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Women on the Move Awards: nominate your candidate before 30 November

Published by NCADC on October 31, 2013 | Leave a response

The Women on the Move Awards (formerly the Migrant and Refugee Woman of the Year Award) celebrates and supports the contribution that migrant and refugee women, the media and their champions can make towards facing down prejudice and inspiring others. The Women on the Move Awards, now in their third year, will be delivered by The Forum, Migrants Rights Network (MRN) and for the first time, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). The new name and categories mark the growth of the Awards’ new partnership and reflects the vitality and courage of the women we champion. Migrants and refugees Read the full article…

Campaign launched to stop deportations from Yarl’s Wood

Published by NCADC on September 26, 2013 | 1 Response

With investigations into sexual abuse at Yarl’s Wood ongoing, a campaign has been launched to stop deportations from the detention centre. Migrant Artists Mutual Aid, Liverpool, have launched a campaign to cancel the deportation of one of their members, Amina, who is detained in Yarl’s Wood and scheduled to be forcibly removed to Pakistan on Tuesday 1 October. Amina, who is seeking sanctuary in the UK from domestic violence, is an active member of the Liverpool women’s group. She is also - like every other Yarl’s Wood detainee - a potential witness with valuable evidence to give in the police Read the full article…

Shut down Yarl’s Wood. End immigration detention. Protests Weds 18 Sept

Published by NCADC on September 17, 2013 | 1 Response

End detention of migrants. Shut down Yarl’s Wood and all the other immigration prisons. Yet another story of abuse at the Yarl’s Wood immigration prison - this time the sexual abuse of detainees by Serco guards - has prompted protests to demand the closure of the centre, and calls for a full public enquiry. See below for details of the protests. NCADC is opposed to all immigration detention. We believe that imprisonment can never be justified as a means of migration control. Around 30,000 people enter detention centres like Yarl’s Wood every year. And now the government has announced 600 Read the full article…

Instead of being protected, the Saleh family’s ordeal continued in the UK

Published by NCADC on October 29, 2012 | 7 Responses

In the early hours on 18 October, Fariman Saleh and her family were taken from their home in Cardiff by UKBA. The dawn raid was filmed by a supporter of the family - it is very distressing to watch. Background WSSAG Wales, one of the many groups supporting the family, provided this information on the background of their case: Mrs Saleh, an Egyptian national, applied for asylum in the UK after escaping an abusive and cruel husband whose acts endangered her and her children’s lives for over 15 years to the extent of death and rape. The Egyptian authorities ignored Read the full article…

Zimbabwean activist Gladys Mabvira shares her experiences of detention with the New Statesman

Published by NCADC on August 3, 2012 | Leave a response

We love Gladys Mabvira. A Zimbabwean activist fighting for justice in her own asylum case, she has experienced immigration detention and attempted deportation. She was even put on a place heading to Zimbabwe - where she would have been in serious danger as a vocal opponent on the Mugabe regime - but her visible distress made the pilot aware she was being removed against her will, and she was taken off the flight. Gladys has not only spoken out about her own situation, and the indignity of immigration detention. She also speaks out on behalf of others whose voices would Read the full article…

Gladys Mabvira: finally freed today after 6 months in Yarls Wood, she tells of the injustices experienced there

Published by NCADC on February 14, 2012 | 25 Responses

Gladys Mabvira is an opposition activist from Zimbabwe. Despite the enormous risks she would face if returned to Zimbabwe, she has time and again been issued with removal directions by the Home Office. Only her strength in adversity and last minute legal actions kept Gladys with us here in the UK. She has this morning been released from Yarls Wood IRC on temporary admission, after spending six months detained there. Gladys has been an inspiration throughout - frequently asking after other individuals for whom NCADC is campaigning - and never giving up her fight for freedom. Just days before she Read the full article…

Women’s Asylum News

Published by NCADC on September 12, 2011 | Leave a response

The August/September edition of Women’s Asylum News is now available to download from the Asylum Aid website. The lead article in this month’s issue covers the latest report by the Asylum Support Appeals Project (ASAP) which considers barriers to asylum support appeals for women and has been written by Gerry Hickey, Legal Adviser at ASAP. This issue also contains case summaries of recent judgments in the Upper Tribunal, national news concerning new guidance for the changes to the domestic violence applications rule and international news.

DRC charter flight Wednesday! Mireille and others at risk

Published by NCADC on February 14, 2011 | Leave a response

Charter flight to the DRC 16 February puts many at risk! NCADC has been contacted by several people, including Mireille Mbimbo, scheduled to be forcibly removed on 16/02/11 on charter flight PVT 002 to Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo at 7:00am. Mireille Mbimbo (HO ref: M1375563) first sought asylum in the UK on 31st July 2008. She is a member of the political opposition group ALLIANCE DES PATRIOTES POUR LA REFONTION DU CONGO [APARECO] and fears for her life and her liberty if she is returned to DRC. Outstanding arrest warrants exist for both Mireille and her brother, as a Read the full article…

Sheree Wilson denied bail for involvement in Yarl’s Wood hunger strike

Published by NCADC on February 2, 2011 | Leave a response

Press release from the campaign to Free the Yarl’s Wood 3 Yesterday, one of the 5 people moved to prison during the Yarl’s Wood hunger strike, Sheree Wilson, was refused bail at an immigration court in Hatton Cross. The Judge said that her part in the hunger strike was a reason for denying her bail. ‘In February last year she was involved in a disturbance at Yarl’s Wood’ said the Judge ‘that was the reason she was moved to Holloway’. Sheree’s supporters condemned this politicial judgement. The bail hearing was supposed to establish whether Sheree was at risk of absconding, Read the full article…

‘Free at Last!’ Denise McNeil released on bail: press release

Published by NCADC on January 26, 2011 | 1 Response

Yesterday, one of the Yarl’s Wood 3, Denise McNeil, was granted bail at an immigration court in Hatton Cross. Her supporters in the courtroom clapped as the judge made his decision. Denise was released from Holloway prison this evening. She said ‘After 28 months, 1 week and 5 days I am finally reunited with my family and supporters. We’re going to keep campaigning for Sheree and Aminata and all the people in Yarl’s Wood until it’s closed’ In February 2010, refugees and migrants held at the Yarl’s Wood immigration prison organised a hunger strike, demanding an end to indefinite imprisonment Read the full article…