BREAKING: Our students at King's College London started their #encampment demanding King's College London to condemn Israel's war crimes in Palestine, boycott complicit Israeli academic institutions, pledge to help rebuild #Gaza 's education sector & safeguard freedom of speech 🧵 1/7

I was incredibly proud to see my wonderful colleague Janahan Sivanathan’s story featured in this powerful exhibition, with his beautiful origami birds around the room. We’re very lucky to have Janahan in the King's College London Sanctuary Team. #RefugeeWeek2023 Refugee Week 🧡 🧡🧡🧡

Janahan Sivanathan is a Sanctuary Project Officer at King's. He came to the UK aged 17 when his life was endangered by civil war in Sri Lanka.

Now, through his role at King's, he supports other people with forced displacement to find their feet at their own pace.

#RefugeeWeek

Come along to the Gallery@OXO to discover the stories of seven people who came to the UK seeking sanctuary from war and persecution .
💫Wednesday until Sunday, 11AM - 6PM.
If you can't make it, read the amazing stories being showcased here: comicrelief.com/what-your-mone…

To mark #RefugeeWeek we spoke to the King’s Sanctuary Programme team about their work to create positive opportunities for forcibly displaced people.

Meet the team ⬇
kcl.ac.uk/news/meet-king…

#CompassionIntoAction Service at King’s Dr Nicole Mennell Dr Leonie Ansems de Vries Janahan Sivanathan

Absolutely nightmare using vfs Colombo to book appointments @vfsglobalcare VFS Global no response nor acknowledgment of issues on payment page. Ended up cancelling one app and another is doing the same for multiple cards - the authorisation page isn’t working! No help provided

This video is not from a movie, it’s from last night’s riot held by hateful far right outside of a hotel in #Knowsley where asylum seekers are housed.

Imagine the terror people inside must’ve felt seeing this unfold. This is exactly what is wanted, division between communities.

Dream! Worth quoting what I said in 2020! #milestone

Our Sanctuary Team had an exciting few days at The University of Edinburgh attending the ‘UK Higher Education & Refugees Forum’ & Universities of Sanctuary’s 4th Annual Conference. The team are energised by the discussions & inspired to apply learnings to the King’s Sanctuary Programme #UnisOfSanctuary

🇺🇦Could you help a Ukrainian student or researcher to find safety in the UK & continue their academic journey?🇺🇦

To find out more, sign up for an 'Introduction to hosting' webinar ⬇️
🗓️16 Jan, 1-2: kcl.ac.uk/events/univers…

🗓️25 Jan, 1-2: kcl.ac.uk/events/univers…

#HomesForUkraine

Great!

'Of course we should call out abuses in Qatar, but we should also be willing to look at our workers facing injustice at home.'

✍️ Rav

metro.co.uk/2022/12/09/con…

‘From the Royal Society of Arts and the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants, to Verso Books and climate charity Hope for the Future, previously non-unionised workplaces are pushing–and often winning– union recognition.’

Just leaving this here…👀

novaramedia.com/2022/11/29/wor…

👀 JCWI

Hi!👋🏽We’re the official JCWI union account - a majority collective of staff represented by IWGB & United Voices of the World.

We’re fighting for transparency & accountability from governance, and to ensure staff voice is at the heart of JCWI’s decision-making. Follow us to show support.

🚨 BREAKING: The UK govt is sending Sri Lankan refugees who are currently stranded on the Chagos Islands to Rwanda for medical treatment.

Our Janahan Sivanathan writes 'one thing that worries me is that this could be the precursor to the Rwanda plan,”
thenewhumanitarian.org/news/2022/11/1…

Our new report, “Who’s Paying The Price? The Human Cost of the Rwanda Scheme”, is out today.

Based on the experiences of people targeted for removal to Rwanda, this report details medical evidence of the harm inflicted on them.

Read the report here: medicaljustice.org.uk/whos-paying-th…

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We are currently acting pro bono to help some of the Sri Lankan Tamils stranded on Diego Garcia. A crowdfunder has been started to help provide support to them. Please share widely. crowdjustice.com/case/urgent-ap…

Urgent appeal - Helping Sri Lankan Tamils stranded on Diego Garcia. crowdjustice.com/case/urgent-ap… #RT and #Support