Launch of New & Updated Self-Help Guide
for Asylum Seekers and their Supporters
6pm Thursday 27 June 2013
Crossroads Women’s Centre, 25 Wolsey Mews London NW5 2DX
Speakers: Cristel Amiss, Black Women’s Rape Action Project; Maurine Mahoro, All African Women’s Group
Ronan Toal, Garden Court Chambers
Self-help is crucial to winning asylum and immigration cases especially in the face of changes in the law and increased witch-hunts against immigrant people and legal aid cuts. This Guide is needed more than ever at a time when thousands of people face being sent back to their country of origin, many of whom have suffered rape and other torture and persecution and/or have lived in the UK for years.
Legal Action for Women T: 020 7482 2496 F: 020 7267 7297 Email: law[at]allwomencount.net
Endorsed by: All African Women’s Group, Black Women’s Rape Action Project, Women Against Rape
EXTREMELY URGENT
OPPOSE GOVERNMENT MOVES TO SCRAP the Human Rights Act
and defend everyone’s right to family life
| 27 June — launch of new & updated Self-Help Guide For Asylum Seekers and their Supporters: A Self-Help Guide against detention & deportation 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. Read more Review
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| A “Bleak House” for Our Times: An investigation into Yarl’s Wood Removal Centre by Legal Action for Women
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All African Women’s Group — Speech at Yarls Wood Demo – Video, October 2009
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Memorandum to the Joint Committee on Human Rights, UK Parliament, 2007
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Self-Help Guide confiscated from woman in detention, Oct 2008
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“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“.
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Children damaged by detention The Guardian, Wednesday July 27, 2005
- 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