Refugee Week 🧡
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World's largest arts & culture festival celebrating the contributions, creativity and resilience of refugees. 15-21 June 2026 #RefugeeWeek
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📣 Refugee Week 2026 Theme Announcement: COURAGE The word courage comes from the Latin cor, meaning “heart.” 👉Read here: https://t.co/fQ9IFJ6NYS
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Our message to the Arts & Culture sector: will you join us and show Courage for Refugee Week 2026? Refugee Week marks 75 years since the UN Refugee Convention – a commitment that people forced to flee deserve protection, dignity & hope. Take part now: https://t.co/D9dUFlHPmV
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People who have been persecuted, tortured or seen family members killed in brutal wars are not "asylum shopping." As our CEO told @thetimes, refugees don’t compare asylum systems before running for their lives. https://t.co/LD9TeqATDD
thetimes.com
Shabana Mahmood will announce Denmark-style plans to increase deportations and reduce pull factors to the UK
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A little kindness goes a long way. If you want to start your week with compassion, rather than division, read these messages from our supporters. https://t.co/7G834pYmj8
refugeecouncil.org.uk
Read inspiring messages of kindness shared by our supporters for refugees across Britain.
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📢Event alert! Drawing Us Together – Sudan's Youth, In Conversation 🗓️ 4-9pm Sat 1 Nov '25 📍 King's College London, London WC2R 2LS 🎟️ Booking essential https://t.co/I6xefuhC3J Join for youth conversation, live original poetry & theatre, & honouring Sudan's martyrs. More 👇
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🌍🎥 NEW: Host your own free film screening this November! Introducing Our Shared Futures: Climate & Migration Film Festival 2025 - powerful films about climate, migration & hope. 📅 21–30 Nov (during #COP30) 📍 UK-wide + online 💻 Films FREE to stream (21–30 Nov only) Host
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We've joined over 100 organisations calling on the new Home Secretary to unite communities. Scapegoating refugees won’t fix inequality, housing shortages, or a crumbling NHS. Real solutions will. Read our open letter here: https://t.co/lFh6Byg5pe
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📢From exec producer Michael Moore @MMFlint FROM GROUND ZERO 22 extraordinary stories. 22 Palestinian filmmakers. Living through the unimaginable. Don't look away. In UK & Ireland cinemas from 12 September. London Premiere @GenesisCinema with Q&A.
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📢 We are hiring! Exciting opportunity to join our dynamic team as an Intern. 👉Apply here: https://t.co/vP5yYpG3uB
#UNJobs #UNcareers
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Today we join over 200 orgs to call on Party Leaders to end the divisive politics, racist rhetoric and demonising language of the past. Only then will they bring unity instead of division and cohesion rather than hate. #TogetherWithRefugees
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"It is time for you, our leaders, to take a strong and united stand." Thanks to the 200+ orgs that joined our call for party leaders to end the divisive politics, racist rhetoric and demonising language of the past🧡👇 https://t.co/NxPmcrptpE
mirror.co.uk
Demonstrations have been held outside hotels housing asylum seekers including the Bell Hotel in Epping, Essex, and in London and Newcastle. They have been met with counter-protests by anti-racism...
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CULTURAL RHYTHMS 2025 / Refugee Week Lithuania https://t.co/06TGvfXG9V via @YouTube By @AgencyArtscape & @Refugees, part of global #refugeeweek
#artofchange #lithuania
#community @CounterArts
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Thanks to those who took part in the “Sharing Food, Sharing languages” event hosted at Eden Court to mark Refugee Week events. The event brought together over 200 people from New Scots and host Communities to promote diversity, cross-cultural understanding and connect people.
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Real stories of #Rotherham courage, contribution and community were championed at @GBCHousing’s Refugee Week event which highlighted the power of kindness! Full story 👉 https://t.co/vrVQYL1PlT
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rotherhamadvertiser.co.uk
Refugees bringing energy, talent and diversity to Yorkshire communities was the message celebrating the power of kindness at Green Bridge Community Housing’s (GBCH) first-ever Refugee Week.
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As part of Refugee Week, I visited Out in Cov, a LGBTQ+ refugee group that’s supported people from around the world for over a decade. Solidarity with all seeking safety and the freedom to live as their authentic selves 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
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Today, on Windrush Day 2025, we honour the men and women who kept Britain moving. From buses to the Underground, Windrush transport workers helped drive the country forward — one route at a time. #WindrushDay #Windrushgeneration #BlackBritishHistory #LondonTransport #TFL
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"Afghan women need support from the international community." says film director @Sahra_Mani Tonight, #Afghan #Women’s voices are ringing out in a full theatre. #BreadAndRoses reminds us why @RefugeeWeek matters & how storytelling can be a form of resistance.
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Happy National Windrush Day! It’s important to recognise the contribution and legacies of the Windrush generation + descendants year-round, but today is still a special moment to reflect and commemorate the 77th anniversary of HMT Empire Windrush coming to Britain #WindrushDay
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