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Join CamCRAG Saturday 7 March, at St Giles’ Church for our spring fair! Afterwards, our sponsored volunteers will sleep in the church grounds to raise money for refugees in Europe and the hungry in Cambridge. Would you like to be a sponsored sleeper? For more, see camcrag.org.uk/event/spring...

A week of music from around the world – free entry to all events !

Join us tomorrow for an in-person public seminar with Dr Aristel Skrbic

The price of Fortress Europe: Critical reflections on the EU’s migration policies and constitutional horizons

📍Oxford Department for International Development
📅 5pm, 4 Feb
Registration not required

www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/events

Nearly 23 million extra deaths worldwide by 2030 as aid cuts bite, study says The findings – published in the influential health journal The Lancet – show that Donald Trump’s closure of USAID could lead to more than 14m deaths alone

NEW: Nearly 23 million additional deaths are expected by 2030 as a result of aid cuts, a new report estimates.

This analysis confirms what we’re already seeing- cuts to aid are not just budget decisions, they are death sentences for children.

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Earned settlement The government is consulting on how the current settlement system should be reformed and how those reforms should be implemented.

We already see the harm current settlement routes can cause individuals, including mental and physical health issues, destitution and separation from families. All issues liable to increase under the current proposals.
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Defending Refugees in Trump’s First Year - Refugees International

Defending Refugees in Trump’s First Year #Refugees

Well worth watching.

Reeves plans to refund some visa fees in effort to attract ‘trailblazer’ investment to UK Chancellor, who flies to Davos on Tuesday, will announce changes aimed at encouraging global firms to bring highly skilled staff to Britain

It's hard to see how the Government expects to attract highly skilled workers while rewriting the rules to push out doctors, care workers, engineers - workers from ANY industry - already building lives here.

If promises don’t hold, why would anyone trust them?

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

UK’s plans to seize asylum seekers’ phones condemned by campaigners People who are sent to Manston processing centre will be eligible for searches for electronic devices from Monday

New year, same hostility.

Today, new powers come into force subjecting men, women & children to invasive searches - including inside their mouths - to seize their phones.

This comes despite a 2022 court ruling that found a similar policy unlawful.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Description: Migrant Channel crossing incidents. A group of people thought to be migrants are brought in to the Border Force compound in Dover, Kent, by a Border Force vessel following a small boat incident in the Channel. Picture date: Monday January 5, 2026. Photo: Gareth Fuller/picture-alliance

Description: Migrant Channel crossing incidents. A group of people thought to be migrants are brought in to the Border Force compound in Dover, Kent, by a Border Force vessel following a small boat incident in the Channel. Picture date: Monday January 5, 2026. Photo: Gareth Fuller/picture-alliance

📷The first group of migrants crossing the English Channel in the new year arrived in Dover, UK, on Monday, January 5.

Temperatures were reported to be bitterly cold at 1 °C, feeling like -3 °C. Pictures show what appear to be officials taking a stretcher on and off the boat.

Refugees at risk of street homelessness have until 16 January to extend their asylum accommodation - Free Movement Following a interim agreement reached with the Home Office to prevent street homelessness, refugees living in asylum accommodation and receiving subsistence

New from Free Movement: Refugees at risk of street homelessness have until 16 January to extend their asylum accommodation | Ralitsa Peykova

Small boat death victims including girl, 8, named as dozens die in 2025 At least 36 people died making the perilous journey from France to the UK in 2025, charities estimate, with an eight-year-old girl among the victims - amid calls to record all small boat deaths

Agdad Hilmi was 8 years old. She was one of at least 36 people who lost their lives in the Channel in 2025, searching for safety & family.

Behind this number are real people, with names, stories, and loved ones. People who were loved and are deeply missed.
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Coffee & Chat at Cambridge Central Library - a relaxed gathering with refreshments, games & activities for adults and children. Free event supported by Cambridge Ethnic Community Forum. No English needed. Do book a date to come along via:
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Ukraine/Russia: Peace Efforts Should Put Human Impact First (Berlin, November 27, 2025) – The People First Campaign on November 26, 2025, urged key leaders involved with a proposed Ukraine peace plan to ensure that any peace plan regarding Russia’s war against...

#Ukraine/#Russia peace efforts should put people first:
Free Ukrainian civilians held by Russia, prisoners of war on both sides, Russian political prisoners, and Ukrainian children deported or forcibly transferred by Russian authorities.

Read more: www.hrw.org/news/2025/11...

Government migration reforms risk increasing vulnerability of women - Rights of Women Last week, the government announced proposed changes to its asylum and wider migration policy that will have far-reaching effects for people living in the UK. While the full details are yet to be publ...

Migrant women already face barriers to safety - proposed migration reforms threaten to heighten risk and make them even more vulnerable.

Rights of Women stands in solidarity with women and the organisations supporting them.

Full response: www.rightsofwomen.org.uk/government-m...

If SAFETY was UK governments' priority, they'd have created SAFE routes a long time ago

We’re taking part in the @refugeestogether.bsky.social winter poster action to show our communities stand with refugees.

Order your free posters and display them in your windows from 5–7 December.

Don’t forget to share photos of your posters with #HopeInEveryWindow

Order now: lnkd.in/eupss5Kv

A reminder about the CHRISTMAS 2025 POTTERY EXHIBITION & SALE tomorrow and Sunday at 57 Ditton Walk, Cambridge CB5 8QD. Beautiful handmade ceramics for Christmas gifts! More details at: www.kilncambridge.com/events

Rebuilding Ukraine: A Conversation with Ukrainian Deputy Minister A Conversation with Deputy Minister of Communities and Territories Development of Ukraine Alyona Shkrum, Cambridge Alumna

Do come along to this Cambridge Ukrainian Studies event on UKRAINIAN RECONSTRUCTION. It will take the form of a conversation focusing on Ukraine’s reconstruction efforts amid the ongoing war. For more details, please go to: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rebuilding...

CHRISTMAS 2025 POTTERY EXHIBITION & SALE, 22-23 November
Discover beautiful handmade ceramics at Kiln Cambridge, 57 Ditton Walk, Cambridge CB5 8QD. Over 35 potters will be showcasing their work. Perfect for Christmas gifts! More details at: www.kilncambridge.com/events

Show you stand together with refugees.

From the 5-7 Dec we’re asking you to put up a poster to show you stand for hope not hostility.

Let's fill our communities with this message of unity.

Order your posters now actionnetwork.org/forms/order-...

This afternoon Nigel Farage failed to pass his bill to take the UK out of the ECHR. The ECHR protects us all and we must continue to resist attempts to remove this vital safety net. History teaches us clearly: rights can be lost quickly if we don't defend them.

History teaches us clearly: rights can be lost quickly if we don't defend them.

Act now: amn.st/633227EWl4

The European Convention on Human Rights protects every single one of us in the UK.

Some politicians want to tear up these protections to distract us from the real problems affecting our daily lives.

Solidarity isn’t seasonal. 💙

As crises continue around the world, millions of refugees are still searching for safety, dignity and hope.

Let’s keep standing together, because compassion should never fade. #WithRefugees

Migrants make the NHS Migrants, far from being a drain on the NHS, form a huge chunk of its underpaid workforce, and put less burden on it than the rest of the country, explains Tom Griffiths Anti-migrant rhetoric is on...

Migrants, far from being a drain on the NHS, form a huge chunk of its underpaid workforce, and put less burden on it than the rest of the country

The numbers that prove the one-in, one-out migrant policy isn't working Limiting asylum seekers arriving in the UK on small boats is a key issue for the Government

There's a far more important number. It's missing because the Government refuses to record it.

How many people have died in the Channel trying to reach safety since this failed policy was launched.

1-in-1-out will never stop dangerous journeys, because it doesn't create a real, safe alternative.

Join CamCRAG for their annual ceilidh – an exciting evening of high energy folk dancing with The Jumping Beans at St Giles's church, Saturday 22 November from 7.30pm. For tickets, go to: www.ticketsource.co.uk/camcrag/t-xd...