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Breaking Connections
'Before the pandemic many of us would have struggled to imagine a life being separated from loved ones, living with restrictions on our freedom to move about and not able to easily buy necessities. Since the spread of Covid-19 we can now understand the frustrations and despair that accompanied such
In search of justice for young Albanians
David Neale, a legal researcher and former barrister for Garden Court Chambers, writes in his blog for Refugee Week about his experiences collaborating on MiCLU’s Breaking the Chains project. Breaking the Chains was created in 2018 as a partnership between MiCLU and Shpresa Programme, a user-led organisation serving the Albanian community. David writes: “As
21 charities ask Children’s Commissioner to investigate failings to children & young people in the Covid-19 crisis
MiCLU, ECPAT UK, Shpresa Programme, Young Roots and 17 other charities have asked the Children’s Commissioner to investigate failings to children and young people in the Covid-19 crisis. In our letter to Anne Longfield, we highlight the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 lockdown on looked after children and young people seeking asylum, including those
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Previous Events
Evening Event: Changing Our Heads: Failing to recognise the human rights violations of children and women from Albania – 31 January 2017 (London)
This free evening event at the Houses of Parliament, sponsored by the Rt Hon Stephen Timms MP, aims to gather and give voice to practitioners across a range of disciplines who provide care, support and legal representation to Albanian children, young people and women, along with experts working in the
Workshop: Trauma, Memory and Evidence in Assessing the Claims of Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children in the UK – 7 December 2016 (Glasgow)
A free afternoon workshop for lawyers and mental health and other professionals working with unaccompanied asylum seeking children in Scotland, organised by the Migrant and Refugee Children’s Legal Unit (MiCLU) at Islington Law Centre, with the Centre for the Study of Emotion and Law (CSEL) and the Legal Services Agency
Conference: Supporting young asylum-seekers in a hostile environment: How rights have changed after the 2014 & 2016 Immigration Acts – 24 November 2016 (Canterbury)
This free, one-day conference, jointly sponsored by Kent Law Clinic and MiCLU and hosted by the University of Kent, will explore challenges facing practitioners in providing care, support and legal representation to young asylum seekers following the 2014 and 2016 Immigration Acts. The conference aims to bring together social workers
