🚨The new 'Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill' returns to Parliament this afternoon.
How does it affect women seeking safety?
Here's what we know👇
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How does it affect women seeking safety?
Here's what we know👇
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✅The Rwanda Act has been officially scrapped, meaning no-one seeking safety will be forcibly deported to Rwanda.
✅The Bill puts an end to the indefinite detention of children.
✅The Bill repeals some harmful aspects of the 2023 'Illegal Migration Act'.
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Alongside thousands of you, we have stood up for the rights of women seeking safety - again and again.
Campaigning works!
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The asylum system needs urgent reform, but this isn't it.
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❌ Escalation in the criminalisation of people seeking safety in the UK;
❌ Extension of detention powers;
❌ Prioritisation of punishment over protection.
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This Bill risks prosecuting people for trying to find safety in the UK, causing further harm to already vulnerable individuals.
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Our research shows that detention causes huge harm to women who have already survived gender-based violence.
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