Website:- Life without Papers: Stories of undocumented migrant families and young people

Life without Papers: Stories of undocumented migrant families and young people

Link:  http://www.lifewithoutpapers.co.uk

Details from the Migrants’ Rights Network press release:

A new website giving accounts of the lives of undocumented families and young people has been launched with the titleLife Without Papers.

The site is curated by Len Grant, a photographer and writer who specialises in social and urban renewal issues.

It currently features accounts of the lives of mother and daughter Ruth and Dyanna, and Sinan.

Ruth is a former domestic worker who was trafficked into the country when she was aged 14.  She is now 25 and has her own daughter, Dyanna, aged 4.

Sinan was refused refugee status by the UK Border Agency but has no papers establishing his nationality.  Without these he cannot be removed from the country.

The website will regularly updated with new stories about the lives of undocumented families and young people.

 

New Pub: “Strategies to End Double Violence Against Undocumented Women Protecting Rights and Ensuring Justice”

Information from the Press Release:

“Strategies to End Double Violence Against Undocumented Women
Protecting Rights and Ensuring Justice“

BRUSSELS, 21 June 2012

The Chair of the ‘Committee of the European Parliament on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality’, MEP Mr. Mikael Gustafsson (GUE/NGL) was joined by MEPs Ms. Sirpa Pietikäinen (EPP) and Ms. Jean Lambert (Greens/ EFA) to launch PICUM’s seminal report and addressing the need to improve access to justice for undocumented women in Europe.

Strategies to End Double Violence Against Undocumented Women – Protecting Rights and Ensuring Justice

Across the EU, undocumented women are turned away from women’s shelters and risk arrest or deportation if they contact the police. As one social worker in Belgium explained, “Undocumented women often stay in their situation of violence until they’re beaten to death because they don’t dare to go to the police or ask for help.”

To address this urgent situation, PICUM’s report provides an overview of the laws, practices and partnerships that respect rights and ensure justice for all women in Europe without discrimination. It shows what works, where, and how it came about.

Responding to the growing recognition to place women’s protection needs ahead of their migration status, PICUM shows how this can be done practically, coherently and in accordance with the duties of law enforcement, legislators, civil society, and policymakers.

The examples in this report are a testimony to the agency, capacity and impact of migrant women themselves in bringing about change. As one undocumented woman told PICUM, “We will continue to fight for our rights, for rights of all migrants; especially for those working hard in this country.” 

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