Doing their bit: Manchester club hosts charity night to raise money for refugees
Popular Manchester nightclub and music venue The Deaf Institute will play host to a charity night organized by People Over Borders this Sunday.
North West MEPs condemn Cameron’s refusal to meet EU’s proposed refugee quota
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.
‘We are all moved by Syria’s plight’: Stockport Council will not stand by as refugees die
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’.
‘How many migrants will you take?’: Bishop of Manchester challenges local councils
Bishop David Walker has sought to ‘move the refugee crisis debate on’ by asking every Greater Manchester Council, ‘how many migrants will you take?’.
Connecting lives: Refugee Weeks gives Manchester the chance to celebrate
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.
Rochdale’s ‘unfair burden’? So-called asylum seekers ‘should go back to own country’, says Simon Danczuk
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.
UK asylum seekers living in poverty on less than £40 a week get helping hand from Manchester charity
Hundreds of people turned up at the People’s History Museum last Saturday to celebrate ‘Refugee Week’
‘This story needs to be told’: Manchester poet brings critically acclaimed ‘Refugee Boy’ play to Salford
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
‘The UK Border Agency can rot in hell’: Manchester refugees reveal life in immigration limbo
Refugee and asylum organisation RAPAR campaign for asylum seekers’ rights
World Humanitarian Day: Celebrating aid work the world over and story of couple reunited in Manchester
MM chat to Manchester’s Red Cross workers about their work
Impact of war on Syrian refugee children explored by Manchester student in life-changing trips
Research explores the parenting needs of families raising children in camps