Women For Refugee Women
Women for Refugee Women is a charity challenging the injustices experienced by women who seek asylum in the United Kingdom. Work Women for Refugee Women provide a welcoming and safe space for asylum-seeking women to come together in solidarity for English lessons, exercise classes and other confidence-building group sessions. Women for Refugee Women have supported female refugees from a variety of countries, with many having experienced abuse, loss or trauma, destitution and mental illness. The organisation also campaigns alongside female refugees against injustices they face whilst in the UK, including conditions in detention centres. This includes publishing research and briefing politicians to try and create a fairer asylum process. Around 2,000 women who come to the UK seeking asylum are detained in immigration detention centres every year. In 2017, Women for Refugee Women published research which found that the majority of women detained in Yarl's Wood are survivors ...
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Asylum Seeker
An asylum seeker is a person who leaves their country of residence, enters another country and applies for asylum (i.e., international protection) in that other country. An asylum seeker is an immigrant who has been forcibly displaced and might have fled their home country because of war or other factors harming them or their family. If their case is accepted, they become considered a refugee. The terms ''asylum seeker'', ''refugee'' and ''illegal immigrant'' are often confused. A person becomes an asylum seeker by making a formal application for the right to remain in another country and keeps that status until the application has been concluded. The relevant immigration authorities of the country of asylum determine whether the asylum seeker will be granted protection and become an officially recognized refugee or whether asylum will be refused and the asylum seeker becomes an illegal immigrant who may be asked to leave the country and may even be deported. In North Ameri ...
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Priya Sundram
Priya may refer to: * Priya (given name), a given name of Indian origin * Priya (actress) (), stage name of Indian actress Karpagavalli * ''Priya'' (1970 film), an Indian Malayalam film by Madhu * ''Priya'' (1978 film), a Tamil film by S. P. Muthuraman *''Priya'', a 1992 Bengali film by Shibu Mitra * Kokilapathmapriya Nadesalingam, known as Priya, one of a Tamil family seeking asylum Australia, in a case known as the Nadesalingam family asylum claims The Murugappan family, also known as the Nadesalingam family, consists of Nadesalingam Murugappan (Nades), his wife Kokilapathmapriya Nadesalingam (Priya) and their two daughters. They are Sri Lankan Sri Lankan Tamils, Tamils seeking asylum in Aus ...

Women's Organisations Based In The United Kingdom
A woman is an adult female human Humans (''Homo sapiens'') are the most abundant and widespread species of primate, characterized by bipedalism and exceptional cognitive skills due to a large and complex brain. This has enabled the development of advanced tools, culture, .... Prior to adulthood, a female human is referred to as a girl (a female child or Adolescence, adolescent). The plural ''women'' is sometimes used in certain phrases such as "women's rights" to denote female humans regardless of age. Typically, women inherit a pair of X chromosomes, one from each parent, and are capable of pregnancy and giving childbirth, birth from puberty until menopause. More generally, sex differentiation of the female fetus is governed by the lack of a present, or functioning, SRY-gene on either one of the respective sex chromosomes. Female anatomy is distinguished from male anatomy by the female reproductive system, which includes the ovaries, fallopian tubes, uterus, vagina ...
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