Alf Dubs, Baron Dubs is a Labour politician and leading refugee rights advocate. Formerly the MP for Battersea, Alf was appointed as a Labour life peer in 1994, and in 1997 he became Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Northern Ireland Office.

He is a former chair of Liberty, a trustee of ActionAid and the Immigration Advisory Service and former Director of the Refugee Council.

In 2016, Baron Dubs sponsored an amendment to the Immigration Act 2016 to offer unaccompanied refugee children safe passage to Britain, having himself arrived in Britain in 1939 as a six-year-old refugee fleeing the Nazis in Czechoslovakia on the Kindertransport.

Baron Dubs is now campaigning to ensure that the main legal routes for refugee children to reach the UK remain open after Brexit.

“For over 60 years, the Refugee Council has been a significant support for refugees and asylum seekers coming to the UK. The work it does is vital both in terms of the practical support and the advice it offers to those who arrive here having fled war, human rights violations and torture.

The most vulnerable refugees are of course children, especially those who arrive unaccompanied having lost their family, been separated from them or in some cases having been trafficked and subject to abuse and exploitation. It is thanks to organisations like the Refugee Council that these children are offered protection and support.

I know from my own experience how bewildering it is to arrive in a new country, so I am especially grateful for the work the Refugee Council does to make that experience less traumatic for the refugee children of today.”

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