Media
Women for Refugee Women has worked across a range of media to give voice to women’s experiences in the asylum process. If you have media queries, please email us on This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or call us on 020 7250 1239.
Below are some print, television and radio examples of our media work
(more of WRW's recent media work can be found in Further media )
The Observer
Insight into the daily struggle faced by women refugees, featuring our photography project, Home Sweet Home
The Guardian
Coverage of our campaign for refugee playwright Lydia Besong
Woman’s Hour
Our ambassador Juliet Stevenson and refugee playwright Lydia Besong talk to Jenni Murray about Lydia’s struggle to stay in the UK
Marie Claire magazine
Marie Claire covers the launch of our photography project in Parliament
Bliss: Monthly Magazine
A teenager tells her own story of coming the UK and being detained
Woman's Weekly: magazine
Juliet Stevenson and her daughter talk about why they got involved in the campaign against the detention of families
New Statesman
The New Statesman ran a great campaign against the detention of children in association with Women for Refugee Women
Observer newspaper
Interview with Marjorie Nshemere, who sought asylum in the UK
Observer magazine
Moving interviews with women living destitute in the UK in the Observer magazine
Newsround: BBC
Interview with a child asylum seeker locked up in the UK
Woman's Hour
Interview with a woman asylum seeker in detention, plus Lin Homer, head of UK Border Agency and Natasha Walter, co-ordinator of Women for Refugee Women
I admire the work carried out by Women for Refugee Women. By telling the true stories of women and children in the asylum process they woke a lot of people up to the scandal of child detention.
Michael Morpurgo, author of War Horse
I have been delighted to support Women for Refugee Women since its launch- I've been truly inspired by the great work this organisation does, enabling women who seek asylum to speak out - whether at the grassroots or to government ministers.
Oona King
Many refugees and asylum seekers have fled their home countries because of human rights abuses. The work of agencies like Women for Refugee Women is vital for helping people rebuild their lives and have a voice.
Trevor Phillips OBE, chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission
Put the word refugee in front of woman and immediately prejudice and projection arise. Meet a refugee woman, hear her struggles – and her joys – and you encounter a person, like you and me, who has been more than unlucky....
....Women for Refugee Women joins the dots, restores our humanity to ourselves and enables women to fight for theirs. Please support them.
Susie Orbach, psychotherapist and author of Bodies and Fat is a Feminist Issue
