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Latin American Women's Rights Service (LAWRS) @lawrsuk.bsky.social · 2d

Our Young Women's Advisory Board #YWAB, from our project for girls and young women Sin Fronteras, needs YOU! 🫵 If you're a Latin American woman living in London between the ages of 18-15, consider participating in our survey. Find the form here ➡️ lnkd.in/e5xcmwBc.

Latin American Women's Rights Service (LAWRS) @lawrsuk.bsky.social · 6d

Anger and division cause tensions in our communities, dividing us and tearing the
social fabric of our society. That’s why we’ve signed this open letter with 100+ organisations calling on the new Home Secretary to unite communities to improve everyone’s lives. Read it here: buff.ly/zL8VP4S

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Latin American Women's Rights Service (LAWRS) @lawrsuk.bsky.social · 8d

Halving VAWG requires centring those most marginalised. Migrant women’s safety must come before immigration enforcement. This is the moment to deliver change that protects all women & girls. #StepUpMigrantWomen #EndVAWG #LabourPartyConference #VAWGTakeover

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Latin American Women's Rights Service (LAWRS) @lawrsuk.bsky.social · 8d

Too often, immigration control is prioritised over safety. Without a firewall, abusers weaponise women’s status – 60% of migrant women report being threatened with deportation if they sought help. This must end. #StepUpMigrantWomen #LabourPartyConference

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Latin American Women's Rights Service (LAWRS) @lawrsuk.bsky.social · 9d

The Govt pledged to halve #VAWG, but without including Black, minoritised & migrant women, that mission is impossible. If the govt doesn't address structural inequalities these women face, they get left behind. We cannot let that happen. #NoWomanLeftBehind #VAWGTakeover #LabourPartyConference

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Latin American Women's Rights Service (LAWRS) @lawrsuk.bsky.social · 9d

Together, we’re calling for a #VAWG strategy that:
✅ Centres lived experience
✅ Confronts racism & exclusion
✅ Grants access to safety & public funds
✅ Funds specialist ‘by and for’ services
#VAWGTakeover #LabourPartyConference

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Latin American Women's Rights Service (LAWRS) @lawrsuk.bsky.social · 9d

Our partners @sbsisters.bsky.social & @4refugeewomen.bsky.social are exposing the systemic barriers too often ignored in policy:
✅ Disbelief & racist stereotypes from statutory agencies
✅ Asylum processes that retraumatise survivors
✅ A two-tier system that leaves migrant women behind
#VAWGTakeover

Latin American Women's Rights Service (LAWRS) @lawrsuk.bsky.social · 9d

Key issues we’re highlighting today:
❌ NRPF forces women to choose between abuse & destitution
❌ Institutional racism silences survivors
❌ Fear of detention & deportation blocks access to safety
#VAWGTakeover #LabourPartyConference

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Latin American Women's Rights Service (LAWRS) @lawrsuk.bsky.social · 9d

Our Director, Gisela Valle, is speaking about the dire consequences of hostile immigration policies on migrant women experiencing #VAWG. Women’s safety must come before immigration control. #VAWGTakeover #LabourPartyConference

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Latin American Women's Rights Service (LAWRS) @lawrsuk.bsky.social · 9d

The roundtable today brings together MPs, campaigners & partners across women’s, migrant rights & racial justice sectors. Our shared message: #VAWG cannot be ended without tackling its root causes, including racism & hostile immigration policies. #VAWGTakeover #LabourPartyConference

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Latin American Women's Rights Service (LAWRS) @lawrsuk.bsky.social · 9d

Our Director, Gisela Valle, will be speaking about the dire consequences of the current hostile immigration policy on migrant women #VAWGTakeover 💪 (2/2)

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Latin American Women's Rights Service (LAWRS) @lawrsuk.bsky.social · 9d

Are you at the #LabourPartyConference today? We'll be at the event ‘Erased from the Equation? Black, Minoritised, and Migrant Women and the Government’s VAWG Mission’ organised with @sbsisters.bsky.social and @4refugeewomen.bsky.social (1/2)

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Latin American Women's Rights Service (LAWRS) @lawrsuk.bsky.social · 9d

Our Director, Gisela Valle, will be speaking about the dire consequences of the current hostile immigration policy on migrant women #VAWGTakeover 💪 (2/2)

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Latin American Women's Rights Service (LAWRS) @lawrsuk.bsky.social · 10d

Come and join us today at the VAWG charities coalition reception: A whole system approach to implementing the Government’s strategy to halve VAWG. #EndVAWG (4/4)

Latin American Women's Rights Service (LAWRS) @lawrsuk.bsky.social · 10d

At #LabourPartyConference, VAWG orgs are calling for:
🔹 Whole-system prevention & response
🔹 Multi-year funding for ‘by & for’ orgs
🔹 Children recognised as victims
🔹 Firewall between police & immigration
🔹 Abolition of NRPF
🔹 Inclusion of asylum-seeking women (3/4)

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Latin American Women's Rights Service (LAWRS) @lawrsuk.bsky.social · 10d

Without the voices of those supporting survivors daily, policy risks failing the women it’s meant to protect. Yet govt has excluded frontline expertise from the forthcoming VAWG strategy talks #LabourPartyConference (2/4)

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Latin American Women's Rights Service (LAWRS) @lawrsuk.bsky.social · 10d

The Labour govt’s pledge to halve violence against women & girls in a decade is welcome. But unless migrant, Black & minoritised women are centred, this goal won’t be met. We are at the #LabourPartyConference calling for migrant women to be at the heart of the conversation. #VAWGTakeover (1/4)

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Latin American Women's Rights Service (LAWRS) @lawrsuk.bsky.social · 10d

The #VAWGTakeover is led by LAWRS, @sbsisters.bsky.social @4refugeewomen.bsky.social @evawuk.bsky.social @rapecrisis.bsky.social @womensaid.bsky.social @refugecharity.bsky.social @respectuk.bsky.social @seacharity.bsky.social @womensbudgetgrp.bsky.social and @safelives.bsky.social (2/2)

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Latin American Women's Rights Service (LAWRS) @lawrsuk.bsky.social · 10d

Following the #LabourPartyConference? Keep an eye out for the #VAWGTakeover to hear how government must centre women and girls in its plans. Find out more buff.ly/Z3cSSDU (1/2)

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Latin American Women's Rights Service (LAWRS) @lawrsuk.bsky.social · 12d

Over a year ago the govt. was elected on a mission to halve VAWG, but it is yet to publish its strategy.

This is a vital opportunity to reset its approach: listen to VAWG orgs, centre survivors & ensure that VAWG is a political priority.

Find out more – buff.ly/Z3cSSDU

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Latin American Women's Rights Service (LAWRS) @lawrsuk.bsky.social · 16d

Today, our Director, Gisela Valle, will be participating in the 27th @wave-network.bsky.social Conference “Feminist Solidarity and Collective Action: Reclaiming our Power to End Violence Against Women” in Bucharest. The conference will focus on feminist solidarity and collective action to end VAWG

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Latin American Women's Rights Service (LAWRS) @lawrsuk.bsky.social · 16d

Our Director, Gisela Valle, was featured in the @mirror.co.uk regarding our Joint Statement about harmful immigration policies: "The government cannot claim to protect women while upholding policies that put them at risk."
Read more ➡️ www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Women's' rights groups accuse Labour of 'institutionally racist narrative'

More than 70 organisations have sent a statement to Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood accusing the Government of creating a hostile environment for minoritised victims of violence and abuse

www.mirror.co.uk

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Latin American Women's Rights Service (LAWRS) @lawrsuk.bsky.social · 23d

For this reason, we urge the Government to take vital action NOW! (3/3) #ScrapImmigrationWhitePaper #NoWomanLeftBehind

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Latin American Women's Rights Service (LAWRS) @lawrsuk.bsky.social · 23d

The statement sets out how survivors of VAWG & modern slavery are already being harmed by hostile immigration policies and how the new White Paper policies will deepen this harm. Migrant women deserve safety, not hostility. (2/3)

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Latin American Women's Rights Service (LAWRS) @lawrsuk.bsky.social · 23d

🔈 Today we sent a joint statement to Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood. Coordinated by SUMW, in partnership with @evawuk.bsky.social, Hibiscus, @sbsisters.bsky.social & 70+ orgs, it urges the govt to scrap its White Paper & end its harmful approach to immigration. (1/3) buff.ly/mAzPl65

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