Immigrant Women

Friday 23 June 06, 11am
A REFUGEE WEEK EVENT - to launch :
Three tools for rape survivors, legal representatives & supporters
Trinity United Reformed Church, Buck Street,
Camden Town, London NW1 - All welcome 

Rape victims denied refuge in Britain
Letter in the Independent 24 May 06

Speech by Sara Kajjumba of the All African Women's Group
at the Scottish Launch of the Self-Help Guide for Asylum Seekers 
Facing Detention and Deportation

Press conference Thursday 15 December:  
A “Bleak House” for Our Times  
An investigation into Yarl’s Wood Removal Centre  

All African Women's Group

Kyeyos* go on hunger strike in Britain

Uganda Sunday Vision, 4 September, 2005

Ugandan women in detention in third week of hunger strike
Voice of the Unions, September 2005

Asylum is a Gay Issue 
Women who are lesbian/Bi, rape survivors, living with HIV/AIDS need urgent support

A Refugee Week PRESS CONFERENCE to launch: A self-help guide for asylum seekers facing detention & removal  This accessible step-by-step guide puts together information that is not usually available so that anyone determined to get protection and justice can find out how to do it.

The Needs of Pregnant Asylum Seekers
Refugee Women’s News, Sept Oct 2004

Every moment for me is fear As an asylum seeker, I discovered what racism really means when I was 'dispersed' to Middlesbrough by Kamwaura Nygothi, Guardian July 8.
Stand up and be counted Middlesbrough Evening Gazette
Other face of Teesside letter in the Guardian from the editor of Middlesbrough Evening Gazette

Asylum seeker rape victims meet Oona King MP
New Nation 19 July

Erosion of asylum rights - correspondence between government Minister and anti-rape organisations after government denies rape victims are 'vulnerable' (go to www.womenagainstrape.net)

Why were women’s demands taken out of the Manifesto for the European Day of Action for the rights of immigrants and asylum seekers?

"National Refugee Week in London Schools June 2004 & 2005"
Six Camden schools have invited women from the All African Women’s Group, a group of asylum seekers based at the Crossroads Women’s Centre, to speak in classes and assemblies as part of National Refugee Week. "There are 3,292 refuge and asylum seeking children in Camden schools. 105 languages are spoken by bi-lingual pupils in Camden schools" Camden Annual Refugee Survey 2003/4. The No School Apartheid Campaign (NSA), is co-ordinating this anti-racist, anti sexist project.

PRESS RELEASE . . . PRESS RELEASE . . . PRESS RELEASE . . . PRESS

National Gathering: The World Belongs to All of Us, We All Have a Right to Be Here Strengthening the movement against repressive laws on asylum and immigration. 3 July, 10-5pm, London.
Report from National Gathering

Asylum as a gay issue Letter by Wages due Lesbians published in the Guardian

Rape, hunger & homelessness The Guardian, 1 November 2003.  "We came here to seek asylum, but have been turned into non-people".

Dickensian future for asylum seekers
The Guardian, Thursday October 30, 2003

PRESS RELEASE from the Crossroads Coalition for Justice for Asylum Seekers
No room at the inn for asylum seekers. Children out on the streets at Christmas!
"We are suffering hunger and homelessness. Our health is getting worse. As the winter approaches, some of us will not survive."
Rape victims, in self-defense, are now willing to speak to the media. (020) 7482 2496, 07956 316 899

Out of the frying pan: The government's asylum policies are visiting further suffering on desperate people who come here seeking sanctuary, says Paul Donavan (The Observer, 26 October 2003)

Bishop Pat O'Donoghue visits destitute asylum seekers - Oct 2003

To the Sans Papiers and supporters protesting in Square-Jardin Villemin, Paris, Saturday 12 July 2003
Français

Woman raped at Eurotower faces death threats and sleeping on the streets is now official housing policy

Asylum seekers tell Refugee Council: We refuse homelessness & destitution Human rights for all lobby - Friday 4 July 2003, 8.30-12noon

Castellano: Algunas, preguntas - y respuestas - sobre la INMIGRACIÓN (pdf)

Catalan: Algunes, preguntes - i respostes - sobre La IMMIGRACIÓ (pdf)

Support message to Deaf women fighting deportation

Against Yarl's Wood Removal Centre Re-opening

Hunger Strike at Haslar Immigration Removal Centre - support letter from Black Women for Wages for Housework & Payday

NO SCHOOL APARTHEID
Although the Clause to segregate the children of asylum seekers from mainstream schools was passed as part of the Nationality Immigration & Asylum Bill a big question remains over whether it can be implemented due to the widespread and ferocious grassroots anti-racist movement which was uncovered by campaigning on this issue. The government has not found one organisation ready to support segregated education. We are focusing on stopping the implementation of the government’s plans, including calling for non-co-operation from those Blunkett will depend on to open the accommodation centres.

In defence of asylum Letter published in The Guardian 15 June 2002
While claiming to abhor Le Pen and extreme right parties, European governments are increasingly adopting their policies . . .

Support the church hunger strike & protest by immigrant & non-immigrant people in Spain Picket of the Spanish Embassy, Saturday 25 May 2002

Sans Papiers - A Woman Draws the First Lessons
The New Movement of Asylum Seekers and Immigrants without papers in France
Madjiguene Cisse

Read more about the current activities and organizing of Immigrant Women for the Global Women's Strike at www.globalwomenstrike.net

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