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.
831 Signatures
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Mimmi M
- Comments
- Chilren needs their mothers as human beings needs food and water
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Margaret D
- Town
- Oxford
- Comments
- I wholeheartedly support this demand.
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Sadeka R
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Friedgard S
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Thanos T
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Don F
- Organisation
- Migrants' Rights Network
- Town
- London
- Comments
- Of course this right should be acknowledged - no argument!
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Frances S
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Cheryl G
- Town
- London
- Comments
- Very important campaign to keep mothers and children together
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marko h
- Town
- london
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Cassius K
- Organisation
- N_SARB(Ncle Studentds Against Racism & Bigotry)
- Phone number
- 07933000114
- Town
- Newcastle
- Comments
- I would like to have more info about your organisation
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Charlotte D
- Organisation
- Avon and Bristol Law Centre
- Town
- Bristol
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Kat L
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Jon W
- Town
- Bristol
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Caroline L
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Steffanie E
- Organisation
- None
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Cllr Jim B
- Organisation
- Scottish Socialist Party
- Town
- Alexandria
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Lea O
- Organisation
- Birth Companions
- Phone number
- В
- Town
- В
- Comments
- В
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Penny B
- Town
- London
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Lucie G
- Organisation
- Women Seeking Sanctuary Advocacy Group Wales
- Town
- Cardiff
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Vicky M
- Organisation
- WAST( Womens asylum seekes together)supporter
- Phone number
- 07791132198
- Town
- Manchester
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Natasha L
- Town
- Sheffield
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Sam C
- Town
- Cambridge
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Elena S
- Phone number
- 01733 266084
- Town
- Peterborough
- Comments
- I did not see my daughter for 5 years!!! My heart is broken!!!
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Mamta K
- Town
- London
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Rhiannon S
- Town
- Cardiff
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Esme M
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Georgie
- Comments
- i think this treatment is an outrage
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Sylvia F
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Marta C
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Gabrilla B
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Brigitta M
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Paul D
- Town
- North devon
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Stephanie M
- Town
- Glastonbury
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Pavla Z
- Town
- London, UK
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Cristina V
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Revd Jide M
- Organisation
- House Of Rainbow
- Phone number
- 07507510357
- Town
- London
- Comments
- We believe in the freedom of all people and the ability of parents and children to be together, no one should be in fear of being separated from their family and especially their children
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Tapuwa N
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Alessandra F
- Phone number
- 07817221103
- Town
- London
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David C
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Mariam R
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Emily C
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Kirsty G
- Town
- Glasgow
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Andria E
- Organisation
- www.usersvoice.org.uk
- Phone number
- 07841433187
- Town
- London
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Daniel E
- Organisation
- DAN
- Phone number
- 020 6200 6920
- Town
- London
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Marilyn S
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Maria S
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NINA M
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Donna c
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Beth S
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