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Refugee Festival Scotland 2017 – Programme Launch!

This year our theme CONNECT celebrates our commonality and encourages people and communities to connect

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Scottish Parliament destitution report welcomed

Scottish Refugee Council has welcomed Holyrood’s Equality and Human Rights Committee’s report on destitution

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Standing up for refugee rights this General Election

Ask your General Election candidates to sign the Refugees Welcome Pledge

Campaigns and appeals
Meet Dured, the young Syrian winner of the Young Scot Community Award 2017.

Read more about Dured, the winner of Young Scot Community Award 2017.

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Room for Refugees – a two-part drama for BBC Radio Scotland.

Gerda Stevenson is an award-winning Scottish actress, director and writer, shares her interest in refugee issues

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Westminster report condemns UK asylum system for ‘loading the dice’ against new refugees

MPs find asylum system is major barrier to people’s ability to integrate successfully

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Refugee Festival Scotland 2017 – get involved!

Call for participants in Refugee Festival Scotland 2017 now open. Refugee Festival Scotland – a festival for everyone

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Refugee Festival Scotland Media Awards 2017 – call for entries

Annual awards celebrate Scotland’s best media coverage of refugee and asylum issues

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New Scots report lays foundation for next steps in refugee integration

Report highlights the progress made by the New Scots integration strategy and lays foundation for long-term plan

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Resettled Syrian refugees finally granted refugee status

Change in UK government policy is welcome news for resettled Syrians in UK

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All refugees in UK now face prospect of return to countries they fled

Home Office policy shift a huge step backwards for refugee rights and the integration of communities across the UK

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Happy International Women’s Day 2017

Reflecting on barries and opportunities for refugee women in the workplace

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Young refugees share their stories with the First Minister

First Minister hears directly from young people who arrived in Scotland alone and seperated from their parents

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A cup of tea and so much more

Ewain Black is training and support worker at Social Bite in Glasgow, which will be running monthly Cup of Tea with a Refugee events

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Our joint statement: Prime Minister must ‘reassert Britain’s tradition of welcoming refugees’

Plea to the UK Government to uphold its commitment to welcoming refugees to UK in wake of President Trump’s controversial refugee ban

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MPs slam Home Office for “shameful” asylum housing

Report shows that Home Office contracts with private companies to house vulnerable people seeking asylum have failed.

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