Meet the team
Board of Directors
Fizza Qureshi, Director
Fizza is the co-CEO of the Migrants' Rights Network. Fizza joined MRN as the Director Designate in August 2016. She previously worked at the Terrence Higgins Trust for just over 3 years covering the London and East of England sexual health and HIV services. Before this, she worked as a Programme Manager for an international medical humanitarian organisation where she was responsible for its UK independent health clinic, and health advocacy programme supporting migrants to access healthcare. Fizza has a degree in Human Rights and Social Change and Biotechnology. She has previously served as Board Member of MRN, the Institute of Race Relations and Healthwatch Newham. Her interests include; immigration, race, music and travelling.
Dr. Sue Conlan,Director
Sue Conlan has specialised in immigration and asylum law, practice and policy, in the UK and Ireland, for over 35 years, both in NGOs and in private legal practice. Sue is the director of TACTIC, a Community Interest Company, which aims to be strategic in its support for people who are seeking asylum or have no legal immigration status in the UK. This is done by providing easily-accessible training, consultancy, and by conducting research.
Nick Clark, Director
During over 30 years of experience, I have taken part in trade union activity and research at most levels, from shop steward and national negotiator in manufacturing to Policy Officer in the General Secretary's office of a major UK trade union. During this time I have developed a special interest in the extremes of employer exploitation and in the groups of workers against whom this is disproportionately directed. Since 2009 this interest has been focussed through academic research, albeit usually engaging with trade unions and migrant workers' organisation.
Nick leads the Unpaid Britain project
Staff and volunteers
Ake Achi, Founding Chief Executive
Ake is a former child labourer. He has worked as a trade union regional organiser in the UK for a number of years. He is currently the Deputy General Secretary of the National Trade Union of the Security Officers of Cote d'Ivoire. Ake holds a BSc in International Relations and French and a Master's degree in international human rights law. He is training to become an employment and immigration lawyer. He set up Migrants At Work Ltd because he realised that migrant and British workers from BAME backgrounds are not getting the support they need in the labour market as workers because they are being organised as migrant or BAME workers, instead of workers.
Media
Migrants are always the scapegoats. But now they're taking on Ukip's lies
By Owen Jones
By El Dario. es
G7 summit: anti-poverty campaigners from across Europe rally in Munich
By Kate Connolly, the Guardian
Here to stay, here to fight. Muslims and migrants on how they're fighting racism
By Socialist worker
Migration after Brexit: the challenge for labour standards 2017
By Roger Jeary
Campaign for a United Nations parliamentary assembly
By UNPA Campaign
By Gazette Standard
By War On Want