Justice for Rima Campaign
Resources
Not sure who to write to?
You can find a list of your representatives (be they MP, MSP, AM etc) here
(by using your postcode). The site also offers the opportunity to send them an email.
National Coalition of Anti-Deportation Campaigns
This website has loads of information both general and specific about campaigns against deportation from the UK.
Click here for Rima's page on the NCADC website.
End Child Detention Now
If you want to support more general campaigns about the detention of children in "Removal Centres" like Dungavel and Yarl's Wood where Rima was detained last year, have a look at this website, or the next one.
Outcry!
This is the Children's Society campaign about child detention (run jointly with Bail for Immigration Detainees).
Free Movement
Free Movement is a legal blog written by an immigration/asylum barrister. The postings are always contemporary and well-informed.
Rima is a vulnerable 17-year-old from Eritrea, living in Glasgow for two years now. Abandoned by the authorities, she is supported by a caring community, but now faces forced removal.
At 15 years of age, Rima managed to reach Europe, fleeing her family's persecution as Pentecostal Christians. Sadly, she found no sanctuary in the notorious Italian asylum system. All alone, she suffered considerable trauma, subsisting in a large derelict squat.
Charity workers managed to help Rima escape to the UK, where she was initially supported as a lone child. However, unable to prove her birth date, the social services gave her an adult age, meaning she now faced removal back to Italy. Terrified, Rima went into hiding, eventually turning up homeless and destitute in Glasgow a year later.
Denied her right to support as a vulnerable child, and spending time last year in an adult detention centre, Rima is now facing imminent removal from the UK.