Alexa is CEO at SolidariTee, a charity which unites students and young people in support of the rights of forcibly displaced people, and works with local partner NGOs to provide legal aid and mental health support to refugees in Greece. She is also finance officer at the Disasters Emergency Committee, a UK charity who have raised…
Simon Israel is a retired experienced broadcast journalist who has spent more than 20 years as a correspondent for Channel 4 News. In that time he’s won 9 awards. His career has involved coverage of the Rwandan genocide, the Bosnian war and the assassination of Rajiv Ghandi. He led the home affairs team at C4N…
Annie Campbell Viswanathan is the Executive Director of Bail for Immigration Detainees which she joined in January 2021. As a Law Society Accredited Supervising Immigration caseworker, Annie has worked at several migrant rights charities including Refugee and Migrant Justice (RMJ), Asylum Aid, Camden Community Law Centre, and with North Kensington Law Centre, also as their…
Savan is a former asylum seeker. He is currently a project manager for the Refugees for Justice project at Citizens UK, Savan is also an affiliated researcher at Glasgow University UNESCO-RILA, and a freelance journalist covering refugees and asylum seekers stories and issues. He was elected to be a Co-Chair of Young Academy Scotland at…
Jun Pang is a Policy and Campaigns Officer at Liberty, where she leads its campaigns to save the Human Rights Act and defend the right to protest, as well as its work on migrants’ rights, privacy, and free expression. She is also a trade union representative. Jun organises with Remember and Resist, a grassroots project…
Louisa is a medical and public health doctor and a senior international and domestic humanitarian manager. She has over thirteen years of experience in delivering humanitarian aid at strategic, technical, and operational levels, 19 years of experience as an internal medicine doctor in the National Health Service, and 11 years of experience within UK public…
Hannah Wickes is Chief Marketing Officer at Ecosia, one of Europe’s largest social businesses and Germany’s first B-Corp. She has helped grow the tree-planting search engine to twenty million users across 180 countries, funding the restoration of more than 165 million trees. In 2022 she supported the creation of a Ukrainian school in the Ecosia…
YouTube Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dB2YKEXM-YQ Share this Our Vision A society in which people are able to live safely and are treated with equal dignity and respect, regardless of where they are from or how they came to the UK. Our Mission We support people to have fulfilling lives in the UK. We challenge racists and discriminatory policies and rhetoric on immigration and educate our communities to…
The Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI) is an independent national migrants’ rights charity, which works to defend and extend the rights of all people who move to the UK, whether they move by force or choice. We were founded by migrant-led and anti-racist groups in Southall in 1967. For over 55 years,…
We were founded as a Council supporting migrants’ rights organisations and campaigns, and have a proud history of serving and supporting the migrants’ rights sector. We provide a training programme covering a wide range of topics on immigration and asylum law. We are really pleased to be able to offer subsidised places on our courses…