All African Women’s Group speaks at Extinction Rebellion’s Upgrade Democracy – Another World is Possible 1 September 2024; a peaceful, creative occupation outside Windsor Castle, to demand urgent climate action and democratic reform by calling for a Citizens’ Assembly on Climate and Ecological Justice. XR say “our political system is broken, corrupted by powerful interests that prioritise profit over the planet. By gathering thousands at this symbolic site near where the Magna Carta was signed, we emphasise our commitment to a fairer, more inclusive system.” See all three day’s events here. For more information, visit Extinction Rebellion’s news pages.
Training seminar: the Substantive Interview — a Practical Guide for Vulnerable Individuals. See the powerpoint slides for this fantastic seminar, held 4 June 2024. at Crossroads Women’s Centre. It provides useful tips and practical advice for people seeking asylum, their representatives and supporters ahead of their substantive asylum interview, with a particular focus on the situation of survivors of rape and other gender-based violence.
It was part of Migrants Organise and Solidarity Knows No Borders Training Series – more info here
2024: Why we need a Mothers Campaign for family reunion. More information here.
2023: Global Women Against Deportations/Action Against Detention & Deportations hosts XR’s Big One, Day 3: “Climate justice and migrant justice are inextricably connected. Of the 59.1 million people internally displaced in 2021 across the world, most were displaced by climate-related disasters. As the climate crisis worsens, as a result of actions of this government among others, more people will be forced to migrate…”
2023: XR Big One: Speaking at Migrant Justice = Climate Justice. A young man speaks movingly about how he survived crossing the English Channel by boat…. I tried 10 times to reach Britain, because I speak English. And that’s why I want to be here. Because I want to be a place where people can understand me, and I can understand them. And I am looking for happiness it is a human right. No human is illegal.
2023: XR Big One: Lu, All African Women’s Group, speaking at Migrant Justice = Climate Justice… We are often treated like we have no rights to be here. But we do because the wealth of our countries has been stolen for centuries.
2023: XR event – Unite to Survive – “Women Care”. Diverse networks of mothers, grandmothers, other carers and people with disabilities spoke out on refusing poverty, the devaluing of caring and cuts in benefits, and the criminalisation of protests. The government wants to cut mothers’ and disabled people’s benefits, to force us “back to work” regardless of needs, wishes or poverty wages – stealing our survival entitlements to enrich fossil fuel polluters and other destructive industries. Raising children and coping with disability and ill-health is essential work which should be supported not punished.
2023: protest outside Yarl’s Wood Immigration Centre to close down detention centres, #StopRwandaplan and the Borders Act which attacks everyone’s right to asylum and protection in the UK.
2023: LGSM’s vigil in remembrance for shipwreck victims who have died trying to reach safety.
2022: The Nationality and Borders Bill will undermine the rights of people to claim asylum; criminalise those who survive the peril of the seas and those who try to help them; bring in measures that break international refugee and maritime law, including the push back of boats; and the processing of asylum seekers offshore.
2022: Following the 3rd National protest against Derwentside Immigration Removal Centre for women, organised by by Abolish Detention & No to Hassockfield – women confronted the MP for the area who is responsible for allowing the Home Office to convert Medomsley – a former youth offenders centre with a history of abusing young men and boys – into a hell-hole for detaining women asylum seekers and migrants.
2022: We have always said what they do to asylum seekers, paves the way for the cruel treatment of everyone else. This is shown by the just passed cruel Nationality and Borders Bill which penalises women and rape survivors and stops mothers being reunited with their children, giving the governments more power to take away anyone’s citizenship without warning. We all have a right to be here!! The campaign continues. We refuse to be traded to Rwanda. Stop turning Rwanda into an auction house!
2022: Faith from All African Women’s Group describes why the Nationality & Borders Bill will stop victims, who are too traumatised to report rape, from claiming asylum – counteracting the lies perpetrated by the Home Secretary, Priti Patel, who dishonesty claims that the bill is needed to protect women and children from men jumping the asylum queue.
2022: LAUNCH OF: Up from Destitution, a survey of women seeking asylum and making immigration applications in the UK. Nearly half of the women surveyed had no income at all and 60% are living on an income so low that they are officially destitute.
2022: online Q&A hosted by All African Women’s Group and Global Women Against Deportations at the Crossroads Women’s Centre. Hear from women asylum seekers who have made the dangerous journey to the UK and who can counter the lies put out about people fleeing for safety, including those arriving by boat on UK shores.
2020: Message to the House of Lords. Many rape victims who are immigrant are denied ‘recourse to public funds’ and risk deportation if they report. Women say: “If I refuse to have sex with him – he threatens to beat my son . . . so I cannot say NO . . . If I answer back he says that he will get me deported . . . Don’t leave me out of the domestic abuse bill . . . Priti Patel’s Nationality & Borders Bill threatens more rape and destitution. (See our Up From Destitution report: https://womenagainstrape.net/up-from-….
2019: Women from All African Women’s Group(AAWG) speak out against corporate looting and poisoning of the land, outside the Intercontinental Hotel, Central London, Monday 7 October, part of XR protests called by Fossil Free and Reclaim the Power. AAWG is a self-help group of asylum seeking women and refugees from many countries. Many have fled from war, poverty, domestic violence and environmental damage.
2019: Hope shares her victory and inspires other women in All African Women’s Group Filmed, edited and subtitled by volunteers.
2018: All African Women’s Group, Black Women’s Rape Action Project and Women Against Rape . . . Back at this year’s LUSH Human Rights Summit 14/15 February 2018 to perform our popular interactive play “We are here because . . . you are still there ”
2018: Ms E describes winning status for her son and daughter plus grandchildren – she says “I can say I’m a lawyer . . . she used Legal Action for Women’s “Self-help guide for asylum seekers and their supporters available here: http://legalactionforwomen.net/wp-con…
2018: Rousing speech made on Friday 13 July at the rally and protest against Trump’s UK visit outside the BBC , Portland Place Central London . . . “We are your neighbours and your friends, helps us to stay don’t help the Home Office Voluntary Returns Process . . . “
2018: Lesbians & Gays Support the Migrants Remembering Refugees who died seeking safety from war and devastation of their lands together with All African Women’s Group, Black Women’s Rape Action Project, Help Refugees, Peace Pledge Union, Queer Strike and Women of Colour/GWS
Introducing the All African Women’s Group Who we are & what we do.
All African Women's Group 