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Refugee Week

June 2023

  • Combating division through storytelling … Footnote Press managing director Vidisha Biswas.

    £15,000 prize launched for writers from refugee and migrant backgrounds

    The new Footnote x Counterpoints prize for narrative nonfiction includes a publishing agreement, and welcomes work that ‘crosses cultures and borders’

July 2022

  • Vasileia Vaxevani, left, one of the organisers of the comedy workshops.

    Standing up for asylum seekers: refugees learn the art of comedy

    A Greek project is teaching participants how to craft jokes in order to shine a new light on stories about migration

June 2021

  • Misan Harriman 2

    ‘No human survives alone’ … Misan Harriman’s portraits for Refugee Week – in pictures

    Today is the start of Refugee Week, coordinated in the UK by Counterpoint Arts. The acclaimed photographer and new chair of the Southbank Centre Misan Harriman has photographed prominent supporters of refugees under the theme We Cannot Walk Alone, a line from Martin Luther King’s I Have a Dream speech

June 2020

  • Abdulwahab ‘Abdul’ Tahhan.

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    The week in audio: Integrate That!; On the Record; The Worldwide Tribe Podcast – review

  • A protest wall installation created on the Southbank by Ben & Jerry’s. The installation was moved around the country during Refugee Week

    As a refugee, I know how we contribute to British society

January 2020

  • The Windermere Children

    The UK’s response to refugee children in 1945 and now

    Letters: Prof Tony Kushner says Britain was also reluctant to take refugees in 1945 while Tony Watts says xenophobia was cynically exploited by Boris Johnson and Michael Gove to win the Brexit referendum. Plus Robin Fletcher and Bridget Elton on boarding schools’ efforts to help refugee children

May 2019

  • Momtaza Mehri, Judith Kerr and David Miliband

    Prominent refugees and their contribution to the UK – in pictures

    Ahead of Refugee Week, Jillian Edelstein’s portraits celebrate the contribution of people from diverse refugee backgrounds

July 2018

  • A young male, who is an unaccompanied asylum seeker, stands his bedroom in Kent, UK.

    Sajid Javid told: 'torture victims driven to suicide by system'

    Faith leaders and refugee bodies call for end to Home Office’s ‘inhumane approach’

19 June 2018

  • Migrants arrive at the border line between Serbia and Hungary near Roszke, southern Hungary, Sept. 13, 2015.

    I used to distance myself from my refugee identity. Now I own it

    Danijel Malbasa
  • Behrouz Boochani

    Refugees' lives have become weapons in a rugged political contest

    Behrouz Boochani
  • Abdul Ghafar Ghulami

    'We thought we'd never get out': a refugee from Manus starts life in the US

  • Refugees who have died in Australia's immigration processing system

    Deaths in offshore detention: the faces of the people who have died in Australia's care

  • 'You will be responsible': a mother's warning is unheeded on Nauru

  • Refugee children's story turned into a heartwarming claymation video

  • Allowing a refugee to die with dignity would show Australia's human heart

    Rachel Coghlan

  • Ali and the Long Journey to Australia – video

14 June 2018

  • Fereshteh Mozaffari

    Northern theatres put refugees' work centre-stage

    Venues in Leeds, Manchester and Sheffield are putting shows made with refugees and asylum seekers at the heart of their programmes

June 2017

  • Gadhafi in Sabha in 2009. The former strongman leader went to secondary school in the city

    Cities in the spotlight
    Sabha in the spotlight: the city where migrants are sold as slaves

  • Tuan V Nguyen

    ‘I just needed a chance': from refugee to the heights of Australian medical research

August 2016

  • For the thousands of displaced men, women and children in refugee camps around Europe, mobile phones provide a vital connection with home.

    Shortcuts
    The Facebook campaign funding phone credit for refugees

    In the Calais Jungle, refugees are desperate to speak to their families back home. Now, a Facebook group allows people to donate money for mobile top-ups
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