An Aspen Card, as described by Privacy International “is a debit payment card given to UK asylum seekers [people seeking asylum] by the Home Office. The Aspen Card provides basic subsistence support, but purchases on the card are closely monitored by the Home Office, making it an insidious surveillance tool.” I believe that changes should …
We are recruiting for new Trustees to join our Trustee Board! African Rainbow Family (ARF) is a small registered charity (registration number 1185902) that support LGBTIQ people of African heritage and the wider Black Asian Minority Ethnic groups. ARF was established in 2014 in the wake of some Commonwealth countries in Africa’s toxic and draconian …
Covid-19 Impacts on LGBTIQ People Seeking Asylum. Find out how to reach, support #LGBTIQ people seeking #asylum including non-LGBTIQs during and beyond the pandemic. #Covid19 #pandemic
African Rainbow Family: Submission on Unequal Impact of Covid-19. People seeking asylum have a range of added inequalities of social isolation, lack of housing, finance and access to healthcare. LGBTIQ people seeking asylum are in particularly, hardest hit.
African Rainbow Family’s Organisational First Response: Coronavirus Pandemic (COVID-19) Ongoing arrangements for the office, meetings and support for members: As a small Charity we are aware of the need to act to support and protect our members, coordinators, volunteers and staff especially those of us who are or can be ‘vulnerable’ for whatever reason. We …
Unreported! Sexual Abuse & Exploitation of LGBTIQs Seeking Asylum On 11th August 2018 in Manchester, African Rainbow Family held our second annual conference, Unreported! Sexual Abuse & Exploitation of LGBTIQs Seeking Asylum. The conference attracted delegates from diverse walks of life with speakers whom are ‘Experts by Experience’ (our members), including speakers from the House …
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LGBTIQ refugee conference calls for end to sexual abuse, sexual exploitation of LGBTIQ refugees and high standard of proof sexuality policy Conference exposes unreported sexual abuse, sexual exploitation, domestic violence and servitude in LGBTIQ people seeking asylum community Refugee speakers will tell of their experiences of sexual abuse, sexual exploitation and domestic violence. Explore ongoing …
African Rainbow Family celebrates Stonewall Uprising in style!
Thank you so very much for your genorosity. Do encourage your friends and networks to join in and donate too! Exactly 35 years ago, cases of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), a mysterious, deadly disease afflicting and killing gay men on a mass unprecedented scale were reported. Every little helps! Will you ask your friends …
ACT UP FOR LOVE 2016 – Celebrating Radical LGBTQI Resistance, Love and Unity Full list of performers and Speakers to be announced June 28th 2016 – 6-8pm Trafalgar Square, London, facebook event page here ACT UP FOR LOVE is organised by African Rainbow Family(www.africanrainbowfamily.org)and ACT UP London AFRICAN RAINBOW FAMILY, is proud to be part …
