Yasmine Nahlawi from Rethink Rebuild Society spoke at an event in the House of Lords on 14 June. The event was hosted by Baroness Sally Hamwee and chaired by Jonathan Brown from the group Lib Dems for Syrian Freedom, Peace and Reconstruction.
We spoke in one of the fringe meetings in the Lib-Dem York conference on 12 March 2016 on the subject of Syrian refugees. We talked about a number of misconceptions that are commonly held regarding Syrian refugees, for example why they come to the UK and how they integrate within the communities.
We contributed an article on Syria to the Liberal Democrats' February 2016 publication of the Inter-Lib. This article was effectively a summary of the presentation we gave in the Lib-Dem conference of 9 January 2016, in which we stressed that civilian protection lies at the heart of any solution to Syria.
We had the pleasure of speaking at the Liberal-Democrats' special conference on the Syria vote. This conference was meant to review the party's policy in approaching the December vote on Syria (to bomb Daesh) and to discuss whether this represented the right course of action.
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