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"The reality is that people will cross the Channel in search of safety, despite reforms"

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Chief executive, Mike Adamson, believes the window of opportunity to help the 82 million people who have now been forced to leave their homes is closing. The world needs to pull together and help.

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Every Refugee Matters: speak up, take action

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5 reasons why you should support our Every Refugee Matters campaign

As the UK government prepares to overhaul the asylum system, there's never been a better time to stand by refugees. Sign our pledge to show that #everyrefugeematters.

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The Red Cross helps refugees stranded in a forest in the Poland-Belarus border.

"People will still cross the Channel in search of safety, despite reforms"

Chief executive Mike Adamson believes the window of opportunity to help the 82 million people who have now been forced to leave their homes is closing. The world needs to pull together and help.

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Mada and her daughter Hala stand together in central London. Mada and her family were reunited in the UK after fleeing Syria

What is happening to the UK's asylum system?

This is what the proposed changes could mean for refugees and people seeking asylum

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Meet the refugees who want change.

Meet the refugees and people seeking asylum who’ve seen it all – and now want change

By British Red Cross

They’ve fled persecution and violence, they’ve lost loved ones, they’ve experienced nights of dread in cells built for prisoners. But now, these refugees are speaking up via the VOICES network, a platform to challenge policies and stereotypes

Meet the VOICES Network

Refugees and people seeking asylum: get the facts

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Asylum seekers: are they living on easy street?

With so many conflicting reports, it's hard to picture life for an asylum seeker in the UK. We shed some light on the matter.

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An immigration stamp on the page of a passport

Six myth-busting facts about refugees

How good is your knowledge of the reality for asylum seekers?

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Zain, one of the VOICES ambassadors who appears in the podcast, stands outside looking toward the camera

“I hope the podcast will help dispel a lot of myths, stereotypes, and negative narratives”

One VOICES ambassador shares his experiences of working on The kind place: We are VOICES, and what the new podcast means to him

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Supporting people arriving from Afghanistan

British Red Cross CEO, Mike Adamson

“The priority must be helping people in Afghanistan to reach safety”

Our chief executive Mike Adamson on the Government's resettlement scheme announcement

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Emergency response officer Cathy, right, looks to camera wearing her Red Cross uniform, while helping people who have recently arrived from Afghanistan with their luggage

“I escaped from my house with just the clothes I was wearing”

Since flights started landing carrying families from Afghanistan this summer, Red Cross staff and volunteers have been on hand to support

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Some of the teddies that staff and volunteers have been handing out to children upon their arrival in the UK

“We want to give them the best welcome possible”

Hear from the staff and volunteers who have been at airports around the country, welcoming Afghan families to the UK

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Together again: the family reunited miles from home in a global pandemic

By British Red Cross

When Faridun and his family were forced to leave Afghanistan, their search for safety kept them apart for four years. Until one day last year,  when one of his sons stepped into a Red Cross family tracing office. 

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Bringing families together

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"My son would ask strangers to be his dad"

A story of theft, a child kidnap attempt… and finally, a happy reunion

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"I saw a bomb kill a busload of people"

A mother’s mission to find her family a safe home

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Ten things about our work with refugees and people seeking asylum

By British Red Cross

17,000 food parcels. 1,000 baby packs. 3,000 people reunited. These aren’t statistics from a faraway conflict zone: they’re just a few of the ways we helped refugees here in the UK last year. Add translation and speaking up for change, and you’re starting to get the picture.

 

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Support for people caught up in trafficking

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The women-led programme supporting trafficked women and girls on their road to recovery

A safe house in Eastern Sudan is helping women process their trauma and move forward with their lives. This is Edana's story

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The UK is bleak for trafficking victims

How survivors are being failed and swept back into abuse

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"Trafficking didn't stop for the pandemic, and neither did we"

Now more than ever we need coordinated action to combat modern slavery and trafficking

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Finding hope onstage at the Globe

By British Red Cross

A group of young asylum seekers and refugees who came to Britain alone created a play to tell their stories their way. It's part of a life skills project we're running to create fun when  life seems dark and lonely

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