On Sunday 12 May four women from RRD travelled to South Wales looking forward to meeting friends old and new at our collective self-help workshop for women. Our team included Lucille, who had only just been released from detention! So the car journey was a chance for us all to get to know each other … Continue reading Self-help workshop at Kurdish Community Centre, Newport, Wales
Category: Legal cases
All African Women’s Group Action Alert . . . Action Alert . . . Action Alert . . . Action Alert . . . Action Alert . . . Ms Kolaj is a 31 year old woman from Albania. She fled to the UK to escape vicious domestic violence from a man who tried to … Continue reading Stop forced deportation in “Family Returns Process”
“It’s been a struggle for me to even write about what happened to me but coming here and hearing different stories and looking at how brave every woman is, regardless of whatever their case is, it encouraged me to be brave. “ Over the last two months, we have held five self-help sessions to help […]
Welcome to our latest bulletin about our work – and victories! – over the Spring. If you’d like to get involved please get in touch! And/or join us at a vigil outside the Home Office on Tuesday 19 June. Young Nigerian Mother Wins Protection at Last Rejected by her family when her mother died in … Continue reading Refuge from Rape and Destitution Bulletin Spring 2018
We are sorry to report that Ms EM was sent back to Uganda on Friday 6 April. Please find below a statement put out by Ms EM’s friends and colleagues in the All African Women’s Group. Legal Action for Women is taking donations to help her out financially as the more dependent she is on … Continue reading Very sad news: Ms EM sent back to Uganda
Lorna from DRC won full refugee status. She and her little girl suffered horrific gang rape by soldiers after the family were forced to leave their home in the middle of the night, despite the dangers, to get treatment for the child’s acute asthma attack. Lorna’s husband was killed before her eyes when he tried … Continue reading Women win in 2018
Hope celebrates winning refugee status with other members at a self-help session of All African Women's Group. See how and why she won!