Everyone deserves the right to live and thrive, regardless of their immigration status.
Congrats to Spain for this crucial victory for undocumented people!
The UK must follow suit and create a humane migration system with a simple route to regularisation.
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🎉 We won! The revised Single Permit Directive improves conditions for migrant workers. More needs to be done, but today we celebrate this promising step forward.

More in thread and in our press release: picum.org/blog/migrant-w…

The #Rwandabill is back in the House of Lords tomorrow.

We remind peers it will not fix the UK's broken asylum system. The only way to do that is to process asylum applications fairly and develop #SafeRoutes for refugee protection Enver Solomon 🧡

Read more 👇
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Today, we are proud to stand firmly in solidarity with Selma Taha Southall Black Sisters and her friends as they appear in court.

Confronting the racism embedded in our legal system is fundamental to Black and minoritised women's access to justice and safety.

Increases which come into force today will mean that people are unable to afford to be with their loved ones. It makes love effectively 'pay to play'. They will destroy people's lives and make basic rights conditional on how much they earn. They must be reversed. #ActionOnVisas

We meet people every day 'who have built families and lives here but are prevented from legally working here to support them by the hostile environment.'

inews: Spain approves rights for undocumented migrants - should the UK do the same? grahamkeeley

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🗣️ Restrictive work visas are driving people into exploitation

We welcome Stephen Kinnock’s letter to Rt Hon Michael Tomlinson MP on the need to address risks of exploitation on work visas, and invest in labour market enforcement

Thank you Stephen Kinnock for standing up for migrant workers' rights 🙏🏽

This is Mamadou Kouassi, the scriptwriter for 'Io Capitano' who inspired the story and lived through the journey himself, asking on behalf of the whole film crew that MEPs reject this #MigrationPact . ❤️

Join this webinar to hear learnings from this partnership project with FLEX

This Saturday, 6 April, migrant cleaners from Latin America marched into The Dorchester chanting “Justicia, Justicia' and demanding to see the person in charge. They left with bruises...

People under the age of 21 on the national minimum wage can end up being *£159 a week* worse off than older colleagues doing the same job.

Only the real Living Wage applies to all workers over the age of 18.

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So many people are struggling right now with the cost-of-living crisis. Poverty levels, including among children, are rising. Prices are going up constantly. On top of all of that migrants face tens of thousands of pounds in costs, just to live and work here. #ActionOnVisas

🚨From 11 April this week, the government is bringing cruel new visa plans into force which will price many more partners and families out of love.

Read below for info 🧵1/

📢There is a strong financial case for investing in community based, specialist by and for services supporting Black, minoritised & migrant victim-survivors of VAWG

Join us online on 24 Apr at 1pm as we launch our Investing in Safety model. Register 👇1/2
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Hey AirTanker, long time no see.

2 years ago you told us you wouldn’t fly refugees to Rwanda on behalf of the UK government ... now you're not answering our calls.

So we're turning up the heat.
Tell AirTanker: Don't profit from refugees' pain 👇
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A £55 fee is unaffordable for many low-income workers, who already struggle to meet basic needs.

ELAN’s response to the government’s consultation on a proposed fee for employment tribunals: bit.ly/3TLKQiG

🚨JUST OUT🚨

UN Human Rights publishes their Concluding Observations of 🇬🇧 calling for

🚫 Withdrawal of Rwanda bill
🚫 No slavery survivor to face further harm following the Nationality & Borders Act 22 & Illegal Migration Act 23
🚫Review visa policies which put migrants at risk

Social housing is designed to support those in greatest need. The proposal will have a disproportionate impact on migrant survivors escaping VAWG - whose basic rights to safety should not be conditioned on the number of years they’ve lived in the UK.
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Funding for labour abuse watchdog the GLAA has been cut despite a surge in exploitation in care work.

This shows the Home Office is deprioiritising tackling modern slavery, while 'pouring billions into immigration enforcement', said researcher Adis Sehic.
theguardian.com/world/2024/mar…

Restrictive visa routes, particularly where people are tied to a specific employer or sector, have been seen to increase the risks of exploitation. The UK is going backwards on combating modern slavery, by imposing policies which lead to it.

theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…