1ā£ The majority of women in detention are survivors of sexual and gender-based violence.
Survivors need to feel safe and build trust in order to disclose what has happened to them.
Jul 9, 2019 ā¢ 8 tweets ā¢ 5 min read
Today, Women for Refugee Women releases new research finding that the Home Office is harming vulnerable Chinese women who have been trafficked to the UK by routinely locking them up for long periods of time in detention.
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The number of Chinese women locked up in detention centres has doubled since 2016. Over the last year we have spoken to 40 Chinese women locked up at Yarl's Wood, most of whom had survived trafficking into sexual exploitation or forced labour. #SetHerFree independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-nā¦