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I have RIGHTS newsletter, July 2011
Letter from the editor
Dear readers,
The UK immigration system throws up major
challenges for women fleeing violence. More than
a fifth of the women IKWRO worked with in 2010
needed help with applying for asylum or indefinite
leave to remain in the UK. Thats why weve made
violence against women, asylum and immigration
the theme of this newsletter.
Our first article explains recent changes to the no
recourse to public funds rule announced in the
new government action plan on violence against
women and girls. In our second article Cate
Briddick, Senior Legal Officer at Rights of Women,
discusses their limitations, particularly the fact
that they could be undermined by proposals to
abolish legal aid for immigration cases.
IKWRO has many clients who are seeking asylum
and in our last newsletter we covered Asylum Aids
new report, Unsustainable, which charts the
disproportionately high refusal rates and high
success rates on appeal for women asylum
applicants. This quarter we have included an
article on this by Asylum Aids Public Affairs Officer
Russell Hargrave.
We have good news to share too. IKWRO has
received funds from the EC Daphne Programme III
for three new projects. We have appointed six
new staff members who will significantly scale up
our work. These new funds are much needed as
last year we lost funding from two sources. While
we recently learned that funding we receive from
London Councils through the Women Together
Against Abuse project is safe, we remain
concerned by how the cuts are affecting the
women we work with, as English classes and other
life-line services are slashed.
Please feel free to share our newsletter and as
always, if you have any comments or would like to
get involved in producing our newsletter our
contact details are on the last page.
With thanks and best wishes,
Diana Nammi, IKWRO Director
I have RIGHTSNewsletter of the Iranian and Kurdish Womens Rights OrganisationMay 2011
Contents
No recourse to public funds: campaign victory
Fionnuala Murphy 2
Challenges ahead the domestic violence
rule and no recourse to public funds
Cate Briddick 3
Getting it right first time: women and asylum
Russell Hargreaves 4
IKWRO news 5
Campaigns news 6
International news 7
Research news 8
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PLEASE NOTE: ROWs advice lines have changed!
From 1 April Rights of Women have the following
advice lines operating at the following times:
Family law advice line
020 7251 6577 (telephone) or 020 7490 2562 (text
phone): Monday 11am-1pm, Tuesday and
Wednesday 2pm-4pm and 7pm-9pm, Thursday 7pm-
9pm and Friday 12noon-2pm
Criminal law advice line
020 7251 8887 (telephone) or 020 7490 2562 (text
phone): Tuesday 11am-1pm and Thursday 2pm-4pm.
Immigration and asylum law advice line
020 7490 7689 (telephone) or 020 7490 2562 (text
phone): Monday 2pm-4pm and Wednesday 11am-
1pm.
Please amend your records and website accordingly.
Flyers about ROWs services, legal guides and
handbooks for women are available from
www.rightsofwomen.org.uk or in hardcopy by
No recourse to public funds news
People who enter the UK on certain types of visa have to prove that during their stay, they will be able to
support themselves without recourse to public funds. During their time here, the no recourse to public funds
(NRPF) rule then prevents them from
accessing state benefits, for example
housing benefit or income support. TheNRPF rule includes people on spousal
visas. Until relatively recently, it meant
that women who came to the UK to join
a husband or partner and ended up
facing domestic violence were unable to
get state funding to cover their space in
a refuge or other safe housing. They
would either have to pay for it
themselves, or persuade the refuge
provider or their local authority to cover
the cost. This left many women unable
to access protection.
How has this changed recently?
In late 2009 the government began funding a scheme called the Sojourner project. Through Sojourner, women
on spousal visas can get funding to stay in a refuge for a limited period of time while they applied for indefinite
leave to remain in the UK in their own right.
The Sojourner Project has provided a vital lifeline for over 1000 women, but it was only a pilot scheme and its
future was always uncertain. Then in March the government promised that from next April, all women on
spousal visas who are fleeing domestic violence will be given access to benefits while their indefinite leave to
remain claim is being considered. Alongside thiscommitment, the government has promised that
funding for the Sojourner project will be extended
until the new system comes into force. They have
also agreed to increase the timeframe within which
women are expected to put together and submit
their applications from 20 working days to 30. These
developments are cause for celebration indeed.
So does that mean the problems solved now?
No. The recent changes are very good news, but
one remaining issue is that women who have
entered the UK on other types of visa are excluded.
We think that all women who experience violence
should have access to protection, and we will
continue campaigning for the new rules to be
extended to women on other types of visa. Also, the
governments recent Legal Aid, Sentencing and
Punishment Bill, which would abolish legal aid for
immigration cases, would have an extremely
negative impact. Cate Briddick from Rights of
Women discusses this issue below.
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The domestic violence rule and access to legal aidBy Cate Briddick, Rights of Women
A person can be granted leave (permission to be in
the UK) through a spouse or partner visa if they
are married to, in a civil partnership or cohabitingwith someone who is a UK citizen or has indefinite
leave to remain (ILR) here. Successful applicants
are given two years leave to remain in the UK,
after which they can apply for ILR and after that, if
they wish, UK citizenship.
A woman whose relationship breaks down during
the two year probationary period because of
domestic violence is entitled to ILR under the
domestic violence rule (set out in paragraph 289 of
the Immigration Rules) if she satisfies three
conditions:
1. She has been given permission (i.e. aspousal or partner visa) to remain in the
UK as the spouse, civil partner or partner
of a person present and settled in the UK;
2. She was in a continuing relationship withher spouse, civil partner or partner (this
means that they lived together when she
arrived in the UK or was given her visa);
and3. She is able to provide evidence that this
relationship broke down permanently
before the end of the probationary period
because of domestic violence.
In order to make a successful application an
applicant has to complete an 18 page form (a SET
(DV) form) and provide evidence of the violence
she has experienced, evidence that her
relationship was continuing at the beginning of the
probationary period and a letter or witness
statement explaining that her relationship has
broken down permanently because of domestic
violence. Legal aid is particularly important in such
cases, as women with an insecure immigration
status are often financially destitute or on a low
income, and are less likely to be able to gather the
evidence they need, complete the form and
represent themselves. As Table 1 shows,
applications under the domestic violence rule also
have very high success rates on appeal, which
suggests that the UK Borders Agency does not
Table 1Date % of applications under DV
rule rejected by UKBA that
were successful on appeal
Jan-Mar 2009 55%
Apr -Jun 2009 64%
Jul-Sep 2009 61%
Oct-Dec 2009 63%
Jan-Mar 2010 69%
Apr - Jun 2010 63%
Jul-Sep 2010 64%
always make decisions correctly. This makes the
need for professional legal support even greater.
However, the governments new Legal Aid,
Sentencing and Punishment Bill will remove legal
aid from all immigration law cases. Rights of
Women is very concerned that without legal aid
many women will be unable to resolve their
immigration status and will be forced to remain in
abusive relationships.
Access to legal advice and representation is
particularly important for women on the Sojourner
Project as they have to prepare and submit their
application along with the requisite evidence -
within six weeks. Women who may not speak
English well and who are traumatised as a result of
violence already struggle with this timescale. It is
difficult to see how they will manage to complete
their applications on time without legal aid.
Cuts to legal aid will affect not only the women
making applications, but also the organisations
that support them. They will also undermine the
Home Offices commitment in their recent action
plan to ensure that women who come to the UK
on spousal visas can get protection from violence.
You can get more information about the domestic
violence rule and legal aid on
www.rightsofwomen.org.uk, and can support the
campaign to save legal aid bywriting to your MP.
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Getting it right first time: women and asylumBy Russell Hargrave, Asylum Aid
The typical image of a political refugee is of a
single male, fleeing conflict in which he has
become embroiled at home. But in 2009 more
than 7,000 women applied for asylum in the UK.The factors which lead women to seek asylum can
be very different from their male counterparts.
Women face persecution for their political
activities, but also for their gender. They may
come from societies where violation of womens
rights is the norm, and may be fleeing threats of
honour killing, rape, forced marriage or female
genital mutilation to be carried out against them
or their daughters.
Asylum Aids recent research into the quality of
the decisions made when women seek asylum in
the UK was conducted against a background of
poor decision-making generally. In 2009, almost
30% of all Home Office decisions to refuse asylum
were reversed on appeal when scrutinised by an
independent immigration judge. That is, one in
three of the people denied protection when they
turned to the UK for help was then found by a
judge to need that protection after all. The human
cost is enormous, as victims of torture and rapestruggle through the labyrinthine appeals process.
The economic cost of unnecessary appeal hearings
and ongoing support payments is also vast.
Asylum Aids report on the quality of decisions
when women seek asylum Unsustainable
vividly illustrates one area in which the decision-
making process has gone very badly wrong. 87%
of the applications in the research sample were
refused, nearly always because doubt was cast on
the credibility of the womans claim; yet half of
these refusal decisions were then reversed by a
judge on appeal, and the womans credibility was
accepted in each case. The Home Office has
subsequently confirmed that its figures, too, show
that refusal decisions for women are overturned at
a disproportionately high rate.
So why does this happen? Worryingly, but
perhaps unsurprisingly, the disbelief confronting
so many women in the UK for example as
survivors of rape or violence approaching the
police or before the courts almost certainly
permeates the asylum system. However, detailed
analysis in Unsustainable also showed multiple
flaws in the ways that individual applications were
considered. Some decision-makers displayed a
shockingly limited understanding of womens
rights (one woman was told that she was not a
victim of domestic violence as her husband had
only once tried to hit her), and the evidence used
to support decisions was sometimes
extraordinarily flimsy (one refusal letter ignored
objective information about the country in which
the woman had lived, and referred instead to an
article from a gossip website). Above all, though,
the provisions in the Refugee Convention that
offer international protection to women at proven
risk of gender-related persecution were
consistently overlooked. Such persecution mayengage the Convention on the ground of
membership of a Particular Social Group (PSG)
but the Home Office made no reference to PSG in
the majority of cases based solely on gender-
related persecution. The means to protect women
exist, but were normally ignored.
Recently the Home Office has recognised the
importance of getting asylum decisions right first
time, albeit on economic grounds more than any
other. Now we need them to act. One way to
maintain pressure on them is to endorse the
Charter of Rights of Women Seeking Asylum, a set
of goals around which more than two hundred
charities and community groups have campaigned.
You can find out more about the Charter at
www.asylumaid.org.uk/pages/charterbackground.
html and can download Unsustainable at
www.asylumaid.org.uk/data/files/publications/15
1/UnsustainableWEB.pdf.
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IKWRO news
Three new projects funded by the European
Commission Daphne III Programme
IKWRO is the lead partner on a new project called
the 3Ps (Prevention, Protection and Prosecution).
The project will enable us to scale up our advice,
outreach and counselling services for women who
have experienced violence. It is being delivered in
partnership with Refugee Womens Association in
London and the Turkish-German Womens
Association, Berlin.
We are also a partner on two other projects:
SHEROES and Opening Doors. We will work with
partners in Austria, Romania, Greece, Czech
Republic and Slovenia to train women who will
raise awareness of womens rights in their
communities.
IKWROs London Councils funding savedLast month IKWRO and partners on the Women
Together Against Abuse project learned that our
London Councils funding will not be cut. The
much-needed funds, which are used to provide
advice and drop in services to women from Middle
Eastern, Turkish, Chinese, Latin American and
Asian communities who are facing domestic or
sexual violence, will now run to their original end
date in late 2012. IKWRO has been campaigning
against London Councils cuts to violence against
women services since September last year.
London trainings on forced marriage, honour,
based violence and FGM
In May and June IKWRO hosted a number of half-
day training events in London.
The events targeted at police, social workers,
teachers, housing officers and other frontline
practitioners aimed to build understanding of
forced marriage, honour based violence and
FGM, and have enabled hundreds of practitioners
to identify and respond to those at risk. The
training is particularly important in the run up to
the school summer holidays, when these forms of
violence most often occur.
For information on future training sessions please
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Campaign news
Home Affairs committee calls for forced marriage to become a criminal offence
IKWRO welcomes the recent report by the Home Affairs Select Committee which has called on the
government to make forcing someone to marry a criminal offence. IKWRO believes that making forced
marriage a crime would act as a deterrent to families, would give victims a stronger sense of their rights and
would encourage the authorities to take the issue of forced marriage more seriously.
At the same time, we recognise that some organisations are concerned that criminalisation could reduce
protection for those at risk. Rather than an either/or approach, we advocate that existing civil protections be
retained alongside a new criminal offence, so that those at risk could still get protection through Forced
Marriage Protection Orders. We also support the Committees recommendations for improved monitoring of
Protection Orders and tougher action by schools. For IKWROs full position seeour briefing.
IKWRO supports new bill to limit Sharia Law in Britain
Baroness Coxs Mediation and Arbitration Services (Equality) Bill launched in the House of Lords on 8 June.
The bill clarifies that family and criminal law are outside the remit of religious arbitration tribunals and makes
it a criminal offence for these bodies to claim a remit in these areas. It also brings arbitration tribunals underexisting law on sex discrimination, and bans discriminatory practices such as giving womens testimony half the
weight of mens and according men greater inheritance and property rights than women.
Some commentators fear that the bill could provoke discrimination against minorities, but IKWRO strongly
believes that the bill is about promoting equality. It will protect the legal rights of Muslim women, particularly
those who want to end their marriages due to domestic violence. Over the coming months, we will call on the
Prime Minister and MPs to back the bill and ensure it becomes law. See ourblogfor ways to get involved.
Honour based violence commitments in government action plan dont go far enough
The governmentaction plan on violence against women and girlscommits to three actions on HBV over the
next four years: develop learning programmes for the Police, continue training specialist prosecutors and
identify models of effective practice to share with areas where activity to tackle HBV is low. On International
Womens Day IKWROs Diana Nammi argued inthe Guardianthat these commitments do not go far enough.
The first, to develop training, is not even new. ACPO also promised training in their2008 HBV strategyand last
year the National Police Improvement Agency began work on a training module, but this hasnt been finalised.
The second commitment isnt new either; the UK already has specialist HBV prosecutors. As for the third,
sharing best practice will help to improve awareness, but we know from experience that professionals need
more than that to improve their response. They need specialist training too.
Going forward IKWRO wants to see stronger leadership from the government and ACPO. We are calling for
better national data on HBV, regular meetings of the national HBV forum and a cross government HBV
Coordinator who could lead on developing a national strategy. IKWRO will continue to campaign for this
through our UNITED against honour based violence campaign.
Government releases FGM guidelines but axes FGM Coordinator Post
At the end of last year IKWRO fed into new FGM guidelines for practitioners. We argued for more focus on the
health needs of FGM survivors beyond pregnancy and birth, stronger emphasis on FGM as a crime and more
explicit language around the fact that cultural sensitivity does not mean turning a blind eye to the practice.
These recommendations are reflected in the final guidelines which were launched in February. While
welcoming these guidelines, IKWRO is concerned that the governments FGM Coordinator post has been cut
and that this years budget to tackle FGM is very low. With the Manor Gardens FGM Forum we recently wrote
to Lynne Featherstone voicing these concerns. Diana Nammi was also quoted inthe Guardianon these issues.
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International news
Germany criminalises forced marriage
A new law passed by the German parliament in March makes forced marriage a crime punishable by five years
in prison. The law also gives German residents who are forced into marriage overseas an unlimited right to
return to Germany, provided they have lived in the country for at least eight years and attended school for six.
Those who have spent less time in Germany can also return there as long as they can prove that they werewell integrated before their forced marriage.
Revolution in the Middle East must help,
not hinder, womens rights
In March IKWRO circulated a statement in
solidarity with the women of the Middle
East. We called on all those who are
building a new future for Tunisia, Egypt and
other parts of the Middle East to respect the
rights of all citizens and to recognise
womens rightful seat at the table when new
governments are being formed. The
statement also calls on the UK government
and the international community to prove their commitment to womens rights by clearly stating that political
change in the Middle East must benefit all citizens. The statement has been shared with womens
organisations in Egypt and Tunisia.
Saudi Arabia releases woman driver after protests
Womens rights campaigner Manal Al Sharifwas released by the Saudi Arabian authorities on May 30 after 10
days in prison. Her arrest had sparked criticism from around the world. A leading member of the
Women2Drive movement, Ms Sharif was jailed after posting a video of herself driving on youtube. On herrelease Ms Sharif, who works as an internet security expert, stated that she would no longer be involved in the
campaign and would leave the topic of womens driving up to our leader in whose discretion I entirely trust.
Campaigners claim that the Saudi authorities have warned her not to drive or to encourage other women to
do so.
Norway deports Iranian asylum seeker to face torture
Iran Human Rights have reported that Kurdish
Iranian Rahim Rostami, who was deported from
Norway to Iran in February, has been taken to
Evin prison where he at risk of torture, ill-
treatment and even death.
19 year old Rahim was reportedly placed in
solitary confinement and the Iranian authorities
have refused to release him on bail. Before his
deportation the Norwegian government said it
had no reason to believe that Rahim will be
subjected to persecution, ill-treatment or
imprisonment". This is despite the Iranian
authorities having said that Iranians who seek asylum abroad will be punished for "dissemination of false
propaganda". IKWRO calls on Norway and all countries to stop deportation of asylum seekers to Iran.
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Research news
Peer research on attitudes and behaviours
relating to FGM
The Esmee Fairbairn Foundation, the Rosa Fund,
Trust for London and Options UK have conducted
peer research into attitudes and behavioursrelating to FGM. 70 individuals from FGM
practising communities were trained to conduct
conversational interviews with others in their
social network. In total 130 people were
interviewed. The research had a number of
important findings which should inform how FGM
prevention programmes are run in future.
An easy to read four page summary of the
research is available online, as well as the full
report. At IKWRO we found this research to be
extremely useful, and we strongly recommend
that all individuals and organisations working to
prevent FGM should read it.
IKWRO research on responses to honour based
violence
IKWRO is conducting detailed research looking at
responses to honour based violence by
practitioners from the public sector including thepolice, social workers, housing authorities and
health and education professionals.
We have recently conducted focus group
interviews with Farsi, Dari and Kurdish speaking
clients, as well as IKWRO staff members working
directly with clients, to gage their impressions and
understand their experiences of these bodies.
Going forward, we will be documenting examples
of good and bad practice from our current
caseload and will be reviewing case files from
previous years.
We hope to release the results of our research
towards the end of 2011. To find out more email
Can you help with our newsletter?
We are looking for volunteers who can help to
translate our quarterly newsletter into Farsi,
Dari, Kurdish, Turkish and Arabic. If you can help
us please [email protected].
We are also interested to hear from you if you
have comments or suggestions about this
newsletter or would like to write an article or
suggest a topic for future editions.
Contacting IKWRO:
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