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  • PROTEST & SPEAKOUT

    INVEST IN CARING NOT KILLING: International Women’s Week Action: WE ALL HAVE THE RIGHT TO BE HERE. 📍 WHERE: Taylor House Immigration Court, 88 Rosebery Ave, London EC1R 4QU 📅 WHEN: Tuesday 3 March ⏰ TIME: 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM ✊ ORGANISED BY: Global Women Against Deportations & All African Women’s Group We say…

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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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  • 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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