3 March 2025. In February, we had the honour of attending the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights’ review of the UK’s implementation of a key human rights treaty, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) in Geneva. This was a crucial opportunity to bring forward the voices of migrants …
27 January 2025. We started off 2025 with another brilliant session of Food with Friends with a special focus on women’s health. Studies have shown that female migrants experience more negative health effects of migration than male migrants.* Our guest speaker, Sam King, clinical manager and women’s health specialist from Trafalgar Medical Group Practice, shed …
17 January 2025. WBI is honoured to have received a grant from the Equality and Human Rights Commission, one of the UK’s national human rights institutions. This grant supports the participation of refugees and migrants in the review of the UK’s implementation of a core human rights treaty at the UN in Geneva in February. …
We are delighted to share the tremendous success of our December 2024 Food With Friends event in collaboration with Home-Start Portsmouth focusing on children’s well being. Denise Brown, Family Hub Champion from Home-Start delivered a brilliant session. She shared valuable information about the effects of early years support for both parents and children. This is …
4 December 2024. Our Food with Friends in November was a collaboration with the brilliant local speaker and educator Bahar Mouland. We spent an incredible day coming together as a community to focus on how we can build our confidence by incorporating wellbeing and good mental health into our daily lives. At this event, we …
7 November 2024. For the October Food With Friends we were thrilled to host South Central Ambulance Service (SCAS) to teach our newly arrived migrant community about the ambulance service and what to do in an emergency. Huge thanks to Nikhyta Patel, Patient and Public Engagement Facilitator, and Roger Batterbury, Patient Experience for the important …
WBI Community Researchers Ms. Fatma Tuylu and Ms. Anita David attended the Community Participatory Action Research (CPAR) training in Oxford on 23rd October, hosted by the Scottish Community Development Centre, the University of Reading and NHS England South East, Workforce Training and Education. Following the successful CPAR 1 (2022-2023) and CPAR 2 (2023-2024) programs, which …
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As an international coalition of 163 expert and civil society organisations, we urge World Bank action on Cambodian government attacks on two prominent human rights groups, Center for Alliance of Labor and Human Rights and Equitable Cambodia. International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, states that the private sector has a …
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16 October 2024. We are thrilled to announce that two WBI researchers have been selected in a national programme to focus on health inequalities experienced by marginalised communities. WBI is one of the 11 voluntary sector organisations chosen after a competitive application process. Funded by NHS England’s School of Public Health and delivered by the …
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2nd October 2024. With thanks again to the National Lottery Community Fund, we are back with our much-loved community project Food with Friends for two more years. We kicked off the 3rd run with our first health talk on Breast Cancer at the end of September. We started Food with Friends in December 2022 to …
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