Future Events
At Women for Refugee Women we organise a range of events to raise awareness about the asylum system and to give refugee women a voice to tell their own stories. We also work in partnership with others to raise awareness of women's experiences in the asylum process.
Women Asylum Seekers Together London will be speaking at Asylum Support Appeals Project's Destitution Awareness Day on 27th February, 1.30-5.30pm at Oxford House, Bethnal Green. This year the day will focus on destitute asylum seekers with support needs, and will include speaks and workshops looking at the barriers in the support system and solutions for tackling these.
We will be marching over Millennium Bridge for peace and freedom, as part of Join me on the Bridge on the 8th March, 10.30am - 2pm.
We will also be speaking at the wonderful Women of the World festival at the South Bank Centre in London on the 10th and 11th March 2012.
Do join us!
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
