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Little Amal, a 3.5-metre-tall puppet of a nine-year-old Syrian girl, arrives in Folkestone, Kent, as part of the Handspring Puppet Company's 'The Walk'.
REFUGEE rights groups will intensify efforts to defeat the Tory Borders Bill with a mass rally outside Parliament on Wednesday.
Hundreds of people are expected to join the Refugees Welcome rally in Parliament Square from 4.30pm as MPs scrutinise the Nationality and Borders Bill.
The protest is part of a week of action against the new legislation, dubbed the “anti-refugee Bill,” which seeks to criminalise asylum-seekers who arrive in Britain via irregular routes and give the Border Force powers to turn around small boats in the Channel.
A joint statement from Derby Indian Workers’ Association and Vox Feminarum/Women’s Voices
Britain’s proud asylum history, from sheltering the Kindertransport escaping Hitler to Basque children fleeing fascist Spain, required tireless campaigning against persistent opposition — and it’s up to all of us to do our part today, writes SABINA PRICE
