Baobab News Online seminar: Responding to the needs of people seeking refuge and asylum Featuring a presentation by Sheila Melzak 06 Oct 2022
Baobab Briefings Under the British government’s current plan to traffic asylum seekers overseas, both Paddington and Prince Phillip would today be at risk of being sent to Rwanda Does everyone know that Paddington is a refugee who arrived in the UK irregularly? Or that Prince Phillip himself was a child refugee. 07 May 2022
Baobab Briefings Statement about UK Gov plans to outsource assessments of asylum seekers to Rwanda We notice huge contradictions in the statements made by the government members and supporters about their plans for asylum seekers... 20 Apr 2022
Baobab Briefings Statement on Ukraine As more news comes in of atrocities committed by the Russian army invading Ukraine, the Baobab Centre wishes to express solidarity with all people fleeing violence... 04 Apr 2022
Baobab News Byline Times: “I am an optimistic person, but I feel hopeless right now” Byline Times' Katharine Quarmby came to Baobab to interview young Afghans and Director Sheila Melzak 10 Jan 2022
Baobab Briefings Public letter: Children seeking asylum are at risk Baobab and 24 child and migrants rights organisations demand that key UK safeguarding institutions dramatically improve on their safeguarding duties 23 Dec 2021
Baobab News Baroness Lister meets Baobab young people As the Government's Anti-Refugee Bill makes its way to the House of Lords, we were thrilled and honoured to meet Baroness Lister 21 Dec 2021
Baobab News Jess Philips MP meets Baobab young people Encouraging our young people to not hesitate and "speak truth to power" 02 Dec 2021
Baobab News Meeting with Lord Alf Dubs Baobab young people met with Lord Alf Dubs – part of our advocacy efforts to defeat the Nationality and Borders Bill 30 Nov 2021
Baobab News Bambos Charalambous visits Baobab Bringing the voices of our young people into the debates around the Nationality and Borders Bill 22 Nov 2021
Baobab News “Why We Call It The Anti‑Refugee Bill” – a video by Refugee Action Our friends at Refugee Action have put out a clear video about the Government's Nationality and Borders Bill, currently being discussed in the Commons 16 Nov 2021
Baobab Briefings Baobab briefing documents for MPs on the new Nationality and Borders Bill Calling for significant revisions to the text and making a case for why this bill must not pass and drawing attention of all law-makers about the needs to safeguard and protect all children and young people in the UK's asylum system 15 Nov 2021
Baobab News Byline Times: Baobab testimonies featured in report on Afghans abandoned by the UK Government The powerful and tragic testimonies of two Afghan young men from the Baobab community feature in Katharine Quarmby report 22 Sep 2021
Baobab News Prof Liza Schuster visits Baobab Centre Discussing her recent experience of being evacuated from Kabul with our Afghan young people 14 Sep 2021
