Women for Refugee Women Media Coverage
Literati urge minister 'don't deport writer'
Bedfordshire on Sunday, 22nd January 2012
Warhorse author backs playwright’s battle against being deported to Cameroon
Manchester Evening News, 20th January 2012
Please act urgently to stop removal of Lydia Besong
The Afro News, 20th January 2012
Battle to save writer from deportation bid
This is Lancashire, 19th January 2012
Battle to save writer from deportation bid
The Prestwich and Whitefield Guide, 19th January 2012
Authors and activists condemn decision to deport Cameroonian playwright
The Guardian, 17th January 2012
A thousand feminists, a million acts of violence
Open Democracy, 15th November 2011
Unheard and unseen in Britain
Open Democracy, 10th November 2011
‘Artists rally around Cameroonian playwright facing deportation’
The Guardian, 9th September 2011
‘Asylum life: the trials of women refugees, through their own eyes’
The Observer, 14th August 2011
London through the eyes of refugee women
Telegraph Online, August 2011
‘Britain is still no refuge for refugees’
The Guardian, 27th July 2011
‘Justice for asylum seekers 60 years on’
The Guardian, 27th July 2011
‘Women refugees need a home’ – coverage of Home Sweet Home launch
Marie-Claire, 12th May 2011
‘I am every woman’
New Statesman, 10th March 2011
Michael Morpurgo discussing Motherland, Dimbleby Lecture
BBC1 TV and BBC radio 4, 15th February 2011
‘Speaking out for change’
The Guardian, 26th November 2010
Comment on government pledge to end child detention
The Guardian Comment page, 18th May 2010
Michael Morpurgo authored programme on child detention
BBC Daily Politics Show, 19th March 2010
All Star Cast put the Spotlight on Yarls Wood
Bedford Today, 7th January 2010
Actress gives voice to forgotten of Yarls Wood
Bedfordshire on Sunday, 18th December 2009
‘Inside Yarls Wood immigration centre’
The Guardian, 16th December 2009
Feature by Beverley Naidoo on visiting Yarls Wood with WRW, including interviews with detained children
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

