action on asylum and refugees
churches' refugee network
conferences
2010
Caged Kids - Caged Minds
Britain's invisible handcuffs
Photo © Isabelle Merminod
Churches Refugee Network & Migrant Voice Annual Conference 2010
Saturday 5 June, 10.55 am - 4.30 pm (register from 10.30 am)
Holy Apostles Church Hall, 47 Cumberland Street, London SW1V 4LY
Keynote speakers
- The Future of Immigration in a Coalition government
Speaker: Dr.Evan Harris, former Lib-Dem MP for Oxford
Respondent: Don FLYNN, Director-Migrants Rights Network - Invisible handcuffs - children's responses to immigration detention
Speaker: Sheila MELZAK, Dir. Baobab Trust for exiled trauma survivors
Film
Finding your life after losing it - a love story...
with film makers Tim Langford and Andy Lee, and their subjects
Reports and Campaigns
- Surviving immigration detention - a testimony, Ex detainee FB
- Outcry - Dan Jones, Children's Soc + Bail for Immigration Detainees, (BID) speaker
- End Child Detention Now, Esmee Madill, CRN/York
- The Sanctuary Pledge - election debrief, Jonathan Cox/ Citizens-UK
- Researching Child Detention - an update, Jon Burnett/ Medical Justice
Workshops (choose two)
- The Sanctuary Pledge Campaigning locally and nationally - Jonathan Cox
- Immigrant children and the Law - Kamena Dorling/Children's Law Centre, Sheila Melzak, Jon Burnett-Medical Justice
- Legal changes 2010 - Steve Symonds/ILPA + immigration practitioner
Plenary
Feedback and farewell prayers
Booking
CRN conference 2010 - Information and booking (PDF)
2009
From Asylum...to Sanctuary
Restoring wholeness: refugee journeys to social integration
6 June 2009, Holy Apostles Hall, Cumberland Street, Pimlico SW1V 4LY.
Organised by the Churches Refugee Network with the Migrants Resource Centre.
CRN Conference 2009 - Information and booking (PDF)
2008
Walking With Strangers...Towards the Healing of Nations
Sat 17 May, Birmingham
CRN conference flyer 2008 (PDF)
2007
Down but not out: the needs of strangers
the 2007 conference took place on Sat 19th May.
Topics included:
Strangers into Citizens.
The Needs of Strangers.
The Health of Asylum Seekers.
2006
Place of danger, place of safety
