RR attended on Monday 6th July a memorial service in the Manchester Cathedral for the Srebrenica genocide of 1995. The service was a collaborative effort between Remembering Srebrenica charity, faith-based organisations, and Greater Manchester Police.
ACTION ALERT
On 26 June the French and Spanish delegations to the UN are co-chairing an Arria Formula Meeting on attacks against civilians in Syria. We need to let our Government know that it needs to do more for Syria.
Go to your Twitter accounts and tweet from the following tweets to @MatthewRycroft1 @UKUN_NewYork @David_Cameron @PHammondMP @LyallGrant
MP of Gorton Sir Gerald Kaufman ('Father of the House') visited RR office on Friday 26 June. We discussed with him issues pertaining to the UK's policy on Syria and presented him with some of our core policy demands as the Syrian community. The discussion was highly informative and we learned the following from MP Kaufman:
ACTION ALERT: Contact your MP via phone or email to ask them to attend the Citizens UK and Refugee Action meeting in Committee Room 14 of the House of Commons any time from 10:30-12:00 on Wednesday June 24th.
The #withSyria campaign has issued a joint press release on behalf of 81 organisations worldwide, of which RR is one of them.We are calling upon the United Nations Security Council to increase the accountability of the Syrian regime especially with regards to brutal and indiscriminate attacks. Text and signatories of the press release:
PRESS STATEMENT
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