How we support refugee women in the UK
Power
by building community through support groups
Through our creative and educational activities such as English lessons, drama, yoga, radical knitting and more, we provide support groups for refugee women to build their confidence and skills. Our warm and welcoming space helps to combat the isolation faced by women seeking safety and creates pathways for women to rebuild their lives on their own terms.
Influence
by supporting refugee women to tell their stories
When women tell their own stories, they can change minds and build understanding about what it means to seek safety in the UK. We support refugee women in the UK, and asylum-seeking women, to speak to the media, to parliamentarians, at events and through the arts.
Change
by campaigning for a fairer UK asylum system.
Working alongside refugee and asylum-seeking women in our network, we publish robust research on the experiences of refugee women. This helps us to fight for a fairer UK asylum system, and to end immigration detention in the UK. We work with policy makers to make the case for a fairer asylum process; and creatively campaign to make change.
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Our latest news
Influentional people unite to urge Government: Reinstate Refugee Family Reunion
We're extremely proud to bring together over 30 influential women and men - including actors, artists, authors, comedians, campaigners and other public figures - who have pledged their support for Refugee Family Reunion.
Families belong together. We will never let that go.
Statement on the escalation in racist violence: Over 150 organisations unite to raise the alarm and demand the Government acts
We're proud to join over 150 organisations unite to raise the alarm and demand the Government acts to urgently tackle the escalation in racist violence and intimidation. This is not in our name.
Joint Statement: Organisations unite to reject the Government’s divisive, racist and scapegoating behaviour guide
We've joined over 70 organisations to reject the Government's divisive, racist, and scapegoating behaviour guide for people seeking asylum - "Understanding behaviours and expectations in the UK: a guide for asylum seekers". This guide will do nothing to support, inform or empower women. All it will do is fuel suspicion, prejudice, division and harmful myths about the nature and causes of gendered violence.
Women for Refugee Women’s statement on the Home Office’s “Understanding behaviours and expectations in the UK” guide
We are deeply concerned by the Home Office's decision to publish a guide – Understanding behaviours and expectations in the UK: a guide for asylum seekers - which has been widely presented in media coverage as a warning to people seeking asylum not to "rape", "sexually assault" or make "kissing noises" at women. This inflammatory framing weaponises VAWG and reinforces the dangerous narrative that scapegoats men seeking asylum for it. This harms us all.
