POSTING OF IMPORTANT LETTERS TO WRONG ADDRESS.

THE UKBA IS CHARGED WITH THE RESPONSIBILITY TO PROCESS ASYLUM APPLICATIONS.


We at DASUK AND INTERNATIONAL would like to request all Zimbabweans who have been deprived justice owing to the UKBA practice of sending important letters of court appearances to wrong addresses.
This practice is quite shocking and unjust as it only serves to deprive the Asylum applicants the justice they deserve through their inability to appear in court as scheduled.
There are many Asylum Applicants whose letters to appear for court or other important interviews were deliberately send to wrong addresses. The practice serves to put the Asylum Applicants in a position of default and blame thereby dis-empowering them or resulting in their Asylum cases falling off by the wayside.
Many Asylum applicants have suffered this injustice without any room or avenue of recourse. These actions are purely to fail innocent people that have spend a life time waiting for decisions that determine the course of their lives.
The practical examples are situations where Home Office UKBA puts Asylum Seekers into section 4 and NASS section 95 support, the UKBA is the one that gives you the accommodation and they write to you any correspondence that has their interests, where you are to report, and the conditions of your movement. The same UKBA sends your will send your letters requesting your court appearances to the old address where they sure you no longer live. They know you no longer live there because they are the ones who will have given you accommodation as well as where to report.

• What is the idea of this practice?
• How does practice benefit the Asylum Applicants?
• Is the the practice consistent with the genuine intention to be just?

Certainly this country claims to be creating a Just and Fair society through such injustice. It is quite astonishing that captains of poor democratic practice take it upon themselves to teach the world about democracy. There are many events that have affect the welfare of Asylum Seekers in the United Kingdom and many other countries that do not reflect the values they preach when justifying bringing wars to other countries' door steps.
We in DASUK and International trust the the UKBA will see reason in practicing justice and treating Asylum Applicants with respect. It is not impossible that many that are in the Asylum process will one day be policy makers and administrators when their countries are free and safe to return to.
It is important that the Home Office and UKBA update the system in order to provide them with the current address of Applicants to remove the unfair practice of depriving people the right to communication. The United King is not comparable third world countries where such practice are over shadowed with corruption and lack of resources.
It is important that this country sets the right examples if this nation is to take up the international leadership role it currently abuses in many other faculties of life.

For those that have been subjected to this unfair practice provide your comments below this article.
  

WHAT REGIONAL REFUGEE FORUM CAN DO FOR YOU.

TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT with members:

Access - Empowerment – Advocacy Update

The RRF’s Training & Development Project has started supporting members from the Region`s RCOs.
We are supporting participants to improve community access to the most appropriate support for
training, employment and career goals, physical and mental health, and to promote greater safety
and security in the areas in which they live.
The project is also empowering participants to be effective advocates and community
representatives on unmet needs, barriers, disadvantages, inequalities and discrimination that they
and others face in progressing these areas of life. We are supporting them to gather evidence and
use it effectively through engaging in local policy and planning processes, and contributing to the
RRF’s sub-groups to present the Collective Voice at the regional level.
In addition we have started to support the development of greater awareness, understanding and
skills within key service delivery agencies so that they can develop better and sustained relations
with the refugee and asylum seeker community, and deliver a more accessible, appropriate and
effective support to them.
Please contact us to hear more about the support we can give to you
Herbert Dirahu, Project Manager herbert.dirahu@refugeevoices.org.uk or phone 01642 232446 in
Middlesbrough and 0191423 6255 in Gateshead.
Or just pop in to our offices at the Newport Neighbourhood Centre in Middlesbrough or to Design
Works in Felling, Gateshead. Monday to Friday (9:00am – 5pm)                                  
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RRF supports regional campaign against UKBA change of contract for asylum
seeker accommodation in the region
On behalf of all members, the RRF Committee have sent a letter to the Immigration Minister,
Damian Green MP to demand the Home Office reconsider its new contracting arrangements for
accommodation of asylum seekers in the North East. Other agencies and organisations across the
region are also sending letters. Many of you will already have received letters from the UKBA
informing you of their decision to end its contract with NECCAS (the consortium of local authorities
in the North East). From April all accommodation will be contracted with the private sector company
Jomast. This will affect very many of your community members.
The RRF Committee has also supported the campaign to save Newcastle’s Asylum Seeker Unit by
sending a letter to Newcastle Central MP, Chi Onwurah, to ask her to make representations in
Parliament about the UKBA’s ending of its housing contract with Your Homes Newcastle. The RRF
can support RCOs in other towns to request the same action of their MPs. Please contact our staff
for more information.

TAKE THE COURAGE AND PROMOTE BEST POLICING PRACTICE

There is evidence among the minority groups mainly Asylum Seekers and refugee population that those posted into unfamiliar areas that are chosen by the UKBA facing all forms of racial abuse. These incidents happen in all places whether public or private, if you are affected by racial abuse take the courage to bring this to the attention of police. Record the police contact whom you report the incident, the date and time of the report. It is very sad to note that there are incidents of verbal and physical abuse done to minority groups and individuals without the police offering the appropriate response to distress calls. We at Dasuk & Int. we are calling all those that feel that they are living in fear of lack of adequate police protection to contact us with details. We are here to work with Police Authorities that want to ensure the police do their work within their daily routines. We should all prove the inefficiency that are inherent in all cases where Black Minorities are involved. The abuses are normally perpetrated by young people as young as 10years and above. We have a role to play in making sure that we get the right treatment within the societies we live in.
We call upon all peace loving citizens to assist in curbing these disturbing situations which we all believe are out of date and not consistent with the wishes of most peace loving nations.
For the individuals affected by fear and prejudice it is time to get up and do something to protect yourself from the evil that is dragging all civilised societies into the dark ages.

LET US ALL SPEAK AGAINST RACIAL ABUSE WITH ONE VOICE.

IS THE UK. TO REMAIN AN ASYLUM DESTINATION?

The word Asylum did not exist among many of my Zimbabwean country men and women until the human rights abuses in Zimbabwe took a very serious and notorious dimension. The rage of the ruling regime took pain from the white men in Zimbabwe's farming community, when they supported the year 2000 Referendum that defeated the ruling party’s sponsored constitution. The role of the White community angered Robert Mugabe and his cronies, who were cultivating and reinforcing his party's hold to power in order for him to remain at the helm of power for a life time.

The exodus of Zimbabweans took them to the most unusual places on the globe, Zimbabweans went as far as Australia, China, New Zealand USA and many other least expected destinations to seek refuge from both political abuse, persecution and death. Unfortunate many host countries went on to put a label of “economic refugees” on many fleeing Zimbabweans. A situation that has been disappointing and too crude to cope with for those affected.

Although though the international media has peddled the social ills some of the Zimbabwean nationals abroad have engaged in, there is a dark corner of what has been withheld by the media. There has been deliberate lack of desire by the international media to expose the host countries’ abuses of refugees, Asylum Seekers applicants and those labelled Failed Asylum Seekers. Although I will confine my Asylum issues to situation affecting Zimbabweans, the situation and events described in this writing are common to every other national who has applied for Asylum in the United Kingdom and many other countries.

It is a very shocking experience to know that the U.K. Home Office through the UKBA, whether through Act of Parliament or institutional autonomy has developed and implemented an Asylum system that has a greater bias of frustrating Asylum Applicants. The system is designed to discourage Asylum Seeker Applicants from pursuing formal the path of protection but return to their countries of origin and face whatever disastrous consequences such return would cause them.

The Asylum system clearly manipulated from within the Home Office UKBA is designed to intimidate, discourage, ridicule and break the mental and spiritual lives of Asylum Applicants. Asylum Seekers are an unwanted human species by UK authorities who falsely the claim that their population are supportive of their anti Asylum policies. The hate for Asylum applicants in the U.K. have been also hijacked by weak political parties that choose to appease the electorate by making false promises and claims that when in power they would get rid of all Asylum Seekers and other illegal immigrants from their shores.  The Asylum Seekers and other illegal immigrants are held responsible for the economic decline the country has endured as they are accused of plundering the country’s benefit system. The government will not mention the effects this country's war adventures in the world and its impact on the British economy. Let alone all these wars are funded by the British tax payer.

 In the screening process Homes Office UKBA’s interviewing officers try hard to confuse and distort the facts presented by Asylum applicants in order to create deliberate loopholes that will expose Asylum applicants as not credible witnesses. This process of omitting crucial points which are useful in justifying the granting of international protection to applicants is deliberate and well executed. The same Officers have often taken advantage of the ignorance of Asylum applicants by misleading them to believe they were in safe hands yet in real terms the officers will assist applicants digging their own graves.

It emerges through the British people working with all Refugees and "Failed Asylum Seekers" which in truth is Denied Asylum Seekers whom the majority of are genuine claimants. These unfortunate people are being denied their protection rights by British politicians. The experience of many granted and failed Asylum Applicants has proved the point that these European hosts are the same as the African Dictators. The Western politicians have used socials media topics and discussions to steer the electorate to get negatively emotional over immaterial issues concerning Asylum Seeker Applicants. The politicians constantly use the Asylum and immigration issues to get the electorate’s vote. It also emerges that the British population and other Western countries are aware of the double standards by their politicians. It is true that many ordinary people in Western countries including British are people open minded over the Asylum Seekers and do not even support the punitive measures exerted on innocent people seeking protection. Poor Asylum negative decisions have endangered the lives of the ordinary Western people in the world especially those who conduct tourism. Throughout the world the risk of Western tourists getting kidnapped is not strange news but a relevant act owing to the radicalising of people from different countries by the Home Office UKBA. 

People are being legitimately dehumanised by the negative polices designed by the Home Office’s UKBA and its political actors with living nerve of racism. There is subtle approval from the authoritative politicians whom when asked in public deny any ills by this country. Money has been used by many Western countries to buy a positive image which on justified basis they may not deserve.

The degradation and dehumanisation of Refugees and immigrants in the U.K. is worse than what the immigrants face in their countries of origin as they are normally killed or injured and immediately dealt with by their persecutors. Victims of most Dictators abuse exposed to physical, mental disabilities and sometimes death without going through prolonged physical, emotional and mental abuse like what Asylum applicants experience. The U.K. Home Office deliberately destroy some the Asylum Seekers through a well coordinated policy implemented in guise of assistance. The real terms of assistance have no innocent intention it is nowhere near the true help that we all know. This is the face of a country that goes on around the world dropping ferocious bombs in defence of human rights and democracy. Although these bad situations are experienced by many it does not mean everyone who has gone through the Western Asylum system has been treated badly. There are many that can speak great things about the Home Office and the UKBA.

It is true that there is democracy in the U.K.?

The answer to this question can only be valid when we all look at the events that are confronting the British public and the minority legal and illegal immigrants who are always handy to blame for all the misfortunes that affect the British Society.

The minority groups in the U.K. are cheated to believe that they are treated as any other Indigenous British people when it comes to the Equal Opportunities policy. The truth is that the authorities have made it clear that their ruthless treatment of Denied Asylum Seekers and refusal to grant the Failed Asylum Seekers the right to work is an effort directed at preventing the competition that immigrants present to their hosts. The Denied Asylum Seekers and Illegal immigrant workers are more productive and compliant to employer disciplinary regulations in relation to employment regulations. It is clear that some employers in particular industries and service companies would prefer to have immigrant workers because their attitude towards work rewards the employers with more production.

It is very sad that simple issues of immigration have been used to break the Failed Asylum Seekers’ ability to exist within the whims of justice in country that postures volumes of human rights protection and democracy. The very ordinary British people who are always cited by politicians as the ones responsible for the Home Office policy formulation strategies are the ones who are taking it upon themselves to try and protect and assist the refugees and Failed Asylum Seekers neglected by the government.