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Summary
Women in Refugee Law (WiRL), ‘Submission to the Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women and Girls to inform her visit to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland’, February 2024.
In February 2024, WiRL made a submission to Reem Alsalam, the UN Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women and Girls, in advance of her visit to the UK. from 12-21 February. The submission draws together recent evidence and knowledge from WiRL’s UK members with lived experience of claiming asylum, and legal practitioners, advocates and researchers. It prioritises the most important issues identified by our members, rather than addressing every possible topic.
The Special Rapporteur published A Summary of Preliminary Findings and Observations on 21 February 2024. In it she raises her concerns about ‘the increased vulnerabilities and risks that migrant, displaced and trafficked
women are subjected to by the series of migration and asylum-related policies that the UK has adopted
in recent years’, including issues addressed in WiRL’s submission relating to the impact of the Illegal Migration Act and inadequate accommodation.
UN News (21 February 2024): UK urged to end ‘national threat’ of violence against women and girls
