Report by anti-rape campaigners, sent to all MPs, documents complaints from current and former detainees at the Bedfordshire immigration removal centre
Report by anti-rape campaigners, sent to all MPs, documents complaints from current and former detainees at the Bedfordshire immigration removal centre Rape and Sexual Abuse in Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre 2005-2025. Click on the image below to download the report in full.
In the media: Government ‘response’ to child rape is a smokescreen
Government ‘Response’ To Child Rape Is A Smokescreen Morning Star 12 MARCH 2015 LISA LONGSTAFF from Women Against Rape and CRISTEL AMISS of the Black Women’s Rape Action Project examine the state’s attempts at obfuscation Far from tackling rape, the government’s response to the review into the child rape epidemic in Oxford is a merely …
Somos Las Mujeres Contra la Violación y nos oponemos a la extradición de Julian Assange
Somos Las Mujeres Contra la Violación y nos oponemos a la extradición de Julian Assange Durante décadas hemos hecho campañas para que se capture, inculpe y condene a los violadores. Pero la persecución de Assange es de carácter político. Katrin Axelsson y Lisa Longstaff del colectivo Las Mujeres Contra la Violación guardian.co.uk, jueves 23 de …
Open Letter to Keir Starmer RE: Consultation on alleged false allegations of rape
Open Letter to Keir Starmer RE: Consultation on alleged false allegations of rape Submitted 2011 We strongly believe that the prosecution of women for alleged false allegations of rape is not in the public interest. This is because: ● It distracts from the true rape scandal that over 90% of rapists get away with it …
Rape & Sexual Abuse in Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre
Rape & Sexual Abuse in Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre Our report chronicles a regime of predatory sexual abuse (including racist sexual abuse) since it opened and began accepting women and families in 2002. It brings together the many allegations that have been reported to us, with other reports that have appeared in the media. …
In the media: The benefit cap is supporting state child abuse
The benefit cap is supporting state child abuse The Guardian, Jan 2014, which connects benefit cuts with domestic violence and the state taking children from mothers. As a family brings a legal challenge to the £500 limit, the treatment of mothers in violent relationships is brought into sharp relief.
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Video: Layla Ibrahim film interview
Layla Ibrahim film interview Support our campaign to quash Layla’s conviction – like our Layla Ibrahim is Innocent page on facebook
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Over 1.25 million people, including 300,000 children, are destitute in Britain. People don’t eat regularly, can’t afford clothes and are dependent on others, sometimes strangers, for a roof over their heads.
Statement: Erioth Mwesigwa’s case refused – more help needed
Thanks to the 100s of people who wrote in support of Ms Mwesigwa, a victim of multiple rape by soldiers in Uganda, targeted because her husband, a prominent local politician, was suspected of opposing the President. Last Friday Ms Mwesigwa stopped her removal by refusing to go with the Yarl’s Wood guards when they came to take her to the airport. But the guards warned her that “next time” she would be physically forced onto the plane back to Uganda.
