Events and Action

As the top MEP on Justice and Human Rights Jean continues to give her support to thousands of refugees and celebrates Refugee Week every year.  Read Jean’s latest statement of support here.  

2006: As the Green Party spokesperson on asylum issues and Green MEP for London Jean continues to raise questions with the Home Office over the Policy’s on Asylum seekers and individual cases that are bought to Jean’s attention.

2005: Jean actively supports ‘Brides Without Borders’ a group of women and men who are facing forcible separation from their partners due to the Home Office’s Asylum Policy’s that are in breach of a British Citizens Right to family life.   Jean joined the protest in Parliament Square to highlight the campaign. 

“The actions of the Home Office leave me utterly astonished. The UK Government is so keen to reach targets and lower the numbers of refused asylum seekers remaining in this country, that they are no longer treating people as individuals."

Jean Lambert, Green MEP

2004: At an asylum demonstration outside the House of Commons Green Jean slammed the government’s asylum policy as ‘outrageous’ and ‘unjust’.  She highlighted that Government policy was based on a classic ‘Catch 22’ situation –closing ‘legal’ entry methods to asylum seekers and then denying applications from those migrants deemed to have entered the country illegally.

“Asylum seekers are being forced into destitution by a Government whose policy is taken straight from the editorial columns of the right-wing press.  The UK must honour its international legal – not to mention moral – obligations to provide sanctuary to those seeking refuge from tyranny and persecution, not try to deter refugees with detention and draconian attempts to drive them into poverty.”

Jean Lambert, Green MEP joining a ‘sleep-out’ in Trafalgar Square in 2004 to draw attention to the human cost of the Government’s Asylum and Immigration Bill.