Report: Women’s Hunger Strike – Louder than Words When 70 women went on hunger strike in Yarl’s Wood IRC on 5 February, an unprecedented level of media coverage followed. Rape survivors, mothers separated from their children, and other vulnerable women, some of whom had been detained without trial for months (one for over a year), …
Yarl’s Wood hunger striker speaks out about abuse by guards http://againstrape.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Yarls-Wood-hunger-striker-speaks-out-about-abuse-by-guards.mp3 Title: YW Hunger Striker Length: 2:44 minutes (3.77 MB) Format: MP3 Stereo 44kHz 192Kbps (CBR)
Women reunited with their children 5 March was one of the happiest occasions of this past year for many of us. Betty A, a longstanding and much loved volunteer was reunited with the four children whom she was forced to leave behind when she fled Uganda. The full and heart-rending story is still to be told …
Mothers join hunger strike Today 91 families, mainly single mothers with their children, some of whom have been detained for over three months, have joined the protest. Mothers report that after 5pm their kids go hungry as there is no food available until 8am the next morning. Children can’t manage under such harsh conditions. Most …
Cristel Amiss of Black Women’s Rape Action Project: ‘It’s harder for women to get asylum cases recognised Addressing how the specific persecution women face is not explicitly addressed under the UN Convention on Refugees and that makes it even harder for women to get asylum cases recognised, as reported in The Voice, July 2006. Sara …
Letter published in The Independent, 24 May 2006 Sir: The “soft targets” for deportation are first of all women and children who find it hardest to “disappear” in the system. (‘Soft targets’ picked on for deportation, say refugee campaigners”, 18 May). Just last week, a young woman was removed to an African country after …
