Newsletters

PAFRAS’s bimonthly newslet­ter con­tains infor­ma­tion on the organisation’s activ­i­ties as well as news and opin­ion on cur­rent asy­lum pol­icy and prac­tice in the UK. It also pro­vides updates on staffing and vol­un­teer­ing changes and spe­cific requests for urgently needed dona­tions. Click on a newslet­ter title (e.g. Newslet­ter 18) to down­load it.

Newslet­ter 25

Decem­ber 2011 — Jan­u­ary 2012

• PAFRAS Christ­mas
• Iran­ian Embassy Closure
• Fundrais­ing News
• IAS Clo­sure Update

Newslet­ter 24

August — Sep­tem­ber 2011

• After Case Res­o­lu­tion: A legacy of uncon­cluded cases and trau­ma­tised asy­lum seekers
• Racist and inad­e­quately trained: Inspec­tion by HM Chief Inspec­tor of Pris­ons finds forced removals escorts lacking
• UPDATE: Legal Aid in Leeds
• Our Thanks
• Fundrais­ing News
• Kitchen Worker Needed

Newslet­ter 23

May-July 2011

• PAFRAS Braced for Cuts
• Leeds’s “Only” Legal Aid Provider for Asy­lum Cases Closes
• Staff Changes At PAFRAS
• Our Thanks
• Urgent Appeal for Donations
• Kitchen Worker Needed

Newslet­ter 22

March-April 2011

• ESOL Pro­vi­sion Under Threat
• Lind­holme IRC Crit­i­cised by Pris­ons Inspectorate
• Mis­sion Accom­plished — Jim Row­land com­pletes his half-marathon (and more than dou­bles his fund-raising target)
• Another Chance to See Charles Peck’s Photography
• Vol­un­teers Needed!

Newslet­ter 21

January-February 2011

• Rain­bow Hearts Project
• Run a Mile in these Shoes!
• Exhi­bi­tion: Every­day Life in A War Zone

Newslet­ter 20

November-December 2010

• New Report, The Wages of Fear: Risk, safety and undoc­u­mented work
• New PAFRAS Brief­ing, Where now for Jus­tice? Legal Aid in West Yorkshire
• Cel­e­brat­ing Christ­mas, and our volunteers
• Impris­oned and exploited: the immi­gra­tion detainees who work for next to nothing

Newslet­ter 19

September-October 2010

• Father of five killed dur­ing forced depor­ta­tion from the UK
• 79% of asy­lum seek­ers are wrongly refused Legal Aid at appeal
• New Pafras Website

Newslet­ter 18

July-August 2010

• Straw­ber­ries and Song: fund-raising for PAFRAS
• Child Deten­tion Not Ended: the deten­tion of chil­dren for immi­gra­tion pur­poses continues
• No Access to Jus­tice: Legal Aid cuts

Newslet­ter 17

May-June 2010

• The Arch­bishop of York vis­its PAFRAS drop-in
• New rules for Fresh Claims
• Refugee & Migrant Jus­tice is forced into Administration
• 60 sec­ond inter­view with Ann Sar­gent, Red Cross Case­worker at the PAFRAS drop-in

Newslet­ter 16

March-April 2010

• Urgent appeal for donations
• Staff changes at PAFRAS
• Health­care Pol­icy Update

Newslet­ter 15

July-August 2009

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May-June 2009

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March-April 2009

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January-February 2009

Newslet­ter 11

November-December 2008

Newslet­ter 10

September-October 2008

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July-August 2008

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May-June 2008

Newslet­ter 7

March-April 2008

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January-February 2008

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November-December 2007

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September-October 2007

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July-August 2007

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May-June 2007

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March-April 2007