All African Women's Group

Category: asylum

  • Nadja: UK Borders Bill is “an attack on women”

    4 March 2022 UK parliament is debating whether to pass new immigration legislation that will disproportionately affect women’s chances of getting asylum and protection in the UK.  The Nationality and Borders Bill was introduced to “increase the fairness of the system to better protect and support those in need of asylum”, however it came under…

  • Independent: How the Nationality and Borders Bill will affect women refugees and asylum seekers

    24 January 2022.  Charities and organisations working with women refugees and asylum seekers have warned the bill is ‘harmful and discriminatory’ to women in particular. Lauren Crosby Medlicott reports If we had claimed asylum under the Nationality and Borders Bill after travelling through so many countries to get here, we would have been put in detention and not granted…

  • Morning Star: Patel’s borders Bill will ‘destroy us,’ refugees in Britain warn.

    14 December 2021 by BETHANY RIELLY FEMALE refugees living in Britain spoke out yesterday against the Nationality and Borders Bill, warning that the changes will “destroy” the lives of other asylum-seekers. Members of the All African Women’s Group (AAWG) who have experienced Britain’s asylum system warned that the proposals will make an already “horrendous” system…

  • Postcard to the Home Office

    Please sign, post and tweet this card to the Home Office, using the hashtag #FamilyReunionIsOurRight. Tag the All African Women’s Group too on twitter!