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Thank you to our Communication Officer Manal just 14 years old for sharing her reflection of yesterday event. #intisaar#mentalhealth

At the Somali Forum in partnership with Brent Council at the Unity Centre. Our stall was all about well-being and emotions using creative methods. We engaged with over 100 people #intisaar#mentalhealth

1⃣ week until our launch 🎲🚀 With @differencenorth @IntisaarOrg & @SheppeyisOurs (& w/ support from @4in10) we will be releasing our human rights card game to help people claim the right to talk about rights! Read the new blog from Nic @differencenorth justfair.org.uk/playing-fair/

@PamelaFitzPJP Congratulations 🎉

Thanks everyone for all your very kind wishes. I am delighted to be able to work alongside such an inspiring team.

The bravest people I have ever met have been women who are seeking asylum or have been trafficked. So let’s stop with all this Happy international Women’s day. Stop with the how many women are in Parliament? Instead speak out against and stop the appalling illegal migration bill

Next @ATDFourthWorld evidence to #CESCR2023 looked @ Article 10: Right to protection & assistance to the family. Codesigned & led by ppl who have experience of poverty & interactions w/social services - driven by determination to protect others from trauma they experienced 🧵1/8

You can read all of @IntisaarOrg contribution to the @GRIPPUK #CESCR2023 submission here gripp.org.uk/wp-content/upl… 🧵8/8

Having ratified ICESCR, the UK Government is committed to achieving parity between mental and physical health services and to reducing mental health inequalities. We need to hold them to account to make this happen! 🧵7/8

Waiting lists getting longer & patient needs to go through referral route again&again...my worry is if we don’t tackle underlining problems why people r seeking support services which is result of poverty & living crisis we have now we'll have mental health pandemic soon!!” 🧵6/8

“As a mental health nurse I’m dealing with patients who's illness is triggered by their housing situation (rent arrear, not fit for their overall health, overcrowding). Patients get referred to services b/c of the same issues again & again...Our service is at tipping point 🧵5/8

“Whats the point of seeking help for my wellbeing-nothing changes. They don’t care about us. I have asked for help over 10times. But they keep telling me to refer myself to where? The system doesn’t meet my cultural needs. I’m in so deep that I can’t think straight anymore” 🧵4/8

If one is lucky enough to find such a provision before they reach a crisis point it usual a training or awareness session which isn’t culturally appropriate for the community as most of the time English language is used for these sessions. 🧵3/8

With such a high proportion of the borough’s population coming from black and ethnic minority communities (65%) there is a stark gap with the Borough’s minimal provision in place for the mental health and wellbeing need of people from BAME communities. 🧵2/8

@IntisaarOrg in the diverse community of #Brent explored access to health. Coming out of pandemic w/high mortality rates in 1st wave, the lack of culturally appropriate Mental Health care & support services is 'woefully inadequate' Violating Art12-Right to Health #CESCR2023 🧵1/8

Busily finishing off @GRIPPUK's presentation for next weeks #CESCR2023 review: "Our voices are not veiled in carefully chosen statistics, nor are they filtered through an organisation’s report writing process. They are being given to you directly today and in our report."

For the #CESCR2023 submission @ThriveTeesside based in the North East of England focused on Article 9 - the Right to Social Security. Thrive say: The overall provision of welfare and social security is woefully inadequate and is insufficient to cover basic needs 🧵1/8

First up in the @GRIPPUK's submission to #CESCR2023 @raparuk focused on the Right to Work - Article 6 in ICESCR. Right now, most displaced people in the UK are banned from working; forced to waste their skills and talent and condemned to live in poverty. 🧵1/7

These four organisations have nearly 100 years of cumulative knowledge of the experience of poverty as a human rights violation. 🧵2/7

Lovely to gather with the @GRIPPUK crew this morning. Reflecting a little on 2022 and what we want to bring forward into 2023. Our #CESCR submission is in! We will be sharing it, and more, very soon

Are you interested in the state of human rights (poverty, food, housing, work, health) in the UK? If so then come to the free online launch of our joint report to the UN which over 70 organisations contributed to! 16 January 2023 - tickets here 🎟️ eventbrite.co.uk/e/486829489107