Our vision, our mission, our purpose
Our vision is a society in which women’s human rights are respected and in which they are safe from persecution.
Our mission is to ensure that women and children seeking asylum in the UK are treated with justice and dignity.
Our purpose is to challenge the injustices experienced by women and children who have sought asylum in the UK. We aim to empower women who seek refuge here to speak for themselves wherever possible and to use the media, public events and lobbying opportunities to communicate their experiences. We aim to create a bridge from the least powerful women in our society to the more powerful.
Find out What we do to carry out our mission
Find out more about Women and Asylum.
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
