Media

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.

‘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

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

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

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

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 

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

‘It left a scar on me’: Locked up in the UK’s women-only immigration centre

Lauren Crosby-Medlicott, Open Democracy, 14 December 2022

Concerns pregnant women blocked from receiving healthcare while ‘illegally detained’ at Manston

Maya Oppenheim, The Independent, 3 November 2022

Love as a radical act

Sarah Day, Wear and Resist, 24 November 2022

Almost 30 years ago, I fled the Rwandan genocide – now I fight for refugee women’s rights

Alphonsine Kabagabo, The Metro, 4 October 2022

The long road to safety: Women continue to struggle after seeking asylum in the UK

Lauren Crosby-Medlicott, The New Arab, 20 October 2022