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“We are all under attack”: solidarity, the immigration bill and a Hostile Environment

Published by NCADC on November 11, 2013 | Leave a response

At a meeting organised by Legal Action for Women in London on Saturday, representatives from groups all across the UK came together to share how things are in their locality, and to plan what we can all to do fight the racist immigration bill, the devastating legal aid cuts, and against detention and deportation. Unsurprisingly, a pretty bleak picture was painted. Scarce legal representation, increased destitution, sexual and racist abuse in detention, dwindling resources. And yet, and yet. The energy in the room was fortifying: determined groups and individuals vowing that we wouldn’t give up, and that to succeed we Read the full article…

Young Afghans: audience response to Mazloom play in Leicester

Published by NCADC on October 31, 2013 | Leave a response

Post from After 18. In summer 2013 After18 hosted a theatre production of Mazloom on the Leicester leg of a national tour. Mazloom is a portrait of Asef, a young Afghan who in the claustrophobic environment of his London flat recalls the dangerous journey he made to the UK alone and his fears for his impending deportation back to Afghanistan. This closely reflects the life of many of After18′s young people, some of whom were in the audience. So, what did they make of the play and their first experience of live theatre? It was interesting, I was thinking Read the full article…

Young Afghans in the UK: deportations in the dead of night to a war-zone

Published by NCADC on June 24, 2013 | Leave a response

This article appeared in Open Democracy (50:50) on 24 June 2013. Each year around 400 children forced by war to leave their families and homes in Afghanistan seek sanctuary in the UK. Lisa Matthews writes for Young People Seeking Safety Week on the young adults who, having rebuilt their lives, are now at threat of return. “You want to send me back to a country that does not know me, to a country that will hurt me. I only know my life now. Nothing else. In Afghanistan they are not in life. That’s not life. I have no family. I Read the full article…

Mazloom tour begins next week!

Published by NCADC on June 20, 2013 | Leave a response

We are taking the play Mazloom on a national tour, this is your chance to see it! The tour begins next week with Newcastle on 25 June. We then visit Canterbury on 26 June, Leicester on 28 June and Glasgow on 25-26 September. Full details are on the website: http://mazloom.org.uk/ Tickets are just £5 - please book your tickets in advance to avoid disappointment. You can buy your tickets online via the website. What is Mazloom? Mazloom is a portrait of a young refugee, alone in London, whose life is being torn apart by the impending prospect of deportation Read the full article…

Stop G4S: G4$ and the immigration detention estate

Published by NCADC on June 3, 2013 | 2 Responses

This week - on Thursday June 6th - the world’s largest security firm G4S, will hold its annual general meeting in the City of London. A large coalition of groups, including NCADC, has called for a demonstration to be held outside the event, in protest of G4S’s varying and widespread human rights abuses. This article, by NCADC volunteer Sarah McCarthy, is the second in a three-part series which will outline G4S’s role in the “asylum market” in the UK and how its involvement has led to many cases of serious neglect and mistreatment of those who seek sanctuary here. This piece Read the full article…

Scratch performance of Mazloom and other upcoming events

Published by NCADC on May 30, 2013 | Leave a response

NCADC is proud to announce a tour of the Mazloom play, for Young People Seeking Safety week. The tour begins on 24 June (see below). Before we hit the road, there is one last chance to see the play and let us know what you think … for free. This scratch performance is at 5pm on Friday 7 June. Advance booking is essential - get your tickets here. Mazloom is a portrait of a young refugee, alone in London, whose life is being torn apart by the impending prospect of deportation to Afghanistan, where indiscriminate violence and Taliban intimidation await. This Read the full article…

Upcoming events

Published by NCADC on April 29, 2013 | Leave a response

Free NCADC workshop! Saturday 11 May, 10am to 3pm The Hub, Turl Street, Oxford This training session with the National Coalition of Anti-Deportation Campaigns (NCADC) is on campaigning for migration justice and stopping deportations. The training is based on the NCADC Campaigning Toolkit, published in September 2012. The Oxford workshop will be an introduction to the toolkit, and to campaigning for migration justice in individual cases. Through interactive exercises, discussion, knowledge-sharing and case-studies we hope that participants will come away knowing more about: the asylum and immigration system, the problems individuals face what can be done to support individuals applying Read the full article…

Instead of being protected, the Saleh family’s ordeal continued in the UK

Published by NCADC on October 29, 2012 | 7 Responses

In the early hours on 18 October, Fariman Saleh and her family were taken from their home in Cardiff by UKBA. The dawn raid was filmed by a supporter of the family - it is very distressing to watch. Background WSSAG Wales, one of the many groups supporting the family, provided this information on the background of their case: Mrs Saleh, an Egyptian national, applied for asylum in the UK after escaping an abusive and cruel husband whose acts endangered her and her children’s lives for over 15 years to the extent of death and rape. The Egyptian authorities ignored Read the full article…

Stop Deportations to Afghanistan!

Published by NCADC on October 3, 2012 | 2 Responses

Sometimes the news isn’t news to any of us. The ‘farcical handling’ of an Afghan asylum seeker’s case? How many times have we heard that before? The difference this time is that the Afghan asylum seeker was an interpreter who had worked for British forces - and had been injured in a Taliban bomb blast in Afghanistan - and there was clear documentary evidence to prove this. And the condemnation of the ‘farcical handling’ comes from the Daily Mail. None of us are under any illusions about why this story - among the thousands of people’s lives ruined and put Read the full article…

Screening of Hamedullah tonight at London International Documentary Festival as UKBA resumes secret removal flights to Kabul

Published by NCADC on May 28, 2012 | Leave a response

Hamedullah: The Road Home (Sue Clayton, UK, 23 min) and panel discussion on the policy of returning young people to Afghanistan Part of the London International Documentary Festival at The Roundhouse Studio Theatre, Monday 28 May 2012 7.00-8.30pm. Hamedullah: The Road Home is the film story of a young teen who came to the UK alone seeking asylum, and was then deported back to Afghanistan with no means of support. This event will feature the film, and a panel discussion with Sue Clayton the director, Lisa Matthews, co-ordinator of NCADC South; and a spokesperson from the Refugee Council, whose bombshell Read the full article…