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The SolidariTee Blog
At SolidariTee, we believe knowledge is the first step towards meaningful change.
In addition to information about news, events and developments connected to SolidariTee's work, our blog contains pieces written and researched by our student volunteers, covering topics ranging from policy changes through to book reviews.
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We are always looking for writers to contribute pieces that support people to learn more about issues affecting people who move across borders, and to engage with the perspectives, ideas, and solutions created by those with lived experience of displacement. If you're interested in contributing, please send central@solidaritee.org.uk an email with an idea for a topic you'd like to write about - both students and non-students alike are welcome to do so!
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SolidariTee Leadership Team Positions: Applications Open Now!
SolidariTee first registered as a charity in 2019, following an explosion of momentum built as a grassroots student movement in the two...
Team SolidariTee
Mar 163 min read
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SolidariTee Annual Report 2023 - 2024
We are delighted to be able to share our annual report for the 23-24 academic year, with enormous thanks to the hundreds of volunteers,...
Team SolidariTee
Dec 28, 20242 min read
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SolidariTee Strategy 2024 - 2026
In 2023 and 2024, SolidariTee worked to develop and formalise our strategy for the 2024-26 academic and financial years. We are delighted...
Team SolidariTee
Dec 24, 20242 min read
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Trauma-informed Lawyering: a professional development training course hosted by SolidariTee in 2024
SolidariTee is delighted to be hosting an in-person professional development opportunity in Athens in spring 2024Â for lawyers and those...
Team SolidariTee
Apr 21, 20243 min read
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Global Displacement: Winter Update 2023
During the initial six months of 2023, seven major displacement situations accounted for an estimated 90% of new displacement globally....
Yasmin Turner
Jan 5, 20244 min read
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Book Review: As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow by Zoulfa Katouh
Zoulfa Katouh’s debut As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow is a beautiful, yet harrowing novel set in war-torn Syria at the beginning and...
Yasmin Turner
Mar 12, 20233 min read
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200 asylum seeking children are currently missing and we as a nation have failed them.
I set out to write that we are all equal. That regardless of age, race, or ethnicity - British or Afghanistan, Albanian or Syrian - we are a
Mulumbeni Phiri
Feb 7, 20233 min read
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If not by small boats, how CAN people seek asylum in the UK?
Recent UK immigration politics has focused largely on ‘getting numbers down’ by reducing the number of so-called ‘illegal’ entries, which...
Team SolidariTee
Jan 29, 20234 min read
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The Government's Harsh Policies will not stop the rise in number of asylum seekers. Here's why:
In November 2022, a video of Home Secretary Suella Braverman being asked by the Home Affairs Committee on how an African child fleeing a...
Mulumbeni Phiri
Jan 10, 20234 min read
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Freefall: In conversation with photographer Alexander Treves
UK-born Alexander Treves has worked in finance for over two decades, and has moved countries seven times with his job. Between his day...
Yasmin Turner
Dec 7, 20228 min read
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What's Going On In Iran
Two quick disclaimers before we start this blog post: 1) Here at Solidaritee, we support religious tolerance and freedom. We support...
Aria Niayz Diezel
Oct 19, 20226 min read
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About our 2022 grant cycle: bridging the gap between legal aid and MHPSS
The article below is an extract from SolidariTee's 2022 grant information pack. The full brochure can be found by clicking here. Since...
Alexa Netty
Sep 24, 20226 min read
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Mobile Info Team : A positive force for change in a daunting landscape
Mobile Info Team (MIT) are one of the legal aid NGO’s that has received continued support from SolidariTee since 2019. Their advocacy...
Cidalia Lewis Lettington
Aug 5, 20223 min read
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Responding to Displacement in Ukraine
Recent estimates suggest that 2.9 million people have already been forced to leave Ukraine in the few weeks since the Russian government...
Team SolidariTee
Mar 14, 20224 min read
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Volunteering or voluntourism? Lessons from a volunteer legal assistant
When I first started looking for volunteering opportunities abroad, I desperately wanted to avoid contributing to volunteer tourism, or...
Emma O'Callaghan
Feb 10, 20223 min read
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Week of Action 2022: #EndTheLegalLottery
No one chooses to become a refugee. Being forced to flee your home is, more often than not, simply a result of bad luck. Being born in a...
Team SolidariTee
Feb 7, 20224 min read
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Legal Aid at A.Ss.I.S.T., Chios
Legal aid is not only asylum interview preparation, but also bus tickets for medical appointments, colouring books and felt-tip parrots,...
Alexa Netty
Dec 16, 20215 min read
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Fenix Humanitarian Legal Aid: taking a holistic, multidisciplinary approach to upholding rights
CN: su*cide, r*pe, PTSD, detailed descriptions of trauma responses To be a refugee is, by definition, to have endured trauma. Not only as...
Alexa Netty
Nov 5, 20214 min read
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What is the 'refugee crisis'?
What constitutes a ‘crisis’? The phrase ‘refugee crisis’ has come to represent the idea that there are simply too many refugees in...
Sarah Davidson
Jun 3, 20214 min read
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Behind the Tees: Interview with the Illustrator of 2019-20 SolidariTee
Our 2019-20 tees focus on Hope, Safety and Peace. This message and our design was inspired by Wahid Taraky, an Afghani asylum-seeker in...
Team SolidariTee
Nov 3, 20192 min read
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