All African Women’s Group is a self-help group of women asylum seekers from all over the world who have fled war, starvation and the climate crisis. Many of us are survivors of rape and most of us are mothers, some separated from our children. Some of us are lesbian and bi and some have been locked up in detention centres.
We are part of Global Women Against Deportations and work in partnership with Women Against Rape in their Refuge from Rape and Destitution project.
We work collectively to understand and strengthen our legal cases and provide practical help, particularly to women in detention. Our campaigns include fighting for mothers to be reunited with their children, to end destitution and detention, and for housing, healthcare, and other survival resources.
Our demands for change
- Scrap the Rwanda Plan, repeal the Nationality and Borders Act and the Illegal Migration Act.
- Abolish the No Recourse to Public Funds policy and the National Asylum Support Service & restore mainstream benefits, free healthcare and housing for all asylum seekers.
- Restore legal aid for all immigration claims.
- Grant the automatic right to Family Reunion to everyone with status in the UK.
- End detention – close down all detention camps/centres.
- Abolish NHS and Home Office fees.
- Restore the rights of all Windrush and Commonwealth citizens.
- End the privatization and profiteering of asylum services.
- Prosecute guards and companies responsible for rape and other violence.
- Discipline and/or sack immigration officials, lawyers, health professionals and judges who are shown to be sexist, racist, hostile or discriminatory in other ways
- An official independent investigation into what happens to people who have been forcibly deported.
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