Theme: Population movement
It’s easy to forget the people you don’t see in the media, and this includes over a million people still living in camps in Bangladesh after fleeing violence in the state of Rakhine, Myanmar. Behind these faces are stories waiting to be told and people we can’t forget.
This project aims to create routes in which people with lived experience can have an impact at different levels – services, strategy and policy, and broader society. Built on principles of co-production and participation this project brings together four diverse countries along the European migration routes– Latvia, Italy, the UK/Wales, and Ireland.
Research for this report was carried out in July 2019 to capture best practices and highlight key policy and advocacy opportunities to support refugees and asylum seekers, host countries and host communities.
Capitalising on the global popularity of football, the Italian Red Cross are using the sport as a vehicle to support the integration of asylum seekers and refugees.
Taking their project aim of “amplifying the voices of asylum seekers and refugees” as literally as they could, the Italian Red Cross is doing exactly that with a new web radio show.
By Mark Richard South, IFRC Getting people talking, that’s the aim of a new partnership which has seen the British Red Cross team-up with a refugee-led language learning start-up. As part of the AVAIL project, the British Red Cross is working together …
By Mark Richard South, IFRC With the aim of promoting mutual understanding, social inclusion, and ultimately successful integration, the two Red Cross Societies are working through the AVAIL project to match up new arrivals with local “buddies”. “In th …