Video

Joyful Dancing at Leicester Somali Week Festival

These videos portray some of the traditional dances of the Somali people. The dances were showcased as part of the Leicester Somali week festival held on the weekend of 23-24 October 2021.

29th November 2023

Helping Others During Lockdown

Carlos Ibarra Rivadeneira talks us through his experience during the pandemic as an asylum seeker, and how he turned to helping others. Video edited by Hazel Nixon.

29th November 2023

Human Rights and Human Wrongs

Human Rights: Experiences of a refugee interpreter in Iran and Swansea

This heartfelt video testimony by Shahsavar Rahmani, an interpreter living in Swansea who has worked with asylum-seekers for many years discusses his own Iranian Kurdish background and lack of human rights for Kurds in many countries, and the constant fight against human wrongs. A co-creation with Tom Cheesman and Swansea Asylum-Seeker Support.

29th November 2023

Human Rights, Inhumane Wrongs: An Interpreter’s Voice

AS is an interpreter, formerly an Afghan asylum-seeker, who has lived in camps on Lesvos before gaining status as a refugee and working as an interpreter on the island. In this digital story, AS recounts the ‘bare life’ experiences of asylum-seekers living in inhumane conditions in Moria 2.

29th November 2023

From Hong Kong to London: Music for Sanctuary

A hongkong boy playing piano at Pancras train station

This young family moved to London from Hong Kong. The family is seeking sanctuary after being forced to leave their homeland due to interference from the Chinese state.

29th November 2023

Eid in Lockdown

Maryam speaks of her time celebrating Eid during lockdown in 2021.

29th November 2023

Pathways to Learning for Refugees

In this video Helen Thomas from The Open University in Wales shows you how to access really high quality, free, learning materials from Open Learn.

28th November 2023

Parwana Fayyez reads poems from ‘Forty Names’

Afghan writers, Parwana Fayyez and Wahida Khorsand, celebrate the 100th anniversary of PEN and Human Rights Day in a warm-hearted online poetry event organised by Jeni Williams of Wales PEN Cymru.

28th November 2023