Humans for Rights Network
London, England, United Kingdom
Vision
For humans, regardless of their nationality, status, or migration journey, to be empowered to make informed decisions to mitigate the risk and harm they are exposed to by closed border regimes.
For humans to have the means to bear witness when their rights are abused and for those voices to be amplified.
For a UK that provides a lawful, compassionate asylum and immigration system rooted in care & respect for people forced to migrate.
Who are we?
HfRN is a needs led human rights organisation, established to facilitate safety and dignity for people forced to migrate, to advocate for a rights-based approach to the movement of people throughout Northern Europe, and to represent humans whose rights are violated. We are led and informed by the Migrants we work with and collaborate to address mistreatment and challenge systemic and structural racism & discrimination and the harmful impact of these.
HFRN offers complex casework support, investigative evidence gathering and strategic advocacy and engagement in litigation to work with individuals to access justice and address systemic problems.
We are composed of two full time, and three part time, members, along with an evolving group of committed long term volunteers. We work collaboratively with our clients to assist them to access justice. Three of our team members have experience of migration and two have direct experience of the UK asylum system.
Who do we work with?
We work with migrants, asylum seekers and refugees of all nationalities, ages, genders, and ethnicities regardless of how they arrived in the UK in pursuit of seeking asylum. Our priority is to ensure that people arriving in the UK, and crossing the border with France, can access their rights. We work with our clients to identify systemic harmful trends, patterns and policies, and consider the actions we may wish to take to address them.
We collaborate with many organisations, small and large, within the UK, Northern France, and Belgium. We do not let our size limit our impact, we are agile and flexible and seek to speak truth to those in positions of power. We regularly participate in legal cases, and conduct advocacy with parliamentarians and other state and non state actors. We work closely with our clients, ensuring the truth of the harm they experience in the UK asylum system is known and amplified loudly across our platforms.
Our current projects are:
Unaccompanied refugee children – The UK government operates a deeply problematic policy of determining the age of unaccompanied minors within hours of their arrival by small boat. HfRN has worked with over 2200 children wrongly placed in adult settings, that we have since assisted into child protective settings.We have worked with these children to gather evidence of the harm caused to them and identified the practices that are resulting in this harm. We have strategized with lawyers and developed an emerging legal strategy to achieve our aim of ending the Home Offices’ practice of placing children at risk of harm and denying them their rights.
Criminalisation of unaccompanied refugee children – Since October 2022, HfRN has worked with 29 children, charged with immigration offences under the Nationality and Borders Act, that are incarcerated in adult prisons. We assist these children to be able to access legal advice, and ensure their release from prison, into child protective environments. To date, 19 of these children have had their ages accepted and are now in child protective environments. However this has taken place after they have all spent long periods of time incarcerated in adult prisons. We are working with these children to help them recover and continue to access their rights. Organisationally, we are learning from their experiences and using litigation to challenge this practice.
Widespread abuse – In addition to our focused projects, we generally support those suffering from a range of grave human rights abuses within the UK asylum & protection system such as denial of medical care, access to legal advice, experience of abuse and harm by the Home Office staff and contractors, death and serious illness or harm, police violence and the wider impact of Home Office Immigration policies. Our aim is to work with those individuals affected, to expose harm and examine ways of achieving individual and collective access to justice to challenge systemic policies.
Accommodation – The UK Government currently operates a policy of accommodating newly arrived asylum seekers in Hotels and army barracks. These sites are run by private companies and are often heavily controlled, with recorded abuses taking place daily. We have documented sexual exploitation by staff, denial of medical care, restrictions on freedom of movement, malnutrition amongst children, violence and racism and harassment by staff. We have assisted over 300 people to be removed from settings including hotels, Napier barracks and Wethersfield, two disused army barracks. We have informed and provided evidence to litigation and conducted parliamentary advocacy on the issue. We campaign for an end to profit making and abuse and a move to community-based accommodation for all those seeking asylum, away from controlled settings such as camps and hotels.
Bob Simmonds
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London, England, United Kingdom
Vision
For humans, regardless of their nationality, status, or migration journey, to be empowered to make informed decisions to mitigate the risk and harm they are exposed to by closed border regimes.
For humans to have the means to bear witness when their rights are abused and for those voices to be amplified.
For a UK that provides a lawful, compassionate asylum and immigration system rooted in care & respect for people forced to migrate.
Who are we?
HfRN is a needs led human rights organisation, established to facilitate safety and dignity for people forced to migrate, to advocate for a rights-based approach to the movement of people throughout Northern Europe, and to represent humans whose rights are violated. We are led and informed by the Migrants we work with and collaborate to address mistreatment and challenge systemic and structural racism & discrimination and the harmful impact of these.
HFRN offers complex casework support, investigative evidence gathering and strategic advocacy and engagement in litigation to work with individuals to access justice and address systemic problems.
We are composed of two full time, and three part time, members, along with an evolving group of committed long term volunteers. We work collaboratively with our clients to assist them to access justice. Three of our team members have experience of migration and two have direct experience of the UK asylum system.
Who do we work with?
We work with migrants, asylum seekers and refugees of all nationalities, ages, genders, and ethnicities regardless of how they arrived in the UK in pursuit of seeking asylum. Our priority is to ensure that people arriving in the UK, and crossing the border with France, can access their rights. We work with our clients to identify systemic harmful trends, patterns and policies, and consider the actions we may wish to take to address them.
We collaborate with many organisations, small and large, within the UK, Northern France, and Belgium. We do not let our size limit our impact, we are agile and flexible and seek to speak truth to those in positions of power. We regularly participate in legal cases, and conduct advocacy with parliamentarians and other state and non state actors. We work closely with our clients, ensuring the truth of the harm they experience in the UK asylum system is known and amplified loudly across our platforms.
Our current projects are:
Unaccompanied refugee children – The UK government operates a deeply problematic policy of determining the age of unaccompanied minors within hours of their arrival by small boat. HfRN has worked with over 2200 children wrongly placed in adult settings, that we have since assisted into child protective settings.We have worked with these children to gather evidence of the harm caused to them and identified the practices that are resulting in this harm. We have strategized with lawyers and developed an emerging legal strategy to achieve our aim of ending the Home Offices’ practice of placing children at risk of harm and denying them their rights.
Criminalisation of unaccompanied refugee children – Since October 2022, HfRN has worked with 29 children, charged with immigration offences under the Nationality and Borders Act, that are incarcerated in adult prisons. We assist these children to be able to access legal advice, and ensure their release from prison, into child protective environments. To date, 19 of these children have had their ages accepted and are now in child protective environments. However this has taken place after they have all spent long periods of time incarcerated in adult prisons. We are working with these children to help them recover and continue to access their rights. Organisationally, we are learning from their experiences and using litigation to challenge this practice.
Widespread abuse – In addition to our focused projects, we generally support those suffering from a range of grave human rights abuses within the UK asylum & protection system such as denial of medical care, access to legal advice, experience of abuse and harm by the Home Office staff and contractors, death and serious illness or harm, police violence and the wider impact of Home Office Immigration policies. Our aim is to work with those individuals affected, to expose harm and examine ways of achieving individual and collective access to justice to challenge systemic policies.
Accommodation – The UK Government currently operates a policy of accommodating newly arrived asylum seekers in Hotels and army barracks. These sites are run by private companies and are often heavily controlled, with recorded abuses taking place daily. We have documented sexual exploitation by staff, denial of medical care, restrictions on freedom of movement, malnutrition amongst children, violence and racism and harassment by staff. We have assisted over 300 people to be removed from settings including hotels, Napier barracks and Wethersfield, two disused army barracks. We have informed and provided evidence to litigation and conducted parliamentary advocacy on the issue. We campaign for an end to profit making and abuse and a move to community-based accommodation for all those seeking asylum, away from controlled settings such as camps and hotels.
Bob Simmonds
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