Category: asylum
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We Have the Right to Be Here: Women Challenge the New Immigration Laws 💻 Webinar – link coming soon. 📅 Date: Tuesday 9 December 🕧 Time: 12:30 – 2:00 PM 📍 Location: Online Webinar (Zoom link to follow) Women seeking asylum are facing more cruel and draconian legal changes. These proposals will make refugee status…
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They Claimed to Protect Women and Children but they Terrorised Us
All African Women’s Group Speaks OutAgainst Racist Attacks The All African Women’s Group (AAWG) held a series of meeting in autumn 2025 for women to speak out about the rise in racism and far-right protests outside hotels and in public spaces over the summer. Many protesters claimed that they were protecting women and children. But…
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ELECTION ACTION ALERT
ASK YOUR CANDIDATES TO SUPPORT THE INTERNATIONALLY RECOGNISED RIGHT TO CLAIM ASYLUM FOR PEOPLE FLEEING WAR AND PERSECUTION Please use our template letter below and here to email your candidates and ask where they stand on protecting the right to claim asylum and enabling people to get a fair hearing. Find your candidates email addresses…
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Training seminar: the Substantive Interview — a Practical Guide for Vulnerable Individuals
See the PowerPoint slides for this fantastic joint seminar with Women Against Rape and Lawstop, held 4 June 2024. at Crossroads Women’s Centre. We provide useful tips and practical advice for people seeking asylum, their representatives and supporters ahead of their substantive asylum interview, with a particular focus on the situation of survivors of rape…
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Media: Poverty used mothers in custody cases, meetings told
A report of our event was published in Camden New Journal. One of our sisters spoke about how mothers fighting for family reunion with children they were forced to leave behind have to battle against the obstacles set by a hostile Home Office in order to win. She said: “Children should have the right to…
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COUNTING OUR VICTORIES. . . Another rape victim wins the right to safety and protection.
Marian, a All African Women’s Group member, has won refugee status to stay in the UK! When she first came to the AAWG she was very distressed because the council was about to evict her and her two young children. This was in the middle of winter during the pandemic. Marian suffered life threatening rape…
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Event: Children need their mothers, Mothers need their children
Public meeting on Tues 12 March 2024, 12-2pm Crossroads Women’s Centre, 25 Wolsey Mews, London NW5 2DX Every day children are separated from their mothers by sexist and racist immigration laws or family courts — causing heartache and lifelong trauma. Mothers seeking asylum or on work permits after fleeing war, climate collapse, poverty, persecution, rape…
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A mother who was trafficked from Nigeria has won family reunion with her three children.
Her children were very young – one was still breastfeeding when she was forcibly separated from them. They suffered terrible beatings and the threat of rape. We helped her press her lawyer to act more quickly and WAR provided expert evidence of the impact on both mother and children. When the Home Office finally granted…
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Victory: A mother who survived rape, who was due to be sent out of London and away from the support of All African Women’s Group (AAWG) and Women Against Rape (WAR) has won the right to stay.
It was a battle. WAR wrote a letter to say it would be devastating for her and her son to be separated from her support network. The Home Office was forced to give in. They said they had consulted their “psychiatric adviser”. But our question is why didn’t they consult this person first when they…
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Victory: hotel forced to provide edible food for mother and baby.
I am the mother of a 16-month-old daughter. I was moved to a hotel near Gatwick in June 2023. When I first arrived I was given a room with a toilet and basin. The food is provided by the hotel. This was terrible because the food was cold, bland, tasteless and not enough to feed…
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