Category: Latest News
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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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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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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…
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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…
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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…
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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!
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