Cosmo Beatson

Cosmo Beatson is the founder and Executive Director of Vision First, the sole Hong Kong watchdog and advocacy powerhouse aiming to provide refugees with activism and advice in order to mobilize them to effectively safeguard their rights.

Trouble in paradise

Months before Hong Kong’s Occupy unleashed popular frustration onto the streets, a refugee movement adopted occupation tactics to protest the social marginalization of asylum seekers.

By Francesco Vecchio and Cosmo Beatson

/ 27 Mar 2015