Women speak out in Parliament against detention, deportation, privatisation and profiteering 14 January 2010

14 January 2010

Women speak out in Parliament against detention, deportation, privatisation and profiteering 14 January 2010 With recent press coverage shedding light on the devastating impact of detention on children, and the public outrage that followed, it was no surprise that a meeting on the detention of mothers and other vulnerable people in the House of Commons …

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26 December 2009

Ms B from Côte d’Ivoire was granted Indefinite Leave to remain

27 August 2009

Ms S, a young Muslim woman of Arab African descent

26 August 2009

When Janipher Maseko finally won her right to remain

26 August 2009

My four children were lost in Burundi

26 August 2009

Ms O, a refugee from Nigeria fled sexual harassment by a high ranking army officer

25 August 2009

Asylum from Rape Bulletin Spring 2009

9 July 2009

Winning compensation for unlawful detention of rape survivor. Listen to Ms PB being interview on Radio 4’s “PM” program in December 2008 here. Read about her fight against the racist attacks here which she and other women suffered in a Liverpool Hostel. You may have heard about the case of Ms PB who was recently …

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Press release: Hunger strike and sit in at Yarl’s Wood detention centre.

29 June 2009

PLEASE TAKE ACTION IN SUPPORT OF THE HUNGER STRIKE AND SIT-IN AT YARL’S WOOD IMMIGRATION DETENTION CENTRE Picket SERCO Headquarters 22 Hand Court, Holborn, WC1V 6JF Friday 19 June 12.30-2pm Nearest Tubes: Holborn or Chancery Lane Women, children and men in the Family Unit at Yarl’s Wood IRC [1] are in the third day of …

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I’m a rape survivor from Rwanda

14 May 2009

Rape survivor from Rwanda in brave fight to help others  Stella Mpaka, of Women Against Rape, is now helping others to overcome their personal nightmares. Your article (Camden group’s battle to prioritise a heinous crime, H&H April 2) showed some of Women Against Rape’s (WAR) ground breaking work winning justice for rape survivors. I can …

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