RR met with MEP's Afzal Khan and Gianni Pitella in our office on 13 August. After giving a brief presentation to them on the Syrian conflict, Afzal and Gianni asked us some of their questions on the conflict and were shocked to hear some of the facts and statistics.
MP Jeff Smith visited our office on 12 August 2015 to meet with the Syrian community and to hear about any issues that we are facing. After we went through a presentation for him, Jeff asked us a number of questions about Syria and promised to help us get our message across to other Labour Parliamentarians.
RR attended MPAC-UK's Anti-Islamophobia Network Strategy Away Day in Newport Pagnell on 1st of August. This event brought together organisations from across the UK to discuss rising levels of Islamophobia and how we can collectively work to address this increasing problem.
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.
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:
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