60 years since Dr ML King’s speech. His dream that places would become oases of freedom & justice & that his 4 children will ‘live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their skin but by the content of their character’ is yet to come true. #equity #MLK

Southall Black Sisters Maria_Miller Eliza Latin American Women's Rights Service - LAWRS Dr Hannana Siddiqui Sarah Dines MP Safety4Sisters Migrant women are treated as problems to social services' ever diminishing budgets, says Vicky Safety4Sisters.

Austerity, the Covid pandemic and the #CostOfLivingCrisis , combined with the hostile immigration environment, have created immense barriers to safety for migrant women

Great to have attended last night’s important event with Southall Black Sisters, Latin American Women's Rights Service - LAWRS, AngelouCentre and Ubuntu Women Shelter to hear such moving testimonies from survivors – we join their call for all migrant women to be granted equal access to safety #StepUpMigrantWomen #16Days Selma Taha

Announcing our UK Steering Group
Dr Adrienne Barnett, Brunel Dr Adrienne Barnett
Dr Sonja Ayeb Karlsson, UCL Assoc Prof Sonja Ayeb-Karlsson
Kim Fawcett, Durham Kim Fawcett Tomlinson 💚🤍💜 🇪🇺
Cris McCurley, activist lawyer Cris McCurley 🕷Activist Lawyer
Dream team & then some!
#SolidarityWithHagueMothers
hague-mothers.org.uk

No victim #DomesticAbuse should ever be blocked from accessing support + protection

Yet my report shows thousands of migrant survivors are being left desperate + often destitute.

📢We have concrete costed solutions #SafetyBeforeStatusSolutions

Read➡️ bit.ly/3BTGXQX

Support @HullSisters urgent appeal
➡️linktr.ee/hullsisters

We've been evicted from our building of 7 years and Hull City Council is asking we pay £15,000 for a temporary building. We cannot afford this rent & we need a permanent safe space for the women we support.

Fundraising for A SAFE SPACE FOR HULL SISTERS: gf.me/u/y6gyzx

O2 is running a campaign through the national data bank, led by the Good Things Foundation, to offer access to free data over the Xmas period.

The attached image details what the offer is & how you can access it.

The offer is available to all groups & not just refugees.

#DataPoverty

Last week we held our Annual General Meeting with our members. We discussed this very difficult year & our strategies for the next challenges. We are proud of the resilient women in our community who make our organisation stronger. We look forward to working with them next year.

The dismantling of the morality police is not enough. We demand: an end to widespread oppression, abolition of capital punishment, freedom of expression & to strike, a secular Iran where religion is separated from state & the release of all political prisoners #WomenLifeFreedom

❗ This is a great interview with brilliant campaigner Dianne Lucas (formerly of Rape Crisis Canberra) who was instrumental in changing the law around the disclosure of rape survivors' counselling notes in New South Wales, Australia.
#KeepCounsellingConfidential #16DaysofActivism

This  #16Days2022 , we stand in solidarity with Southall Black Sisters, Latin American Women's Rights Service - LAWRS, Safety4Sisters, AngelouCentre, and Ubuntu Women Shelter in calling for equal access to protection for all migrant women experiencing abuse. #StepUpMigrantWomen   #ProtectionForAll

Angelou Centre will be out in support of TUC Northern Reclaim the Night Newcastle

Our steering group consists of individuals who represent Black & minoritised communities. Those present were:

Abu Shama
Busola Afolabi
Janett Walker
Chikondi Mpokosa
Arabia Bini
Mahida Begum
Salha Kaitesi

& a massive thx to everyone who attended!

#Rising #PhoenixWayNEC

What a great day!

Chikondi Mpokosa - Executive Director of AngelouCentre gives the closing remarks at our groups first in-person meeting.

Thanks you to all who came and all who contributed to the discussion.

Ps: Keep watch this space 🙌🏾👏🏾😊

#PhoenixWayNEC #Rising

Great discussions led by Ngozi Lyn Cole she/her

It’s amazing to see everyone contributing to how they would like to see the #PhoenixWayNEC move forward, in order to serve Black communities in the region.

#Rising

The 1st in-person Phoenix Way North East & Cumbria meeting is taking place at Radisson Blu in Durham.

What a lovely turnout and engaging group. Are you here? Give us a shoutout 👋🏾✊🏾

#Rising #ThePhoenixWayNEC

As we close out ghis BHM, thank you to all those phenomenal women who continue yo make a difference in the NE. Lots more women not mentioned here. Thank you all for everything you do for us.

Join TUC Northern annual Reclaim the Night march. Take to the streets, raise your voice and demand an end to violence against women and girls!
Meet at the Bigg Market 6pm
March to Baltic Square 6.15pm
Speeches from 7pm fb.me/e/3LhqicKAg #ReclaimTheNightNewcastle

Last month I discussed Inclusion and the Youth Perspective with three amazing young people from AngelouCentre for Black All Year

You can listen to that discussion as a podcast now blackallyear.co.uk/black-all-year…

#BlackAllYear #Inclusion #YoungPeople