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Women for Refugee Women works across a range of media to give voice to women’s experience in the asylum process.
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Recent media coverage
August 2024
Lauren Crosby Medlicott, The Lead, 9th August 2024.
How to support communities during the ongoing riots in the UK
Chiara Wilkinson, Time Out, 6th August 2024.
How to help asylum seekers and refugees after riots across UK
Isabella Mcrae and Greg Barradale, The Big Issue, 5th August 2024.
June 2024
Agnes Tanoh, Spokesperson Facilitator at Women for Refugee Women and photographer Oscar Mucyo speak about ‘Voices Unveiled’ an exhibition in Coventry
Trish Adudu, BBC Radio CWR (10:22 minutes to 10:31 minutes), 21st June 2024.
May 2024
Lauren Crosby Medlicott, The Lead, 31st May 2024.
Sensemaker Ep 860: The women facing deportation to Rwanda
Tortoise, 29th May 2024.
April 2024
Eleftheria Kousta, Fair Planet, 16th April 2024.
Rwanda Act: ‘I’ve Spoken To Countless Female Refugees Who Are Terrified’
Georgia Aspinall in conversation with our director Alphonsine Kabagabo, Grazia, 26th April 2024.
March 2024
Amber O’Connor, Cosmopolitan, 8th March 2024.
International Women’s Day 2024: 10 change-making charities that support women today and every day
Amy Beecham, Stylist, 8th March 2024.
I faced the death penalty because I was gay, but I was unsafe in Britain too
Lauren Crosby Medlicott, on behalf of ‘Faith’, The Metro, 11th March 2024.
February 2024
Lauren Crosby Medlicott, on behalf of ‘Anu’, The Metro, 6th February 2024.
“The waiting is terrible, I wake up screaming”: thousands living in limbo amid UK asylum backlog
Sian Norris, The Observer, 11th February 2024.
December 2023
Global Refugee Forum takes stock of international response to the biggest human displacement in history
Alex Whiteman, Arab News, 14th December 2023.
November 2023
Braverman sacked: The Home Secretary’s controversial record
Samantha Dulieu, The Justice Gap, 13th November 2023.
October 2023
Prison Inspectorate raises concerns for worrying decline in safety at Yarl’s Wood
Ceren Sagir, The Morning Star, 4th October 2023.
After one year as Prime Minister, here’s everything Rishi Sunak has done for women
Kimberley Bond and Amber O’Connor, Cosmopolitan, 25th October 2023.
Flooded Portaloos and outbreaks of scabies: Activists want ‘appalling’ Manston asylum centre closed
Charlotte Elton, The Big Issue, 26th October 2023.
My parents ordered female genital mutilation to take the devil out of me
‘Anu’ (a Rainbow Sister), The Metro, 28th October 2023.
September 2023
‘Shameful, cruel and dangerous’ Braverman’s ‘absurd and outrageous’ plans to overhaul international refugee conventions condemned
Ceren Sagir, The Morning Star, 26th September 2023
Suella Braverman slammed for ‘appalling’ comments about LGBTQ+ asylum seekers
Alex Daniel, Indy100, 26th September 2023
EXCLUSIVE: 129 LGBTQI+ PEOPLE HELD IN UK ASYLUM CENTRES
Lauren Crosby Medlicott, The Lead, 27th September 2023
Suella Braverman sinks to new low saying asylum seekers pretend to be gay for ‘special treatment’
Charlotte Elton, The Big Issue, 28th September 2023
Suella Braverman undermines the UN Refugee Convention and shames Britain
North East Bylines, 28th September 2023
July 2023
UK: Campaign calls on Sainsbury’s, IKEA & Bravissimo to end contracts with Mitie following concerns over conditions in immigration detention centres it runs
Business and Human Rights Resource Centre, 10th July 2023
Our CEO Alphonsine Kabagabo on Channel 5 News speaking in response to the passage of the ‘Illegal’ Migration Bill
Andy Bell, Channel 5 News, 18th July 2023
June 2023
What sort of nation goes back to indefinitely detaining children, asks bishop
Ed Thornton, The Church Times, 12th June 2023
Migrants ask Sainsbury’s, IKEA, and Bravissimo to boycott Mitie
Jasmine Owens, Ethical Consumer, 16th June 2023
Horrific levels of violence and racism among immigration staff as suspensions double
Aaron Walawalkar and Nick Sommerlad, Daily Mirror, 25th June 2023
Investigation reveals catalogue of racism, excessive force and violence by immigration centre staff
Peter Lazenby, The Morning Star, 25th June 2023
Brighton hotel where 136 asylum-seeking children went missing to reopen
Katherine Hearst, Middle East Eye, 27th June 2023
May 2023
Times Letters: Joint letter on the Illegal Migration Bill
The Times, 11th May 2023
Indefinite detention: the implications of the Illegal Migration Bill for pregnant women
Kirsty Kitchen and Gemma Lousley, The British Medical Journal, 18th May 2023
The Illegal Migration Bill’s Proposed Treatment Of Pregnant Women Is An Absolute Disgrace
Nell Frizzell, British Vogue, 28th May 2023
April 2023
Shunned and Disbelieved: The threat of the new asylum laws to bi and lesbian women
Lauren Crosby-Medlicott, The Lead, 2 April 2023
Women for Refugee Women: All legal advice surgeries in immigration detention are now face-to-face following Home Office change
Electronic Immigration Network, 14 April 2023
Hackney brewery joins forces with refugee women to condemn government’s illegal migration bill
Olivia Barber, Hackney Citizen, 25 April 2023
The government is refusing to protect pregnant asylum seekers – here’s how to take a stand
Lauren Crosby-Medlicott, The Stylist, 28 April 2023
Braverman’s Illegal Migration Bill is an Attack on Pregnant Women
Carenza Arnold, The Lead, 28 April 2023
March 2023
International Women’s Day 2023: 9 change-making charities that support women today and every day
Amy Beecham, Stylist, 8 March 2023
Report by Women for Refugee Women looks at the experiences of lesbian and bisexual women seeking asylum in the UK
Electronic Immigration Network, 13 March 2023
Hundreds gather outside parliament to protest government’s Illegal Migration Bill
Oliver Browning, The Independent, 14 March 2023
UK government denied lesbian refugee ‘because she’d been married to a man’
Patrick Kelleher, Pink News, 15 March 2023