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LAW articles and letters about the reality of life for women claiming asylum and in detention.

•  Memorandum to the Joint Committee on Human Rights, UK Parliament, 2007

•  "Rape victims denied refuge in Britain"
  Letter May 2006,

• Letter to The Guardian: It was women asylum seekers, with the support of grassroots organisations like ours who led ferocious protests against this return to Dickensian pauperism. Morning Star Opinion: "Niki Adams hails the role of women in the fight to repeal the Section 55 anti-refugee legislation".

• July 2003, “Vulnerable Face New Heartbreak”

• June 2003, Funding asylum NGOs: To defend human rights or to embed us with the Home Office? Press Conference

• Autumn 2002, "Desperately Seeking Asylum, The Hell of rape survivors" article Green World 37

• June 2002, "In Defence of Asylum" , Guardian letters with 39 signatories from organisations and prominent individuals. 

• "Legal representation can kill", Key article in New Law Journal March 1997 David Burgess demonstrates how one young woman was failed by the Home Office, the courts and her solicitors