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HUNDREDS of people rallied outside Parliament yesterday demanding an end to the poor treatment of asylum-seekers at detention centres as Amnesty International branded the ongoing refugee crisis the worst “since WWII.”
Campaigners and politicians, including Labour leader hopeful Jeremy Corbyn, stood in solidarity with women in Yarl’s Wood as part of a campaign to close down “immigration removal centres.”
The event, hosted by the All African Women’s Group, was part of a series of actions being held outside as well as inside Yarl’s Wood since March.
Afghan women living under the Taliban are navigating a system that makes their public existence conditional on male approval, writes SHUKRIA RAHIMI
A recent Immigration Summit heard from Lord Alf Dubs, who fled the Nazis to Britain as a child. JAYDEE SEAFORTH reports on his message that we need to increase public empathy with desperate people seeking asylum
