Dear friends and colleagues,
I am writing to inform you of and invite you to join Rights of Women's
'Women's Migration and Asylum Network'. The network will exist primarily
as virtual 'e-group' with occasional seminars and events being organised
as and where necessary. The objectives of the Women's Migration and
Asylum Network are to:
* facilitate communication between and strengthen the understanding of
network members on legal and policy issues that effect migrant and
asylum-seeking women;
* improve the participation of network members in the legal and policy
formation process;
* positively influence law and policy that affects migrant and
asylum-seeking women;
* promote gender equality and work towards the elimination of
discrimination on the grounds of gender, as well as discrimination
against women where it intersects with age, disability, gender identity,
race, religion or belief, sexual orientation or any combination thereof;
and,
* to promote the human rights of all women in the UK.
The Network will focus on improving gender equality in relation to the
following thematic areas:
* asylum;
* economic migration;
* family migration (including family formation and reunion);
* settlement and routes to citizenship;
* violence against women issues (including trafficking);
The network is open to individuals and representatives from:
* charities, not-for-profit and voluntary organisations working on
migration or asylum issues and / or women's or other equality issues;
* statutory sector organisations;
* individuals involved in immigration law and policy issues (such as
activists, academics and legal professionals).
The terms of reference for the group can be downloaded from here
www.rightsofwomen.org.uk/current.php,if you are interested in joining
please email [log in to unmask] with 'join the Women's Migration and Asylum
Network' in the subject line and with your full name and organisation /
affiliation. The creation and facilitation of the Network has been made
possible by Unbound Philanthropy.
Please send all replies to: [log in to unmask]
Catherine Briddick
Senior Legal Officer
Rights of Women
52-54 Featherstone Street
London EC1Y 8RT
Tel: 020 7251 6575/6
Fax:020 7490 5377
Textphone: 020 7490 2562
www.row.org.uk
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