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UK media coverage of asylum seekers and refugees

By Forward Maisokwadzo

Forward is the Communications Officer of the Refugees, Asylum-seekers and the Media (RAM) Project and an exiled journalist from Zimbabwe.

This speech was given on 14 June 2004 at a conference organised by the AMITY Media Group in Leicester, as part of Refugee Week.

For more information about AMITY, email kwaku@voluntaryactionleicester.org.uk

The full text of the speech can be downloaded here:
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