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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
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
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
December 2022
‘It left a scar on me’: Locked up in the UK’s women-only immigration centre
Lauren Crosby-Medlicott, Open Democracy, 14 December 2022
November 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
October 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