News: Advocacy
News articles from JRS UK
Children’s Commissioner visits JRS UK to hear from refugee families
29 October 2025
Dame Rachel de Souza, Children's Commissioner for England, visited JRS UK at the end of October
[READ]The first flights have taken off under the ‘one-in-one-out’ agreement
22 September 2025
Behind every border policy are human lives
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Building a better asylum system: a letter to the Home Secretary
23 July 2024
Last week, Sarah wrote to the new Home Sec about three urgent priorities
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Jesuit Refugee Service: we will continue to stand with refugees
22 April 2024
The PM announced this morning that flights to Rwanda will begin in the next 12 weeks
[READ]Rwanda Scheme found to be UNLAWFUL!
29 June 2023
Court of Appeal finds forcibly transferring asylum seekers to Rwanda unlawful!
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“My thoughts are my secret power”: You can see me, but I don’t exist
27 June 2023
Refugee friends perform their creative poetry in public for Refugee Week
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New Report – Napier Barracks: the inhumane reality
29 March 2023
An in-depth report on the experiences of men held in quasi-detention at Napier Barracks
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Challenge this violence and hostility by community building
14 February 2023
JRS UK condemns violent protests against refugees in Merseyside
[READ]JRS UK excoriate Government’s latest announcement doubling down on plans to make asylum impossible
13 December 2022
JRS response to government plans for further hostilities in the UK asylum system
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JRS UK statement: petrol bomb attack at asylum processing centre
31 October 2022
The attack took place in context of vaunting demonisation & marginalisation of refugees.
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