Latin American Women Right’s Service

LAWRS (Latin American Women Right’s Service) is a human rights, feminist organisation run by and for Latin American migrant women living in the UK.
I joined LAWRS as a volunteer in February 2020, I help them with creating material to promote their campaigns, in English, Portuguese and Spanish.

Find out more about them here ︎ Lawrs.com

Volunteering Journal

January 2021

︎ Migrant women and the Domestic Abuse Bill 

The Domestic Abuse Bill has been described as a once-in-a-generation opportunity to address this crime affecting more than 2 million people per year in the United Kingdom, and which women are more likely to experience. However, the Bill continues to overlook one of the most vulnerable groups affected by this form of Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG): migrant women. Domestic abuse disproportionately affects migrant women as they face multiple, structural and overlapping barriers to protection and justice. Migrant women currently find it virtually impossible to access protection when experiencing domestic abuse. Barred from accessing public funds and therefore refuges, fearful of reporting to the police and other services due to fear of facing detention or deportation, migrant women often face an impossible decision: to become destitute and homeless or to remain with an abusive partner. The Government has the opportunity to make the Domestic Abuse Bill truly transformational and to enshrine protection for all survivors, regardless of their immigration status. The following powerful testimonies illustrate the multiple barriers migrant women face when escaping violence and the urgency to ensure migrant women are protected from domestic abuse.

︎  stepupmigrantwomen.org / 16 days of actvism against gender base violence 2020

October 2020

Flyer to encourage women to come to LAWRS EUSS service, Spanish & Portuguese.

April 2020

LAWRS partnered up with Step up Migrant Women UK to work on a campaignto promote a new domestic violence helpline set up specifically to provide help in times of Covid-19 lockdowns.

︎ lawrs.org.uk/covid-19/

February 2020

Reporting abuse to the police: A step-by-step for migrant women.

LAWRS & Step Up Migrant Women UK campaigned for the implementation of safe-reporting mechanisms and an end to data-sharing policies when victims with insecure immigration status report abuse.

︎stepupmigrantwomen.org

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