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If you have skills to share and you'd like to make a difference to refugee women, we'd love to hear from you! We're looking for new Trustees to join our Board, in particular: 💜 Chair of Trustees 💜 Fundraising and Finance Trustee Applications accepted on a rolling basis. Find out more 👇

Women for Refugee Women - We're looking for TrusteesWe're looking for new people to join our Board of Trustees to provide strategic oversight and to ensure Women for Refugee Women's success.www.refugeewomen.co.uk

We’re proud to join over 100 organisations calling on the Prime Minister @andyburnham.bsky.social to implement a national anti-racism strategy. 🖊️ “Your government has an opportunity to set a new direction, and it is vital that it does so.”

A woman and her child who fled sexual and gender-based violence - including forced marriage, extreme violence, and rape - had their case refused based on evidence that: ❌ Couldn't be located by the Home Office ❌ A Judge suspects might be 'AI hallucinated' information This is extremely concerning.

Home Office used ‘AI hallucinated’ information to refuse asylum claim, judge suggestsUpper tribunal unable to find document cited in case and claims it is ‘analogous to relying on bogus evidence’www.theguardian.com

75 years ago, the world made a promise. The Refugee Convention was created in the aftermath of war to ensure that people fleeing persecution could find protection, safety, and dignity. For 75 years, it has saved lives across the world. Today, this promise is under attack. 1/3

🚨The sudden suspension of family reunion last September was heartless. The failure to reunite people with their loved ones trapped in Gaza is unconscionable. The Government must reinstate family reunion, now. People's lives depend on it. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Home Office blocking evacuation of dozens of women and children from GazaRefugee family reunions in limbo, despite Foreign Office saying it is ready get people out of war-torn territorywww.theguardian.com

We're proud to join 200+ charities calling on the Prime Minister to change course from cruelty to compassion. The PM must: ❌Scrap plans to house people in ex-military sites ❌Scrap the £10k refugee tax ❌Challenge harmful rhetoric ✅Reinstate family reunion ✅Increase safe routes & much more. 1/2

200 refugee charities call for end of asylum 'gimmicks' in letter to BurnhamEXCLUSIVE: More than 200 charities have called on Andy Burnham to tear up large parts of Shabana Mahmood's asylum plans - including a £10,000 'refugee tax' and the use of military siteswww.mirror.co.uk

To mark London Trans Pride today, we’re shining a light on our Rainbow Sisters and sharing some of our favourite photographs from Pride over the years. 🏳️‍🌈✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ In Rainbow Sisters, every woman is celebrated and loved for who she is. 1/4

📣 We're looking for new Trustees to join our Board. Our Trustees provide strategic oversight, support good governance, and help us create a sustainable future for the charity and the refugee women we support. If you'd like to make a difference to refugee women, we'd love to hear from you! 1/4

Women for Refugee Women - We're looking for TrusteesWe're looking for new people to join our Board of Trustees to provide strategic oversight and to ensure Women for Refugee Women's efficacy.www.refugeewomen.co.uk

Our term has come to an end, and what a year it's been! 💜 To celebrate a year of community, resilience, and sisterhood, we came together for our summer party last week. In the party, the women we support shared their experiences of being part of WRW:

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🎭 Earlier this week, our Drama group visited the @wellcomecollection.bsky.social for a fun afternoon exploring the exhibitions and reflecting on their own creative practices. We had a great time and came away buzzing with ideas!

Another new Prime Minister. Another Cabinet reshuffle. What hasn't changed is decades of ⛔ divisive rhetoric, ⛔ the demonisation and scapegoating of people seeking safety for political gain, ⛔ cruelty towards people fleeing persecution, and ⛔ punitive policies targeting refugees.

Hi @andyburnham.bsky.social 👋 On your first day as Prime Minister, refugee women in our network have a message for you. We hope you'll take a moment to hear directly from women who are rebuilding their lives here in the UK.👇 🗣️ “Congratulations on becoming the Prime Minister. Welcome! 1/6

We've joined 200+ organisations with a message for Andy Burnham: 🗣️“Prime Minister, we ask you to reject the politics of division, and focus on what unites us, to build common ground, and to extend dignity, humanity and hope to those who have already endured so much.” @refugeestogether.bsky.social

Burnham told to reject politics of hate and division MORE than 200 charities have urged Andy Burnham to “reject the politics of division” and forge a new path for asylum-seekers and refugees in Britain after he becomes Prime Minister today.morningstaronline.co.uk

🗣️"The question is no longer whether detention causes harm. The evidence is clear that it does. The question is what the Government is prepared to do about it." Read our joint op-ed on the HMIP report on the detention of women, @aviddetention.bsky.social @sdvisitors.bsky.social

Immigration detention is failing women – and the prison watchdog’s report leaves no room for denialThe HM Chief Inspector of Prisons' latest report confirms what women have been saying for years: immigration detention causes profound harmleftfootforward.org

🚨 A new report by HMIP uncovers the systemic failures by the Government to protect women in immigration detention. The report found: ❌ Women’s needs were routinely overlooked ❌ Multiple and repeated safeguarding failures ❌ Harmful and retraumatising practices and much more. Read more 👇 1/🧵

Women for Refugee Women - HMIP inspection exposes systemic failures and harm in the immigration detention of womenWe are alarmed by findings in the HMIP report which expose the systemic failure to protect and safeguard women in immigration detention.www.refugeewomen.co.uk