Category: Latest News
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We all have the right . . .
📢 PROTEST: INVEST IN CARING NOT KILLING International Women’s Week Action ✊🏾✊🏿✊🏼 📍 WHERE: Taylor House Immigration Court, 88 Rosebery Ave,London EC1R4Q U📅 WHEN: Tuesday, 3 March⏰ TIME: 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM🔥 ORGANISED BY: Global Women Against Deportations & All African Women’s Group We say NO to brutal immigration policies that put women at…
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We have the right to be here:
Women Challenge the New Immigration Laws 💻 Webinar video 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 temporary, cut essential support, restrict appeals and family…
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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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Open letter to the UK government to demand that the Namibia country of origin report be revised . . .
TO: UK Visas and Immigration’s (UKVI) Country Policy Information Team (CPIT) Open letter to the UK government to demand that the Namibia country of origin report be revised to eliminate sexism and other discrimination and accurately reflect the experience of women who have had to flee from persecution in Namibia and are claiming asylum in…
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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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Election Template Letter
TEMPLATE LETTER TO CANDIDATE Dear [Name] I am writing to you as my prospective parliamentary candidate. I want to know whether you will support the internationally recognised right to claim asylum for people fleeing war and persecution. [Say something about your situation here – who you are, any experience you have of the asylum system…
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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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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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