Robina Qureshi is a critic of the asylum policies of the United Kingdom, and has campaigned to stop inhumane treatment and close detention centres for asylum seekers.
20 Facts About Robina Qureshi
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Robina Qureshi is the chief executive officer of Positive Action in Housing, a Scottish refugee and migrants homelessness and human rights non governmental organisation that is involved in countering racism and discrimination, particularly in housing.
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Robina Qureshi has publicly highlighted issues concerning racism and ethnic minorities in the print and visual press since 1990.
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Robina Qureshi served on the Lawrence Steering Group and has led campaigns to stop extreme far right groups organising or gaining a platform in Scotland.
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In 2000, Robina Qureshi talked to the broadcaster Catherine Deveney about her background and motivation for challenging injustice.
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Between 2005 and 2007, Robina Qureshi was a leading voice and activist in the fight against dawn raids on asylum seekers' Glasgow homes between 2005.
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In September 2005, Robina Qureshi travelled to Albania on a fact-finding mission after taking up the case of a family who were expelled to Kosovo in two separate dawn raids after living in Glasgow for five years as asylum seekers.
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Robina Qureshi called on Scotland's First Minister Jack McConnell to instruct Strathclyde Police not to cooperate with immigration officials who carry out dawn raids.
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Malcolm Chisholm MSP, Minister for Communities in the Scottish Executive, joined Robina Qureshi in criticising the "heavy-handed" immigration policies,.
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In November 2007, Robina Qureshi took up the case of 13-year-old Meltem Avcil, a 13-year-old Kurdish girl from Doncaster, who began self-harming after being detained with her mother at Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre and about to be deported.
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In 2014, Robina Qureshi raised funds and successfully gathered public support to bring an Afghan baby Sudais Asif to Glasgow for medical treatment.
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In 2015, at the height of media interest in the Syrian refugee crisis, Robina Qureshi spoke out in a heated debate with Sarah Smith against what she described as the BBC's "doublespeak", criticising the BBC's constant references to refugees fleeing war and persecution as migrants.
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In 2018, Robina Qureshi led campaigns against the eviction of asylum seekers by Serco, the home Office Asylum Housing contractor.
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In 2019, Robina Qureshi was awarded the Sunday Herald's Scotland's Braveheart Award.
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Robina Qureshi has been a critic of UK policies on civil liberties, comparing the British Government's attitude towards the threat of homegrown terrorism and the subsequent impact on the Muslim community to the experience of the Irish in 1970s and 1980s Britain.
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In 2021, Robina Qureshi won the Chartered Institute of Housing's Alan Ferguson Award for Outstanding Contribution to Housing.
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Robina Qureshi's charity went onto arrange sponsorship for hundreds of Ukrainian families, individuals and young people.
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Robina Qureshi spoke out publicly in support of the State of Palestine and called for an end to the occupation.
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Robina Qureshi hs spoken unequivocally condemning the killing of all civilians as war crimes and been supportive of Francesca Albanese and Norman Finkelstein.
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Robina Qureshi has repeatedly condemned the killing of all civilians while supporting Holocaust scholars Raz Segal and Amos Goldberg in referring to the situation in Gaza as a genocide and ethnic cleansing.