NCADC – blog

This week – on Thursday June 6th – the world’s largest security firm G4S, will hold its annual general meeting in the City of London. A large coalition of groups, including NCADC, has called for a demonstration to be held outside the event, in protest of G4S’s varying and widespread human rights abuses. This article, by [...]

This week – on Thursday June 6th – the world’s largest security firm G4S, will hold its annual general meeting in the City of London. A large coalition of groups, including NCADC, has called for a demonstration to be held outside the event, in protest of G4S’s varying and widespread human rights abuses. This article, by [...]

Next week on Thursday June 6th the world’s largest security firm G4S, will hold its annual general meeting in the City of London. A large coalition of groups, including NCADC, has called for a demonstration to be held outside the event, in protest of G4S’s varying and widespread human rights abuses. This article is the [...]

NCADC is proud to announce a tour of the Mazloom play, for Young People Seeking Safety week. The tour begins on 24 June (see below).  Before we hit the road, there is one last chance to see the play and let us know what you think … for free. This scratch performance is at 5pm [...]

Serious assault on access to justice We have been warning for some time of an impending disaster.  Over the past couple of years, whenever we have spoken with people (and there are so many) who have struggled to access justice within the asylum and immigration system, who are at risk in their home country yet [...]

Transcript of statement, taken from INQUEST.org.uk We need justice. Justice will help Jimmy rest in peace. This will prevent this situation from happening again. My name is Adrienne Kambana. I am the widow of Jimmy Mubenga and the mother of our five children. I would like to make a statement to ask for justice for [...]

This is the text of a talk given by Lisa Matthews of NCADC at the 2013 SOAS Detainee Support conference on Saturday 27 April.  The panel was asked to consider: What are the strategic opportunities and risks of advocating for ‘alternatives’ to detention? Should we be promoting existing ‘alternatives’ such as bail, or case management [...]

Free NCADC workshop! Saturday 11 May, 10am to 3pm The Hub, Turl Street, Oxford This training session with the National Coalition of Anti-Deportation Campaigns (NCADC) is on campaigning for migration justice and stopping deportations. The training is based on the NCADC Campaigning Toolkit, published in September 2012. The Oxford workshop will be an introduction to [...]

Theresa May has a bad habit of ruining Sundays.  Sundays are a good day for her populist, racist pandering to the right-wing press to receive a lot of air-time.  Tempting as it is to ignore her attention-seeking power-hungry attempts to fashion her own legacy, her latest intervention in the Article 8-foreign ex-offenders-deportation affair came at [...]

Anti-deportation campaigning can be tough.  As Christmas approached, and UKBA began their seasonal assault on refused asylum seekers, the inhumanity of the immigration system loomed large. So we thought that this new year, we would take some time to think about why campaigning matters, and how it can and does mean justice is done and migrant voices [...]