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The importance of ensuring refugee women have a voice.

GCIN launches their postcard campaign, highlighting experiences of women seeking asylum.

Ilana Bakal, clinician at the Medical Foundation, contemplates obstacles and solutions to ending violence against asylum seeking women.

It’s time to break the silence – women seeking asylum must be empowered to tell their stories and need to be believed!

Once in Scotland women fleeing persecution in their home countries feel they are safe from harm – though often it’s not the case.

The voices of the women and girls who have survived gender related violence must be taken into account in Scotland.

How do you leave an abusive situation? A difficult question to answer.

Violence against women is common – and yet it is sometimes forgotten how very vulnerable migrant women are to violence.

Identifying all women who have suffered violence as ‘victims’ can be a continuation of the removal of her individual power.

Getting to a ‘safe’ place is just the beginning of the challenges women seeking asylum face when fleeing to the safety of the UK.

With such blatant and damaging links between violence against women and the ongoing spread of HIV, we all have a part to play.

A good man is not just one who does not rape, but one who challenges the culture of violence against women in all its guises.

The starting point to changing something is knowing about it. Read about the atrocities taking place in Democratic Republic of Congo.

Women’s rights are human rights – the Government must be committed to raising awareness, speaking out and legislating

It’s time to recognise the needs of asylum seeking women and develop strategies that result in real actions.

Our senior caseworker, Helen Baillot, contemplates ways to improve the situation for women seeking asylum in the UK.