Asylum from Rape: Right the Wrongs on 20 August 2019

Asylum from Rape <asylumfromrape@womenagainstrape.net>

7 Aug at 19:20

Right the Wrongs on 20 August 2019 Two women from the All African Women’s Group (AAWG) have appeal hearings on 20th August.  Appeals are our chance to overturn sexist and racist Home Office refusals which ignore the particular problems we face as women to disbelieve us and turn us down.   Together with Black Women’s Rape Action Project and Women Against Rape, AAWG is inviting people to join vigils outside to defend our human rights against Home Office injustice. Ms Mohammed’s appeal for Family Reunion with her son 9am outside Taylor House, Roseberry Avenue, Islington EC1R 4QU There’s still time to sign and send a postcard to the Home Secretary asking for Ms Mohammed’s son to be allowed to join his mum and sister in the UK. He bravely defended his lesbian mum and helped his sister escape forced child marriage in Pakistan.  Now he’s destitute and in hiding because his life is in danger.    No hostile environment at Ms Mohammed’s appeal!  Supporters at Reclaim the Power brandish their signed postcards calling for the Home Office to allow her right to family reunion.    Anisa’s Asylum Appeal 9am outside York House, 2/3 Dukes Green Avenue, Feltham, Middlesex TW14 OLS. Anisa had to wait an outrageous nine years for the Home Office to decide on her asylum claim. She has been forced to live in limbo, struggling to survive in slum housing on just £37 a week.  She lives in fear of reprisals from the people who targeted her family even here in the UK, which is why she can’t use her full name. The Home Office ignored evidence documenting the dangers she faced as a lone young woman, including because of her “political opinion” about women’s rights. Anisa says, “I want the Home Office to be held to account for how it has made me and many others suffer, as if our lives count for nothing.” All African Women’s Group     Black Women’s Rape Action Project      Women Against Rape                                                                                                                                 All based at: Crossroads Women’s Centre 25 Wolsey Mews London NW5 2DX Tel: 020 7482 2496 Interested to volunteer to campaign with women on their cases? Please get in touch!