All African Women's Group

Category: Protest

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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.…

  • 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…