Audio CD about the Home Office Gender Guidance
This audio is for newly arrived women asylum seekers and those who work with them.
It can be used for training and awareness-raising purposes. It covers the Home Office policy for deciding women’s asylum claims (Gender Guidance) and the consequences if this policy is not followed. The six tracks can each be used individually (total running time 15 minutes). The tracks are in English only.
Track 1 Women's asylum claims (3:47) Cathy Aitchison interviews Debora Singer, Coordinator of the Refugee Women's Resource Project at Asylum Aid for Refugee Week Radio. Debora highlights the needs of women in relation to their asylum claims. She quotes Asylum Aid's own research Lip Service or Implementation? The Home Office Gender Guidance and women's asylum claims in the UK. This research demonstrated that the Home Office is not implementing its own policy on women's asylum claims.
Tracks 2 - 4 Women's experiences Three stories demonstrating women's experiences and the effect of not implementing the Gender Guidance in relation to three issues:
Track 2 (1:40) lack of state protection
Track 3 (2:19) internal flight alternative
Track 4 (2:40) late disclosure
Track 5 Types of persecution (0:41) Some of the human rights abuses specifically encountered by women. According to the Gender Guidance all these types of persecution wil be taken into account when their asylum claims are determined.
Track 6 Gender Guidance: procedural issues (3:55) A woman is about to go for her interview with the Home Office and her friend explains the procedures that should be in place according to the Gender Guidance.
Copies of the CD are available for free by emailing women@asylumaid.org.uk but please consider making a donation to Asylum Aid.