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Important notice - ASIRT has moved!
Our new offices are at:
St Georges Community Hub,
Great Hampton Row,
Newtown,
B19 3JG
tel: 0121 233 4295
fax: 0121 233 4414
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The Mothers’ Campaign of the All African Women’s Group
Please sign The Mother’s Campaign petition to demand that:
1. Everyone who wins the right to stay in the UK, no matter under which law or convention, must have the unconditional right to family reunion.
2. Children should have the right to join their mother or father even if they turned 18 before their parents’ asylum claim was settled.
For more information and to sign the petition, please go to http://www.PetitionOnline.com/MumsKids/petition.html or contact All African Women’s Group, aawg02@gmail.com, Crossroads Women’s Centre, 230a Kentish Town Road, London NW5 2AB, tel. 020 7482 2496
Healthy Lifestyle volunteers needed
Community Integration Partnership (CIP) and the Wardlow Road Centre are launching an innovative healthy lifestyle project to provide better health choices for women from newly arrived communities. We are recruiting 20 volunteers from new-community backgrounds to help us achieve our vision.
Seeking Refuge? A handbook for asylum seeking women
Read this Rights of Women handbook here.
Sojourner Project
The Sojourner Project is a new national project for women with no recourse to public funds. The project will run from Monday 30th November until the end of February 2010. Working in partnership with a range of other voluntary providers the scheme will co-ordinate support, accommodation and subsistence for women and their dependants throughout the country.
Funded by the Home Office, it is intended that the Sojourner Project will enable agencies to provide a range of services for women experiencing domestic violence who entered the UK on a spousal or partner visa and are eligible to apply for Indefinite Leave to Remain (ILR) under the DV rule.
Women's Asylum News
Read the May/June issue from AsylumAid's Refugee Women's Resource Project
Women's Asylum Charter
The Charter is a framework of principles aimed at persuading the UK Border Agency both to take a strategic approach to the needs of women seeking asylum and to put in place the operational procedures and safeguards that will remove the discriminatory barriers they face. A multi-level approach to promoting the Charter, encompassing strategy, operational policy and service delivery, will be adopted in relation to the UK Border Agency. For more information see Charter of rights of women seeking asylum