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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


phone): Tuesday 11am-1pm and Thursday 2pm-4pm.

Immigration and asylum law advice line


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

[email protected].

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

[email protected].
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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

[email protected].

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:

You can contact IKWRO by telephone from 9.30

to 5.30 Monday to Friday on 0207 020 6460. If

you want to contact us out of hours please call

the following numbers:

- 07846 310157 (for assistance in Farsi or Dari)

- 07846 275246 (for assistance in Kurdish or

Arabic)

You can also find us online at:

Website:www.ikwro.org.uk

Blog:http://fightingandwriting.wordpress.com

Facebook:www.facebook.com/IKWRO

Twitter:http://twitter.com/IKWRO

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