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Our aims Is to promote and exchange information, discuss long-term strategies for welcoming and working with refugee communities, and support initiatives that these communities are taking themselves towards self-determination and integration. And we aim to develop a critical framework of ideas with a particular interest in intersections between refugee-oriented work and other forms for critical opposition, including movements such as Cities of Sanctuary and Black Lives Matter. We exchange information and ideas on a constant basis and have built up an archive of over 130 current reports, articles and books that are freely available to our members.  We have also been meeting online for over a year, to explore and discuss topics such as:

Help and you are a criminal : the fight to defend refugee rights at Europe s borders | Refugees

Last modified on Wed 3 Mar 2021 07.09 EST At the offices of the Hungarian Helsinki Committee, a human rights group in Budapest, András Léderer and his colleagues have a map on which they track every asylum seeker – man, woman or child – who has been physically pushed back by police from the Hungarian border and into the forests of Serbia. The pushbacks are illegal under international law. Yet it is Léderer and his fellow human rights activists who could face arrest and a jail sentence if they went to the border to witness what is happening there. “We aren’t allowed to go to the border,” says Léderer. In 2018 it became illegal to help migrants claim asylum and this includes a ban on visiting the border. “Until the Covid lockdown we went to Serbia to speak to people, to record the stories of violence and humiliation, but we can’t even travel now. People are being beaten, dogs are used against them, their shoes taken, they have cold wate

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