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Asylum Aid appoints Piya Muqit as their Executive Director
Piya has served as Interim Executive Director over the past 7 months, during which she has provided strong leadership and helped shape the organisation’s strategic direction. She joined Asylum Aid following the appointment of Alison Pickup, the former Executive Director, as CEO of the Helen Bamber Foundation (HBF) Group in August 2025. Asylum Aid is part of the HBF Group.
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Joint Statement on the Impact of the UK Government’s Earned Settlement Proposals on Statelessness in the UK
Asylum Aid is deeply concerned about the UK government’s proposed changes to settlement. Overall, the proposals are completely contrary to the significant body of evidence on integration and social cohesion. If introduced, the proposals risk entrenching insecurity, poverty and exclusion, undermining integration and social cohesion, and placing additional pressure on public services. We are in no doubt that they will cause significant harm to affected migrants, refugees, and stateless people. We are particularly concerned that there appears to have been no Equality Impact Assessment of the proposals, which are intended to have far-reaching impact on those with protected characteristics, which includes statelessness.
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Asylum Aid's response to government’s announcements on asylum reform
These new measures will not deter people seeking safety from coming to the UK but will instead significantly harm the mental health and social integration of those recognised as needing protection in this country. These are men, women, children and families who have fled war, conflict, torture, trafficking, persecution and extreme cruelty.