Status Now Newsletter May 2021

Status Now Network‘s campaign is gaining traction. Organisations continue to join – most recently, we welcome Right to Remain – and our campaign now includes organisations and groups representing faith communities, migration academics, public service workers, activists in Northern Ireland, and community organisations in Scotland.  We are winning: we will render the hostile environment friendly, and we …

UK Asylum System and Asylum Seekers’ Mental Health

#ICIBI The Mental Health Foundation has found that the increased vulnerability to mental health problems that refugees and asylum seekers face is linked both to their pre-migration and post-migration experiences. People who have fled persecution, violence and war hope to find safety and security in the UK. Tragically, the current UK asylum system often exacerbates …

Everyone should have access to the vaccine but this reported Vaccine ‘Amnesty’ Declaration is a Trap and Won’t Work

8 February 2021:  STOP PRESS: Everyone should have access to the vaccine but this reported Vaccine ‘Amnesty’ Declaration is a Trap and Won’t Work  #healthandsafety4all   The virus cannot be effectively tackled and people cannot be kept safe until everyone currently in the UK has equal access to housing, healthcare, food, and any vaccine, and therefore …

AVID: 60+ organisations join our call to close the barracks and engage with civil society

8 December 2020: AVID: Today, we sent a letter to the Immigration Minister and Shadow Home Secretary highlighting the risks of housing vulnerable asylum-seekers in crowded barracks where social distancing is impossible, and urging them to implement community-based alternatives, to avoid further harm. Our letters were co-signed by more than 60 community organisations working with …

Call to action

Join us as an organisation: https://statusnow4all.org/join-our-network/ Sign our petition: https://statusnow4all.org/sign-our-petition/ See here: https://statusnow4all.org/category/write-to-your-mp/ See here: https://statusnow4all.org/category/what-else-you-can-do/ Please ask your MP to support EDM #658. We have an urgent request: the call for Status Now for All is being carried into Parliament in an Early Day Motion – EDM #658 as follows: EDM #658 – LEAVE …

Why Status Now for All?

Why do people wish others dead? What can you do? Draw your MP to sign our EDM #658 https://edm.parliament.uk/early-day-m… Sign our petition https://www.change.org/p/prime-minist… Model motion to adapt https://statusnow4all.org/a-model-mot…

Letter for organisations/groups to send to MPs:

We kindly ask all organisations and community action and support groups in the Status Now Network to contact MPs in/around their area to introduce the StatusNow4All campaign highlighting the need for ‘Leave to Remain’ status to be granted to all undocumented migrants and all migrants with insecure status who are currently in the UK. In …