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Sally Hayden My Fourth Time, We Drowned
- THIS EVENT HAS EXPIRED
- Tickets
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£11 (£10 ticket charge plus 10% booking fee)
- Dates and times
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Sunday 15th May 2022
6:30pm
- Age
- Adult, Over 14s only. Under 16s must be accompanied by an adult.
- Venue
The Western world has turned its back on refugees,
fuelling one of the most devastating human rights disasters in history.
In August 2018, Sally Hayden received a Facebook
message. ‘Hi sister Sally, we need your help,’ it read. ‘We are under bad
condition in Libya prison. If you have time, I will tell you all the story.’
More messages followed from more refugees. They told stories of enslavement and
trafficking, torture and murder, tuberculosis and sexual abuse. And they
revealed something else: that they were all incarcerated as a direct result of
European policy.
From there began a staggering investigation into the
migrant crisis across North Africa. This book follows the shocking experiences
of refugees seeking sanctuary, but it also surveys the bigger picture: the
negligence of NGOs and corruption within the United Nations; the economics of
the twenty-first-century slave trade; the EU’s bankrolling of Libyan militias;
the trials of people smugglers; the frustrations of aid workers; the loopholes
refugees seek out; and the role of social media in crowdfunding ransoms. Who
was accountable for the abuse? Where were the people finding solutions? Why
wasn’t it being widely reported?
At its heart, this is a book about people who have made
unimaginable choices, risking everything to survive in a system that wants them
to be silent and disappear. Chaired by Rodge Glass
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