩Alarm Phone Statement on the fatal shipwreck off #Greece .

Stop blaming people on the move for trying to escape your violence!

Stop blaming people on the move for their own death!

Stop pushbacks, end death at sea, tear down Europe’s borders!
alarmphone.org/en/2023/06/14/…

We have no more tears
We are dry

The lifeless bodies
The stolen lives
They add to Europe's responsibility
This place we inhabit and which repulses us

Though the lives lost do not add up
They only explode

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After a year of digging, we Liberty Investigates can reveal how an understaffed Dover coastguard failed to send help to reports of small boats in trouble at sea in Nov 2021.

This culminated in the worst Channel disaster in decades, when 27 people died.

theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/a…

'People move and have always moved. Migration is part of human existence. It enriches our communities and society, and it will be a key part of the solution to the climate crisis.'

Safe, accessible routes now!
independent.co.uk/voices/climate…

This is wrong & Suella knows it

1️⃣ Apart from a tiny number of schemes, there's NO OFFICIAL ROUTES to reach safety in the UK

2️⃣ To claim asylum in the UK, you HAVE to be on UK soil

3️⃣ The ONLY WAY for most people to get sanctuary in the UK is to risk their lives in the Channel

‘It is wrong that the ministers reference ‘generous resettlement routes’ which simply do not exist for most people.’ Enver Solomon 🧡

Sudanese refugees face being deported from the UK because there are no safe routes for most people fleeing the conflict.

independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…

The inhumane #MigrationBill is a violation of international law + will subject sanctuary seekers to serious harm. It must be scrapped. We call on the UK Gov Rishi Sunak to establish safe routes for all.
buff.ly/40AZif1

There are no UN agencies present in northern France. No IOM. No major aid organisation. The French state provides nothing - not even drinking water. With no processing centre in Calais, Dunkirk or anywhere nearby there is no choice but to cross in a small boat, as she well knows.

There's no safe route to the UK for refugees from Sudan. Those already here can wait years for an asylum decision. The #RefugeeBanBill will lock up and deport anyone arriving from Sudan.

We need to:

Scrap the #AntiRefugeeLaws

Improve decision making

Open safe routes NOW!

You can’t apply to seek asylum to the U.K. via UNHCR in Sudan. This is just simply untrue.

‘We must reject the dehumanising Refugee Ban Bill. This isn’t about politics, or ‘small boats’; it’s about human lives.’

We echo Scottish Refugee Council 🧡’s statement on the #RefugeeBanBill . The bill is cruel and inhumane and the government must reject it.

scottishrefugeecouncil.org.uk/we-urge-the-go…

When a government uses hostile words, they create and justify a hostile environment, and they spur violent actions.

This shows how much words MATTER.

So Freedom from Torture🧡 & Migrants' Rights Network have come together to share our guide on how to speak compassionately about refugees.

People who risk their lives crossing the Channel when no alternatives are available to them are NOT criminals.Home Office GOV.UK how about representing what people in the UK actually want to see — accessible routes that allow people to seek asylum safely theguardian.com/politics/video…

The inhumane #RefugeeBanBill is back in parliament today for 3rd reading. It is an extraordinarily dangerous piece of legislation this will have a devastating impact on people seeking safety in the UK.

We must #StopTheBill now!

Working through this mass of last minute amendments… 1/

This Government is scrambling to get British diplomats in Sudan to safety. Yet at the same time, it’s still pushing through its inhumane Migration Bill, which would criminalise people fleeing Sudan for travelling in the only way they can – by small boat.