Demand and Remember: a poem for International Migrant's Day

Demand & Remember – Safety 4 all Sisters-

WHAT DO WE WANT?

An end to violence against women and girls

WHEN DO WE WANT IT?

NOW!

WDWW?

Human rights.

WDWWI?

NOW!

WDWW?

No more abuse

No more rape

No more murders

No more HBV 

No more exploitation

No more trafficking

No FGM

No forced marriage

No more child brides

WDWWI?

NOW!

 

WDWW?

More refuge space

More counsellors

More resources

Specialist services

No barriers

No immigration questions

Just safety

Just care

WDWWI?

NOW!

 

WDWW?

Young women empowered,

Healthy relationships. 

Free from fear

Girls confident & happy

No barriers

No immigration questions

WDWWI?

NOW!

 WDWW?

Police protection

consistent 

effective

without judgement

no barriers

no immigration questions

WDWI?

NOW!

WDWW?

Justice in Criminal justice system

Civil justice in civil courts

Children in homes without violence

Protection for women protecting their children. 

Legal aid

No barriers

No immigration questions

WDWWI? 

NOW!

 

WDWW?

Freedom from poverty

Freedom from forced financial dependency

Freedom from destitution

And from those immigration rules striking us down as NRPF

Creating vulnerability,

and hierarchies of access to safety

 WDWWI?

 NOW!

WDWW?

Freedom from coercive control

Freedom from religious

or political fundamentalism

Spewing out misogynistic,

Racist, homophobic, rules

WDWWI?

NOW!

 WDWW

Women to be respected

 to live out dreams,

 to be ourselves,

 whoever we are,

 wherever we are,

WDWWI?

NOW!

 

Together today we demand,  we remember   

In solidarity with our global sisters

We make these demands

We remember women murdered, exploited, tortured

throughout the world

   At home,

   On the streets

   On forced migration journeys

   In refugee camps

   In tents 

   In prisons

   In the trafficker's lorries

   In detention centres

   In the slave owners’ houses.

   In the sweat shops

And yes

   In the UK homes of women forced to migrate

    trapped in violence by

    enforced immigration rules.    

    Reinforced by the hostile environment.

    Nowhere to run.

And we remember

  those whose whereabouts are unknown.

  migrant women undocumented,

  silenced,

  unrecorded, 

  invisible,  

disappeared.

… …………………………………………………………

WDWW?

Safety 4 all our sisters 

WDWWI?

NOW!

WDWW?

An end to violence against every women & girl

WDWWI?

NOW!