“I just wanted to flee my country,” said Makni Tecli a 30 years old Eritrean asylum seeker who has spent 8 months in detention. He fled his country to Sudan in 2001 because he was a draft evader. The Prisma’s memoirs. Joanna Gilbert-Shcrute “The prison sentence in Eritrea […]
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Prostitution (III): against immigrants… against women
Trafficking of women in this country is certainly alarming. However everything seems to indicate that the government is manipulating the statistics to use them for their own benefit. The Prisma’s Memoirs. July 2012. _ César Amaya Sandino There are no definitive statistics for it, but those that do exist […]
The last Britain in Guantanamo
Despite Barak Obama’s promise to close down Guantanamo Bay, Shaker Aamer a former British resident and father of four is continuing to be detained in the illegal enclosure in Cuba after nine years of being imprisoned without charge or trial. The Prisma’s Memoirs. November 2010. Sofia Ahmad 43 […]
Prostitution in the UK (II): Criminalisation and stigma
There are more English women than foreigners working in the sex industry, although the Government and the Police say otherwise. However, public opinion polls show that people think women should be able to work in the sex industry without being persecuted. The Prisma’s Memoirs. July 2012 _ César Amaya Sandino […]
Immigrants: voices of the detainees
What happens when a worker is detained by immigration as retaliation for having made a claim for justice in the work place? What are their rights? These are the two primary questions that arose on the 14th May, 2011 during a meeting organised by the Latin American Workers Association (LAWAS) at Southbank University in Elephant and Castle.