Asylum Matters @AsylumMatters

Campaigning collaboratively, locally and nationally, to transform asylum in the UK. asylummatters.org Joined March 2017

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Women for Refugee Women 🧡 @4refugeewomen

a day ago

💔⏰ As of 3pm today, family reunion has been suspended.⁣ Just days after it was announced. ⁣ It will now be even more difficult for women to reunite with their children, their partners and loved ones.⁣ ⁣ Removing family reunion is cruelty beyond words. 1/🧵

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Asylum Matters @AsylumMatters

a day ago

Amid relentless political attacks on people seeking sanctuary, and the communities that welcome them, it's easy to feel hopeless. But we still believe that most people would rather live in a community of solidarity, not an island of strangers. #SolidarityNotStrangers

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Asylum Matters @AsylumMatters

2 days ago

There's so much wrong with this appalling idea. Human beings seeking safety aren't cargo that can be stored in warehouses for the Government's convenience. The Home Secretary should be ashamed to even suggest it.

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Doctors of the World @DOTW_UK

3 days ago

Warehouses are not homes. Military sites are not safe ❌independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n… We've run clinics at military sites and seen the harm they cause. Forcing people seeking safety into them is inhumane. @GOVUK must clear the asylum backlog and house people in communities to rebuild…

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Asylum Matters @AsylumMatters

4 days ago

Think our asylum system needs to change? Here's a very obvious place to start: stop banning people from work. Lifting the ban would let people seeking safety start rebuilding their lives - and boost our economy by £1.6bn in taxes, savings and spending.

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Asylum Matters @AsylumMatters

6 days ago

Rising hostility is terrifying for many people who've fled war and persecution, seeking nothing but safety in this country. Our leaders must stop echoing languages that fuels division - and make sure it's keeping people seeking asylum safe.

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Asylum Matters @AsylumMatters

a week ago

While much of our media focuses on how many people claim asylum in the UK, there's one number that isn't even counted: The number of people who die while trying to seek sanctuary here. We know our asylum is killing people. Their deaths must not be ignored. #KnowTheirNames

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Asylum Matters @AsylumMatters

2 weeks ago

Charities installing panic rooms and fearing for staff safety. This is what happens when certain politicians and parts of our media encourage anger at people seeking safety - instead of working to make a fair asylum system that works better for everyone. theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/a…

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Asylum Matters @AsylumMatters

2 weeks ago

We're all angry about asylum hotels. But that anger is being turned against the people forced to live in those hotels - and that's not ok. They only exist because of the failures of the previous Government. Here's how a fairer asylum system would mean no asylum hotels.

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Asylum Matters @AsylumMatters

2 weeks ago

These groups are the experts on how we combat the awful reality of violence against women and girls: Rape Crisis, Women's Aid, The End Violence Against Women Coalition, and many more. Their warnings are ones we have to listen to. independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…

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Southall Black Sisters @SBSisters

2 weeks ago

🚨 The reality of VAWG in the UK is alarming. Using this violence to push a racist agenda does not represent us. We’ve joined 200 organisations to urge the government to reject this dangerous weaponisation of VAWG & to take urgent action. #NotInOurName endviolenceagainstwomen.org.uk/100-womens-rig…

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Asylum Matters @AsylumMatters

2 weeks ago

"As a woman who looks visibly ‘other’ despite being born in the UK, I can’t quite remember ever feeling so unsafe." This is what giving anti-migrant protesters their way means. Not safety for women and girls - but more danger👇 metro.co.uk/2025/08/20/bel…

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Asylum Matters @AsylumMatters

2 weeks ago

MPs are encouraging more racist disorder - it's appalling. No one wants people forced to live in converted hotels. But giving in to the demands of violent anti-migrant crowds sets a dangerous precedent. Calling those crowds an 'inspiration' is even worse. mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…

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Asylum Matters @AsylumMatters

2 weeks ago

However you arrived, whatever your reason for coming: welcome. Today the Home Office publishes its latest migration stats, which means headline after headline treating people as faceless numbers. We won't forget the people behind the numbers and we won't stop welcoming them.

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Manchester City of Sanctuary @ManchesterCoS

2 weeks ago

🚨 Vital conversations about violence against women and girls are being hijacked by an anti-migrant agenda. We've joined 200 organisations to urge the Government to address this dangerous weaponisation of VAWG. It is #NotInOurName.

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Zoe Gardner @ZoeJardiniere

2 weeks ago

Day in, day out, I speak to ordinary people who are organising to welcome the asylum seekers accommodated in their towns. They befriend, support them, reach out to them as fellow human beings. That's the Britain I know, the one I see around me & we never get told about on TV.

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Asylum Matters @AsylumMatters

2 weeks ago

Asylum hotels shouldn't exist. And they wouldn't exist, if the previous Government hadn't manufactured the need for them. They created a backlog by banning asylum - now they're stirring up hatred against the people forced to live with the consequences of their policies.

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EVAW Coalition @EVAWuk

2 weeks ago

The government has pledged to halve violence against women and girls. But this cannot be done while lies about its causes are endorsed by those in positions of power. The facts about VAWG in the UK are stark. Weaponising violence to further a racist agenda is #NotInOurName

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FiLiA @FiLiA_charity

2 weeks ago

🚨Ending #VAWG & defending migrant rights go hand in hand. Leaders can’t halve VAWG, while not challenging lies about its causes. We join 200 organisations in rejecting the weaponisation of VAWG by those with an anti-migrant agenda. 🔗hibiscusinitiatives.org.uk/news/joint-sta… #NotInOurName

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René Cassin🧡 @Rene_Cassin

2 weeks ago

🚨#NotInOurName We have proudly joined 200 organisations to urge the Government to address the dangerous weaponisation of VAWG being hijacked by an anti-migration agenda. The Government has pledged to halve VAWG, but it cannot be done while refugee women are not protected.