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‘Don’t you want to know why I’m bleeding?’
‘Don’t you want to know why I’m bleeding?’ An assault by a white neighbour on a Muslim woman in London has shown just how difficult it can be for victims of alleged racist attacks to prise open the doors of justice. Laura Smith reports Bilan Mohamud shows the injuries inflicted on her by a neighbour …
RAPED, TORTURED… But denied asylum by the UK Home Office
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 …
Rape victims denied refuge in Britain
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 …
Why we believe the police have lost sight of rape
While Tony and Ian Blair focus on defeating terrorists, are domestic violence, rape and racist assault being forgotten?
By Lisa Longstaff and Cristel Amiss,
The Times , Tuesday 17 January 2006
Government says rape victims are “not vulnerable” to deny asylum seekers legal representation
Correspondence between government Minister David Lammy and Black Women’s Rape Action Project & Women Against Rape published in The Guardian Letters page Erosion of asylum rights Monday July 12, 2004, The Guardian, Letters Rape survivors are vulnerable and find it difficult, often impossible, to speak about the violence they have suffered. The law acknowledges this, …
Racism against asylum seekers
The Guardian article below came about as a result of Legal Action for Women’s National Gathering on Saturday 3 July 2004. Kamwaura Nygothi was one of a number of women who raised the racism they were suffering in the North East of England. As a result of the article we have received many sympathetic responses, …
To Women Legislators of the Coalition of the Willing: Neither blood nor rape for oil
To Women Legislators of the Coalition of the Willing: Neither blood nor rape for oil 12 May 2004 Coming clean on rape and other sexual torture of women and girls at the hands of US and UK armed forces or their agents in Iraq and Afghanistan By Black Women’s Rape Action Project and Women Against …
