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Government plays numbers game as suicidality, and human-rights warnings pile up in UK detention system.

This summer the AVID team joined various walking events hosted by Refugee Tales. In July, Refugee Tales celebrated their ten year anniversary over five days of walking, sharing stories and live performances. In this blogpost, Miranda shares her experience on day two of the walk.

This summer the AVID team joined various walking events hosted by Refugee Tales. In June, Refugee Tales hosted their monthly walk in Scotland, beginning at Craigtoun Country Park and ending at the Wardlaw Museum in St Andrews. In this blogpost, Saba reflects on her experience of joining the walk.

We are looking for people who have lived experience of immigration detention to join our Board of Trustees. Trustees play a vital role and we are looking to strengthen our board by welcoming people who have first-hand experience and understanding of immigration detention.

NACCOM recently joined AVID at our annual network gathering for co-ordinators to run a workshop and discuss how we can increase collaboration between our respective networks in response to an increase in homelessness and destitution amongst people leaving detention. NACCOM have written this blog to share their learnings and next steps from the workshop.

This is a book review, reflection and summary of Mary Bosworth's (Professor of Criminology at Border Criminologies) recently published book, "Supply Chain Justice: The Logistics of Border Control", written by Miranda.

We are looking for someone to join our small and agile team as Senior Network Coordinator. We are looking for someone to fulfil this dynamic role.

Join AVID for our annual general meeting (AGM) and premiere of Removed, a new animation which confronts viewers with what it is like to be detained. Taking place in the lead up to International Women's Day, the animation tells the story of many through the voice of one woman - Hope.

"The System Destroyed Him": The tragic death of Frank Ospina exposes the failing Immigration detention system.

We attended the online rally on 02nd Oct 2024 - here is what we said, see the full speech.