Asylum rights

EXTREMELY URGENT  
OPPOSE GOVERNMENT MOVES TO SCRAP the Human Rights Act
and defend everyone’s right to family life

A "Bleak House" for Our Times:  An investigation into Yarl's Wood Removal Centre by Legal Action for Women New research based on the experiences of over 130 women detained in Yarl’s Wood Removal Centre explodes the myth that the asylum system is “fast but fair” and that most asylum seekers are “bogus”, and instead demonstrates that most of those deemed “bogus” have never had a chance to present their case. £2.50 individuals; £5.00 organisations + p+p

• All African Women's Group -- Speech at Yarls Wood Demo - Video, October 2009

• Memorandum to the Joint Committee on Human Rights, UK Parliament, 2007

• Self-Help Guide confiscated from woman in detention, Oct 2008

•  "Rape victims denied refuge in Britain"
  Letter May 2006,

• Letter to The Guardian: It was women asylum seekers, with the support of grassroots organisations like ours who led ferocious protests against this return to Dickensian pauperism. Morning Star Opinion: "Niki Adams hails the role of women in the fight to repeal the Section 55 anti-refugee legislation".

• Children damaged by detention  The Guardian, Wednesday July 27, 2005

• July 2003, “Vulnerable Face New Heartbreak”

• June 2003, Funding asylum NGOs: To defend human rights or to embed us with the Home Office? Press Conference

• Autumn 2002, "Desperately Seeking Asylum, The Hell of rape survivors" article Green World 37

• June 2002, "In Defence of Asylum" , Guardian letters with 39 signatories from organisations and prominent individuals. 

• "Legal representation can kill", Key article in New Law Journal March 1997 David Burgess demonstrates how one young woman was failed by the Home Office, the courts and her solicitors