Category: Migrant & Refugee Rights

Joint letter to the Prime Minister: Refugee Charities Demand Change

Alongside more than 100 refugee charities, we have signed an open letter to the Prime Minister, calling for united communities and an end to the hostile politics, racist rhetoric, and demonising language...

New briefing: Stateless people in the UK: at risk of legal limbo, in need of protection

JustRight Scotland - alongside a coalition of organisations committed to addressing the pressing issue of statelessness in the UK - has launched a briefing that highlights the challenges faced by stateless...

PRESS RELEASE: Unlocking Support: Age Disputed Young People in Scotland

Our report reveals critical findings. The findings highlight the immense pressure local authorities are under, with limited resources affecting their ability to fulfil statutory duties. To improve access...

Withdrawal of free bus travel pilot for asylum seekers: our letter to the First Minister

Together with more than 50 refugee and faith-based organisations, as well as public bodies throughout Scotland that offer advice, support, and advocacy to asylum seekers, we have sent a letter to the ...

Far-right terror in the UK: Alongside over 240 organisations, we have signed a joint statement condemning horrific acts of violence

Alongside over 240 organisations across UK, we signed a joint statement to stand in solidarity with those affected by the recent acts of violence, many of whom have already fled unimaginable horrors to...

Migrant Homelessness and Advocacy for Reform: our support for Homeless Link and NACCOM’s policy briefing

Alongside over 75 organisations across the UK, we have supported this policy briefing on migrant homelessness published by Homeless Link and NACCOM. The briefing has been shared with Minister for Border...

Joint letter to the Prime Minister: We call on the new UK Government to fix our broken asylum system

Alongside over 300 organisations and over 500 individuals we have written to the incoming Prime Minister urging him to fix our broken asylum system and to protect, rather than punish, people seeking...

Joint letter to Prime Minister: Calling on the UK Government to fulfil Promises to Afghan allies

Alongside other organisations, we signed a joint letter addressed to the UK Prime Minister urging the UK Government to act now to provide safe routes, offer welcome, and take responsibility for Afghans...

General Election: We signed a joint letter calling on MP Candidates to Use Humanising and Respectful language When Talking about Migrants and Refugees

Alongside other human rights and migrant rights and justice organisations, we signed a joint letter calling on all parliamentary candidates to stop using migrants as scapegoats for the challenges the ...

General Election: we signed a joint letter addressed to all Party Leaders calling for comprehensive asylum and immigration reform

We have joined over 100 organisations in signing a joint letter to all Party Leaders, urging them to implement both immediate and long-term changes in the next government. Our goal is to transform the...

Rwanda Act: We signed a joint open letter addressed to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak

Alongside over 250 organisations, following the passage of the UK Parliament’s ‘Safety of Rwanda’ Bill, we wrote to the Prime Minister to express our outrage. We urge the UK Government to listen to the...

Gaza Family Scheme: We signed a joint letter addressed to the Home Secretary

Alongside over 70 organisations across the UK, we signed a joint letter — coordinated by The Gaza Families Reunited campaign — asking the Home Secretary to introduce a Gaza Family Scheme. Read the full...

Second reading in the House of Lords for the Rwanda Bill: We signed a joint statement with over 250 organisations

Alongside over 250 charities and organisations across UK we signed a joint statement calling on the House of Lords to reject the shameful Rwanda Bill. You can access the joint statement here....

Statutory Instruments allowing for the use of scientific methods to assess age: we signed a joint parliamentary briefing addressed to MPs and Peers

Alongside the Refugee Council and the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, we signed a joint parliamentary briefing outlining our concerns with the UK Government’s intention to authorise the...

PRESS RELEASE on Rwanda ruling: We signed a joint statement calling on the UK Gov to abandon this plan

Alongside a coalition of over 120 organisations across UK, we call on the UK Government to immediately abandon such plans with Rwanda or with any other country, and instead protect the rights of people...

UNCRC (Incorporation) (Scotland) Bill: we wrote to the Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice

Alongside Together (Scottish Alliance for Children’s Rights), we wrote a letter to the Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice asking the Scottish Government to set out a clear timetable for legislative ...

UNCRC (Incorporation) (Scotland) Bill: we signed a joint letter addressed to the Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice

Together with other organisations across Scotland, we wrote to the Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice regarding the progress of reconsideration of the  UNCRC (Incorporation) (Scotland) Bill. We think...

PRESS RELEASE: We call upon the Scottish Government to heed the recommendations of the Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee’s report and take action to safeguard the human rights of the people attacked by the Illegal Migration Act 2023

We call upon the Scottish Government to heed the recommendations of the Committee’s report, reaffirm its commitment to take action, and say clearly and publicly what steps it will take to safeguard the...

Illegal Migration Act: We signed a statement addressed to local authorities

Alongside other organisations across UK, we have signed a joint statement addressed to local authorities as this Act will impact them - in terms of local cohesion, local services, support for people...

Supporting and respecting the lives of LGBTQ+ and Women Migrants: we signed a joint letter addressed to the UK Prime Minister

Alongside other organisations including Amnesty, End Violence Against Women Coalition, Refugee Council and Women For Refugee Women, we have written to UK Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, asking him to...

#RefugeeBanBill: We signed a joint civil society statement on the passage of the Bill

Alongside a coalition of 290 organisations representing the human rights, migrants’ rights, refugee and asylum, anti-trafficking, children’s, violence against women and girls, LGBTQI+, disability rights,...

#RefugeeBanBill: we signed a joint letter addressed to the Scottish Parliament’s Presiding Officer

Together with Scottish Refugee Council, Human Rights Consortium Scotland and Amnesty Scotland, we wrote to Alison Johnstone - Presiding Officer, Scottish Parliament, asking for an explanation re the...

#RefugeeBanBill: we signed an open letter to the Prime Minister, calling on the UK Government to scrap plans to lock up refugee children

Together with UK’s top children’s charities, we signed an open letter to the Prime Minister, calling on the UK Government to scrap plans to lock up refugee children as part of the [Illegal] Migration ...

Amendment on compliance with international obligations: We signed a joint briefing on the #RefugeeBanBill

Together with over 60 organisations working across the UK, we signed this joint briefing to urge Parliamentarians to support the cross-party Lords Amendment on compliance with international obligations...

PRESS RELEASE: Scottish Government must show ‘real leadership’ to stop UK Government’s attack on human rights

Alongside Scottish Refugee Council and Children and Young People’s Commissioner Scotland, we call on the Scottish Government and public bodies to use their powers and fulfil their human rights obligations...