Campaigning collaboratively, locally and nationally, to transform asylum in the UK.
Hundreds of refugee charities have offered the new Prime Minister a ‘blueprint to fix the broken asylum system’, urging him to ditch ‘gimmicks that waste taxpayers’ money’ in favour...
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At Asylum Matters, we fundamentally oppose the traumatic, costly and ineffective use of force in immigration control. The below statement is a message we’ve sent directly to the Home...
The Home Office is consulting on concerning new plans which could leave children, families, adults and care leavers destitute and homeless. It’s vital that as many people as possible...
New migration rules represent a “sustained attack on children’s rights”, say children’s charities, social workers, lawyers and migrants’ rights groups. In a letter to the Prime Minister, nearly 150...
Women’s rights groups have issued a call to “change the narrative”, as disinformation about violence against women and girls (VAWG) continues to be used as “a tool for political...
Refugees and people seeking asylum have launched a new petition demanding an end to “cruel” settlement and family reunion changes. Announced by Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood in November, proposed...
The horrifying reality of violence on the UK/France border was unveiled at Parliament this week. On Monday, December 8, members of the Asylum Matters team were privileged to join...
On Monday, the Home Secretary announced a radical overhaul of the UK’s refugee protection system. The Government itself has called these changes the most significant change to the asylum...
More than 300 charities and voluntary organisations have warned the Home Secretary that they ‘cannot accept’ her proposal to make volunteering a condition of leave to remain in the...
