The Charter of rights of women seeking asylum officially launches its new campaign briefing and film today. This is timely as the government has just published its strategy to end violence against women and girls – disappointingly there is very little mention of women seeking asylum.
Charter of Rights of Women Seeking Asylum
Every single woman, the new campaign under the Women's Asylum Charter focuses on the disparity in the treatment of women who are seeking asylum compared with women settled in the UK.
We believe a change of culture designed to produce a genuinely gender sensitive asylum system is urgently needed to ensure that women seeking asylum receive a comparable standard of treatment to women in similar situations who are settled here already.
Watch the film
http://www.vimeo.com/7837560
and consider whether this is how women should be treated in the UK.
Read the report
Read the campaign briefing or the extended briefing for more detailed analysis comparing women in similar situations.
Write to the Minister
If you think things need to change, use this sample letter to write to the Immigration Minister Phil Woolas today.
Campaign press coverage
'Home is where the heartbreak is' Samira Shackle in The New Statesman
'We need a gender-sensitive asylum system' Debora Singer in The Guardian
http://www.asylumaid.org.uk/charter
From: "Charter"
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Women's Asylum Charter
We believe a change of culture designed to produce a genuinely gender sensitive asylum system is urgently needed to ensure that women seeking asylum receive a comparable standard of treatment to women in similar situations who are settled here already.
Watch the film
http://www.vimeo.com/7837560 and consider whether this is how women should be treated in the UK.
Read the report
Read the campaign briefing or the extended briefing for more detailed analysis comparing women in similar situations.
Write to the Minister
If you think things need to change, use this sample letter to write to the Immigration Minister Phil Woolas today.
Campaign press coverage
'Home is where the heartbreak is' Samira Shackle in The New Statesman
'We need a gender-sensitive asylum system' Debora Singer in The Guardian
http://www.asylumaid.org.uk/charter From: "Charter"
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