EVENT: WAR will join All African Women’s Group to Protest and Speak out! WHERE: Taylor House, 88 Rosebery Ave, London EC1R 4QU WHEN: Tues 3 February & Tues 3 March 12.30–1.30pm ORGANISERS: Global Women Against Deportations & All African Women’s Group Politicians and the media have whipped up hatred against asylum seekers and migrants. Now …
Christmas Appeal 2023 for destitute women asylum seekers Dear friends, Each year as Christmas approaches, Legal Action for Women organises an appeal for destitute women and children in All African Women’s Group (AAWG) — the self-help group of women asylum seekers based with us at the Crossroads Women’s Centre, the charity running the Centre, is administering the …
Press Statement: Women Asylum Seekers Condemn “Earned Settlement” Proposal as Sexist, Racist and Dangerous Women asylum seekers from the All African Women’s Group (AAWG), together with Global Women Against Deportations (GWAD) and Women Against Rape (WAR), have submitted evidence opposing the government’s proposed “earned settlement” scheme, warning that it will deepen discrimination and push women …
Submission to the Government Consultation on Earned Settlement All African Women’s Group, Global Women Against Deportations and Women Against Rape’s Asylum from Rape project. Summary All African Women’s Group (AAWG), Global Women Against Deportations (GWAD) and Women Against Rape (WAR) oppose the government’s earned settlement proposal because it is inherently sexist, racist and discriminatory. It …
Call to Action Join Women Against Rape and others in denouncing the rape and torture of Palestinian women, children and men in Israeli detention. End rape, end genocide, end complicity. (See link below to sign) Trigger warning: explicit sexual violence. For over two years of unrelenting bombing, Palestinian women have fought for survival and against …
They Claimed to Protect Women and Children but they Terrorised Us: All African Women’s Group Speaks Out Against Racist Attacks Women Against Rape helped women speak out about sexually predatory guards in asylum hotels and their justified objections to being housed with men, so that what they experienced could be included in their detailed …
CALL FOR ACTION: Palestinian Testimonies about Rape and Torture in Israeli Detention We must organise against this to mark 16 Days Against Violence Against Women and Girls Content warning: rape and other torture On 10 November the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) published testimonies by four recently released prisoners, a woman and three men, …
All African Women’s Group: Open letter to the UK government to demand that the Namibia country of origin report be revised . . . At a series of meetings last year, which Women Against Rape helped facilitate, women who had fled rape and other violence including Domestic Violence spoke about being refused protection by the …
EXCLUSIVE: Hammersmith and Fulham Council apologised for not providing “the right care sooner” but the woman said she feels “betrayed” and “left to rot” A frail elderly woman says she was raped after turning to strangers online for help because care was not put in place by her local council when she came out of …
Report of screening dramatic Netflix film ‘Victim-Suspect’, 15 May 2025 We have been encouraging people to watch this ground-breaking American documentary, and we’ve been organising screenings followed by guest speakers and Q&As. It’s a good way of informing people about the horrendous injustices which victims of sexual violence face both in the US and …
The film 3.30pm: A US reporter discovers a pattern of women who reported sexual assault to police nationwide but were then charged with fabricating their allegations—sometimes facing prison. “You’re sexually assaulted. You report. And police make you the suspect!” University College London, Lecture Theatre G22, North West Wing, 136 Gower St., London WC1E …
