Shocking living standards for some Manchester asylum seekers have been revealed following a Real Radio investigation aided by Mule. Read on to see how a property run by private housing provider Happy Homes UK Ltd has failed to provide adequate housing to some of Manchester’s most vulnerable people…
With communities reeling from cuts, poverty among the most vulnerable in society remains as high and relevant as ever. Bernadette Hyland speaks to one group in Oldham seeking to bring communities together and end the enforced destitution of asylum seekers.
An exiled human rights activist and journalist is facing deportation to Sierra Leone after 12 years of living and working in the North West. James Fallah-William’s case has been described as one of “incompetence and ineffectiveness” on the part of the authorities, with the UK Borders Agency (UKBA) accused of lying to his local MP.
Despite an intervention by a local MP it appears that the Vahidi family are to face deportation on Thursday December 23 back to Iran where they face ‘grave danger’.
Supporters of South Manchester Law Centre are to hold a protest outside the full Manchester City Council meeting this coming Wednesday 8 December, Albert Square at 9am as part of the campaign to save the law centre and restore its funding.
Supporters of the South Manchester Law Centre (SMLC) and Greater Manchester Immigration Aid Unit (GMIAU) staged a protest outside the Manchester office of the Legal Services Commission (LSC) yesterday, Monday 15 November, calling on them to back down from a legal challenge launched by the SMLC and to restore their full funding.
With a week to go before the next hearing in the ongoing legal challenge to restore funding to South Manchester Law Centre, campaign organisers have called for people to join them in front of the court next Monday, 8 November, to continue the show of community solidarity.
