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A march through Bristol to demand dignity for asylum seekers and an end to destitution.

A conference on challenges facing legal services for lawyers, advisers, advocates, campaigning organisations and legal services in public bodies.

Thursday 11 July 2013, 9.

Last week, campaigners from numerous organisations brought their grievances about the human rights abuses of G4S directly to their annual general meeting. A lively protest took place outside Salter’s Hall in the city. As shareholders arrived, they were met with a mock barricade and prison cell and over seventy activists shouting anti-G4S slogans.

A series of hunger strikes, following allegations of abuse, force and the use of forged documents, are showing up the fault lines in the Dutch detention system. For the first time in more than a decade, hundreds of people in Dutch immigration detention centres have gone on hunger strikes in protest at their hopeless situation.

The first annual human rights conference of Justice Watch Ireland.

Launch of new and updated self-help guide for asylum seekers and their supporters.

IRR News reports on a recent deportation, which resulted in a Kurdish man allegedly having his nose broken by a guard from the private company Tascor (which is contracted to carry out deportations). Omer Kader was being deported to Northern Iraq on a Royal Jordanian Airlines flight on Friday 7 June 2013. He has reported the incident to the UK-based International Federation of Iraqi Refugees (IFIR), which is pursuing a complaint on his behalf.

Apply or nominate someone for an award for their campaigning. The SMK Campaigner Awards recognise the outstanding contribution that a new generation of campaigners are making towards achieving social, environmental and economic justice here in the UK and abroad.

A series of events to celebrate Gypsy Roma Traveller history month this June. For more information, follow the links below.

An art exhibition celebrating the courage of refugees and asylum seekers and the work of legal caseworkers.