by Management Committee | Nov 17, 2021 | News, Press Release
Southall Black Sisters’ Management Committee are sad to announce that our Director, Pragna Patel, is standing down on 5th January 2022, after several powerful decades at the helm. The title of this tribute is a paraphrased quote from Alice Walker, one of Pragna’s...
by Karishma | Sep 3, 2021 | News
Southall Black Sisters welcomes the shocking report on child abuse in religious settings that was published this week and to which we gave written and oral evidence. Although not the full and final report, it exposes the pervasive culture of hypocrisy, secrecy and...
by Management Committee | Jun 22, 2021 | News
On Wednesday 23 June 2021, our director Pragna Patel will give evidence on behalf of SBS to the People’s Tribunal of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW). CEDAW is the body of independent experts from around the world that monitors...
by SBS Admin | Apr 16, 2021 | News
The struggle continues: SBS responds to the Government’s rejection of our amendments to protect migrant women Why we are not celebrating the Domestic Abuse Act! On Thursday 29 April 2021, the Domestic Abuse Bill received Royal Assent, which makes the Bill an Act...
