Charter of Rights of Women Seeking Asylum
by Philippa Willitts // 8 March 2010, 10:58
Asylum Aid has created a Charter of Rights of Women Seeking Asylum.
The way that we are treating these women is appalling. Completely ignoring the trauma they have suffered, we are locking them up or forcing them to beg and sleep rough, without support, healthcare or money.
Asylum Aid have created this video.
Every single woman from Asylum Aid on Vimeo.
They say,
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.
There is also a campaign briefing available, and they are campaigning so that all member states of the European Union adopt gender guidance so that women's asylum claims will be dealt with consistently.
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