Dear supporters, like us, please allow yourselves ten minutes to feel sad, upset & deflated & then put on your fighting gloves. We have work to do! The defeat yesterday tell us that we are right & they are wrong. Justice & equality ...
RT @AngelouCentre1: This will not deter us from our fight for ALL women's rights regardless of immigration status, identity or imposed barriers. We are a collective movement that will not be silenced. @SBSisters @Safety4Sisters @lawrsuk @lawrsuk ...
RT @RachWN: Government votes AGAINST amendments to the #DomesticAbuseBill to provide protection to migrant women. As argued by @SBSisters "A woman’s safety cannot be made dependent on her immigration status. Protection must trump the hostile ...
RT @CWomenAA: This is pathetic that the UK parliament vote against migrant women's safety. Instead of granting us safety, the government have chosen to uphold a hostile environment for #migrant survivors. We will continue to demand #ProtectionForAll ...
RT @Jason__Watkins: Listening to @Emmabarnett - @bbc5live to an incredibly moving story by the terrible abuse ‘Tania’ suffered at the hands of her husband and his family. So brave and eloquent. It is SO https://t.co/74BH8m... listen and support this ...
RT @JessieWill5: Yesterday, over 300 MPs voted against amending the new Domestic Abuse Bill to ensure migrant women experiencing abuse could be protected. It's something many organisations like @lawrsuk and @SBSisters have been continually fighting ...
RT @Safety4Sisters: We are utterly devasted that migrant women were excluded from the #DABill y’day. It sends a clear message that their lives are valued less. We will continue to raise this issue locally and nationally and fight on. ...
RT @lolly1980s: Fighting with you! It’s wrong. End of. #NoVictimLeftBehind... https://t.co/6rGtBK...
RT @RefugeCharity: "He was controlling everything... he snatched the phone from me... Every woman has the right to live with integrity and self-respect." Tanya's powerful account of her struggle to leave an abusive partner, speaking to @Emmabarnett ...
RT @OurStreetsNow: Very disappointing that the the #DABill doesn’t protect migrant women from domestic abuse. #ProtectionForAll is what is right. #ProtectionForAll is what is necessary. #ProtectionForAll is what is just. https://t.co/DmwSTp...
RT @nosregis: @garius As you say, the fight is not over. https://t.co/CHtJBC...
RT @MicroRainbow: * The next support group exclusively for #LBTI women seeking asylum and refugees in on Thursday * Free mobile data available. Email social@microrainbow... to join 💜 #ChangingLGBTiLives https://t.co/O4y3FW... https://t.co/WCU4LX...
RT @David_Challen: The #DomesticAbuseBill was meant to leave #NoVictimLeftBehind... instead 330 MPs decided to leave migrant women behind who will remain unprotected from domestic abuse. This is an utterly shameful moment. The House of Lords must ...
RT @IDASfor100: It is disappointing that these amendments have not received support. We wrote to MPs in our area to ask them to support them. #DABill https://t.co/LtYSpr...
RT @Refugee_Women: Hugely disappointed that #StepUpMigrantWomen amendments extending protection to migrants fleeing #DomesticAbuse were not passed by MPs last night. Solidarity with our coalition sisters @SBSisters @lawrsuk who led a brave campaign ...
RT @JoTodd4: We can't celebrate any other 'wins' with the #domesticabusebill while migrant women remain unprotected. Enshrining inequality in legislation is a low point indeed. https://t.co/jjNbbC...
RT @ChrisAWatson_: @lucyrosehadley @jessphillips @womensaid @SBSisters @lawrsuk @safelives_ @EVAWuk @RefugeCharity Migrant women are often acutely vulnerable to domestic violence. Abusers use their insecure legal status to control them and they lack ...
RT @Imkaan: Director of @SBSisters Pragna Patel explains: “The decision to leave migrant women out of this bill sends the message that their lives are not valued, they are disposable, they are second-class people, they are invisible” ...
RT @EavesCharity: Raging, disgusted, furious and sad at racist, sexist gvt excluding migrant women from DA Bill - entirely conscious choice to perpetuate & facilitate abuse. Accountability to come. @SBSisters @Imkaan @amnesty @lawrsuk ...
RT @gailgeewhizz: @Emmabarnett @bbc5live @SBSisters So pleased that Tanya has escaped her abuser and is getting support thanks to the amazing @SBSisters . It’s appalling that certain MPs yesterday voted against migrant women “ with no recourse to ...
We are incredibly disappointed that MPs voted against our amendments in #DABill to protect migrant women from domestic abuse. Our briefing paper outlines why the £1.5m pilot project is an inadequate & discriminatory proposal: ...