Showing posts with label women. Show all posts
Showing posts with label women. Show all posts

Thursday, 21 February 2008

Latest Issue Of 'Crossing Borders' Out

The fifth issue of Crossing Borders (a newsletter to aid transnational communication between all those involved in migrant struggle) focusing on women's experiences of migration is out now in Dutch, English, German, Italian and Spanish with more translations on the way.

Click on the link above for back issues and translations or read the current issue in English here (link opens a .pdf file).

Fight Back With Women In Yarl's Wood

Feminist Fightback is calling a picket of the Serco Research Institute in London in solidarity with women in Yarl's Wood Immigration Prison. Yarl's Wood holds as many as 405 women and child migrants who are struggling against poor conditions, unjust detention and the threat of deportation to countries in which as many as 70% of the detainees have been sexually assaulted (reported by Legal Action for Women).

Picket Of The Serco Research Institute
Saturday 8 March 2008, 4:30pm
Serco Research Institute, 22 Hand Court, London, WC1V 6JF

Followed by fundraiser for Iranian organisers attempting to escape Iran. 8pm at the Ivy Inn, Holborn, London