Information leaflets for women seeking asylum
The Refugee Women’s Resource Project at Asylum Aid has produced a leaflet directed at asylum seeking women which explains the Home Office policy for deciding women’s asylum claims. It is free to download from their website in English, Amharic, Arabic, Chinese, Farsi, French, Pashto, Somali, Tigrinya, Turkish, Urdu, Vietnamese.
Contacts of support organisations for women/young people
Eaves
Housing Poppy Project
Provides support and housing to women who have been trafficked
into prostitution. See website for referral criteria.
Also provide outreach support and their research team
may be able to assist with country information.
Helen
Bamber Foundation
Aims to redress the harm caused to people subjected to
gross human rights violations. Provides practical help,
support and treatment.
Women
and Girls Network - Has a service which provides
therapy to trafficked women/girls.
Directory
of sexual exploitation services, NSPCC website
This Directory contains information about nationwide teams,
projects and services working with sexual exploitation.
It was created from a database compiled following a mapping
of services working with children and young people and
sexual exploitation in 2003 and is very useful for identifying
services.
Rights of Women
Offers free confidential legal advice to women and to organisations supporting women. Rights of Women have a Sexual Violence Legal Advice Line providing legal advice on sexual violence issues including rape, sexual assault, child sex offences, trafficking, asylum and immigration issues, and support for survivors through the criminal justice process.
Rights of Women also run a national training programme for women advisers in these areas of law. Details of their forthcoming training courses can be found here. They have also produced many useful publications as well as information sheets on legal issues affecting women.
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