Syrian refugees talk of their ‘dangerous journey’ to the UK, ‘blessed refuge in Manchester’ and thoughts on UK migration policy, as they feature in a new documentary showing the lives of Syrian refugee families living in the city.

Popular Manchester nightclub and music venue The Deaf Institute will play host to a charity night organized by People Over Borders this Sunday.

All 28 Member States must plan and act on an EU-wide solution to end the refugee crisis says a North West MEP, as cross-party MEPs in the UK condemn David Cameron’s refusal to take migrants under the proposed EU quota.

Stockport’s council leader is determined to accept more Syrian refugees but says her borough and all of Greater Manchester will need greater government support if they are to carry out this ‘simple act of human compassion’.

Bishop David Walker has sought to ‘move the refugee crisis debate on’ by asking every Greater Manchester Council, ‘how many migrants will you take?’.

Things kick-off today with RAPAR’s Rhythm and Justice Summer Festival which is being billed as a celebration of diversity within the Manchester community.

Asylum seekers are an ‘unfair burden’ on Rochdale and many should go ‘back to their own country’, according to the town’s MP Simon Danczuk.

Hundreds of people turned up at the People’s History Museum last Saturday to celebrate ‘Refugee Week’

The Manchester poet and playwright Lemn Sissay has brought his adaption of Benjamin Zephaniah’s 2001 critically acclaimed novel, Refugee Boy, to the Waterside Arts Centre in Salford

Refugee and asylum organisation RAPAR campaign for asylum seekers’ rights

MM chat to Manchester’s Red Cross workers about their work