About Us
• JRS is an international Catholic Non Governmental Organisation with a mission to accompany, serve and defend the rights of refugees and forcibly displaced people. In the UK we work with some of the most marginalised people in society: those held in immigration removal centres and those left in limbo (no status, no permission to work and no right to benefits) and completely destitute by the UK asylum process. We befriend and offer practical support to both of these groups of people as well as refer them on to other organisations for specialised help and advice as appropriate.
• In abandoning their countries, their home, families and friends, refugees also lose the most important opportunity towards full human development - education.
•“The UK hosts less than 2of the world’s refugees. Yet an opinion poll in 2002 showed that the public thought the figure to be around 26 Reporting and commentary about asylum seekers and refugees is often hostile, unbalanced and factually incorrect. Hostile and misleading media coverage fosters and re-enforces public antagonism towards refugees and asylum seekers.”[1]
