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Fighting for racial justice, sex-based rights, and migrant women’s rights| Centering Black women’s voices against oppression | Feminist, anti-racist, and unapologetic | All views my own. 🇸🇩🇵🇸

Selma Taha

Today we launch the first commentary in our Real Impact Series, analysing the government’s strategy to tackle violence against women and girls and its failure to address No Recourse to Public Funds. Read here: southallblacksisters.org.uk/news/nrpf-th... 1/ 🧵

The government must now accept all our life-saving recommendations, end the hostile environment and work with us to ensure that a robust response to domestic abuse is prioritised in future pandemics. 5/5

We welcome the Inquiry’s recognition that the surge in domestic abuse should have been foreseen; however, the fact that women with NRPF are three times more likely to be subjected to VAWG should have been addressed. 4/5

We submitted evidence to the Covid Inquiry to centre the experiences of victim-survivors and ensure that such state failures never happen again. 3/5

The Home Office made a conscious decision not to lift the NRPF or extend status and support to migrant victim-survivor – giving perpetrators more power – it is disappointing that the Home Office was not held accountable by the Inquiry. 2/5

Domestic abuse reached crisis levels during the pandemic. Migrant victim-survivors with no recourse to public funds (NRPF) were trapped in a triple bind of Covid-19, domestic abuse, and the threat of deportation and destitution. 1/5

Today, we remember Stephen Lawrence, who was murdered in a racist attack in 1993. We honour his legacy by highlighting institutional racism and the urgent need for change. The Met police's acceptance of the findings of the Casey Review is a key first step. Rest in power, Stephen.

Michelle Sparman tragically died by suicide amid concerns of coercive control. An inquest into her death and any failure by agencies to act opens on Mon, 27 Jan for 3-4 days. Join us at Inner West London Coroner's Court to demand answers. Details 👇🏾 southallblacksisters.org.uk/news/inquest...