Unity Centre Glasgow

PLEASE MAKE SURE TO REGULARLY CHECK THIS PAGE FOR URGENT ACTION APPEALS - Thank you!

The Unity Centre works to help asylum seekers who have been detained either at their home or when going to report at the Home Office at Festival Court on Brand Street.

We help people by contacting friends and family and by helping people find new lawyers if they need them. We also help make sure people’s belongings are safe if they are detained and we try to keep in regular contact with the person in detention to provide emotional support.

Below you will find links to information about some of the families who have been detained in Glasgow and what urgent action you can take to help them. Please spend a few minutes taking action to help these families. Thank you!

(More information and details of how to send faxes by email can be found below the Urgent Action Appeal links)

* * * URGENT ACTION APPEAL LINKS:

15.07.2010 Florence & Precious - Let Them Stay- more info here

09.07.2010 Trhas Tesfay Belongs to Glasgow - more info here

09.07.2010  Please help Josiane - more info here

URGENT ACTION APPEALS:

• Over the last two years we have helped at least 100 families who have been detained to get back to safety in Glasgow.
• Some people believe that fighting campaigns to help people in detention are a waste of time because only a lawyer can help people but we disagree.
  
• Fighting a campaign plays a crucial role in keeping up morale, not just of the person in detention but also of friends and family.
  
• Often the fact that some people are fighting to stop a family from being forcibly removed will encourage lawyers to work harder on the family’s case
• Also the publicity and information about the family’s case helps to highlight the often inhumane, illogical and sometimes illegal actions of the Home Office.
• Fighting a campaign is sometimes the only option a family will have when they run out of time to find a lawyer in England to represent them.
• Fighting campaigns also gets results! Every month we hear of families who would have been forcibly removed but have fought campaigns to stay in the UK and have won!  

*No fax machine? No matter!*
If you have a computer and access to the internet you do not need a fax machine to fax.
There are two methods of faxing:
1. From your browser go to: http://www.tpc.int/sendfax.html
(the number must be entered with the country code so 020 7035 4745 (Home Office) would be 44 20 7035 4745

OR:
2. Send a fax via email -
Use this email address format : remote-printer.recipient_name@fax_number.iddd.tpc.int
So, to send the fax to Jacqui Smith put:

remote-printer.Jacqui_Smith@442070354745.iddd.tpc.int
Just copy your fax message into the body of the email.