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Showing posts with label refugees. Show all posts
Showing posts with label refugees. Show all posts
Wednesday, 10 June 2026
Tuesday, 21 February 2023
Asylum Hotel
This is one of the most powerful first-person pieces I’ve commissioned — an anonymous asylum seeker who witnessed the far-right riot in Knowsley… from inside the hotel they were violently protesting at: https://t.co/FHSR6T9Si8
— James Besanvalle (@JamesBesanvalle) February 21, 2023
Tuesday, 10 January 2023
Waheed Arian
BBC, Hardtalk, Waheed Arian: Migration in the Western world iPlayer needed for this. "War and extreme poverty drive millions of people from their homes every year. Some of them try to reach the rich Western world, where such inward migration routinely prompts fear and draconian counter-measures. Stephen Sackur interviews Waheed Arian, who fled war in Afghanistan as a child, made it to the UK and is now a doctor running his own medical charity. Do perceptions change when the story of migration is personalised?"
Labels:
Afghanistan,
medicine,
migration,
refugees
Thursday, 14 July 2022
Mo Farah
BBC News, Sir Mo Farah reveals he was trafficked to the UK as a child "He was flown over from the East African country aged nine by a woman he had never met, and then made to look after another family's children, he says."
Labels:
human rights,
modern day slavery,
refugees,
sport
Saturday, 21 August 2021
Refugees in Wales
Two clips from the BBC with young refugees giving advice about Wales.
'Maybe when you come you're going to feel a bit different, but you're going to get friends'
— BBC Wales News (@BBCWalesNews) August 20, 2021
A family of Syrian refugees offer advice to children fleeing Afghanistan on what they can expect if they settle in Wales pic.twitter.com/S0lYs4uAD1
#Afghanistan #Syria #Wales https://t.co/pmkmnaTJtK
— Gary Bunt (@garybunt) August 21, 2021
Thursday, 6 June 2019
Freedom 360
BBC News, Seeking asylum: 'Trusting our lives to people smugglers' "The stories of five people who fled persecution in their own countries and found sanctuary in Wales are being told via a virtual reality exhibition in Cardiff." Freedom 360 has info on the exhibit
Labels:
Cardiff,
exhibition,
photography,
refugees
Friday, 22 February 2019
White Helmets Refugees in UK
BBC News, UK rehomes some 100 Syria White Helmets and family members
Significant report from Catrin Nye.
Friday, 30 November 2018
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