All African Women's Group

Tag: Protest

  • 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.…

  • 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…