Immigration detention – What is it? And how can faith groups challenge it?

An introduction to the issue of immigration detention in the UK, and how faith groups can get involved in preventing it.

Free online event – book your place via our Eventbrite page

With a range of speakers – including activists from religious groups, faith leaders and survivors of detention – the event will illuminate:

• how immigration detention causes harm

• what faith groups can do to challenge it

• the potential for community-based alternatives to detention

Speakers

• Rabbi Natan Levy (chair) – Faiths Forum for London
• Edgar from Freed Voices – with experience of detention
• Rabbi Aaron Goldstein – Chair of The Conference of Liberal Rabbis and Cantors – an active participant in refugee and asylum issues, supporting Jewish detainees at Harmondsworth
• Reverend Nathan Ward – formerly headed an immigration removal centre and has since come out against the inhumane condition of indefinite detention
• Grace Da Costa – Public Affairs and Advocacy Manager, Quakers in Britain – detention and refugee rights campaigner and human rights champion
• Agnes Tanoh – Women for Refugee Women; Community organiser
• Naomi Blackwell – Detention Outreach Worker with The Jesuit Refugee Service

Event co-hosted by René Cassin & Faiths Forum for London

Free online event – book your place via our Eventbrite page