On the day that the UK’s quarterly asylum statistics are released, Danny Dorling, professor of human geography at Sheffield University, reminds us to take a comparative perspective when looking at refugee flows.
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Archive for May, 2010
Danny the champion redraws the world
Friday, May 28th, 2010Posted by Sara Ayech
‘Freedom, fairness, responsibility’ – we’ll have a bit of that!
Wednesday, May 26th, 2010By Carys Davis, Public Affairs Officer
Yesterday’s Queen’s Speech laid out the legislative plan for the next 18 months, listing all the Bills we can expect the government to introduce based on their programme published last week. (more…)
Posted by Sara Ayech
The generation of war
Wednesday, May 19th, 2010By Ahmad Masood Wahed
“The peak of Islam, the heart of Asia…”
“Forever free the land of Arians…”
… are lines from one of the hundreds of national anthems Afghans have sung throughout the centuries. This poor nation has saluted hundreds of colours and shapes of flags, and danced to thousands of various songs composed by the sound of the gun.
Posted by Chiara Gnoli
Will a new government mean a new approach on asylum
Friday, May 14th, 2010By Carys Davies, Public Affairs Officer
The excitement of the election has passed and as the ministerial appointments flood in, we at Refugee Action are left pondering how the new government and its decisions will affect our work and our clients. (more…)
Posted by Sara Ayech
Voting volunteer?
Tuesday, May 4th, 2010It seems just a little bit amazing but almost half of UK citizens volunteer at least once a month with charities, churches or local campaigning groups and whichever political party (or parties) are elected to power in our current general election all have plans to promote and support volunteering even more in the years ahead. Indeed, all political parties organise almost entirely with volunteers at a local level so I guess that’s not as surprising as it sounds.
So what are the key volunteering priorities of each political party?
Posted by Jim Glennon