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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 Democracy: The UK’s Nationality and Borders Act penalises women. Here’s how.
1 August 2022. Lauren Medlicott Kidnapped, imprisoned and raped – but new legislation means this asylum seeker fears she could be deported. Women asylum seekers and refugees fear that their asylum claims will be rejected and they may be deported under the UK’s new immigration legislation. The regulations introduce a two-tier asylum system and harsh penalties for
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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
“Mothers and children should be a priority in this world, and we are not!” – Morning Star, 8th March 2018
Ms Mohammed’s story in Ham&High
Lesbian refugee who fled domestic violence in Pakistan pleads: rescue my son – he’s in danger!
“Thank you” from Ms Mohammed in Ham&High
Home Office on trial!
All African Women's Group 