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Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters joins team of new Palestinian resistance documentary

Freedom Theatre — Directed by Rishi Pelham, the film spotlights a theatre operating in the Jenin refugee camp.

  • Activism
  • Ella Glossop

Ra’ed Khan and the tireless work of Road to Freedom

Hurriyah — Having been providing frontline aid and support to refugees for over a decade, a new book featuring poetry by Omar Mooro traces the story of the NGO. In this chapter extract, founder and music executive Ra’ed Khan explains its origins.

  • Activism
  • Isaac Muk
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In a razed Damascus refugee camp, one martial arts club holds its stance

Yarmouk Fight Club — Once the home of 200,000 Palestinians, the Yarmouk Camp was a bustling community and sanctuary, until Assad’s forces launched a deadly siege in 2013. As a small handful of returnees attempt to rebuild from the rubble, a Muay Thai gym is providing space for catharsis.

  • Sport
  • Jake Pace Lawrie
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Aram Sabbah: “The whole world is hypocritical”

To a Land Unknown — One of Palestine’s first ever, and most prominent skaters has made his acting debut, playing a refugee in Athens in Mahdi Fleifel’s new feature film. We caught up with him in our culture newsletter to hear about it.

  • Culture
  • Isaac Muk
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Afghanistan’s women’s football team are fighting to play

Scoring in exile — Having fled to Australia in the wake the Taliban takeover, a new women’s refugee team has been set up by FIFA. But still unable to take part in official tournaments, players are dreaming of full recognition.

  • Sport
  • Jessie Williams

My life as an LGBTQ asylum seeker in the UK

Although the UK is more tolerant than the country they fled, the government's persecution of migrants and LGBTQ people, as well as the labyrinthine asylum system, continues to make torture survivor King feel unsafe.

  • Election 2024
  • King, a client at Freedom from Torture

An intimate portrait of Vietnam half a century after the war

Returning to the country that her family had fled, photographer Tracy Dong charts her journey self-discovery, community, and connection in the new book, Tell Me About Saigon.

  • Photography
  • Miss Rosen

Evocative photos capturing the final months of Yugoslavia

Signs by the Roadside — Miro Kuzmanovic reflects on using photography to navigate senseless acts of war and losing one’s homeland and youth.

  • Culture
  • Miss Rosen

The Homes for Ukraine scheme won’t help the most vulnerable

Rethinking resettlement — With its new resettlement scheme, the government is outsourcing the responsibility for a humanitarian crisis and failing to account for the complex needs of people fleeing war.

  • Activism
  • Tiara Ataii

Black and brown people fleeing Ukraine are facing attack

Search for Sanctuary — While many people escaping war have been welcomed by Ukraine’s neighbouring countries, the threat of coordinated attacks from white supremacists have left some fearing for their safety.

  • Activism
  • Taiwo Balogun

The vigil in London to honour the lives lost in the Channel

Borders kill — After at least 27 people lost their lives in the deadliest channel crossing on record, hundreds gathered for a vigil outside the Home Office, demanding an end to the hostile environment.

  • Activism
  • Huck

The Borders Bill is a violent solution to an imaginary crisis

Welcome refugees — Priti Patel’s Nationality and Borders Bill relies on falsehoods around the illegality of channel crossings and will only endanger refugees. We must resist the government’s scaremongering tactics, writes JIWC’s communications officer, Nadia Hasan.

  • Opinion
  • Nadia Hasan

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