Tag: gender based violence
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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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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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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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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…
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We ran for our lives. Now the Home Office has the power of life or death over us.
“On International Women’s Day, a member of All African Women’s Group shares their exhausting battle to claim asylum & access legal advice in the UK – three months later she’s still struggling to find a lawyer.” Read it in full here by clicking on the image below. 8 Mar 2023 I need a legal aid…
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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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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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