Once again, private security company G4S, has failed to meet its obligations to fulfill a contract paid for by public money. This time it’s the COMPASS contract to re-house people seeking asylum in Yorkshire and…

Just before the last general election SYMAAG sent an “Asylum Election Pledge” letter to all candidates in South Yorkshire. The letter was backed by 30 refugee community organisations, campaign groups, faith groups and trade union…

“This Approach Puts a Price on Love”     On 25 September 2012, at a well attended public meeting organised by SYMAAG, the following resolution was passed unanimously:   ‘This meeting  deplores the Home Office’s…

Thursday 8th November – Any Time – Any Barnardo’s Shop/Office As Medical Justice put it: “they ruined the campaign to end the detention of children, which campaigners felt could be achievable as the government had…

We were pleased to welcome two refugees from Syria to our last meeting on Tuesday 30th October who gave us an update on events in Syria. One was a long-standing refugee in Sheffield and the…

SYMAAG and Barnsley Asylum Support Group activists picketed the Annual Meeting of the West Yorkshire Pension Fund WYPF) in Huddersfield on Friday 26th October with the call DO NOT INVEST IN G4S. WYPF has significant investments…

‘The company you need to target is G4S’.  Opponents form strategic alliance   Critics of the world’s biggest security company are banding together. A report from the Stop G4S Convergence campaign.   Sixty people came…

Public meeting to discuss what the new family migration rules mean and how we oppose them. When: Tuesday 25th September 7pm Where: Quaker Meeting House, 10 James Street, Sheffield S1 2EW Speakers from Migrant Rights Network,…

It’s everyone’s right to live in decent, suitable housing, regardless of their immigration status or where they were born. Many people seeking asylum in South Yorkshire will be asked to move house, sometimes to a…

Latest: “No reliable evidence..that a returnee has experienced harm or ill-treatment after being returned to the DRC from the UK” – UK Government. When MP Tom Blenkinsop asked this question in Parliament he received the…