Asylum: Mothers' & Children's Right to Family Reunion
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Mothers Campaign of the All African Womens Group in collaboration with Legal Action for Women -
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Many people seeking asylum in the UK are mothers fleeing war, persecution, rape and other torture.
To protect themselves and their children, mothers are often forced to leave their children behind usually they dont know where they are going or how they will survive.
Mothers may lose contact with children back home or hear of them unprotected and suffering, and can do little to prevent it.
It can take many years for an asylum claim to be settled; meanwhile: children suffer the torture of being deprived of their mothers love and care, left destitute, at risk of sexual and other violence; mothers are treated as single people and the pain of separation and of trying to be a carer long distance is invisible and unrecognised.
When mothers win the right to stay, most are not automatically granted the right of family reunion. If children turn 18 while their mothers application is being considered they lose the right to join their mother.
* We are a mothers campaign, so we speak particularly of mothers, the primary carers in every society, but we know that the problems and heartbreak we describe are often true of fathers, grandparents & other carers.
WE DEMAND THAT:
1. Everyone who wins the right to stay in the UK, no matter under which law or convention, must have the unconditional right to family reunion.
2. Children should have the right to join their mother or father even if they turned 18 before their parents asylum claim was settled.
To protect themselves and their children, mothers are often forced to leave their children behind usually they dont know where they are going or how they will survive.
Mothers may lose contact with children back home or hear of them unprotected and suffering, and can do little to prevent it.
It can take many years for an asylum claim to be settled; meanwhile: children suffer the torture of being deprived of their mothers love and care, left destitute, at risk of sexual and other violence; mothers are treated as single people and the pain of separation and of trying to be a carer long distance is invisible and unrecognised.
When mothers win the right to stay, most are not automatically granted the right of family reunion. If children turn 18 while their mothers application is being considered they lose the right to join their mother.
* We are a mothers campaign, so we speak particularly of mothers, the primary carers in every society, but we know that the problems and heartbreak we describe are often true of fathers, grandparents & other carers.
WE DEMAND THAT:
1. Everyone who wins the right to stay in the UK, no matter under which law or convention, must have the unconditional right to family reunion.
2. Children should have the right to join their mother or father even if they turned 18 before their parents asylum claim was settled.
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- GOD WILL ANSWER OUR PRAYERS ONE DAY;AMEN
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lyn r
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- Glasgow
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Brother Shafi C
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- Need consideration
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Jennifer H
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- Invest in Caring, not Killing!
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sirley
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- 07762047697
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- london
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Ruth A
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- SantГ Refugee Mental Health Access Project
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- 020 7482 2903
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Judith W
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- 01482 221846
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- i am so glad you are doing this : i have met and love women in this position
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anya s
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christine c
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- Every child should be with their family and the security of their care,
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Umut E
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Joseph Amisi N
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- You have all our support
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Scovia K
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- I strongly support this petition. Home office take too long to decide immigration cases. It is not fair for these children to denie their rights to reunite with their mothers.
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Michaela O
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Jenn S
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- bro emlyn for peace & justice
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Glenda
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Anna B
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Maggie R
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Frank S
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Paul B
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sophie f
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Nell M
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Hilde H
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- Why should we vote for any government that prevents children from joining their mothers?
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Clare C
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