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ASYLUM and IMMIGRATION
We believe that we are called to welcome the stranger in our midst. We recognise the human dignity of asylum seekers, refugees and immigrants. We believe that we should treat others as we would like to be treated ourselves. The Commission recognises that behind statistics and headlines are real stories of broken lives and families. We will work to achieve a warmer welcome for the stranger in our midst and for fair treatment for all who seek asylum.
Human Rights Violations in Sri Lanka - Continuing Conflicts that Create Refugees
Home Office UK Asylum Statistics for April/May/June (21/08/07)
New Home Secretary "Should back amnesty for 'illegal' workers"
Official launch of Medical Justice Network
Removal of asylum seekers to third countries, incompatible with ECHR law
Obstacles to accountability: challenging the immigration detention of families
New Church guide for understanding and managing migration
Continuing Conflicts that Create Refugees / July 2007
Making Sense of Asylum - The Asylum Process Explained
UK Asylum Statistics: 1st Quarter Jan/Feb/March 2007
More children held at Dungavel
Deputy First Minister Nicol Stephen condemns dawn raids
Archbishop Conti condems dawn raids
Dawn Raids won't stop over Christmas
Minister confirms asylum reform
Scottish churches representatives meet with Minister for Immigration
www.scottishrefugeecouncil.org.uk
www.refugeeweek.org.uk
Asylum Seekers sentenced to destitution by Section 4
Living Ghosts Campaign
National Coalition of Anti-Deportation Campaigns
Jesuit Refugee Service
Asylum children: Jailed at birth.
Yarls Wood Healthcare Report (pdf 954kb)
500 take part in anti-dawn raid rally in Glasgow 7.10.06
Bicentenary of the Abolition of the Transatlantic Slave Trade.
Join the Anti Slavery Freedom Fight
2007 marks 200 years since the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade in the British Empire. Tens of thousands of ordinary people signed petitions as part of the campaign to abolish the Transatlantic Slave Trade. Today slavery affects millions of people around the world. By signing the Declaration you can be part of a new mass movement for change. You can also write to your MP and spread the word to family and friends by sending them an ecard
Justice and Peace is part of an ecumenical group in Scotland which will be marking the Christian input to the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade, as well as acknowledging the involvement of many Christians in the slave trade. A series of events throughout Scotland is being planned for 2007 including a national ecumenical service which will held in June. Further details will be posted here when they are available. This Scottish Ecumenical group has been working closely with the 'Set all free' project of Churches Together in England
Join the Anti Slavery Freedom Fight
Freedom for all
ScotlandandSlavery
Third World Debt
Lift the Lid on Bad Loans
Stop the Vulture Fund Preying on Zambia - Take Action Today!
Strings attached to debt relief are strangling health and education in developing countries. Join the Jubilee/Oxfam Scotland email action. TAKE ACTION NOW!
Fair Trade
Starbucks and Ethiopia on the verge of coffee trademark deal
Fairtrade Scotland 2007 conference report
Tell Starbucks to Give Ethiopian Farmers Their Fair Share
Bring Fairtrade into your workplace
 TRADE JUSTICE
We believe that everyone has the right to feed their families, make a decent living and protect the environment. But the rich and powerful are pursuing trade policies that put profits before the needs of people and the planet. To end poverty and protect the environment we need trade justice, not free trade. The Commission will campaign along with SCIAF for policies which bring about trade justice.
750 million lives are in the balance if harmful Economic Partnership Agreements go ahead in their current form.
E-mail German Chancellor Angela Merkel now.
Trade Justice - New Trade Deals, New Danger (EPAs)
Right Corporate Wrongs reaches a major milestone with the Companies Bill which has concluded its passage through Parliament and become law as the Companies Act Nov 2006.
The Companies Act An update for supporters (Nov 2006)
Improvements to Companies Bill - movement towards corporate responsibility 18 October 2006
New Trade Deals, New Danger The campaign on Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs)
Right corporate wrongs new laws for trade justice
Global Call to Action Against Poverty
Over 40 Million Stand up Against Poverty 2007
Global Call to Action Against Poverty. March 07 newsletter
Over 23 Million Stand Up Against Poverty! 2006
Global Call to Action Against Poverty - Global White Band Day
Clean Drinking Water CLEAN DRINKING WATER
The UN aims to halve the number of people without access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation by 2015, and stop the over-exploitation of water resources. To meet these goals, water managfement strategies are needed which provide equal access and adequate supplies of clean drinking water for everyone. The Commission is encouraging everyone to consider their use of water resources and to put pressure on politicians to ensure that the Government plays its part in achieving this aim.
WATER, AN ESSENTIAL ELEMENT FOR LIFE
Dirty Aid Dirty Water
World Water Day
Control Arms campaign 100 Days of Action
After three years' hard work by Control Arms campaigners all around the world, the UN voted in October 2006 in favour of a resolution to start work on an Arms Trade Treaty. The new resolution commits the United Nations to set up a Group of Governmental Experts to establish the basis of a comprehensive, legally binding instrument establishing common international standards for the import, export and transfer of conventional arms An Arms Trade Treaty.
The Control Arms campaign is a joint Oxfam, Amnesty International and International Action Network on Small Arms (IANSA) initiative, campaigning for an international Arms Trade Treaty. For more information on the Control Arms campaign, click here
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