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Timeline of Glasgow’s deadly accommodation crisis
More refugees die here in the UK, in Home Office accommodation, than in Calais or trying to cross the Channel. Refugees are the world’s most resilient people. Many have crossed the Sahara desert and...
View ArticleRenewed call for independent, public inquiry into treatment of Glasgow asylum...
Add your name in support of a public inquiry Positive Action in Housing is renewing its call for a public inquiry into the treatment of Glasgow asylum seekers housed by Mears Group. 3,340...
View ArticleOffshore processing of asylum seekers?
Priti Patel’s motives for spending hundreds of millions more of taxpayers money on processing asylum seekers offshore needs to be questioned. The UK doesn’t actually have a refugee “problem” and...
View ArticleVacancy with Positive Action in Housing
Positive Action in Housing is an independent, anti-racist homelessness and human rights charity (SC027577) dedicated to supporting women, children and men from refugee and migrant backgrounds to...
View ArticlePatel’s anti refugee bill
With the “new borders bill” the UK is torching its international human rights obligations under the 1951 refugee convention. We are in danger of committing crimes against humanity by turning back those...
View ArticlePositive Action in Housing’s Football team to enter refugee tournament in...
The Rangers Charity Foundation has donated a set of kit to Positive Action in Housing’s football team – Glasgow’s very own ‘Dream Team’ who come from as far afield as Sierra Leone, Kenya and the Ivory...
View ArticleAfghan Resettlement Scheme
Responding to the news that Britain will launch a new resettlement scheme for Afghans who are most in need of help, especially women and girls, after the Taliban seized control of the country, Robina...
View ArticleSafe return to the office!
It’s not how it used to be, but today was the first time we had a significant staff presence in our office since March 2020. Everyone in our team is self testing twice weekly – Sundays and Wednesdays...
View ArticleThe Afghan Crisis and the need for the U.K. Government to recognise the worth...
Positive Action in Housing is geared up and ready to offer homes to Afghan civilians through our Room for Refugees Network. We are extremely concerned about the escalating humanitarian crisis in...
View ArticleShafiq Mohammed, Asylum rights campaigner, 3 September 1966 – 8 September 2021
By Robina Qureshi Sometime in 1993, a 27 year old Pakistani-Scots university student dropped by my office. He asked if he could volunteer. Shafiq Mohammed said he was interested in social housing. He...
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