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Why are we locking female asylum seekers into limbo? Your Opinion...

Posted on March 25, 2010

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By Susan McKay, Director, National Womens Council of Ireland.

 

OPINION: 3,000 women and girls who have fled horror are stuck in hostels and caravans full of new fear

AKIDWA MEANS sisterhood, and today the African women's group of that name will publish a report that will call upon the Irish people to extend our solidarity to some of the most impoverished and traumatised women in the world, living here in Ireland.

They are asylum seekers, many of them waiting for years in conditions not meant to last more than a few months.

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