‘ the central issue is not the conditions inside such detention centres (important though those are) but the policy of detaining children in the first place’
1. Alternatives to the policy of detaining migrant families
2.Take action! Send One More Card
3. Early Day motion in Parliament: Has your MP signed?
4. Christmas Cards in aid of the Santé Refugee Project
5. Christmas Cards in aid of Women Asylum seekers Together (WAST)
1. Alternatives to the policy of detaining migrant families
Last week the medical establishment called for the Government to overhaul its policy of detaining children in immigration removal centres. This week they are joined by a number of paragons from the world of children’s literature including Michael Bond, Philip Pullman and Jacqueline Wilson. Both groups make a compelling case.
Leading article: The Independent, Monday, 14 December 2009
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2. Take action! Send One More Card
“I saw bad things happening in prison and there was too much crying. It gave me terrible headaches and I felt sad.” Dominic Mwafulirwa Junior, detained in Yarl’s Wood immigration detention centre in 2009
Each family sends an average of 76 Christmas cards each year. We want you to send One More Card to help stop the immigration detention of children in the UK. Send an extra Christmas card to Immigration Minister, Phil Woolas MP, and let him know that your Christmas wish is for him to stop the practice of detaining children for immigration purposes.
More detail: The Children’s Society
Dominic Mwafulirwa Belongs to Nottingham
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3. Has your MP signed EDM 139 on detention of children?
“That this House notes with concern that around 2,000 children are detained each year in immigration detention centres, some for periods of several months; further notes the opinion of Save the Children and the Children’s Commissioner that this is unjustified and damaging; further notes that families with children are among the least likely to abscond; further notes that some EU and Commonwealth countries have successfully introduced solutions other than secure detention for families who have exhausted their asylum claims; and urgently calls on the Government to end the practice of holding children in immigration detention centres.”
List of MPs who have signed EDM
Early Day Motions are very good ways of raising issues in parliament, which may not get debated in normal sittings of parliament.
You can contact your MP for free, through: WriteToThem.Com
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4. Christmas Cards in aid of the Santé Refugee Project
I have cards I will sell for £1- each if you would like them. If you buy 5 or more the postage is included.
Ruth Appleton Co-ordinator Santé Refugee Mental Health Access Project 12 Salcombe Lodge Lissenden Gds NW5 1LZ 020 7482 2903 santeproject@msn.com
Provides Advocacy and Befriending for Vulnerable Refugees & Asylum Seekers
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5. Christmas Cards in aid of Women Asylum seekers Together (WAST)
We have handmade Christmas cards, made by Women Asylum seekers together to raise funds for the group they cost large one a pound and small ones 50 pence, please help us to raise fund for the coming year. If you need some contact us with the amount you want and your address we can post with an invoice. Thanks in advance for your usual support, Merry Christmas in advance and a Grace full 2010.
From: “WAST Manchester” wastmanchester@yahoo.co.uk
‘Sharing our experiences, empowering and supporting each other’
www.wast.org.uk
End of Bulletin
Source for this Message:
The Children’s Society
Santé Refugee Project
Women Asylum seekers Together (WAST)
The Independent
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