Category: asylum
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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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Christmas Appeal 2023 for destitute women asylum seekers
Dear friends, Each year as Christmas approaches, Legal Action for Women organises an appeal for destitute women and children in All African Women’s Group (AAWG) — the self-help group of women asylum seekers based with us at the Crossroads Women’s Centre, the charity running the Centre, is administering the appeal. We are always overcome by…
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Workshop with Q&A at Anarchist Bookfair: Autonomy – women, race & immigration
Saturday 7 October 2023 1-2.30 pm, Zilkha Auditorium in the Whitechapel Gallery, 77-82 Whitechapel High St, London E1 7QX. Aldgate East underground. Wheelchair accessible. In 1982 the Wages for Housework Campaignorganised the first conference in the UK on women, race and immigration. Insisting on our right to be here is even more urgent now. Discussion with Selma James, who…
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We ran for our lives. Now the Home Office has the power of life or death over us.
“On International Women’s Day, a member of All African Women’s Group shares their exhausting battle to claim asylum & access legal advice in the UK – three months later she’s still struggling to find a lawyer.” Read it in full here by clicking on the image below. 8 Mar 2023 I need a legal aid…
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The New Arab: Women continue to struggle after seeking asylum in the UK
20 Oct 2022. Lauren Crosby Medlicott v If the Home Office accepts the story and evidence provided by someone claiming to need protection in the UK, they will offer one of the various types of leave to remain, entitling them to between two-and-a-half and five years to stay in the UK. Immediately following the decision, a…
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Open Democracy: The UK’s Nationality and Borders Act penalises women. Here’s how.
1 August 2022. Lauren Medlicott Kidnapped, imprisoned and raped – but new legislation means this asylum seeker fears she could be deported. Women asylum seekers and refugees fear that their asylum claims will be rejected and they may be deported under the UK’s new immigration legislation. The regulations introduce a two-tier asylum system and harsh penalties for…
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Morning Star: Nationwide actions outside detention centres to end the brutal Rwanda policy.
15 July 2022 by BETHANY RIELLY PROTESTS are being held outside detention centres across Britain this weekend to demand the government drop its “inhumane” plans to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda. The nationwide action is aimed at sending a message of solidarity to men and women imprisoned inside the detention estate, campaigners told the Star.…
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Morning Star: Female refugees condemn Home Secretary’s Rwanda deal as ‘modern-day slavery’
26 April 2022. BETHANY RIELLY FEMALE refugees from Africa condemned Home Secretary Priti Patel’s Rwanda deal as modern-day slavery today during a protest against the Nationality & Borders Bill. Members of the All African Women’s Group (AAWG) of asylum-seekers warned that the lives of people sent to the East African country under the scheme would…
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