Resources and actions on Rwanda to share this week👇🏾

Equipping ourselves with accurate information and building our solidarity and resistance are crucial in this moment.

Remember that we keep each other safe, and we leave no one behind ✊🏾❤️

migrantsorganise.org/we-keep-each-o…

When the horror starts for all of us, regular immigrants, second generation citizens, people with strange-sounding names, communities that celebrate different holidays, we will ask ourselves at what point it could have still been stopped. At THIS point.

theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/a…

🔥NEW 🔥 Updated info card on what you can do in an #immigration #raid . Print & distribute your own here: tinyurl.com/ybvzbr4l #solidarity

Today we have a solidarity presence outside both London immigration reporting centres:

📍 Lunar House, 40 Wellesley Road, Croydon CR9 2BY.

📍 Eaton House, 581 Stained Road, Hounslow, TW4 5DL.

We’re providing information to people at risk of being detained and sent to Rwanda.

Anti Raids Network, for sharing this information with contact details for legal advice and representation for anyone who is detailed: twitter.com/AntiRaids/stat…

As well as this info card on immigration raids: tinyurl.com/y5p6cfev 6/

As a human, the thought of the Rwanda Bill makes me want to weep.

As a mother, the thought of deportation while pregnant or with a baby or young child(ren) makes me feel sick!

Advocates for human rights speak up & speak out!
#NationOfSanctuary #BMHAW24

📚Delighted to announce the launch of Bristol Uni Press groundbreaking new series 'Creative #ResearchMethods in Practice'!🚀Join me in exploring innovative research techniques from diverse disciplines and embrace creativity in research! Read more on my blog: wp.me/p557Vm-25c

You cannot legislate to say that some people deserve fewer human rights than others. We remain absolutely opposed to the #RwandaBill , and stand in solidarity and support with all those who have been left more fearful for the future this morning, having come here seeking safety.

It’s Black maternal health week! Despite progress, Black women are still four times more likely to die in pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum period in the UK (MBRRACE 2023)

Each day has a different theme all under the overarching goal of 'Advancing Black Maternal Health'

So it looks like battle over #RwandaBill might be over - govt rejected Lords amendment on safety of Rwanda by 312 to 237, while Labour has accepted a “compromise” on Afghan interpreters which will do precisely *nothing* for those still waiting to get out of Afghanistan #Shameful

As a human, I've no desire for the govt to stop small boats via #RwandaBill . #safepassage 👍
Maybe instead stop:
Gross regional inequality
Spiralling poverty gap
Persecuting those unable to work
Fraud on govt contracts
Endless sleaze
Killing the #NHS
Ignoring public health #Covid

Speaking of commercial determinants of health…

Nestlé adds sugar to infant milk sold in poorer countries, report finds theguardian.com/global-develop…

A very unique opportunity for midwives coming up in Rwanda and Germany later this year.
Registration is open!

Oohhh not AJOG trying to pretend obstetric violence isn’t a thing. Apparently the term is ‘quite strong and emotionally charged.’ Those pesky women and their emotions, eh?

Interesting that there are no midwives among the co-authors…

Two explosions back to back tonight in Kabul. Qala Wahid and Dehmazang areas.

We haven’t seen explosions like these in Kabul since the Taliban’s takeover in 2021. Will be crucial to see how this unfolds. Ehtesab team is monitoring situation right now.

On #WorldDownSyndromeDay we are delighted to announce a🆕partnership between London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine & DSRF_UK

The study will investigate unmet menstrual-health requirements & identify opportunities for interventions that will improve the menstrual health of people with #DownSyndrome in the UK.

Great opportunity - hoping for great applicants!!
Newborn Toolkit MARCH Centre, LSHTM MNCH Research NEST360

'Biljana Cicic-Stanic still bristles when she remembers the pain, violence, and humiliation she endured while giving birth to her son in #Serbia '

sg.news.yahoo.com/tied-bed-horro…

Nothing has changed. As I type, a talk on first 1001 critical days is being sponsored by a formula milk company at the British Journal of Midwifery conference.
I call again for midwives to **boycott** BJM until they cease formula milk sponsorship.
Chris van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈

In my comms class today, we watched Dre Joanne Liu's powerful speech to the UN Security Council on why hospitals should not be bombed

What she said in 2016 is even more relevant today!

Hospitals are #NotATarget

youtu.be/niehJb220nY?si…