Delivering Justice for Black, Minoritised and Migrant Victim-Survivors
This International Women’s Day, Southall Black Sisters (SBS) has developed a parliamentary briefing calling for urgent legal and policy reforms to ensure that responses to violence against women and girls (VAWG) deliver justice for Black, minoritised and migrant (BMM) victim-survivors.
Drawing on more than four decades of frontline experience supporting BMM women escaping abuse, the briefing highlights how structural barriers such as institutional racism, class inequality and hostile immigration policies continue to prevent many women from accessing safety and justice.
The briefing sets out practical reforms that Parliament can advance now, including abolishing the No Recourse to Public Funds (NRPF) condition for migrant victim-survivors, introducing a firewall between statutory agencies and Immigration Enforcement, implementing Banaz’s Law to strengthen accountability for ‘honour’-based abuse, recognising abuse-related suicide as murder, implementing the recommendations of the InVisible Women report, launching a national public inquiry into femicide in the UK, and ensuring sustainable funding for specialist ‘by and for’ services supporting BMM women.
Read the full briefing to learn more about these proposals and how they can help deliver justice for the most marginalised victim-survivors. We encourage supporters to share the briefing with their MP and urge Parliament to take forward these vital reforms.
