The challenges and opportunities are shared across borders, so we need greater cooperation between allied organisations and countries to make our communities thrive. This includes:

• Expanding safe and legal routes for people in search of safety.
• Upholding the right to seek asylum and the right to an individual assessment regardless of nationality.
• Championing ways that newcomers can participate in the social, economic, cultural and civic life of their communities so that everyone benefits.
• Ensuring that foreign policy is not used to trade-off the rights of refugees and people seeking asylum in pursuit of migration control.

We need national policies that protect the right to asylum and advance human rights and dignity, including:

• A fair and timely asylum process where people entering the system are treated with compassion; are given the best possible chance for an accurate and timely decision; provided with support to look after themselves and their families and given help to rebuild their lives, whatever the outcome of their claim.
• A national asylum system that provides education and health care to people regardless of residence status; ensures fair housing policies in order to break segregation; removes detention centres; tackles racism; includes policies that take into account specific vulnerabilities (women, minors, LGBTQ) and provides the right to work without limitation for people seeking asylum.
• A proportionate resettlement system based on global need and economic capacity with targets that countries can meet.

We believe we have far more in common than that which divides us, so we'll be working to support understanding and awareness between locals and newcomers. Let’s melt barriers.

 Refugee Action is a national charity that supports refugees and people seeking asylum in the UK. Our vision is that refugees and people seeking asylum will be welcome in the UK. They will get justice, live free of poverty and be able to successfully rebuild their lives.

The International Rescue Committee responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises and helps people whose lives and livelihoods are shattered by conflict and disaster to survive, recover and gain control of their future. In more than 40 countries and in 26 U.S. cities, our dedicated teams provide clean water, shelter, health care, education and empowerment support to refugees and displaced people

Lift the Ban is a national coalition of organisations campaigning for people seeking asylum, and their adult dependants, to have the right to work, unconstrained by the shortage occupation list after six months of applying for asylum, or making a further submission. We want people who have risked everything to find safety in our country to have the best chance of contributing to our society and integrating into our communities.

asylum matters works in partnership locally and nationally to improve the lives of refugees and people seeking asylum through social and political change. By mobilising and coordinating local, regional and national advocacy work, we aim to increase the impact of campaigns to secure improvements to asylum policy and practice.