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Southall Black Sisters
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Southall Black Sisters founded in 1979 to address needs of Black, minoritised and migrant women empowering them to escape violence RT&Follow≠endorse
Sep 18 • 37 tweets • 6 min read
How do we tackle institutional racism?

Excited to hear @BellRibeiroAddy, @andygeorgeni, @SELMATAHA8, Rajiv Menon KC, Sarah Ricca, @melissasigodo, @symeonbrown and @SukwantDhaliwal speak at our meeting.

This is a conversation you don't want to miss. Stay tuned for updates. 1/🧵 Image And, we're off!

@SukwantDhaliwal discusses Black women bringing to the fore the racialised treatment they receive from the police and the criminal justice system at large, including through their adultification, sexualisation, and dehumanisation. 2/🧵
Jul 10 • 23 tweets • 4 min read
On the 10th of July 2024, the @CPSUK discontinued all charges imposed on @SELMATAHA8, Divina Riggon and Danae Thomas – the #KingsCross3. 1/n 🧵

Read our full statement 👇
#CampaignWin southallblacksisters.org.uk/news/victory-f…
Image The CPS attributed this to lack of evidence for a realistic prospect of conviction. 2/n
Oct 5, 2023 • 19 tweets • 3 min read
Who does the police work for?

A Statement by Southall Black Sisters on the racist attack on our Director @SELMATAHA8

southallblacksisters.org.uk/news/who-does-… On the night of Friday, the 29th September, Selma Taha, Executive Director of SBS, and her friends were verbally and physically assaulted in an extremely violent racist attack on public transport; (2)
Jun 2, 2021 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
In early May, SBS was astounded to receive an email stating that as of 26 May 2021, women applying for leave to remain in the UK on grounds of domestic abuse will be required to enrol their biometrics at the Home Office’s UK Visas & Immigration ‘Service & Support’ Centres. 1/7 This service was previously available at local post offices. The decision will have harmful consequences for our service-users; creating unnecessary stress & anxiety for women & resource pressures for our staff, as we'll be compelled to accompany women to immigration centres. 2/7
Apr 7, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
SBS is alarmed by @libertyhq’s revelations that the @ukhomeoffice rule on rough sleeping may lead to indirect discrimination against abused migrant women and other vulnerable groups. southallblacksisters.org.uk/news/the-mask-… Shockingly an Equality Impact Assessment of the policy by @ukhomeoffice accepts that the rule may discriminate specifically on grounds of race eg against Asian women who are homeless as a result of domestic violence. It says this is justified in order to “protect the public”
Jan 28, 2021 • 16 tweets • 6 min read
Thank you to everyone joining us for this evening’s webinar. SBS Director Pragna Patel explains that many women who have a religious only marriage find themselves ‘left high & dry’ after separation, by their partners, by their communities & by the state for allowing it to happen Pragna Patel says weddings law is failing to understand minority women’s positions – it doesn’t understand the wider context in which minority women exercise choice. It’s often choice exercised in very constraining circumstances.
Jan 5, 2021 • 38 tweets • 14 min read
Happy New Year. SBS is entering 2021 w/a renewed energy to fight for long-awaited protections for migrant women. As the #DABill enters #SecondReading in the House of Lords today, Govt must listen and use the chance to enshrine #ProtectionForAll: We are grateful to @BishGloucester for leading on our amendments to extend the DV Rule and DDVC to all migrant survivors of abuse subject to NRPF. Without this women will continue to remain trapped in abuse and men will continue to abuse with impunity.